Hamburgisches
Welt-Wirtschafts-Archiv (HWWA)
Folders by Country Category
System
In total 303 categories, 9201 subject folders, 2891 ware folders.
Of the PM20 Länder-/Sacharchiv up to 1949, only a rough estimate of
one-fifth of the digitized holdings are indexed in folders and
accessible via this category system. The corresponding countries and
regions - e.g. the Middle East, Japan, the former German colonies or
Hamburg - are marked “complete” in the list below. However, many small
and large countries such as Great Britain, China, India, France or the
USA are missing at all or are only represented by a few folders
originating from the “Forschungsstelle für das Übersee-Deutschtum”.
For the Commodities/Wares archive, only about one-eighth of the
digitized material is accessible here. The wares folders for every given
coutry are therefore always incomplete.
All unprocessed material is accessible under digitized films (in German), including
material from the second filming (until
1960) - for copyright reasons, however, unfortunately only in the
ZBW reading room. The complete
country category system is available online.
Folder
search (via Wikidata)
Europe
- A1 Europe A (223 subject
folders (complete), 7 ware folders)
- A1a Baltic region C (26 subject
folders (complete), 1 ware folders)
- A2 Central Europe A (20 subject
folders (complete), 4 ware folders)
- A3 Eastern Europe A (61 subject
folders (complete), 0 ware folders)
- A4 Western Europe A (68 subject
folders (complete), 0 ware folders)
- A5 Levant B (46 subject folders
(complete), 0 ware folders)
- A5a Mediterranean region B (28
subject folders (complete), 0 ware folders)
- A6 Southeastern Europe B (190
subject folders (complete), 5 ware folders)
- A7 Orient B (116 subject
folders (complete), 0 ware folders)
- A8 Russian peripheral countries
B (33 subject folders (complete), 0 ware folders)
- A9 Hamburg A (826 subject
folders (complete), 10 ware folders)
- A10 Germany A (287 subject
folders, 76 ware folders)
- A10(19) Protectorate of Bohemia and
Moravia (1 subject folders, 7 ware
folders)
- A10(Bln) Berlin (0 subject
folders, 2 ware folders)
- A10(t1) Allied occupied Germany
(5 subject folders, 0 ware folders)
- A10(t2) Germany (Federal Republic
of Germany) (7 subject folders, 0 ware
folders)
- A10b French occupation area left
bank of the Rhine (0 subject folders, 1 ware
folders)
- A10c Alsace-Lorraine (0 subject
folders, 1 ware folders)
- A10d Saar (0 subject folders, 8
ware folders)
- A10h East Prussia (0 subject
folders, 1 ware folders)
- A10i Klaipėda (0 subject
folders, 1 ware folders)
- A10k Free City of Danzig (0
subject folders, 10 ware folders)
- A10l Reichsgau Danzig-West
Prussia (0 subject folders, 1 ware folders)
- A10n Upper Silesia (1919-1938,
1941-1945) (0 subject folders, 2 ware
folders)
- A10n(1) Upper Silesia
(German-Polish border region) (42 subject folders, 0 ware
folders)
- A10p East Upper Silesia (46
subject folders (complete), 0 ware folders)
- A10p(3) Lower Silesia (0
subject folders, 1 ware folders)
- A11 German imperial colonies
(115 subject folders (complete), 2 ware folders)
- A12 Poland (8 subject folders,
39 ware folders)
- A13 Svalbard (0 subject
folders, 2 ware folders)
- A14 Scandinavia (0 subject
folders, 4 ware folders)
- A15 Denmark (0 subject folders,
28 ware folders)
- A16 Iceland (0 subject folders,
4 ware folders)
- A17 Sweden (1 subject folders,
39 ware folders)
- A18 Norway (0 subject folders,
28 ware folders)
- A19 Netherlands (0 subject
folders, 41 ware folders)
- A20 Dutch Empire (0 subject
folders, 1 ware folders)
- A21 Belgium (0 subject folders,
34 ware folders)
- A21a Benelux Countries (0
subject folders, 1 ware folders)
- A22 United Kingdom (0 subject
folders, 66 ware folders)
- A22a Island of Ireland (0
subject folders, 1 ware folders)
- A22b Republic of Ireland (0
