Catalogue description Germany: Prisoners, including: German prisoners interned and detained by British:...

Germany: Prisoners, including:

German prisoners interned and detained by British: enquiries regarding whereabouts and possible release, including:

• Mrs Schwechten, said to be detained in Mombasa or sent to India.
• Franz Prösch, said to be interned at Malta.
• Dr Simon Streicher: detained at Gibraltar; subsequently removed to England on SS Wiltshire.
• Anton Kettel, Austrian subject detained at Dorchester and released and returned to Austria; also case of Albert Ehrle.
• Dr Fernand Weber, German subject of Alsace-Lorraine, detained at Pondicherry, India: application for release to join French Army.
• Fritz Schulz, prisoner of war: War Office approval for release.
• Mr von Frankenburg, late German resident at Shuchmannsburg, held as prisoner of war at Durban.
• Dr Otto Gaupp, said to be held in England.
• Internment of German missionaries in India and South Africa.
• Hans Marx and Walter Eilers: possible release.
• Alfred Borst, German subject resident of Manchester, held as a prisoner of war at Lancaster.
• Karl Friedrich Wolff, German subject of Port Elizabeth, interned in Durban.
• Rudolf Schrimpff: approval for release and return to Germany.
• Agreement for mutual release of British and German missionaries.
• Wilhelm Timann and Baron E von Rechenberg: request for release as members of the German Corps Consulaire in America.
• Dr Hans Esser, detained in England.
• Detention at Newbury of four ships' captains and steward.
• Walter Steffens, detained on the Isle of Wight.
• Application for release of certain Germans said to be detained in violation of agreement.
• Hermann Siegfried Strohmeyer: application from his cousin, J H Strohmeyer of Brooklyn, for his release and return to New York.
• Paul Brugelman, Carl A Banck, and Friedrich Mantels, taken from the SS Potsdam: question of release and return to the US if classified as non-combatants.
• Miss Elizabeth Koppenburg, German governess of Captain Taylor, HM Consul at St Vincent: agreement for her to return to Germany.
• Treatment of German honorary consuls in Nigeria: Dr Fritsch, honorary consul at Warri, and Dr Gloye, honorary consul at Lagos.
• Mr Lerchen, formerly German consul at East London: departure from South Africa.
• Detention in Germany of seamen over 55 years and under 17 years: question of Germans carrying-out their obligations; includes lists of individual merchant seamen and fishermen, with names, ages and ships (in docket no.15148).
• Otto Baarsch, prisoner of war at Malta.
• Fritz Levi, detained at Dorchester.
• Hans Lenz, detained at Ibadan, South Nigeria; subsequent transfer to England.
• Alfred Buschoff, detained in Canada.
• Release of four Germans: Otto Beneking; Otto Juttner; Martin Dittmar; C C N Schonfeldt.
• Heinz Klinge, interned in Ceylon.
• C Bochringer, German prisoner in Ceylon.
• Henry Lepique, of Chibin-el-Kanatar near Cairo, deported and interned in Malta: application from A W Moesle of Zurich, Switzerland, for his release.
• Louis A Horst, interned in England.
• Repatriation of women, children and invalids from German African colonies.
• Kurd von Weller, detained in England.
• Paul Schulze, detained at Halifax.
• August C H Piepenbrink, alleged German reservist detained following seizure from neutral US vessel.
• Enquiry from Paul Windmuller of London regarding a friend, F Behrens, sent to HMS Royal Edward at Southend-on-Sea.
• Dr Erich Hupka and wife, university tutor of Berlin-Charlottenburg, interned in Ceylon.
• Detention of Germans in England in violation of agreement: Dr Hermann Reuchlin; Richard Heckman; Fritz Finckh; Herbert Hacke.
• E Koehler and W Uhlmann: request for permission to proceed to US.
• Bavarian scientific professors interned in Australia: proposed release.
• Dr Hans Ströhmer, prisoner of war originally detained at Gibraltar and then transferred to Southend.
• Joseph Ferdinand Garbrecht, clerk from Bremen, interned at Ragana camp. Ceylon.
• Departure of two German doctors from Delagoa Bay: Dr Schwartz and Dr Gurick.
• Alfred Kempf, of Alsacian origin, a colonist in German New Guinea: enquiry from his brother-in-law, Emile Orio of Groslée, France.
• F Loewenthal, of Hale, Cheshire, interned as a German prisoner of war at Handforth; subsequent repatriation to Germany.
• German and Austro-Hungarian prisoners of war removed from Belgian Congo for internment in South Africa.
• Rev Georg Wilhelm Wagener, detained at Pietermaritzburg: allegations of ill-treatment.
• Walter H Tormann and Heinrich Fraenkel, detained in UK.
• Dr E Eisenlohr, detained at Gibraltar.
• Curt Beyer, interned at Ahmednagar, India.
• Dr Werdin, German Army doctor detained at Holyport near Maidenhead.
• Detention of Germans in India.
• Robert Luttwig, interned at Singapore.
• Moriz Ritter von Bruckner, prisoner of war interned on HMT Canada at Ryde, Isle of Wight.
• Ernest Fritz Andreas Boettcher (or Böttcher), detained in England: request for release on grounds of his intention of becoming a US citizen.
• Hermann Borchardt, detained at Malta.
• Safe conduct back to Germany for German missionaries: Dr Wegner from Sumatra, and Mr Bernsmann from Santa Cruz.
• Rev Gottfried Wessel and family, interned in India.
• Georg Gurich and Karl Schwarze, members of scientific expeditions, interned at Pietermaritzburg.

Code 1218 File 122 (to paper 21136).