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RMG 2.639 · File · 1844-1852
Part of Archive and Museum Foundation of the VEM (Archivtektonik)

Overview of the fate of the Africans and proselytes trained in the Mission House, by Ludwig von Rohden, n. J.; Louis François Esselen, Johann Georg Knab, Paulus Daniel Lückhoff and P. Stegmann from Capstadt notifying and recommending 5 young people from the Cap to train in the Mission House, 1844-1845; Curriculum vitae of J. A. Stegmann, Pieter Roux, W. D. Morgenrod, C. A. Bamberger and William J. Crossley, 1844; correspondence with and about William J. Crossley, teacher candidate from Capstadt, 1844-1852; 1 consignment note of the Düsseldorf-Elberfeld Railway about William J. Crossley's luggage, 1849;

Rhenish Missionary Society
Assistant seminar in Gaub
RMG 2.647 · File · 1908-1919
Part of Archive and Museum Foundation of the VEM (Archivtektonik)

Station s. RMG 2.529 a; Die Seminarfrage, Referat, Kurt Nowack, 21 p., hektograph, 1908; Korrespondenz zur Seminargründung, Bewilligung d. Mittel, Schulbetrieb, 1910-1913; Quarterly, Annual and Conference Reports, 1911-1914; Hausordnung d. Gewilfenschule, ca. 1911; Sonderinstruktion für Ludwig Christian Cosmus, 1912; "Spruchweisheit d. Herero", by Heinrich Vedder? 15 p., ms., 1912; Visitation Questionnaire, 1912; Excerpt from the accounts book of the municipality of Gaub, 1919;

Rhenish Missionary Society
Bethanien
RMG 2.498 a · File · 1903-1946
Part of Archive and Museum Foundation of the VEM (Archivtektonik)

founded in 1814 by Schmelen, David Christian's tribe, outstations: Grootfontein, see also RMG 2,503 a-c, RMG 2,529 a, Farm RMG 2,548, Kuibis Farm s. RMG 2.541; station and annual reports, statistical data; chronological time table for Bethany from 1814 to 1899; visitation reports, 1906 1909 1913

Rhenish Missionary Society
RMG 1.569 · File · 1902-1934
Part of Archive and Museum Foundation of the VEM (Archivtektonik)

Missionary Sister, 2nd wife of Missionary Gottlieb Viehe, 1902-1911 music teacher and catechist in Okahandja, Otjikango and De Doorns, see also RMG 1.603-1.604; correspondence, among others about her experiences during the Herero Uprising (1904), 1902-1913 1925-1931; death announcement and data from her life, 1934;

Rhenish Missionary Society
Church in the 3rd Reich

Collection of newspaper clippings, pamphlets, printed matter, confessions, green letters on the situation and correspondence on the dispute between German Christians and Confessing Church; Die Deutsche Bekenntnis-Synode, S.-Dr., Barmer Zeitung, May 1934; Theological Declaration on the Barmer Confession Synod, 1934

Rhenish Missionary Society
RMG 2.494 · File · 1890-1939
Part of Archive and Museum Foundation of the VEM (Archivtektonik)

Ordinances, circulars, printed matter; Statutes of the Commission for the Suppression of the African Spirits Trade,, Dr., 1910; Der Deutsche Verband zur Bekämpfung d. afrikanischen Branntweinhandelels, August Schreiber, 8 p., Dr., 1914; Publications of the Association, 1937 1938;

Rhenish Missionary Society
Diehl, Philipp (1837-1920)
RMG 1.606 a-c · File · 1868-1918
Part of Archive and Museum Foundation of the VEM (Archivtektonik)

1868-1920 in Okahandja, Usakos; Reports & Letters, 1868-1918; Notes about the first baptism on Okahandja, Jan. 1873; Short history of: Jonker Afrikaner, as he met Damras, March 1873; station reports by Okahandja, 1888-1893; letters to and from missionary Peter Heinrich Brincker, 1888 1890; copy of correspondence with commissioner Nels u. Maharero Tjamuaha, 1890; Report of the Evangelist Elia Kandirikirira, 1891; Presentation: "Is it appropriate that Christians won by evangelists gather in parishes or return to their relatives", 6 pages, hs., 1891; Friedrich Wilhelm Gottlieb Viehe: Opinion on Herero land sales, 1887; Report on the increase in Herero's impoverishment through robbery, request for ideas from the German government, 1902; Reports on the Herero Uprising, 1904; Contract on the sale of land in Windhoek to the German tax authorities, 1904; Loss of property of the Mission and others, 1904; Contract for the purchase of the so-called "Borchard House" in Otjimbingue to Philipp Diehl, 1908; deed of donation of 5,000 marks from Philipp Diehl to Mission, 1912; congratulatory letter and laudatory speech for Philipp Diehl on his 50th ordination anniversary, 1918

