German Office for Peace Issues
The German Office for Peace Issues was a documentation authority for the Prime Ministers of Bavaria , Hesse , Württemberg-Baden and Bremen , from April 15, 1947 to December 1, 1949, in Stuttgart and Ruit .
The tasks of the German Office for Peace Issues included collecting documentation for peace negotiations and looking after prisoners of war. Originally planned as a bizonal institution, the American occupying powers only approved an office responsible for their zone in view of the Moscow Foreign Ministers' Conference in spring 1947. Fritz Eberhard became chairman of the office .
With the integration into the West , the concept of a peace treaty to end the Second World War disappeared and the authority was liquidated from December 1, 1949 to June 30, 1950 as a federal authority or was incorporated into the Foreign Affairs Office in the Federal Chancellery.
The more than 36 employees of the German Office for Peace Issues on September 30, 1949 included:
- Eugen Feihl
- Günther Harkort
- Margarete Hütter
- Klaus Mehnert
- Ernst-Günther Mohr
- Karl Mommer
- Peter-Heinz Seraphim
Individual evidence
- ↑ Heribert Piontkowitz: Beginnings of West German Foreign Policy 1946-1949. The German Bureau for Peace Issues (Studies on Contemporary History, 12) . Stuttgart 1978.
- ↑ Manfred Overesch: All-German Illusion and West German Reality. On the preparations for a German peace treaty for the establishment of the Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany 1946-1949 / 51 . Düsseldorf 1978.
- ↑ https://www2.landesarchiv-bw.de/ofs21/olf/einfueh.php?Stock=4304