subject folders, 26 ware folders)
- A23 British Empire (0 subject
folders, 12 ware folders)
- A24 Gibraltar (0 subject
folders, 3 ware folders)
- A25 Malta (0 subject folders, 5
ware folders)
- A27 Luxembourg (0 subject
folders, 13 ware folders)
- A28 France (0 subject folders,
59 ware folders)
- A29 French colonial empire (0
subject folders, 12 ware folders)
- A30 Spain (0 subject folders,
41 ware folders)
- A31 Spanish Empire (0 subject
folders, 5 ware folders)
- A32 Portugal (1 subject
folders, 30 ware folders)
- A33 Portuguese Colonial Empire
(0 subject folders, 6 ware folders)
- A34 Switzerland (0 subject
folders, 40 ware folders)
- A35 Italy (0 subject folders,
55 ware folders)
- A36 Italian Empire (94 subject
folders, 2 ware folders)
- A37 Monaco (11 subject folders
(complete), 0 ware folders)
- A38 Free State of Fiume (25
subject folders (complete), 0 ware folders)
- A39 Liechtenstein (37 subject
folders (complete), 1 ware folders)
- A40 Austria-Hungary (13 subject
folders, 5 ware folders)
- A40b Austria (0 subject
folders, 37 ware folders)
- A40b(A10) Ostmark (Austria) (0
subject folders, 12 ware folders)
- A40b(Wn) Vienna (0 subject
folders, 1 ware folders)
- A40c Czechoslovakia (0 subject
folders, 37 ware folders)
- A40c(A10) Sudeten Germans (0
subject folders, 1 ware folders)
- A40d Hungary (0 subject
folders, 39 ware folders)
- A40e Kingdom of Yugoslavia (0
subject folders, 22 ware folders)
- A40f Slovakia (0 subject
folders, 11 ware folders)
- A40g Croatia (0 subject
folders, 15 ware folders)
- A41 Serbia (0 subject folders,
7 ware folders)
- A43 Ottoman Empire (135 subject
folders (complete), 9 ware folders)
- A45 Greece (0 subject folders,
30 ware folders)
- A46 Bulgaria (0 subject
folders, 39 ware folders)
- A47 Romania (0 subject folders,
38 ware folders)
- A48 Albania (0 subject folders,
6 ware folders)
- A50 USSR (1 subject folders, 62
ware folders)
- A50(1) Russia (0 subject
folders, 1 ware folders)
- A50a Occupied territories of
Eastern Europe (0 subject folders, 3 ware
folders)
- A53 Finland (0 subject folders,
24 ware folders)
- A54 Ukraine (0 subject folders,
2 ware folders)
- A57 Baltic states (0 subject
folders, 1 ware folders)
- A58 Latvia (0 subject folders,
23 ware folders)
- A60 Estonia (0 subject folders,
24 ware folders)
- A61 Lithuania (0 subject
folders, 13 ware folders)
Asia
- B1 Asia (1 subject folders, 1
ware folders)
- B6 East Asia (1 subject
folders, 2 ware folders)
- B9 Far East (0 subject folders,
1 ware folders)
- B10 Soviet Asia (0 subject
folders, 1 ware folders)
- B11 Siberia (0 subject folders,
2 ware folders)
- B12 Russian Turkestan (0
subject folders, 1 ware folders)
- B13 Turkestan (0 subject
folders, 1 ware folders)
- B15 Uzbekistan (0 subject
folders, 1 ware folders)
- B16 Caucasus (0 subject
folders, 5 ware folders)
- B17 Georgia (Republic) (0
subject folders, 1 ware folders)
- B18 Cyprus (31 subject folders,
7 ware folders)
- B19 Rhodes and Dodecanese (52
subject folders (complete), 1 ware folders)
- B20 Anatolia (39 subject
folders (complete), 2 ware folders)
- B21 Turkey (610 subject folders
(complete), 34 ware folders)
- B21(alt) Asia Minor (0 subject
folders, 1 ware folders)
- B22 Armenians in Turkey (56
subject folders (complete), 1 ware folders)
- B23 Iraq (221 subject folders
(complete), 7 ware folders)
- B24 Syria (250 subject folders
(complete), 15 ware folders)
- B24a Palestine (319 subject
folders (complete), 21 ware folders)
- B24b Jordan (Kingdom) (23
subject folders, 1 ware folders)
- B24c Lebanon (0 subject
folders, 13 ware folders)
- B24d Hatay State (0 subject
folders, 2 ware folders)
- B25 Arabian Peninsula (0
subject folders, 1 ware folders)
- B28 ’Asir Region (0 subject
folders, 1 ware folders)
- B31 Yemen (0 subject folders, 1
ware folders)
- B34 Colony of Aden (0 subject
