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:

• Rev Gottfried Wessel and family, detained at Ahmednagar, India; subsequent departure for Italy.
• Kurd von Weller, detained at Knockaloe camp.
• Dr Müller and Dr Werner, German physicians detained in Singapore.
• Dr Theodor Fressel, detained in North Borneo.
• Detention of four German clergymen in Australia: Pastor Treuz; Pastor Schafhirt, Pastor Frank, and Pastor Gutekunst.
• Detention of German missionaries in South Africa: case of Pastor Paul Coerper.
• Leo Lopinot, detained at Colombo, Ceylon.
• Hans Erich Benedix, detained in the UK: War Office refusal of application for release.
• Alleged detention of German doctor in Bermuda.
• Father Hentrich, detained in South Africa.
• Treatment of German subjects in the Cameroons: complaints made by Lieutenant Otto Wieneke.
• Karl Schwarze, Dr Georg (George) Gurich, and Mr Steinman: members of scientific expeditions, interned in South Africa.
• C Koettgen, formerly director of Siemens Brothers Dynamo Works Ltd of Berlin, now interned in Bromley, Kent.
• Dr Schultz, German ex-Governor of Samoa, interned as prisoner of war in New Zealand.
• Detention of German missionaries in South Africa.
• Fritz Meyer: request for release as member of the Red Cross.
• Samuel Schwarz, detained in London.
• Paul Schneider, detained at Pietermaritzburg.
• Alien enemy missionaries in India.
• Mr Scheihauer, prisoner of war in Bermuda.
• Internment of Germans in UK.
• Enemy subjects in British Solomon Islands and Tonga.
• Andreas Holst and Erich Helmich, detained in India: protests against capture and detention.
• Georg Mondorf, interned on HMT Canada.
• Detention of Germans in Malta: Otto Grosse and Dr Walter Kain.
• Otto Adams, detained at Hitchin: enquiry from his father, N Adams of Saargemünd.
• Germans detained in England and the colonies: includes list of names and details (in German).
• Mr Horst, detained in England: enquiry regarding US citizenship, from James Beck of Shearman & Sterling, (law offices), New York.
• Dr Otto Ritter, detained in South Africa: repatriation to Germany.
• W C Ising, German missionary: deportation to Malta.
• Treatment of prisoners conveyed to England by SS Obonasi.
• Elgar von Hillern-Flinsch, civil prisoner of war in England: enquiry from his father, Mr von Hillern-Flinsch of Berlin.
• Release of German subjects: includes lists of names and details (in German).
• Dr Heinemann, detained in Ceylon.
• H L Lungmuss, detained at Lancaster: request to be released to proceed to US; refusal of request for him and his brother, Max Lungmuss.
• Berthold Stern, understood to be interned in Frimley.
• Otto Koch, steward on board interned German steamer SS Goeben in Vigo: repatriation for medical reasons.
• Lieutenant Johannes Fritze, detained at Douglas, Isle of Man.
• Baron Leopold Plessen, detained at Lofthouse Park, Wakefield.
• Dr Thilo Krober, detained at Lancaster.
• Otto Wieneke, prisoner of war at Holyport.
• Gustav Weber, formerly District Judge, German New Guinea: detained in the protectorate: agreement for his return to Germany by virtue of Treaty of Capitulation.
• Hans Zwingauer, prisoner of war at Wakefield.
• Dr Richard Jaffner, prisoner of war at Dyffryn Aled, North Wales.
• Detention of German clergymen and missionaries in South Africa and India.

Code 1218 File 122 (papers 52976-101472).