GERMANS IN CHINA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005200320008-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 16, 1999
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: July 12, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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the way for an alliance with the new eastern republic. Since most Chines;
are unav~,are of the split In Ger7j2 rr.V German residents of Peiping and
Tientsin feel that the propaganda will be successful.
2. In view of this situation, some North China German residents Are leaving for
other countries. Many feel that private enterprise in China is done for
and there is no future under a government which insist
s on foreign residents
making a contribution to China and refuses to allow them to be "idle and
unproductive . "
German residents of North China have heard that the Chinese Communist govern-
rant will soon receive an ambassador from the East German Republic, after
which all. Germans will be required to take out East German passports. They
be: -eve that this development will lead to restrictions of movement, as, for
example., that G. ex--mans will not be pe; ;nitted to leave China by sea but only
German nationals selected for special knowledge or skills will be able to
leave the country for Germany or the USSR, traveling by way of Siberia.
Peiping has begun to praise the (East) Germans for their virtues and re are
.3. In Tien`:;sin, certain German property Owners were obliged to transfer their
property and that of their shareholders to the People" s Government of China,
as of 1 February 1950. No mention was made either of confiscation or of
uonetar j payment. One office so affected was the Peiyang Press, Ltd..,
stationers, printers, and engravers, with offices at 27 Hsuchow Tao. 6th
Ward, Ten ;sin., and a branch at 3 Legation Street, Pelping,
4. Several Germans have been resident in Macao for various reasons. Erich
Otto Stt?lzner, military adviser to the Kwa_ngtung Provincial Government,
aged 54, holder of German passport No. 10/40., issued in Chungking
6 August 1940 and wralid until 6 August 1945, came to 1acao 13 January 1949.
He -left Macao on 9 February 1950 to become military adviser to CHIANG
Nadi--shek and was serving with Nationalist forces in Hainan, Stolzner
is a former German army lieutenant general. Bodo, Freiherr von Stein.,
adviser of the Chinese Finance Ministry, was in F)acao from 15 October 1949
to January 1950, when he left for Germany, British Zone? fie held a Canton
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This document Is hereby regraded to
CONFIDENTIAL In accordance with the
letter of 16 October 1978 from the
Director of Central Intelligence to the
Archivist of the United States.
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Residents' Certificate, German passport. No. 56/41, issued in Chungking
30 June 194x1. and valid till 30 June 1946k, and Provisional Certificate NO.
2433, issued by the British occupation authorities in Gerr ,ny on 13 August
1949 and visaed by a French consulate
5? A German resident in Macao who was expelled by the authorities there was
Harald Steinlecher, formerly of the Ostasiatischer Lloyd in Shanghai. He
lost his postwar position in Shanghai because of his Nazi connections a_?ad
in late 1948 was expelled from Macao because the police learned of his
attempts, to procure arms for the Chinese Communists? He Is now working
with a Swiss import firm in Bangkok.
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