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Series
Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Office of the Deputy Commandant, British Military...
Catalogue reference: FCO 90
What's it about?
FCO 90
This series contains records produced by UK diplomatic staff of the Office of the Deputy Commandant based in Berlin as part of the British Military Government.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- FCO 90
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Office of the Deputy Commandant, British Military Government, Berlin: Registered Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1972-1978
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records produced by UK diplomatic staff of the Office of the Deputy Commandant based in Berlin as part of the British Military Government.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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See also FCO 161
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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)
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office, British Military Government, Berlin, 1968-1990
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 33 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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From 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
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- 1968-1990
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Occasional further accruals can be expected.
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- Selected under acquisition policy criterion 2.2.1.3, documenting the work of diplomatic staff in Berlin operating as part of the British Military Government. Policy files preserved where information on the files has not been copied to FCO in London or other lead department. Series will not excede 10m.
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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 British Military Government, Berlin, was established after the Second World War to run the British sector of Berlin and work with the forces of the other allied states to manage the various joint bodies established in the city.
The British Military Government was headed by a Commandant who was a serving military officer, but the importance of maintaining diplomatic relations with the other occupying powers and the German authorities was recognised in the post of Deputy Commandant being filled by a diplomat. Under the Deputy Commandant, whose diplomatic rank was that of Minister, worked a number of Foreign Office (from 1968 Foreign and Commonwealth Office) staff, including economic and financial advisers, legal advisers, political advisers, protocol and information officers as well as generalist diplomats. The Office also included a consular-general post and a visa office.
The British Military Government was wound up in 1990 following the re-unification of East and West Germany.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15941/
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