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Current business of the Colonial Department and planning of a R e i c h s k o l o n i a l a m t .

Contains among other things: Correspondence of Ernst II, Draft of an ordinance and memorandum concerning the R e i c h s k o l o n i a l a m t ; conditions of the German Schutztruppe in South West Africa (including the Herero Uprising, railway con...

In: Estate of Prince Ernst II. (*1863, 1950) (holdings) >> 1. fact files >> 1.6 Political and military activity. >> 1.6.2 Provisional management of the Colonial Department at the Federal Foreign Office (as planned State Secretary)

Hearing of Ernst II (as former head of the Colonial Department in the Foreign Office) in the private suit of the Hamburg transport company Wörmann against the "Simplicissimus" editor Hans Kaspar Gulbransson for insulting him.

Contains: Subpoenas before local courts in Berlin and Langenburg; concept of a letter from Ernst II asking for his appearance in Berlin to be waived; letter from the court on the subject of the interrogation (comments by the defendant on the explo...

In: Estate of Prince Ernst II. (*1863, 1950) (holdings) >> 1. fact files >> 1.6 Political and military activity. >> 1.6.2 Provisional management of the Colonial Department at the Federal Foreign Office (as planned State Secretary)

Hearing of Ernst II (as former head of the Colonial Department in the Foreign Office) in the investigation proceedings against Matthias Erzberger, member of the Reichstag, for insulting members of the Schutztruppe für Südwestafrika and officials of the Reichskolonialverwaltung.

Contains: Copies (in extracts) of the request of the Regional Court of Ravensburg to the District Court of Berlin-Mitte for the interrogation of Ernst II and of the incriminated newspaper article by Erzberger; inquiries of the District Courts of B...

In: Estate of Prince Ernst II. (*1863, 1950) (holdings) >> 1. fact files >> 1.6 Political and military activity. >> 1.6.2 Provisional management of the Colonial Department at the Federal Foreign Office (as planned State Secretary)

Applications to Ernst II. as a member of the Reichstag.

Contains: Letter from the Marineintendantursekretärs in Wilhelmshaven Ernst Voigt and the Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz concerning Voigt's application for a post in the governorate of Kiautschou; letter from the Mayor of the municipality o...

In: Estate of Prince Ernst II. (*1863, 1950) (holdings) >> 1. fact files >> 1.6 Political and military activity. >> 1.6.5 Membership in the Reichstag, Vice-Presidency

Estate of Princess Alexandra (*1878, 1942) (holdings)

1 On the biography of Princess Alexandra zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg: Princess Alexandra Luise Olga Viktoria zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg was born on 1 September 1878 as the fourth child of Duchess Marie (daughter of Tsar Alexander II of Russia) and Duke A...

In: Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Hohenlohe-Zentralarchiv Neuenstein (Archivtektonik) >> Hohenlohe-Zentralarchiv Neuenstein >> Archiv Langenburg >> Nachlässe

Mediation efforts of Ernst II with Emperor Wilhelm II and the Foreign Office in favour of the Grand Dukes Cyril and Victoria Melita [3rd cousin, sister-in-law] of Russia, who were in exile in Finland.

Contains: Correspondence of Ernst II concerning, among other things, the whereabouts of the Grand Dukes, the refusal of the German side to end the exile, Ernst II's trip to Finland, inquiries about possible bank deposits of the Grand Dukes in...

In: Estate of Prince Ernst II. (*1863, 1950) (holdings) >> 1. fact files >> 1.6 Political and military activity. >> 1.6.3 Other diplomatic, foreign and colonial policy activities

Ernst II. as former commissioner and military inspector: Request of the former governor of D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a Heinrich Schnee to Ernst II. for support for the awarding of Red Cross medals to deserving East Africans as well as to Schnees Frau.

Contains: Correspondence of Ernst II with snow and with the Commissioner and Military Inspector of Voluntary Nursing Prince Hermann von Hatzfeldt-Trachenberg.

In: Estate of Prince Ernst II. (*1863, 1950) (holdings) >> 1. fact files >> 1.6 Political and military activity. >> 1.6.6 Senior positions in voluntary nursing (especially World War I)

Chairman of Ernst II's Committee for the Posting of Lung Diseases to German South-West Africa.

Contains: Correspondence of Ernst II. with the members of the Committee Ministerialdirigent Prof. Dr. Kirchner and Dr. Katz as well as with the State Secretary of the R e i c h s k o l o n i a l a m t Solf concerning the use of the funds made avai...

In: Estate of Prince Ernst II. (*1863, 1950) (holdings) >> 1. fact files >> 1.8 Commitment to the Red Cross. >> 1.8.2 Miscellaneous