The U.S. commandant, Major General Floyd L. Parks, tasked his divisional G5 and later deputy, Colonel Frank L. Howley,[REF] to prepare a general plan for the basis of an Allied Kommandatura, based on a Russian proposal [REF].
The next meeting on July 11, 1945, represented the first actual meeting of the Allied Kommandatura, where the four-power Council of Commandants began governing the city [REF].