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Economic and Industrial Planning Staff and Control Office for Germany and Austria...
Catalogue reference: FO 1032
What's it about?
FO 1032
This series contains files of Economic and Industrial Planning Staff, Control Commission Military Sections and HQ Secretariat (mainly pre 1946). These files from the various headquarters, planning and supervisory staff, secretariat and committees...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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FO 1032
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Title (The name of the record)
- Economic and Industrial Planning Staff and Control Office for Germany and Austria and Successor: Control Commission for Germany (British Element), Military Sections and Headquarters Secretariat: Registered Files (HQ and other series)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1941-1952
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains files of Economic and Industrial Planning Staff, Control Commission Military Sections and HQ Secretariat (mainly pre 1946). These files from the various headquarters, planning and supervisory staff, secretariat and committees of British Military Government and its successor, the Control Commission for Germany, cover the entire range of responsibilities of British government in Germany.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
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HQ file series
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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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), 1945-1947
- Economic and Industrial Planning Staff, 1944-1945
- Foreign Office, Control Commission for Germany (British Element), 1947-1953
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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2722 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
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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
- Europe and Russia
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C8331/
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This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
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Economic and Industrial Planning Staff and Control Office for Germany and Austria and Successor: Control Commission for Germany (British Element), Military Sections and Headquarters Secretariat: Registered Files (HQ and other series)
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