(Excerpt from: Das Deutsch-Ostafrika-Archiv : Invententar d. Abt. 'German Records' im Nationalarchiv d. Vereinigten Republik Tansania, Dar-es-Salaam / editb. im Auftr. d. Archivschule Marburg von Eckhart G. Franz u. Peter Geissler in connection with d. National Archives of Tanzania, Vol. 1 1973 )Foundation of the National Archive 1963Tanganyika became an independent republic in the British Commonwealth Association in December 1961 and united with Zanzibar on 26.4.1964 to form the present "United Republic of Tanzania". A first step towards the creation of a central State Archives in Dar-es-Salaam was taken with the approval of the first Tanganyika Parliament in June 1962 by the first Tanganyika Parliament, and the British archivist Jeffery Ede became the first government archivist to begin the UNESCO-sponsored construction of the National Archives in the following year, on the basis of a report submitted by the American doctoral student Marcia Wright. Under his successor Michael Cook, the National Archives Act of 28 August 1965 provided the necessary legal basis for the National Archives. The government archives in Zanzibar, which have existed since the mid-1950s and which, among other things, preserve the files of the former German Consulate General important for the early period of D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a, remained unaffected by the founding of the "National Archives of Tanzania".Obernahme der deutschen AktenAfter Marcia Wright had already pointed out the problems of the German file tradition for Tanganyika, J.R. Ede was able, according to the National Archives, to take over large parts of the material stored in the Land Office, although they had to remain in the previous file room for space reasons. At the same time, the files handed over to the various specialised administrations in previous years were recalled. The losses established on the basis of the previous tax lists were small overall. A number of volumes that were initially unrecognisable were later supplied. Larger levies came mainly from the court as well as from the East African Railways and Harbours, which also delivered the preserved files of the former railway commissariats. Outside the capital only at the former district offices Kilwa and Lushoto (Wilhelmstal) remains of German documents were determined and secured.In the spring of 1964, the National Archives won the support of the Hamburg doctoral student Reinhard Spilker for a first order of the German files collected in this way. Spilker brought the files of the German governorate in Dar-es-Salaam, which had been determined up to then, into their original registry order on the basis of the preserved file directory of 1901 and recorded them in a control list. Further attempts by German students and development aid workers to register were unproductive due to lack of proper guidance.German aid programmeOn the basis of a request by the Tanzanian government in the summer of 1966, the Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany agreed to provide personnel and technical support for the organisation of the German Files Department of the National Archives within the framework of the existing "Agreement on Technical Cooperation". The implementation of a corresponding aid programme was entrusted to the Archivschule Marburg Institut für Archivwissenschaft. In June 1967, archive inspector Peter Geißler of the Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg was sent to Dar-es-Salaam for 2 years to record, organize and record the preserved German files. Preparation and completion of the indexing program as well as the processing of the simultaneously operated technical assistance program were entrusted to Archivrat Dr. Eckhart 6 Franz, who worked in Dar-es-Salaam for 6 weeks in 1967 and 1969 respectively. The "Registrar of Titles" and his staff have agreed to a uniform listing and signing of the German file tradition with continuation of the separate storage, especially since the further usability of the finding aids since then was ensured by the creation of a number concordance. From the inadequate file room behind the former German Gouvernements building, the files to which the National Archives were entitled were already transferred to a dry file cellar of the Ministry of Education at the beginning of the work. The files in the Lands Registry could later be transferred to an air-conditioned file magazine in the new building of the Land Ministry (Ardhi Building), which also contained the German survey files previously kept by the "Survey Division" of the Ministry. Overlaps between the various departments were partially eliminated in the course of the work. The files remaining in the Lands Registry are maintained by the responsible archivist of the National Archives and are available for scientific research within the framework of the National Archives' terms of use.Structure of the Archives Department "German Records "The Department G (German Records) to be formed was set up according to provenance aspects, especially since the government and court files were already largely structured according to provenance. The inconsistent pertinence classification of the land files did not provide a useful basis for order. The inventory structure, designed after a review of the provenance conditions, saw the |. Group, a separate partial inventory (Record Group) was proposed for each partial registration of the governorate, a solution that seemed to offer itself with the 1901 registration plan based on the business structure of the central administration at the time. For the court files, parallel to the holdings for the administrative and procedural files of the 5 district courts, special partial holdings for land registers and land register or land register matters were provided for in each case. Despite the very different traditions, a separate inventory was set up for each district administration. Independent provenance inventories also form the files of the surveying offices. Splinter holdings such as the files of the district branch offices and military posts or of the lower forestry and customs authorities were grouped together to form group sources, and accordingly, in the area of the non-state or semi-state archives, in addition to the individual holdings for the two railway companies and the East African Land Company, there were also smaller collections for other companies and plantations, lawyers and Nazi organizations.