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

Germany: Prisoners, including:

Cases for consideration for possible exchange or release of prisoners, particularly consular officials, including:

• Albert Brill, formerly Consular Agent for Germany at Madras.
• Detention of German and Austro-Hungarian consular officers in India: Foreign and Political Department report.
• H J Nelson Hawkins, civilian interned in Germany.
• German consular officials in Egypt, in particular case of Franz Blassig.
• German consular officers detained by British Government: Hans Schuler, former German consul at Calcutta; also Erich Ottens, Arthur Harnack, Johann Fette, and Emil Bucholski.
• Karl Veit (or Carl Veit), arrested in Aden and interned at Ahmednagar: request that he be permitted to leave for a neutral country, as he was formerly German Vice-Consul at Djibouti.
• F J Reinecke, late acting German Consul at Bassein, interned in India.
• Enemy subjects employed by US authorities in Egypt.
• Reinhart Freudenberg, late German Consul at Colombo, interned in Australia.
• Henry John Lorch, interned in Ruhleben.
• Arthur Harnack, formerly employed in German Consulate General at Cape Town.
• Albert Mau, German subject, late Austro-Hungarian Consul at Zanzibar.
• Emil Bucholski and Ernst Koehler: no claim to repatriation under consular exchange as secretaries to German Consuls in provincial towns.
• F W Steege, manager of Standard Bank of South Africa, Hamburg, interned in Germany: proposed exchange for Erich Ottens, late German Deputy Vice-Consul at Salisbury, Rhodesia, interned at Pietermaritzburg.
• Exchange of German officials interned in Australia.
• Herr Listeman, late German Consul at Bushire, interned in India.
• E H L Mummenhoff, British consular official interned at Ruhleben.
• J Moresby-White, British civilian prisoner interned in Ruhleben: possible exchange for interned German consul official, Arthur Harnack.
• Alfred Suhl, German subject, former Austro-Hungarian Consul at Penang, held in UK: exchange for Richard Wolf Gordon, British subject residing at Wurzburg.
• Proposed exchange of Mr Lean and Mr Schill, invalided German consular officials.
• Stanley Lambert, proposed exchange for a German consular officer.
• Erich F Ottens, former German Vice-Consul in Rhodesia: proposed repatriation to Germany.
• Franz Blassig, former German consular official: exchange for Mr Ashley (or Asley).
• Exchange of German consular officials detained in HM Dominions.
• H J N Hawkins, released prisoner: enquiries concerning possible information regarding his date of arrival in UK.

Code 1218 File 85 (papers 113833-112036).

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