Reich Ministry for Economics, Berlin Reichwirtschaftministerium, Berlin (Fond 1458)

Identifier
irn615072
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2004.756.8
  • RG-11.001M.79
Dates
1 Jan 1919 - 31 Dec 1945, 1 Jan 1933 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

2 microfilm reels (partial), 16 mm

2,472 digital images, JPEG

Creator(s)

Biographical History

Reichswirtschaftministerium (Berlin)-the Reich Ministry of Economics was converted in 1919 into Ministry. In 1934 the ministry subsumed the Prussian Ministry of Economics. Besides purely economic, legal, and financial issues, the ministry was responsible for restricting the civil and property rights of Jews, and expelling them from Germany and German occupied territories. The German Ministry of Economics was headed by Dr. Kurt Schmitt (1933-1935), Hjalmer G. Schacht (1935-1937), Herman Goring (1937-19380. And by Walther Funk (1938-1945). In 1942, by arrangement with Himmler, Funk made Reichsbank vault available for storing valuables taken form the Jewish population and brought from Prisons and camps. The Reich Ministry of Economics ceased activities in 1945 with the defeat of Nazi Germany.

Archival History

Rossiĭskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ voennyĭ arkhiv

Acquisition

Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Source of acquisition is the Russian State Military Archive (Rossiĭskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ voennyĭ arkhiv), Osobyi Archive, Fond 1458. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in 2004.

Scope and Content

Contains various records of the Reich Ministry for Economics: Circulars, orders, decrees and correspondence relating to restrict the rights of Jews in Germany and German occupied territories (including the Soviet Union, the Baltic republics, and Belorussia) with regard to personal and property insurance, issuing credit and bank loans, payment for work and sick pay. Includes stenographic reports of speeches, and minutes of secret meetings of senior Reich officials Hermann Goring, Walther Funk, and Labor Minister Franz Seldte on excluding Jews from the German economy and commerce, on conflicting Jewish owned plots of land and property in German territories, also includes an analytic surveys and papers on German legislation with regard to Jews. Note: USHMM Archives holds only selected records.

System of Arrangement

Fond 1458 (1919-1945). Opis 1-54; Dela 13,502. Arranged thematically in 54 series (Opisi): 1. Credit and Banks, 1918-1945; 2. Austria, 1884-1946; 3. Countries, generally, 1840-1945; 4.Portugal, 1882-1945; 5 France, 1866-1946; 6. Turkey, 1911-1945; 7. Norway, 1884-1946; 8. Finland, 1918-1946; 9. Yugoslavia, 1925-1947; 10.Czechoslovakia, 1869-1946; 11. Switzerland, 1875-1946; 12. Organization of the economy, 1933-1944; 13. Department Prices, 1940-1944; 14. Romania, 1902-1944; 15. Poland, 1916-1945; 16. Belgium, 1882-1945; 17. Currency Department, 1934-1945; 18. Hungary, 1920-1947; 19. Netherlands, 1883-1945; 20. Italy, 1887-1945; 21. Denmark, 1918-1947; 22. Bulgaria, 1898-1946; 23. USA, 1883-1946; 24. Spain 1883-1945; 25 United Kingdom, 1852-1946; 26. Greece, 1921-1946; 27. Japan, 1923-1947; 28. China, 1913-1945; 29. Europe, generally, 1913-1945; 30. Middle East, 1924-1945 (Afghanistan, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, Syria); 31. Asia, generally 1913-1945;32. Unknown; 33. Latin America, 1921-1946; 34. Unknown; 35. Statistics, 1895-1945; 36. Budget, 1925-1945; 37. Shares companies, 1931-1938; 38. Missing; 39. Savings, 1931-1935; 40. USSR, 1919-1945; 41. Missing; 42. Official printed matters, 1919-1945; 43. Research Center for Military Economics, 1925-1945; 44. Sweden, 1884-1945; 45. Africa, 1883-1945; 46. Albania, 1937-1945; 47. Australia, 1889-1945; 48. Circulars, 1922-1945; 49. Miscellaneous, 1925-1945; 50. Legal department, magazines, printed matters, 1811-1945; 51.Collection and Surveys of the Economy, 1932-1945; 52. Foreign countries and the activity of German companies, 1944; 53. Structure and Organization of the Ministry, 1925-1945; 54.World War I, Russia, Baltic States, 1915-1929; 55. USSR, trade agreement, export, contraband, 1918-1944; 56. Miscellaneous, 1915-1947. Note: Location of digital images; Partial microfilm reels #426-427; Reel 426: Image #1270-Reel end; Reel 427: Reel start-Image #1600.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Rossiĭskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ voennyĭ arkhiv

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