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Foreign Office and Predecessors: Control Commission for Germany (British Element):...
Catalogue reference: FO 1005
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FO 1005
This series consists of formal papers such as minutes, agendas, circulated papers, reports, memoranda and publications, which were collected by the Records Section of the Control Commission for Germany. The papers were produced by: the Allied...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- FO 1005
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign Office and Predecessors: Control Commission for Germany (British Element): Records Library: Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1874-1990
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of formal papers such as minutes, agendas, circulated papers, reports, memoranda and publications, which were collected by the Records Section of the Control Commission for Germany. The papers were produced by: the Allied Control Authority and the various organisations under its direction; the separate bipartite (Anglo-American) and tripartite (French, British and American) organisations; and the Control Commission (British element) and its subordinate bodies.
The subject matter includes most aspects of the administration of Allied control of Germany. The records of the non Control Commission (British element) bodies lack references, for the most part, and did not form part of the original collection, but have been accumulated since its transfer to London.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The papers have been arranged by their alphabetical and numerical references. These were not wholly standardised and, in some cases, the papers of a particular body bore different references at different periods. The papers of a given body may therefore be found in different sections of the list.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Control Office for Germany and Austria, Control Commission for Germany (British Element), Records Section, 1945-1947
- Foreign Office, Control Commission for Germany (British Element), Records Section, 1944-1945
- Foreign Office, Control Commission for Germany (British Element), Records Section, 1947-1953
- Foreign Office, High Commission for West Germany, Records Section, 1954-1955
- War Office, Control Commission for Germany (British Element), Records Section, 1945-1945
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 2390 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- International
- Europe and Russia
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- This collection known as the Records Library was held separately from the Commission's archives, which were the responsibility of the Archives Section of the Control Commission. From time to time formal papers of this kind were added to the collection which was housed originally at the Commission's headquarters. After the dissolution of the Control Commission and the appointment of the United Kingdom High Commission in Germany, the Records Library was moved, together with other library material from Germany and Austria to the High Commission Office and later the Bonn Embassy, where it remained as a Documents and Reference Library from some years until it was brought to London.
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- FO 1005/1 contains a manuscript check-list of the papers in FO 1005/2-1962 which indicates which papers are missing from the collection.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The Records Section was responsible for the collection of formal papers of the Allied Control Authority and its various organisations, of bipartite (Anglo-American) organisations and of the Control Commission (British Element) and its subordinate commissions, committees and divisions, as well as official and internal publications of these bodies.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C8304/
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