folders, 4 ware folders)
- B36 Bahrain (0 subject folders,
1 ware folders)
- B40 Iran (3 subject folders, 12
ware folders)
- B41 Afghanistan (1 subject
folders, 5 ware folders)
- B42 Indian Empire (2 subject
folders, 35 ware folders)
- B43 Burma (0 subject folders, 3
ware folders)
- B54 French India (0 subject
folders, 3 ware folders)
- B57 Ceylon (2 subject folders,
12 ware folders)
- B58 Federated Malay States (2
subject folders, 17 ware folders)
- B59 Straits Settlements (2
subject folders, 4 ware folders)
- B61 Dutch East Indies (0
subject folders, 6 ware folders)
- B62 Indonesia (0 subject
folders, 30 ware folders)
- B63 Sumatra (0 subject folders,
3 ware folders)
- B64 Java and Madura Island (0
subject folders, 4 ware folders)
- B77 Dutch Borneo (0 subject
folders, 2 ware folders)
- B80 British North Borneo (0
subject folders, 2 ware folders)
- B80c Sabah (1 subject folders,
0 ware folders)
- B85 Portuguese Timor (0 subject
folders, 1 ware folders)
- B86 Philippines (1 subject
folders, 23 ware folders)
- B90 Siam (1 subject folders, 11
ware folders)
- B91 Cochinchina (0 subject
folders, 16 ware folders)
- B94 China (2 subject folders,
37 ware folders)
- B94c Autonomous regions in the
North of China (0 subject folders, 3 ware
folders)
- B95 Manchuria (1 subject
folders, 18 ware folders)
- B96 Tibet (27 subject folders,
0 ware folders)
- B98 Tuvan People’s Republic (2
subject folders (complete), 0 ware folders)
- B99 Mongolia (85 subject
folders (complete), 2 ware folders)
- B99a Inner Mongolia (25 subject
folders (complete), 1 ware folders)
- B100 Guangzhouwan (4 subject
folders (complete), 0 ware folders)
- B101 Macau (98 subject folders
(complete), 1 ware folders)
- B102 Hong Kong (133 subject
folders (complete), 15 ware folders)
- B103 Jiaozhou (81 subject
folders (complete), 2 ware folders)
- B104 Shandong (0 subject
folders, 1 ware folders)
- B110 Weihaiwei under British
rule (10 subject folders (complete), 0 ware
folders)
- B111 Japan (731 subject folders
(complete), 41 ware folders)
- B112 Japanese Empire (107
subject folders (complete), 3 ware folders)
- B113 Formosa (70 subject
folders (complete), 10 ware folders)
- B114 Guangdong (85 subject
folders (complete), 0 ware folders)
- B115 Korea (20 subject folders,
8 ware folders)
Africa
- C1 Africa (0 subject folders, 3
ware folders)
- C2a French speaking Africa (2
subject folders, 1 ware folders)
- C4 Central Africa (0 subject
folders, 1 ware folders)
- C7 European colonies in Africa
(0 subject folders, 1 ware folders)
- C10 Egypt (2 subject folders,
25 ware folders)
- C11 Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (0
subject folders, 6 ware folders)
- C15 Libya (1 subject folders, 9
ware folders)
- C16 Italian Cyrenaica (0
subject folders, 1 ware folders)
- C17 Tripolitania (0 subject
folders, 1 ware folders)
- C18 Tunisia (1 subject folders,
18 ware folders)
- C19 Algeria (52 subject
folders, 20 ware folders)
- C24 Morocco (33 subject folders
(complete), 3 ware folders)
- C25 French protectorate in
Morocco (280 subject folders (complete), 21 ware
folders)
- C26 Spanish protectorate in
Morocco (130 subject folders (complete), 6 ware
folders)
- C27 Tangier (55 subject
folders, 4 ware folders)
- C30 French West Africa (0
subject folders, 15 ware folders)
- C33 Cote d’Ivoire (0 subject
folders, 1 ware folders)
- C34 French Sudan (0 subject
folders, 3 ware folders)
- C35 Niger (0 subject folders, 1
ware folders)
- C36 French Guinea (0 subject
folders, 3 ware folders)
- C37 Cote d’Ivoire, Mauritania
(0 subject folders, 1 ware folders)
- C45 Azores (0 subject folders,
4 ware folders)
- C46 Madeira (1 subject folders,
3 ware folders)
- C47 Canary Islands (1 subject
folders, 4 ware folders)
- C48 Cape Verde (0 subject
folders, 4 ware folders)
- C51 Gambia (0 subject folders,
4 ware folders)
