ADI(K) report /. See also Galland’s papers in the BA-MA.
Koppenberg: His preface to a history of developments at Dessau during
(written ); in Junkers Papers, SI.
Carinhall expenses: HG interrog. at “Ashcan,” June , ; Bodenschatz,
GRGG., and see note “Chief architect,” Chapter (Tietze).
Lists of gifts in RG, box , folders xv and xvi.
“His staff”: For the files of Göring’s “Stabsamt,” particularly those of his P.A.,
the engineer Fritz Görnnert, see NA films T/, /, / (the file on C & A
Brenninkmeyer is on T/); further files on the Stabsamt, particularly its
espionage activities abroad, are on NA film T/ (film of German
F.O. file H, relating to special missions carried out for HG in London
by the duke of Coburg, Prince Max von Hohenlohe, and in Sweden by
Prince Viktor zu Wied, the later ambassador in Stockholm). In June
HG set up an attaché section in the Reich Air Ministry under Maj. Frie-
drich Karl Hanesse: the air attachés (Wenninger, Waldau, and others)
reported primarily to HG and not to the F.O. from their new vantage
points in Rome and London, to which were later added Warsaw, Moscow,
Washington, and Tokyo. Some of the papers of Staatssekretär Ludwig
Grauert’s office (Prussian ministry of the interior) and of the Prussian
state ministry are now in the Prussian secret state archives in Berlin
Dahlem (inventories and respectively). An overview of the Stabsamt
is gained from its telephone book (now in Hoover Library), while the
Stabsamt organization plan will be found on NA film T//ff. See
also the interrogs. of Limberger at Nbg., May and July , , and of
Gritzbach, May-Sept. ; and Robert Kempner’s evaluation of HG’s staff
in “The Case Against HG” (NA, RG, Records of Judge Advocate Gen-
eral, box ).
Gifts and donations: There were allegations that after Hugenburg’s resigna-
tion as minister of economics on June , , HG maneuvered his old
friend and benefactor Dr. Kurt Schmitt of the Allianz insurance corpora-
tion into this office ignoring the claim of the old party veteran Otto
Wagener to the post and that Schmitt paid RM, into HG’s bank
account on June , , as a reward. (See Kurt Gossweiler’s East Berlin
dissertation, The Role of German Monopoly Capital in Procuring the Röhm
Affair [East Berlin: ].) This is highly plausible, given that HG’s bank
statements, preserved in OMGUS files (NA, RG, box ), record
regular annual deposits by Schmitt rising from RM, in to
, in . Among other benefactors was Dr. Herrmann, whom HG
had appointed “State Privy Councillor”: On Jan. , , he paid RM
million into HG’s account at the Thyssen Bank (“Herrmann,” HG con-
ceded under interrog. on May , , “was a publisher of insurance peri-
odicals.” Göring, states his report, “helped him a great deal.”) The Allianz
corporation and its directors, Herrmann and H. Hilgard, also made costly
gifts to HG hunting pictures by Ridinger at the end of , two silver
cutlery services, a large vase of May flowers and orchids (on his first wed-
ding anniversary in ), two silver candlesticks and a flower vase on his
birthday, a baroque angel and antique silver goblet when Edda was
born in June , plus a gift of RM, for the child. Aircraft manu-
facturer Fritz Siebel donated a porcelain “stag at bay”; Schmitt, a bronze