Německá osídlovací společnost Karlovy Vary

The Deutsche Ansiedlungsgesellschaft was founded as Deutsche Ansiedlungsbank already in 1898. The original functions of his organisation were expanded significantly in the period of National Socialism and the name was changed 1936 into Deutsche Ansiedlungsgesellschaft. It had a statutory right of preemption in the purchase of large agricultural estate. The Deutsche Ansiedlungsgesellschaft acquired, sold, leased and operated farms. These were then divided for agricultural use. With the beginning of the Germans expansion in 1938 the Deutsche Ansiedlungsgesellschaft emerged offices in Innsbruck, in Carlsbad (Karlsbad/Karlovy Vary) and in Mährisch Schönberg (Šumperk) for the eastern parts of the Sudetengau. In 1939 it was placed under Himmler`s Reich Commissioner for the Consolidation of German Nationhood (Reichskommissar für die Festigung deutschen Volkstums). On behalf of Himmler and the High Command of the Army (Oberkommando des Heeres), the Deutsche Ansiedlungsgesellschaft had the fiduciary administration over agricultural estates in Austria, the Sudetengau and in the occupied territories.

The Deutsche Ansiedlungsgesellschaft was nationalized by the Czechoslovak state after the liberation in 1945. The administration was taken over by the Czechoslovak Ministry of Agriculture. The documents of the Deutsche Ansiedlungsgesellschaft were brought in 1948 to Prague. In the next years the archive was sent in 1949 to the Agriculture-Forrest Archive in Horšovský Týn (Bischofteinitz) and in 1952 to the new established Central Agriculture-Forrest archive in Sazava. Other material from different offices and archives were added and in 1962 the material which was at that time in a very bad shape was processed and inventoried by the State Central Archive in Prague (Státní ústřední archiv v Praze) now National Archives (Národní archiv).