Germany: Prisoners, including: Cases for consideration for possible exchange or release...

Germany: Prisoners, including:

Cases for consideration for possible exchange or release of prisoners, particularly Consular Officials, including:

• Exchange of British and German invalided civilians: Vatican agreement for arrangements to be carried out by US authorities; includes lists of names of individuals.
• John Audley, British invalided prisoner in Germany: proposed transfer for Richard Holzner, German prisoner detained in England.
• Parliamentary questions regarding exchange of prisoners, from Lord Robert Cecil and Commander Bellairs.
• Exchange of consuls: arrangements, and reports of present position.
• Hans Schuler, former German Consul at Calcutta, detained in India.
• Detention of Army Medical Corps: proposed exchange of prisoners.
• Vice-consul Eisenlohr, German consular official detained in Gibraltar: release.
• Exchange of consuls: twelve consular officials from UK and Mr Heym, German consul from Gibraltar.
• Thomas Whitehead, British Consul in Warsaw.
• Charles M Lawrence, secretary to the late Mr Cleator, detained in Germany: request from his mother, Mrs Annie Lawrence of Wokingham, that he might be exchanged as a consular official.
• Hans Josef Hein of Southend: release and return to Germany as a consular official; possible mistake for the real consul, Mr Heym, from Portsmouth.
• Mr Grimm, former Secretary to German Consulate, Bombay, detained in India: release and departure for Genoa; repatriation expenses.
• General Leman: proposed exchange for German admiral at Kiaochau.
• German Government proposal for exchange of Colonel Stratton and General O'Neill, for Dr Schultz, late Governor of Samoa, and Captain von Diederichs.
• Carl Fuchs, naturalised British subject of Manchester, and distinguished professor of music, detained in Germany: proposed exchange for Otto Brix, German subject residing at Wimbledon.
• Mr H Bullock, late British acting Consul, Bremen: return to Sheffield following detention in Germany.
• Colonel Stratton and Admiral Chilcott: possible release, and exchange for German consular officials.
• Dr Flockemann, late German consul at Bloemfentein: departure from Cape Town for Germany via the UK.
• Dr Kallhardt, German prisoner in England: proposal from his brother-in-law, Professor Gjelsvik of the University of Christiania, that he may be exchanged for Captain Viscount Dalrymple, Scots Guards.
• Mr A Harnack, employed in German Consulate General at Cape Town and assisting Consul General of America: request that his name be added to list of officials for exchange.
• Departure of German consular officials, Mr Goerbert, Mr Rolfes and Mr Bruchhaus, from South Africa for Germany.
• Carlo B Murphy, Canadian interned at Ruhleben: request that his name be added to list of officials for exchange.
• E F Ottens, former German Vice-Consul in Rhodesia, interned in Durban: request for release to reside on parole in South Africa.
• William G Haigh, British Pro-Consul at Ghent: death in Germany.
• Standard Bank of South Africa Ltd: request that their officials interned in Ruhleben may be released.
• John Henry Lorch, British subject interned at Ruhleben: request that he be released as claiming to be a former consular official.
• Major Ponsonby Shaw, retired officer in Germany: request for assistance to return to England.
• Admiral William W Chilcott, detained in Germany: notification of his death.
• Paul Reinbach, former German Vice-Consul at Singapore, interned at Wakefield.
• Mr von Frankenburg, former resident of German South West Africa, detained in South Africa: possible exchange as a consular official.
• Mr de Haas, former commercial attaché at the German Consulate General, Sydney.
• Albert Brill, formerly Consular Agent for Germany at Madras.
• Mr Listemann and Mr Freudenberg, German consular officials in India and Ceylon.
• Winfried R Freudenberg (Reinhart Freudenberg), formerly German Consul in Ceylon: proposed removal to Australia.
• Mr Meinecke, Mr Gloye and Mr Julius, German consular officials.

Code 1218 File 85 (papers 26550-112036).

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