Germany: Prisoners, including: German prisoners interned and detained by British:...

Germany: Prisoners, including:

German prisoners interned and detained by British: enquiries regarding whereabouts and possible release, including:

• Hans Zwingauer, detained at Wakefield: consideration of claim for release as member of German Medical Personnel.
• Detention of four German clergymen in Australia: Pastor Treuz; Pastor Schafhirt, Pastor Frank, and Pastor Gutekunst.
• Germans detained in Malta in violation of agreement.
• Franz Steier, detained at Shrewsbury.
• E Helmich and A Holst, detained in India.
• Detention of Germans in England in violation of agreement: includes forms of enquiry for individual prisoners, Fürst von Wahlstatt Blücher, Eduard Borger, Hans Domschke, Ernst Fricke, Dr Richard Häffner, Dr Hermann Hammann, Johann Oskar Krafft, Jakob Leisner, Dr Nolte, Mr Roese, Jakob Schäfer.
• Albert Lindemann, German invalid civilian in South Africa.
• Dr Schultz, German ex-Governor of Samoa, interned as prisoner of war in New Zealand.
• Detention of missionaries in British possessions.
• German boys interned at Lancaster.
• Helmuth Reinhardt, detained in England: request for release and permission to proceed to the US; subsequently refused.
• Gustav Weber, formerly District Judge, German New Guinea: return to Germany.
• Detention of Germans entitled to release: Otto Grosse and Dr Kain, detained in Malta.
• James Zutraven, German invalid civilian interned in London.
• Ernest Wermecke, cashier to United States Steel Products Company, interned in London.
• Dr Müller and Dr Werner, German physicians detained in Australia following their removal from Singapore.
• Dr Ernst Simon, detained in Maritzburg, South Africa.
• General exchange of missionaries.
• Pastor Paul Coerper, late military chaplain at Luderitzbucht: return to Germany from South Africa.
• Walter Steffens, detained at Lofthouse Park, Wakefield.
• August Landler, detained in England: request for release and permission to proceed to the US; subsequently refused.
• Germans under 17 years detained at Lancaster.
• Johann Krafft. German missionary detained at Ahmednagar, India.
• Albert Lichtenstern, repatriation from Tilbury for Rotterdam.
• Rudolf Bleyer, interned in UK.
• Count Stolberg, interned in Ireland at Oldcastle, County Meath.
• Georg Mondorf, interned in UK: refusal of request for a permit to proceed to Venezuela.
• Baron Louis von Horst: question of his release on grounds of US nationality.
• Repatriation of enemy subjects from South Africa.
• Mr Wilmsen, dispensing chemist detained in South Africa.
• Fritz Finsterbusch, 16 year old sailor detained in UK.
• German subjects over 55 years returning to Germany.
• Repatriation of German subjects from UK.
• Carl Müller, detained at Edinburgh Castle.
• Hans Rost, 16 year old cabin boy, interned at Handforth.
• Release of German subjects in South Africa: Edmund Fleming; Leopold Pahl; Franz Muller.
• German missionaries in India.
• Oscar Ehlers, detained in UK: request for release as a Dominican citizen.
• Expenses incurred in repatriation of Germans.
• Matthieu Ottenwaelder, detained on Isle of Man: enquiry from his sister, Mrs Emilie des Fossis of New York City.
• John Meyong, detained at Knockaloe, Isle of Man.

Code 1218 File 122 (papers 102741-end).

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