Rhenish Missionary Society
RMG 435 · File · 1866-1956
Part of Archive and Museum Foundation of the VEM (Archivtektonik)
  1. inspector 1857-1884; Description of the attack by Jonker Afrikaner in Walfischbai by the Dane Iversen, English German, 1866; translation of an English newspaper article about fighting in Damraland, 1867; H. von Rague rejects appointment as deputation member, 1871; Program of the funeral in Godesberg, Dr., 1891; E. Kriele: Personal memories of Dr. Fabri, Dr., 1924; Correspondence about Fabri's youngest son Dr. Hermann Fabri, 1925; E. Kriele to Traugott Hahn about Fabri's relationship with Carl Hugo Hahn, 1927; Kölnische Zeitung, No. 205: Dr. Friedrich Fabri, a deserving colonial politician, 1937; General-Anzeiger d. City of Wuppertal, No. 234: Wuppertal and German colonies, memorial sheet to Dr. Fabri, the colonization pioneer, 1937; correspondence with A. Rosenkranz about Fabri dates, 1953; efforts for the manuscript estate, which was lost, 1956; [ Fabri Exegese 1. Joh.-Letter and 1st Cor. letter, co-authored by H. Sundermann, in RMG 1.844]
Rhenish Missionary Society
RMG 2.645 a-b · File · 1906-1926
Part of Archive and Museum Foundation of the VEM (Archivtektonik)

Plans for e. Industrial School in Bethanien by Tobias Fenchel, 1906; School regulations for mission schools in the area of the Herero Conference; a) by Johannes Olpp, pag. 263, 1908; b) Manuscript by Karl Friedrich Wandres, Heinrich Vedder, Kurt Nowack, 1910; c) Dr., 54 p.., 1910; Proposals for boy handicraft lessons in mission schools, by August Elger, 1910; Establishment and operation of a secondary school in Windhoek, by Kurt Nowack, 1911; Das Windhoeker Missionsschulwesen, Abtlg. Volksschulen, by Kurt Nowack, 1912; Verhandlungen wegen staatlicher Unterstützung d. Missionsschulen, 1913-1914; Schulgesetz betr. d. Schulen für Nicht-Europäer, 1921; "Das Schulwesen d. Südafrikanischen Union u. d. Missionsschulen in Südwestafrika", by Heinrich Vedder, 24 p.., ms. 1921; Schulgesetz für Südwestafrika (Dr. in Amtsblatt No. 207), 1926; 120 weekly sentences for use in schools (in Herero), by Heinrich Vedder?, issue, 30 p., ms., not published

Rhenish Missionary Society
Eich, Frederick (1843-1919)
RMG 1.540 a · File · 1870-1883
Part of Archive and Museum Foundation of the VEM (Archivtektonik)

1872-1884 Otjizewa, 1888-1891 Bogadjim, 1893-1919 in Cape Town, Praeses of Cape Mission 1895-1907; South West Africa:; Contains: Letters and reports mainly from Otjizewa, 1870-1883; Note: in it also letters (copies) of the captain: Jan Jonker Afrikaner, David Christian and Moses Witbooi; Report: "defeat and victory of Ovaherero on Otjikango", 1880

Rhenish Missionary Society
Eßlinger, Ernst (1906-1992)
VEM 241 a · File · 1930-1949
Part of Archive and Museum Foundation of the VEM (Archivtektonik)

1934-1957 and 1967-1972 in Okahandja, Omaruru, Swakopmund, Grootfontein, Lüderitzbucht, Wupperthal 1957-1965; correspondence; annual reports; circulars to friends and relatives, also to d. German Protestant Church in Omaruru; personnel documents; school newsletter

Rhenish Missionary Society
RMG 1.103 · File · 1935-1942
Part of Archive and Museum Foundation of the VEM (Archivtektonik)

Correspondence and memos on the situation of mission members in China and the Netherlands India; lists of names and news about internees; description of the conditions on mission stations after the Chinese-Ja-Panic War; newspaper article by journalist Zentgraff against RMG, IN: "de Java-Bode", No. 109, 110 112, May 1935; K. Helbig: Something about Atjeh & the Alas Valley, p.-Dr., Ostasiatische Rundschau, 3 p., 1940; The situation of Germans in Dutch and English overseas possessions, 7 leaflets, printed, partly in English. Ill. from internment camps, 1940-1942

