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Series
Allied Kommandatura: Directives, Minutes and Papers
Catalogue reference: FO 1112
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FO 1112
The records in this series are the complete set of official jointly produced Allied Kommandatura records (directives, minutes and papers of boards and committees and so on) held by the British element of the Allied Kommandatura and relating to...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- FO 1112
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Title (The name of the record)
- Allied Kommandatura: Directives, Minutes and Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1945-1990
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Description (What the record is about)
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The records in this series are the complete set of official jointly produced Allied Kommandatura records (directives, minutes and papers of boards and committees and so on) held by the British element of the Allied Kommandatura and relating to the governing of Berlin.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English, French, German and Russian
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Allied Kommandatura, 1945-1990
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 660 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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In 2003 Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- International
- Conflict
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- Following the dissolution of the Allied Kommandatura in 1990, the records held by the British element passed into the custody of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- 1945-1990
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- No future accruals expected
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- The official records have been selected in their entirety. A further collection of records originating from the UK Secretariat to the Allied Kommandatura and the UK legal adviser have not been selected for preservation as they largely duplicate the official records.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The Allied Kommandatura was the four power (British, American, French and Soviet) body established by the allies at the end of the Second World War to conduct the administration of Berlin, following agreement at the Potsdam Conference of July-August 1945.
The Allied Kommandatura exercised all the usual civil administrative functions of a city government, as well as functions relating to the reconstruction of the city, its military occupation and other aspects peculiar to the situation of Berlin after the war. The chairmanship of the Allied Kommandatura and its various committees passed in rotation between representatives of the occupying powers.
The Allied Kommandatura governed by means of directives issued by the board, but the sub-committees of the board, largely staffed by members of the respective allied military government missions, provided the effective administration of the city.
Co-operation between the western allies and the Soviet Union ended in 1948, at which time the Soviet Union withdrew both from the Control Commissions administering Germany and Austria and from the Allied Kommandatura. From that time the Allied Kommandatura became a three-power body responsible for West Berlin only.
Regular administrative functions were swiftly devolved in West Berlin to German authorities (the executive Berlin Senat, and the House of Representatives), so that by 1950 the city was, for most practical purposes, self-governing.
However, the Allied Kommandatura remained the official government of the western part of the city, and the channel of communication between the local authorities in Berlin and the occupying powers, until it was finally dissolved in 1990 following the re-unification of East and West Germany.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15437/
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