Hauptreuhandstelle Ost. Treuhandstelle Danzig-Westpreussen Selected records of the Main Trustee Office for the East, Trustee Office for Gdańsk-West Prussia Główny Urząd Powierniczy Wschód Gdańsk-Prusy Zachodnie (Sygn. 264)

Hauptreuhandstelle Ost. Treuhandstelle Danzig-Westpreussen (Główny Urząd Powierniczy Wschód Gdańsk-Prusy Zachodnie; Main Trustee Office for the East, Trustee Office for Danzig-West Prussia) was established in November 1939 to take over and manage confiscated Polish state and private property in the occupied territories and include it in the Nazi military economy. Confiscated property was handed over to the receivership, lease or sale to German citizens, including repatriated from the Baltic countries and Bessarabia. Agricultural and forestry properties were excluded from the competence of the Trustee's Office. They were governed by the Reich Commissioner's Office for the Strengthening of the German. Local custodian offices in 1941 were under the supervision of the Reich Governor's Office. The custodian office in Gdańsk included the District of West Prussia. This office was in charge of the Branch Office in Gdynia and a “Man of Trust” in particular districts.

Archiwum Państwowe w Gdańsku

Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Source of acquisition is the Archiwum Państwowe w Gdańsku, Poland, Sygn. 264. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in March 2018.