Oberfinanzpräsident Berlin-Brandenburg

The Oberfinanzpräsidenten (Senior Finance Presidents, OFP) formed the middle level of the Reich’s financial administration. Their tasks and responsibilities were largely identical to those of the Landesfinanzämter (State Finance Offices), which had existed until 1937 and were then renamed Oberfinanzpräsidenten. They reported directly to the Reichsfinanzministerium (Reich Ministry of Finance) and controlled and coordinated the work of the tax offices and agencies in their Oberfinanzbezirk (higher financial district).

The OFP Berlin also supervised and controlled the expatriation department at the Finanzamt Moabit-West (Moabit-West Tax Office) and the Vermögensverwertungsstelle – two offices that were exclusively responsible for the theft of assets from persecuted persons.

Until 1942, the OFP Berlin’s area of responsibility covered the whole of Greater Berlin. In 1942, the two Oberfinanzbezirke of Berlin and Brandenburg were merged to form the Berlin-Brandenburg Oberfinanzbezirk, thereby extending the OFP Berlin’s area of responsibility to Brandenburg.