Rhenish Missionary Society
RMG 1.102 · File · 1890-1929
Part of Archive and Museum Foundation of the VEM (Archivtektonik)

Protocols and correspondence on issues such as:; customs privileges; education; arbitrariness of colonial officials; whereabouts of mission property after World War I; internment and exchange of prisoners of war; overview of activities, assets and members of the mission in Southwest Africa and New Guinea, 1904; official stenographer. Report on speeches on the dissolution of the Reichstag and colonial politics, 47 p., Dr., 1907; Die deutsche Flagge im Stille Ozean, 25 p. m. Map, Dr., 1915

Rhenish Missionary Society
RMG 2.633 · File · 1935-1957
Part of Archive and Museum Foundation of the VEM (Archivtektonik)

The RMG's relations with the German authorities and their goals with regard to colonial issues in South West Africa, D. Hinrich Johannsen, 1935; The Mission Church in South West Africa, N. N., n. J.; Our Commitment to the World of Women: Ways to Fulfilment, Sister Frieda Schröder, 1950; Our Evangelists and Pastors, Hans Karl Diehl, c. 1950; The Tomlinson Report or the Report of the Commission for Socio-Economic Development of the Bantu Areas within the Union of South Africa, Günther Reeh, c. 1957; What is the House of our Rhenish Mission Church in South West Africa Today? N. N., c. 1948; Church Paragraph 29, Otto Milk, 1957; Baptism and Confirmation in the Life of our Churches, N. N., o. J.; Zur Frage d. Selbstständigkeit d. jungen Eingeborenenkirche in Südwestafrika, Hans Karl Diehl, 1948; Das Problem d. Apartheid u. seine Bedeutung für unsere Arbeit, Otto Milk, 1950; Gedanken zum Aufbau e. Jugendarbeit, Werner Andreas Wienecke, o. J.; Mission u. German parish, Otto Milk, 1955; The situation of our parishes after the district synods, Emil Kerstan, 1953; Remarks on the independence of the mission church in South West Africa, Heinrich Vedder, 1956; Is ecclesiastical independence in South West Africa possible? Hans Karl Diehl, 1956; Der missionarische Auftrag in d. Geschichte Südwestafrikas, Otto Milk, 1956; Antworten auf e. Fragebogenaktion d. Deputation zur Situation in Südwestafrika, by Friedrich Wilhelm (Fritz) Mayer, Richard Gottfried Vollmer, Hans Georg Scholz, Werner Andreas Wienecke, Rolf Schankweile u., Hans Paul Roßkothen, 1956;

Rhenish Missionary Society
RMG 713 · File · 1913-1957
Part of Archive and Museum Foundation of the VEM (Archivtektonik)

Correspondence, 1913-1957; Correspondence Lic. Johannsen, Essen, due to application for admission of the East Asia Mission in German Evangelical Union, 1927-1957; comments in:; Reich-Gottes-Bote, vol. 85, 1929; Kirchlich Positive Blätter, vol. 42, 1929; Preuß. Kirchenzeitung, vol. 26, 1929; Dt. Pfarrerblatt, no. 45, 1930; Gutachten S. Knak über Ostasien-Mission, 41 p., ca. 1930; Begründung d. Rejection d. Aufnahmeantrag, 1930; Statements of various synods and institutions, 1930; 2 leaflets of the East Asia Mission, 1930; Report on the year 1930, pamphlet of the East Asia Mission, 1931

Rhenish Missionary Society
RMG 1.092 · File · 1903-1942
Part of Archive and Museum Foundation of the VEM (Archivtektonik)

Statements, petitions, minutes of board meetings; correspondence; Die Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft: Geschichte, Ziele, Satzung, Dr., 1903; Petition of the Deportation Association to the Reichstag concerning the settlement of released prisoners in the South Seas, 17 p., D., 1907; Initiation and purpose of the Deportation Association Appendix to this appeal, Dr., 1907; Koloniale Erziehungsstätten, Denkschrift, c. 1908; Miss. Simon: Memorandum on the question of the mission in the colonies, 10 p., ms., 1927; Statute and list of members of the colony German Colonial Society, Abtlg. Essen, Dr., 1930; Kolonialverein u. Dt. Kolonialgesellschaft, eine Grundsatzerklärung zur Unterscheidung, ca. 1930; newspaper reports on lecture by Dr. Johannsen: Südwest-Afrika - Urdeutsches Land, 1931; advertising letter concerning membership of the RMG, 1938; NN: Future missionary activity. Church and School of the Natives in Africa, 5 p., 1941; Statement by You. Berner to Colonial Secretary of State of Lindequist, 5 p., ms., 1941

