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Großer Deutscher Kolonialatlas - The German Possessions in Silence Ocean and Kiautschou.Contents: German New Guinea western sheet, German New Guinea eastern sheet, Mariana Islands and Marshall Islands, Caroline Islands, overview map of the German Possessions in Silence Ocean Kioautschou Reichskolonialamt Berlin.

Also includes: Pastor for Austria, Pastor for New Guinea, Pastor for Brazil.

Documents from the time of the Mission from 1846 to 1972 and about the Mission and Diaspora Seminar, which was closed in 1985. Documents about the mission in New Guinea since 1886 with station reports and correspondence of the missionaries. Personnel files and missionary bequests. Dictionaries, grammars and translations of native languages of New Guinea and East Africa as well as maps are also available. Documents on the history of the Mission in Tanzania are only available to a limited extent due to the competence of the Leipzig Mission until 1961. Historical images and audiovisual media. An extensive ethnographic collection that is currently being developed by the Verein für Kultur Neuguinea e.V. (Association for Culture New Guinea). The focus is on cult and everyday objects that the missionaries brought back from their working and living environment on the Huon Peninsula and the Sepik region in New Guinea. Historical journals, including those of the Missionsanstalt from 1843, are a good supplement to the existing original documents.

Contains also: handwritten curriculum vitae from 21.2.1946, list of publications, A. Schuster, "Warum wurde Missionsinspektor Karl Steck nicht Missionsdirektor" (about time from 1920 - 1928), obituaries, e.g. Blick in die Welt von 1952Darin: Anträge für die Vereinigten Ausschüsse der Gesellsc haft vom 10.7.1912, Newsletter Steck from New Guinea from 10.11.1911, Letter of the Auswärtiges Amt from 30.9.1924 to the former colony in New Guinea, Zur Lage from 18.2.1926 by Steck, Article "Halber Ernst" in Evang. Gemeindeblatt Nürn berg from 26.6.1927, Manuscripts, copy of a report about 37 pages by Steck (1st page missing) o.D., Letter from Steck to Eppelein of 10.12.1933, 16. 9.1935 to Rengsdorfer Theses

The German possessions in the Pacific Ocean (before World War I)Deutsch-Neuguinea, westl. sheet (probably from Atlas Ergänzungslief s. 11.72)- World map of the steamship line of North German Lloyd, Bremen (without date, probably 1950s).