- C52 Portuguese Guinea (0
subject folders, 3 ware folders)
- C54 British West Africa (2
subject folders, 6 ware folders)
- C55 Sierra Leone (20 subject
folders, 5 ware folders)
- C56 Liberia (89 subject folders
(complete), 2 ware folders)
- C57 Gold Coast incl. British
Togoland (112 subject folders (complete), 12 ware
folders)
- C58 Togoland (104 subject
folders (complete), 6 ware folders)
- C60 Colonial Nigeria, incl. British
Cameroons (131 subject folders (complete), 7 ware
folders)
- C65 Cameroon (163 subject
folders (complete), 5 ware folders)
- C70 Spanish Guinea (43 subject
folders (complete), 3 ware folders)
- C71 Sao Tome and Principe (6
subject folders, 5 ware folders)
- C75 French Equatorial Africa (0
subject folders, 4 ware folders)
- C80 Belgian Congo (2 subject
folders, 15 ware folders)
- C81 Ruanda-Urundi (0 subject
folders, 1 ware folders)
- C85 Portuguese Angola (4
subject folders, 13 ware folders)
- C87 German South-West Africa
(225 subject folders (complete), 8 ware folders)
- C90 Ascension Island (3 subject
folders (complete), 1 ware folders)
- C91 Saint Helena (2 subject
folders (complete), 0 ware folders)
- C92 Tristan da Cunha (3 subject
folders (complete), 0 ware folders)
- C93 Union of South Africa (22
subject folders, 43 ware folders)
- C94 Rhodesia (0 subject
folders, 10 ware folders)
- C94a Southern Rhodesia (0
subject folders, 11 ware folders)
- C94b Northern Rhodesia (1
subject folders, 7 ware folders)
- C95 Bechuanaland Protectorate
(0 subject folders, 1 ware folders)
- C97 Swaziland (1 subject
folders, 2 ware folders)
- C99 Nyasaland (0 subject
folders, 6 ware folders)
- C100 Portuguese Mozambique (2
subject folders, 12 ware folders)
- C102 Madagascar (1 subject
folders, 10 ware folders)
- C102a Comoros (0 subject
folders, 1 ware folders)
- C103 Reunion (0 subject
folders, 3 ware folders)
- C103a Kerguelen Islands (0
subject folders, 1 ware folders)
- C105 Mauritius (27 subject
folders, 5 ware folders)
- C106 Seychelles (6 subject
folders (complete), 2 ware folders)
- C110 German East Africa (248
subject folders (complete), 13 ware folders)
- C111 Tanzania (0 subject
folders, 1 ware folders)
- C114 British East Africa (20
subject folders, 3 ware folders)
- C115 Zanzibar (1 subject
folders, 3 ware folders)
- C116 Kenya (2 subject folders,
10 ware folders)
- C117 Uganda (0 subject folders,
4 ware folders)
- C119 Italian East Africa (0
subject folders, 11 ware folders)
- C120 Italian Somaliland (0
subject folders, 3 ware folders)
- C121 British Somaliland (0
subject folders, 2 ware folders)
- C122 French Somaliland (11
subject folders, 2 ware folders)
- C125 Abyssinia (125 subject
folders (complete), 6 ware folders)
- C126 Eritrea (88 subject
folders (complete), 3 ware folders)
Australia and Oceania
- D1 Australia and Oceania (3
subject folders (complete), 0 ware folders)
- D2 Pacific rim (33 subject
folders (complete), 2 ware folders)
- D5 Hawaii (107 subject folders
(complete), 6 ware folders)
- D6 Guam (7 subject folders
(complete), 0 ware folders)
- D8 Nauru (11 subject folders
(complete), 0 ware folders)
- D9 New Guinea (12 subject
folders (complete), 1 ware folders)
- D10 German New Guinea (103
subject folders (complete), 0 ware folders)
- D11 Solomon Islands and Bismarck
Archipelago (29 subject folders (complete), 0 ware
folders)
- D12 Kaiser-Wilhelmsland (21
subject folders (complete), 0 ware folders)
- D13 Caroline Islands (8 subject
folders (complete), 0 ware folders)
- D14 Palau (9 subject folders
(complete), 0 ware folders)
- D15 Mariana Islands (4 subject
folders (complete), 0 ware folders)
- D16 Marshall Islands, Nauru (7
subject folders (complete), 0 ware folders)
- D18 Japanese South Pacific
Mandate (43 subject folders (complete), 1 ware
folders)
- D20 Dutch New Guinea (30
subject folders (complete), 2 ware folders)