Rhenish Missionary Society
RMG 912 · File · 1931-1933
Part of Archive and Museum Foundation of the VEM (Archivtektonik)

Protocols, Circulars, Communications, Correspondence; Der Dt. Evang. Kirchenausschuß zur Kriegsschuldfrage, 1931; Abkommen über Arbeitsgemeinschaft Gossner u. Berliner Mission, 5 p., ms., 1932; An die deutsche Missionsgemeinde u. Missionsfreunde, Erklärung d. Abkommens, 1932; Was erfordert die gegenwärtiger Wirtschaftslage von d. Missionsgesellschaften, Referat, 9 p.., 1932; Letter to Wehrkreispfr. Müller about the planned appointment of the Reichs-Missionskommissars, July 1933; Richtlinien zur Eingliederung d. Mission in d. Kirche, May 1933; J. Richter: Vorlage zum geforderten Zusammenschluss von Kirche u. Mission u. d. Missionen unter-einander, 1933; Expertise and opinions on the required integration, 1933; Call for entry into Die Deutsche Arbeitsfront, Flugblatt, September 1933

Rhenish Missionary Society
RMG 920 · File · 1935-1960
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Minutes, circulars, annual accounts, notices, correspondence; Constitution of the DEMH of 5.12.1913, amended 1939, approved 25. 11. 1940; Dr. Freytag: Facts on the question: Mission, 4 p., Dr., 1941; Overview of articles published in leading mission magazines, arranged by topic, 17 p., Dr., 1935-1942; Dr. Freytag: Sermon on Luke 8:4-15, on the Feast of the Year 1943; Work Report of DEMH for 1943-1946

Rhenish Missionary Society
RMG 918 · File · 1915-1919
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Minutes, Circulars, Communications, Correspondence; On the War, Prison Camp in South Africa, North German General Newspaper, No. 135, May 1915; A. W.Schreiber: Die Kriegsarbeit der Dt. Evang. Missions-Hilfe, 6 p., Dr., July 1915; Th. Kaftan: Zur Frage der Dt. Evang. Missions-Hilfe, 8 p., Dr., August 1915; A. W.Schreiber: Kriegstagung der DEMH, 6 p., Dr., 1915; The Church Chonicle, September 1915; Allgemeine Missions-Nachrichten, Okober 1915; A. W.Schreiber: Numerical overview of the participation of missions in domestic military service until autumn 1916; H. Johannsen: Das Verhältnis d. Mission Conferences to DEMH, paper, 15 p., ms., 1917; Against the rape of German missions, flyer with demands for peace treaty, 1919

Rhenish Missionary Society
RMG 919 · File · 1920-1934
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Minutes, circulars, annual accounts, communications, correspondence; list of names of the Richter, Dept. Berlin, for Southwest Africa due to compensation of colonial war damages, 1920; Schomerus: Sadhu Sundar Singh, description of the disputed Indian, 3 p., ms.., 1933; A. W. Schreiber: Memorandum on Replacement of the Directorate and Future Work of DEMH, 14 p., ms., 1925; Invitation to the Ordinary General Assembly of the Colonial Reichsarbeitsgemeinschaft in Cologne, Dr., 1928; Hoffnung und Weg, Reden u. Schrift zur Amtseinführung v. Miss.-Dir. Freytag, 20 p., Dr., 1929; 2 pamphlets of the DEMA on the matter Dr. Baronigian, 1929; Satzung d. missions-literarische Verleger Gemeinschaft (MVG), 1929; Was tut die Missions-Hilfe, Bericht über die Arbeit d. DEMH von 1926-1929, 16 p., Dr., 1929; Again Dr. Baronigian, 1931

Rhenish Missionary Society
RMG 904 · File · 1917-1918
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Circulars, minutes, messages, annual accounts; Entries to the Federal Foreign Office to protect the interests of German Protestant missions; Call by the Evangelical Press Association for a Reformation thank-you donation, Dr., 1917; Why and for what a Protestant Reformation thank-you donation. An Explanatory Word to the Call, 8 p., Dr., 1917; Allgemeine Missions-Nachrichten, October 1917; Aus d. seelsorgerl. Hilfsarbeit f. kriegsgefangene Deutsche, Dr., January 1918; Protest declaration on the political activity of Dr. John Motts, 3rd part, Dr., ca. 1918; Der Krieg in den gt. Schutzgebieten, S.-Dr. Dt. Kolonialblatt No. 19/20, October 1918; Coloniale Kundgebung u. Aufruf zur Signatureensammlung, 1918; A protest of the German Colonial Society, Dr., 1918; J. Richter: Report on the state of the German Protestant mission in the colonies at the beginning of World War I, 28 p., ms., c. 1918; Statute of the German Society for Missiology, Dr., n.d.

