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DECLARATION BY PRESENT OWNER OR CUSTODIAN OF PROPERTY WHICH HAS BEEN SUBJECT TO TRANSFER IN ACCORDANCE WITH PARAGRAPH 1 OF GENERAL ORDER No. 10 / Erklärung des jetzigen Eigentümers oder Verwalters von Vermögen, das unter Artikel 1 Absatz 1 der allgemeinen Verfügung Nr. 10 fällt
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Herms&Co
Institute for the History of the German Jews
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In the course of the administration of assets expropriated by the
National Socialists, the British military government set itself the
goal of specifying the property control that had already begun in
1946, which also included the expropriated assets of persons
persecuted by the Nazis. On October 20, 1947 it issued the General
Decree No. 10 on the basis of Law No. 52 of the Military Government
concerning the blocking and control of property. The decree obliged
persons who had "owned, managed or supervised property" since January
30, 1933 to make a declaration of assets. This declaration had to be
made in the form of the MGAF/P form: Declaration by the current owner
or manager of property covered by Article I(1) of General Order No 10.
See Art. II Duty of disclosure, General Decree No. 10 on the basis
of Act No. 52 of the Military Government on the Blocking and Control
of Property, in: Rudolf Harmening / Wilhelm Hartenstein, eds.,
Rückerstattungsgesetz.Kommentar zum Gesetz über die Rückerstattung
feststellbarer Vermögensgegenstände (Gesetz Nr. 59 der
Militärregierung). Frankfurt a. M. 1950.Blatt Nr. 50. That such a
form was to be developed had already been established in the winter of
1944: “It is contemplated, however, that shortly thereafter the
submission of detailed reports of such blocked property will be
required.” Handbook for Military Government in Germany prior to
defeat or surrender. Dec. 1944, Part III, 340 Blocking Control (d).
The British Military Government also required banks in the British
Occupation Zone to fill out this form in order to collect information
on confiscated assets and freeze them. In particular, one article of
General Order No. 10 required bank administrators to report
expropriations which they had witnessed or in which they had aided the
authorities. For this reason, Rudolf Herms, the owner and manager of
the Hamburg bank Herms & Co., filled in the form shown here on April
19, 1948 and "declared" in it the confiscation of assets owned by his
former customer Elsa Saenger. A compensation procedure drawn out over
about 20 years between 1948 and 1966 began, conducted between civil
servants of the tax authorities in Hamburg and Freiburg and a
representative of Elsa Saenger’s. The form is part of a set of files
comprising several hundred pages in the state archives of Freiburg and
Hamburg (621-1/77_13).
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