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HZAN La 142 Bü 398 · File · (1904, 1905) 1906
Part of State Archive Baden-Württemberg, Hohenlohe Central Archive Neuenstein (Archivtektonik)

Contains: Correspondence of Ernst II (e.g. with Kaiser Wilhelm II); congratulatory letter and letter of sympathy; Ernst II's application for leave (approved by Reich Chancellor Bernhard von Bülow); memorandum on the planned reconstruction of the Colonial Administration (copy); newspaper clippings Darin: Reichstagdrucksachen (Results of the nominal votes on the Colonial Office budget, 29th ed.30.3. and 26.5.1906; draft budget for the Reichskolonialamt for 1906 (with memorandum), [1905]; minutes of meetings concerning the colonial budget, 1904/05).

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 construction, port facilities, organisational issues) ; border issues (including correspondence with King Leopold II of Belgium) ; business distribution plans ; budget for 1906 ; newspaper clippings Darin: overview plan of the railway line Windhuk-Rehoboth ; caricature from the "Kladderadatsch" (with illustration of Ernst II).

Contains: Ernst II's correspondence on political matters and with his successor in the office of Bernhard Dernburg; memorandum on the restructuring of the colonial administration; Ernst II's proposals for obtaining the approval of the R e i c h s t a g to the colonial budget (draft letter to R e i c h s c h s c h e Chancellor von Bülow); Ernst II's resignation. (concept); Imperial letter of dismissal (copy); Imperial diploma on the bestowal of the Red Eagle Order 1st Class diamonds on Ernst II; letter of sympathy; newspaper clippings (with illustrations of Ernst II and his successor Bernhard Dernburg).

Contains: Correspondence of Ernst II (among others with Kaiser Wilhelm II, Reich Chancellor Bernhard von Bülow, Prince Hermann zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg and Ernst's successor as deputy head of the Colonial Department Bernhard Dernburg); commissioned as deputy head of the Colonial Department (copy); diploma of appointment as Imperial Plenipotentiary to the Federal Council (copy); letter of congratulations; notes on the emoluments of Ernst II.Newspaper clippings (including an excerpt from a speech of Ernst II by the Reichstag) Darin: Edition of "Die Zukunft" (The Future) with mocking article about Ernst II. "("Ubi Bubi?"), 1906 (printed); correspondence between Prince Hermann and Wilhelm II concerning the appointment of Ernst II.

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 1.101 · File · 1885-1907
Part of Archive and Museum Foundation of the VEM (Archivtektonik)

Correspondence concerning the sale of the house in Otjimbingue; restriction of the import of spirits; pastoral care for the white population; free seeds for botanical experiments; contract with cultural engineer Borchardt-Ott according to meteorological records, 1898; compilation of the Laws on the Registration of Marriages Abroad, 1894; evidence of RMG property in South-West Africa and New Guinea, 1906.

Rhenish Missionary Society
RMG 1.099 · File · 1895-1927
Part of Archive and Museum Foundation of the VEM (Archivtektonik)

Minutes and correspondence concerning; claims on land; mistreatment of prisoners; Herero war; exile of Witbooi; site plan and profile railway Swakopmund-Windhuk, 1:1.200.000, 1901; correspondence with the president of the German colonial society concerning the lecture by Insp. Hannig in Bielefeld, 1927 (see also RMG 1.092)

Rhenish Missionary Society

Contains among other things: Submission of Ernst II; Letter of Poeplaus to Ernst II and subsequent correspondence of Ernst II with the State Secretary of the R e i c h s k o l o n i a l a m t Bernhard Dernburg concerning an incorrect accusation of Poeplaus by Ernst II in the course of the interrogation.