- D21 Territory of Papua (42
subject folders (complete), 2 ware folders)
- D30 Australia (80 subject
folders, 38 ware folders)
- D31 Australian League of Nations
mandate of South Pacific Islands (0 subject folders, 4 ware
folders)
- D35 New Zealand (1 subject
folders, 16 ware folders)
- D39 British Oceania (0 subject
folders, 6 ware folders)
- D40 Fiji (0 subject folders, 1
ware folders)
- D49 French Polynesia (0 subject
folders, 8 ware folders)
- D50 New Caledonia (0 subject
folders, 4 ware folders)
- D55 New Hebrides Condominium (0
subject folders, 4 ware folders)
- D60 German Samoa (2 subject
folders, 2 ware folders)
America
- E1 America (0 subject folders,
1 ware folders)
- E2 North America (0 subject
folders, 1 ware folders)
- E3 Central America (0 subject
folders, 2 ware folders)
- E4 South America (0 subject
folders, 3 ware folders)
- E5 Latin America (0 subject
folders, 4 ware folders)
- E7 Greenland (0 subject
folders, 2 ware folders)
- E8 Canada (1 subject folders,
48 ware folders)
- E9 Newfoundland and Labrador (0
subject folders, 6 ware folders)
- E10 Saint Pierre and Miquelon
(0 subject folders, 2 ware folders)
- E11 Bermuda (0 subject folders,
3 ware folders)
- E15 United States (1 subject
folders, 72 ware folders)
- E16 Alaska (0 subject folders,
4 ware folders)
- E18 Anglo-American states (0
subject folders, 1 ware folders)
- E20 Mexico (1 subject folders,
41 ware folders)
- E21 West Indies (0 subject
folders, 2 ware folders)
- E24 Cuba (0 subject folders, 23
ware folders)
- E25 Haiti (0 subject folders,
11 ware folders)
- E25a Dominican Republic (0
subject folders, 7 ware folders)
- E26 Puerto Rico (0 subject
folders, 6 ware folders)
- E27 British West Indies (0
subject folders, 17 ware folders)
- E28 Jamaica (0 subject folders,
13 ware folders)
- E29 Bahamas (0 subject folders,
1 ware folders)
- E45 Barbados (0 subject
folders, 3 ware folders)
- E46 Trinidad and Tobago (0
subject folders, 11 ware folders)
- E47 Leeward Islands (0 subject
folders, 1 ware folders)
- E48 Windward islands (0 subject
folders, 3 ware folders)
- E50 French Antilles (0 subject
folders, 6 ware folders)
- E51 Martinique (0 subject
folders, 2 ware folders)
- E52 Guadeloupe (0 subject
folders, 2 ware folders)
- E55 Netherlands Antilles (0
subject folders, 4 ware folders)
- E56 Curacao (0 subject folders,
2 ware folders)
- E60 Virgin Islands (USA) (0
subject folders, 3 ware folders)
- E61 West Indies (1 subject
folders, 2 ware folders)
- E65 Guatemala (0 subject
folders, 13 ware folders)
- E66 El Salvador (0 subject
folders, 14 ware folders)
- E67 British Honduras (0 subject
folders, 7 ware folders)
- E68 Honduras (1 subject
folders, 6 ware folders)
- E69 Nicaragua (0 subject
folders, 7 ware folders)
- E70 Costa Rica (0 subject
folders, 15 ware folders)
- E71 Panama (0 subject folders,
12 ware folders)
- E72 Panama Canal Zone (0
subject folders, 1 ware folders)
- E75 Venezuela (1 subject
folders, 14 ware folders)
- E76 Colombia (2 subject
folders, 17 ware folders)
- E77 Ecuador (2 subject folders,
11 ware folders)
- E79 Peru (2 subject folders, 27
ware folders)
- E80 Bolivia (2 subject folders,
14 ware folders)
- E85 Chile (58 subject folders,
31 ware folders)
- E86 Argentina (724 subject
folders (complete), 40 ware folders)
- E88 La Plata states (6 subject
folders (complete), 0 ware folders)
- E90 Falkland Islands (6 subject
folders (complete), 1 ware folders)
- E95 Uruguay (52 subject
folders, 22 ware folders)
- E96 Paraguay (2 subject
folders, 13 ware folders)
- E97 Brazil (9 subject folders,
38 ware folders)
- E100 French Guiana (0 subject
folders, 3 ware folders)
- E101 Surinam (60 subject
folders, 8 ware folders)
- E102 British Guiana (73 subject
folders (complete), 8 ware folders)
Polar regions
Seas
World
- H World (20 subject folders, 67
ware folders)