Germany: Prisoners, including: Estate of the late Charles Dutscher, naturalised British...

FO 383/143

1916

Germany: Prisoners, including:

Estate of the late Charles Dutscher, naturalised British subject of Sierra Leone: he had privileges of British subject only 'within the Settlement'. When he returned to Germany in 1905 he must be regarded as having resumed German nationality. Assets of West Afrikanische Handels Gesellschaft cannot be remitted to family in Germany, and the firm cannot be allowed to resume business, as from 1905 it was a German firm managed from Germany.

Applications for release of Germans interned in Britain or in British overseas territories, including:

• Herman Giebler technically entitled to return to Germany on grounds of being 16 when he applied to do so; so must be allowed to do so even though he will no doubt bear arms against Britain.
• Josef Hofman, interned at Knockaloe Camp, Isle of Man: he cannot be granted a permit to go to United States of America as the issue of such permits is suspended.
• Dr Eugen Drouven: Governor of Hong Kong given instructions to release him.
• Richard Kube, and officers and crew of the steamship Prinz Adalbert; case has been repeatedly considered, but release cannot be granted.
• Henry Corn, interned at Wakefield, Yorkshire: granted permit to proceed to United States.
• Ernst Sauer, interned at Alexandra Palace, London: does not wish to return to Germany even if he were eligible.
• Richard Hein, of the steamship Bethania, interned at Jamaica then at Amherst, Canada: requests to go to United States for cure by specialists of paralysis caused by gunshot wound in arm, inflicted by guard in Jamaica.
• Internment of German civilian doctors at Lofthouse Park Camp, Wakefield, Yorkshire: Doctors Richard Häffner, Richard Nolte, Ludwig Schwermer and P T Freytag. Dr Häffner's repatriation agreed to as a special case.
• Internment of ten German physicians at Stratford Camp, East London: Doctors Casimir Casper, Gerhard Bartram, Karl Hoch, Franz Thalwizer, Georg Richter, Berthold Baneth, Martin Ficker, Fritz Goldberg, Ed Gimper, and Siebert. Not entitled to repatriation. Eight to be transferred to Lofthouse Park, Wakefield, the other two to Alexandra Palace.
• Kaspar Joseph Vogel: his release cannot be authorised. His son Williem E Vogel appeals.
• Professor G A Bredow, sculptor, arrested at sea and interned at Gibraltar then at Douglas, Isle of Man, then at Wakefield, Yorkshire; Home Office refuse him a permit to proceed to the Argentine.
• Dr L Siebert, interned at Stratford, East London.
• Max Kypke, superintendent of Phoenix Ceramic Works, Perth Amboy, New Jersey, USA, arrested at sea and interned at Edinburgh Castle. His release cannot be authorised.
• Mrs Reiser, an English woman married to a German, asks British to ask French to release her husband from internment in the Ile d'Yeu, Vendée, France, so that he can live with her at their home in Bordeaux; request refused.
• Ludwig Lichtenstadter, interned at Lofthouse Park Camp, Wakefield, Yorkshire: United States Ambassador asks for his release to proceed to United States to marry his fiancée Miss Edith Cohen and observe absolute neutrality. Request refused.
• Hans von Chorus: his release cannot be authorised.
• Dr Adolf Muller: Governor General of Australia decides he cannot be released from internment there because of unsatisfactory conduct in connection with imprisonment of Captain J Anderson, master of the steamship Messina at Nauru, Pacific Ocean.
• Baron Louis Anton von Horst, interned in the German Hospital, Dalston, London.
• Jacob Kirchoff (alias Kant), interned in Canada.
• Reverend Theodor Meyner, a German missionary, interned.
• Repatriation of German and Austrian missionaries from India.
• H Brammer, First Officer of the German steamship Eleonore Woermann, protests about contravention of international law in manner of his arrest; interned at Lofthouse Park Camp, Wakefield.
• Count Eg. Beissel von Gymnich, interned at Lofthouse Park Camp, Wakefield: claims that his poor health merits his repatriation.
• List of 18 German internees with decisions on their cases (names given in dockets nos.33310 and 40076).
• Freiherr von Türckheim-Baden, interned at Douglas Private Camp, Isle of Man: claims that his poor health merits his repatriation.
• P Ernst Goretzki, Catholic priest sent from Togoland to Stratford Camp, East London: requests repatriation as he is suffering from malaria.
• Willi Haas, interned at Knockaloe Camp, Isle of Man: aged 15, applies for repatriation.
• Karl Gonser and Hermann Bense, interned at Knockaloe Camp Isle of Man: both arrested in Portuguese West Africa and claim wrongful arrest.
• Andreas Holst, interned at Ahmednagar Camp, India: requests release.
• Friedrich Wolfgang Donath: cannot be released as he is a ship's boy over 17. Ernst Friedrich O H von Ortenberg: was released from internment at Gibraltar on 17 March 1915.
• Repatriation of German civilians from HM Colonies.
• German subjects entitled to release under agreements.
• Dr Richard Daub, interned at Ahmednagar, India: claims repatriation as a member of the German Red Cross.
• Repatriation of civilian prisoners captured by naval authorities.
• Four prisoners interned at Stratford Camp, East London: Carl Koettgen, Hans Titel, Carl Henry Meyer, and Ernst von Bärensprung.
• Carl Gadgens, interned at Knockaloe Camp.
• Heinz Klinge, interned at Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia.
• Kurt Wollheim: his release cannot be authorised.
• Transport of repatriated German civilians to the Netherlands.
• Richard Heckmann, interned at Lofthouse Park, Wakefield, with concurrence of French Government: Algerian Government enquire about his present situation.
• List of 12 German internees applying for release (names given in docket no.56512).
• List of 12 German internees applying for release (names given in docket no.56513).
• Fr Gerntholz, captain of German steamship, interned at Knockaloe Camp.
• Oscar Ehlers, employee of firm of Boultons at Maracaibo, Venezuela, removed from steamship off Gibraltar and interned in Britain: representation for his release from his employer John Boulton of Venezuela.
• Adolf Vielhauer and Rudolf Widmaier, German missionaries arrested at Bali, Cameroons, and interned at Alexandra Palace, London.
• Max Truckenbrod and Erwin Petermann, both interned in Britain: medical certificates forwarded.
• Dr Johannes R Hemmen, interned in Britain: his release cannot be authorised.
• Otto Reimers, interned at Edinburgh: deported from Japan and worked for active enemy organisation; his release cannot be authorised.
• Rudolf von Wülfing, interned at Lofthouse Park, Wakefield.
• Walter Apetz, interned at Lofthouse Park, Wakefield.

Code 1218 Files 77-151 (to paper 75788).

Files 77-151 (to pp.75788).

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