David Gregory clean out your PMs!

[Guest Rick Research]

Clean out your PM box!!!

Wanted to ask you what your 1941 Berlin phone book has on

Amtsrat Heinrich DREWS of Wetzlarerstrasse 6, Berlin-Wilmersdorf regarding a possible specific branch assignment at his hoped for office phone at the Prussian Staatsministerium.

Will be getting a scan taken this very weekend of the Dienstgeb?ude he saved from R.A.F. incendiaries 1 March 1943 and feel an EPIC coming on.

[David Gregory]

Clean out your PM box!!!

Wanted to ask you what your 1941 Berlin phone book has on

Amtsrat Heinrich DREWS of Wetzlarerstrasse 6, Berlin-Wilmersdorf regarding a possible specific branch assignment at his hoped for office phone at the Prussian Staatsministerium.

Will be getting a scan taken this very weekend of the Dienstgeb?ude he saved from R.A.F. incendiaries 1 March 1943 and feel an EPIC coming on.

Rick,

According to the 1941 Berlin phone book, Amtsrat Heinrich Drews was living at Wetzlarerstrasse 6 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf in 1941, but nothing more is shown in his personal entry besides his phone number.

The entries for the various ministries, including the Staatsministerium, only provide the numbers of the various offices and departments without any indication of the people involved. The few Staatsministerium numbers are only for the main office switchboard at Leipziger Str. 3, numbers for night-time calls and the caretaker (janitor on your side of the pond) and the Archivabteiung at Dorotheenstr. 21.

Some ministry and military "bigwigs" had more elaborate entries under their own names showing their office addresses and numbers, but Amtsrat Drews seems to have been either too modest or frugal to pay for the extra line in the phone book.

David

[Guest Rick Research]

"Archivabteiung at Dorotheenstr. 21."

Ah, but THERE is the answer I have sought for 17 years RIGHT THERE!!!!!!

Herr Drews was the Files Keeper for the whole shebang-- and no WONDER not having everything burned up was such a big deal!

Now to have Glenn photograph the right building the next time he's in Berlin... since those Wicked DDRites obviously renumbered the street when it was Clara Zetkin Stra?e!

THANKS David!!!! Of such obscure sources is research heaven made!