Rhenish Missionary Society

Minutes, circulars, annual accounts; correspondence to mitigate the consequences of the war for German missions; 14th Continental Mission Conference, Bremen: Agenda, List of Participants, Guidelines, 10 p., Dr., May; Minutes of the Continent. Miss Committee, April; German Declaration on the Participation of German Missions in the Conference in New York, 5 p., Dr., April; Miss. Keyßer: Report on the situation of German missionaries under the new austral. Government, 6 p., ms.; Reichsgesetzblatt No. 71, July

Rhenish Missionary Society
RMG 967 · File · 1918-1966
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Minutes of the Annual Meetings; Annual Accounts, Correspondence with Rosary and Genius; Statutes of the DGfM, Dr., 1918 1960; C. Mirbt: German Society for Missiology, 7 p., Dr., 1918; The catechumenate in the RMG churches in; Southwest Africa by F. Pönnighaus, Karibib, 1951; New Guinea until 1930, N.N.; China, W. Grundmann, 1951; Sumatra, H. Berghäuser; Mentawai Islands, R. Smidt, 1951; Rosary: German Society for Missionary Science, 8 p., Dr., 1957; list of members, as of 1957

Rhenish Missionary Society
RMG 2.500 a · File · 1897-1944
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Remote stations: Rietmond, Kub, Hoachanas since 1922, Farm Gibeon s. RMG 2.546, repair of the church in Gibeon s. RMG 3.299, station Hoachanas s. a. RMG 2.504, RMG 3.300 and RMG 2,526 a, Farm Hoachanas s. RMG 2,549, Station Ghochas s. a. RMG 2,502, Station Rietmond s. a. RMG 2,534; Station and quarterly reports, letters to d. Deputation, by Christian Wilhelm Friedrich Spellmeyer, 1903-1944; visitation reports, drawing and photo by Gibeon, 1903, 1906 1913; report by Missionary Osswald, Norddeutsche Mission, on the fate of the. Witboois in Lome, 1905; population statistics in the district of Maltahöhe, 1911; accounts of construction costs for mission house and church; Siebold, Bielefeld, about the behaviour of the Englishman in Gibeon, 1915; request by the white resident to dismiss Missionary Friedrich W. Schröder, 1897;

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Hahn, Carl Hugo (1818-1895)
RMG 1.577 a-c · File · 1844-1870, 1841-1873, 1904-1954
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Various excerpts from Carl Hugo Hahn's diaries and letters, thematically summarized typoscripts, probably by Dr. Heinrich Vedder in the 1920s:; Chronological Notes, 1841-1867; Kleine Notizen u. Briefaauszüge, 1844-1855; Carl Hugo Hahn u. d. Wesleyaner, 1844-1855; Missions-Kolonisation, 1863; Buren Immigration u. Augustineum, 1869; Die Friedenskonferenz zu Schmelens-Expartung (Okahandja), 1870; Wie Jonker Afrikaner mit d. Damaras geme gekommen, 1873; Heimreise, 1873; Correspondence with descendants of Carl Hugo Hahn, 1904-1943; copy of the doctoral diploma of the University of Leipzig for Carl Hugo Hahn (1874), 1954;

Rhenish Missionary Society
RMG 2.504 · File · 1903-1969
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Oasib's tribe, gen. Roode Natie or Red Nation, unoccupied after 1922, outstation: Habamas, Station Hoachanas s. a. RMG 2.500 a, co-served by Gibeon since 1922, s.a. RMG 2.526 a, outstation of Rehoboth, Farm Hoachanas s. RMG 2.549; chronology of Station Hoachanas, 1853-1923; Station- u. Annual reports, by Friedrich Anton Judt, Wilhelm Niemeier and Adolf Blecher, 1903-1908; station and annual reports, by Emil Karl Laaf 1921,; visitation report, 1906; report on construction work, by mission colonist Oskar Emil August Gerlach, 1910; statistical questionnaire, 1910

Rhenish Missionary Society