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DECLASSIFIE 0 AND RELEAS
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DATE 2004 2007.
Ref No 8AX0/20
24 May 45
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REICH MINISTRY OF FINANOE;LOOATION.OF'PERSONNEL AND DOOUMENTS'.
.(This Report is being published in ..newer te-SpeCial Questionnaire
--providedibvus Group 00, G+2, T-Seolil.ont 6th Army Group,:14.kai"i945)
II PREAMBLE
The following 'information was obtained from Ppm-anent:Under Secretary REINHARDT
and :Under Seoretaries_WOOTHKE.and KALLENBAOH. _They are very cooperative and state
that they are willing and able ,to help in the reorganization of the Ministry and its
departments. In oonneotion with the records and doouments, , if was pointed out that
ml!Ili"t ha44)3014,AetToyed.in air attacks. PurthermOie 411 nonessential 'documents:
were.Aistr*d iftiocaUse OfHtha.difficulty of transporting them and because cif .their
conitqq:iifsel,aAre hazard during air raids. Many of the records of all departments
were syaluallscIMMU41ZBUAG. and left ,there.with*tweemplOyeee as custodians.'
Date of Informations See Text Interrogator: G.PX4
II,J4INISTRY0PcFINANOEL
A. DEPARTMENT I
Most of-the personnel and records werejast • located id BERLIN/OHARLOTTENBURG,
SISMAROESTRA8SE k4852. The'tecorcfe of were in BEELITZ . near BERLI4.4bout twelve
• official s,-;under'Minieterialdirigent4UUSTINE, together -with some.r000rds,.:yere
lastz4mISAbiTOEtz.Someloffi-eiali i :netably Mlnisteralrats.KALLENBAOli, GERTH4-:and
SOHMII#00HWARZENBERG,-wera:40 . GARMI8OHPARTENKIROilEN, but were taken-into pustody
:bic1OtOyeioun4 May,4.,The::.ohief officiale still "located,in BERLIN are Dii.O.OiOre'
KLUGE-and MEYER.
S. DEPARTMENT 4,II
-fAt qThiikdepaitMent camedirectlyunder the control-of,REINHARDT. Most . of the
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records _ and pereonnel. , are in .ILMENALT; Thuringia. A rex; under Direetor'Dr SIEGERT
and Miniaterialrat
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SORRIER,,are-otilA, in BERLIN '
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This'Aiet.artent was also under the , Control. of REINHARDTi.Moet of thereektia
. arid' .pereonnel„ are, in ILMENAp i,Thuringia.. ItvadditiOnto . these, thereAs.a.Regip-
•' rVilEa • r.14qm.ttln ,. 8..114,0n oW0*:41fficial in.WEIWEIM)..Qberregiorungsrat':Dri4OOKI'in
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-NiMiniateiialgifgent.WOOTHKE : .(AGOSBURG).4as one men in:clarge-of,thiol.
l iepir*IgiledtOethepersonntilAs.nd:doeuments.remained.in BERLIN, POTSDAM), .
.inder ministerialdirektor WEYER. Ministerialrat'VOIGELB was 'last in OBEALAINDERN,
ltear MUNIOH..In addition, there were three officiale in BADTOELZI.,MOLTER, EMMEL,
an4 HP0114I :Ag o:;.i j'::1- .;:i'l.!:, ..% . . ' , . : • .
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MOst :of the personnerian&dOouments remained in. 'BERLIN, undor,::MinisieriaA".":
iirektOr Dr BERGER, although this man may now be in HAMBURG. It is believed that
cne : offivial,.Dr MINOT, went to BAD-TOELZ. ' Some officials and documents were in
ctIOAPURTWingtheliatWurider yMinieterialrat SAWER. Minieterialrat SOHMIDT was
in GARMISOH, but was taken into custody by OIO on 4 May, 45.
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P. MARTMENTM
This deyartiedt'ls , divi'dedinto four sections as follows:
VI..A . Doouments anCliei'eohnel were last in BODENBAOH, in the Sudetengau, under
Ministerialdirigent Di BROBTZ, who is either in BODENBAOH Or in WALDSASSEN,
in the Oberpfalz' "
VI-8 last located in ILMENAU,.Thuringia, under Ministerialrat ROBENBAGER. •
Some personnel and records were . in . MALLERSDORF, lower Bavaria, under Ministerialdirigent
VON DIETZ.'
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