Bundesarchiv Koblenz:

Title
Trust management of cultural property at the Oberfinanzdirektion Munich  (Stock B323) (Treuhandverwaltung von Kulturgut bei der Oberfinanzdirektion München) (Bestand B323)

Location
Bundesarchiv Koblenz

Description
After the war, the US military government was in charge of administering and registering looted art in Germany grouped in Central Collecting Points. The main US Collecting Point was located in Munich. In 1949 those art works that had not been restituted when the US Central Collecting Points closed were placed in the trust of the Bavarian government. The Treuhandverwaltung (Trust management) was created in 1952 by the German Foreign Office to deal with problems concerning their restitution. The records held in the collection at the Koblenz branch of the Federal Archives (Bundesarchiv) were intended to assist German officials in the restitution process. They are highly important for provenance research. Some files are duplicates of original documents located at NARA (Washington DC, USA). The collection contains approximately 700 files, known as Stock B323, and includes documentation relating to the Linz Museum, the ERR, the Göring art collection and papers of the US Central Collecting Points and the Monuments, Fine Art and Archives Restitution Branch. The Federal Archives at Koblenz have issued an information sheet on Stock B323 for researchers. It is reproduced in full on pp. 58-9 of the Guidelines (February 2001) concerning the implementation of the "Joint Declaration by  the Federal Government, the Länder (Federal States) and the National Associations of Local Authorities on the tracing and return of Nazi-confiscated art, especially Jewish property" which can be downloaded from <http://www.lostart.de >, accessed 22 October 2002.

Contact Information
Requests regarding the archives and their content should be made by post or e-mail.
Bundesarchiv Koblenz
56064 Koblenz
Tel: +49 (0) 26 5050
Fax: +49 (0) 261 505 226
Email: koblenz@barch.bund.de
<http://www.bundesarchiv.de/>, accessed 22 October 2002

Source
Bundesarchiv Koblenz

Guidelines (February 2001) concerning the implementation of the "Joint Declaration by  the Federal Government, the Länder (Federal States) and the National Associations of local authorities on the tracing and return of Nazi-confiscated art, especially Jewish property" from December 1999, pp. 58-9. Handreichung vom Februar 2001 zur Umsetzung der "Erklärung der Bundesregierung, der Länder und der kommunalen Spitzenverbände zur Auffindung und zur Rückgabe NS-verfolgungsbedingt entzogenen Kulturgutes, insbesondere aus jüdischem Besitz" vom Dezember 1999, pp. 58-9

N. H. Yeide, K. Akinsha, A. L. Walsh (eds), AAM Guide to Provenance Research, Washington 2001, p.123