Germany: Prisoners, including: Applications for release of Germans interned in Britain...

FO 383/144

1916

Germany: Prisoners, including:

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

• Petitions of 12 German medical men interned at Lofthouse Park, Wakefield: Doctors A Trautmann, Casimir Casper, Fritz Goldberg, Martin Ficker, Karl Hoch, H Fieberti, Ed Goecker, Carl Greiff, Georg Richter, Adolf Rosenbaum, Richard Nolte, and Gerhard Bartram.
• Herr von Krosigk and Martin Spremberg, interned.
• Hans Keffel, interned in Britain on military grounds because he is a skilled engineer.
• Count Stolberg, interned at Oldcastle, Co Meath, Ireland.
• Matthieu Ottenwaelder, interned in Britain: permission sought for him to proceed to United States.
• Baron Louis Anton von Horst, interned in Britain; his health poor; requests made for him to be allowed to go to United States. Reply given that he is in the German Hospital, Dalston, London, where he receives every care and attention. Herbert Samuel, Home Secretary, writes to Sir Edward Grey, Foreign Secretary, on 17 May 1916, confidentially enclosing Metropolitan Police Report on von Horst dated 7 September 1914. Person behind his appeals is Miss Lilian Troy, Irish-American journalist; he associates with strike leader Ben Tillett, suffragettes Mrs Drummond and Miss Annie Kenney, and Irish trades union leader Jim Larkin.
• Dr Adam Breuer, repatriated in April 1916.
• Repatriation of certain classes of civilians from German East Africa.
• Carl Koettgen, interned in Britain, and found fit for military service: his release cannot be authorised.
• Rudolf von Wülfing, interned at Lofthouse Park, Wakefield: found not unfit for military service; his release cannot be authorised.
• Winfried Wickert and Theodor Meyner, interned German missionaries; both repatriated in May 1916.
• Oscar George Ehlers: Baring Brothers & Co Ltd forward documents relating to his birth, on direction of Messrs H L Boulton Jr & Co of Maracaibo, Venezuela.
• Karl Koettgen, Hans Titel, Carl Henry Meyer: their release cannot be authorised. Baron Ernst von Baerensprung: he has lost one leg but is still considered not unfit for military service; his release cannot be authorised.
• Dr Richard Daub, interned at Ahmednagar, India: he was not a practising qualified physician, and was in India at outbreak of war; his release cannot be authorised.
• Georg Webendorfer: Governor General of Australia says application for his release cannot be considered pending result of investigation into enemy trading.
• Hans Rost, Friedrich Wilhelm Alexander Kleckel, Arthur Goldschmidt: applications for their release. Goldschmidt examined and found not eligible for repatriation.
• Dr Walter Gellhorn, interned at Edinburgh Castle; Dr Siebert and Dr Friedrich Gerhard Bertram [sic; recte Bartram], both interned at Stratford, London: Agreement for mutual release of medical men does not apply to them.
• Erich Possehl, interned at Somes Island, near Wellington, New Zealand.
• Adolf Vielhauer and Rudolf Widmaier, missionaries interned at Alexandra Palace, apply for repatriation.
• Willi Haas, interned at Knockaloe Camp, Isle of Man.
• Heinrich Klockgether, Oskar Bernt, M Jörgensen, Friedrich Schmitting, Carl Wollinsky, and Johannes Engel: applications for release.
• Otto Reimers, interned at Edinburgh: aged 67, losing sight; question of his repatriation.
• List of 9 German internees applying for release (names given in docket no.106070).
• Doctors Baneth and Thalwitzer, transferred to Alexandra Palace, London.
• Hans Keffel, interned because his special qualifications render him useful to any Army.
• Miss Gustava Bütow, repatriated to Germany from South Africa on 15 October 1915; and Anton von Dessauer, not eligible for repatriation because he is fit for military service.
• Dr Reinhold Grimm.
• John Booth, interned at Ahmednagar Camp, India: aged 52 or 53, owner of a plantation in German East Africa. Requests release because of malaria and mutilated hand. British Government say he could be released if Germans agreed to lower age limit.
• List of 7 German internees applying for release (names given in docket no.112098).
• Karl Fritz Hinrich Gottlieb Albers, interned at Douglas, Isle of Man: aged 17.
• Dr Theodor Lenders, interned at Ahmednagar Camp, India: was arrested in Persia when actively engaged in anti-British propaganda. Viceroy did not inform Foreign Office, who have promised German Government his release.
• Edgar von Schrader, interned at Knockaloe Camp, Isle if Man: has been found fit for military service and therefore cannot be released.
• Baron Herbert F von Pohl, interned at Knockaloe Camp, Peel, Isle of Man: needs medical supervision from oculist; examined and found not eligible for repatriation.
• Pastor Richard Handmann, Georg Wilhelm Wagener, Ernst Wilhelm Henning, David Jurkat, Hermann Zimmermann, H P A Geppert and other German missionaries taken from the steamship Golconda at Tilbury, Essex, and interned at Alexandra Palace. Five civilians from South Africa (Schultz, Jansen, Kreuzmann, Ozegovich and Jurgens) to be repatriated. All repatriated in June 1916 with exception of Geppart and Farrenkopf.
• Anton Kuhn, interned.
• Richard Heckmann, interned at the German Hospital in Dalston: seeks release on medical grounds.
• Emil E Nachmann, interned at Douglas, Isle of Man: his sister in the United States would pay for his passage there.
• Doctor Kurt Spaltowski: has been found fit for military service and therefore cannot be released.
• Repatriation of militarily unfit civilians from overseas dominions.
• Doctor Hertz, naturalised as a British subject in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia: interned at Liverpool, New South Wales, because he is disaffected and disloyal.
• Dr Adolf Muller leaves Sydney, Australia, for San Francisco.
• Georg Seredzun, German non-commissioned officer of the reserve: captured in the Cameroons and interned in Britain in a mental asylum.

Code 1218 File 151 (papers 76411-142909).

File 151 (pp.76411-142909).

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