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Chairman of Ernst II's Committee for the Promotion of the Africa Expedition of Duke Adolf Friedrich von Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1873-1969) [nephew by marriage].
HZAN La 142 Bü 584 · File · 1907-1909
Part of State Archive Baden-Württemberg, Hohenlohe Central Archive Neuenstein (Archivtektonik)

Contains: Correspondence concerning planning and financing (e.g. creation of an expedition fund) as well as follow-up (e.g. operation of the order award to the patron Hugo von Gahlen, owner of factory and manor); scientific expert's opinion: drawn map of Central Africa; reports on the expedition in the "Tägliche Rundschau" (mainly parts of the travel report "Ins Innerste Afrikas", 1908, written by Adolf Friedrich himself).