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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).
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