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History of the Inventory Designer: The 'Deutsche Kolonialschule GmbH', founded in 1898 by private shareholders, formed the following educational institution German farmers for tropical and subtropical countries. The devaluation of capital by inflation led to a growing financial participation of the Reich, and from 1939 the educational establishment was under the direct curate of the Reich. After the end of teaching in 1942 due to the war, temporary trust administration after 1945 and transformation into the 'German Institute for Tropical and Subtropical Research Landwirtschaft GmbH' (with the state and federal government as co-partners) in 1957, the training of German and foreign tropical farmers began again. and subtropical farmers. After the foundation of the Gesamthochschule Kassel in 1971, the educational institution merged with it, and the DITSL is mainly limited to expert opinions. Finding aids: Masch. finding aid book

The Deutsches Institut für tropische und subtropische Landwirtschaft (German Institute for Tropical and Subtropical Agriculture), as the legal successor to the Colonial School, still has the preserved files of the former German Colonial School in Witzenhausen (DKS), a small part of which is in the Marburg State Archives. At the DKS, farmers and planters were trained mainly for the German colonies in the period from 1899 to 1943 (i.e. far beyond the loss of the German colonies). The emphasis was on practical and theoretical training in agriculture, with a very broad curriculum ranging from colonial politics and ethnology to mechanical engineering and economic geography to language teaching. Over 3000 DKS personnel files of directors, employees, lecturers and pupils. In addition to registration and everyday school life such as payments, evaluations of individual achievements, etc., the student files sometimes also contain correspondence with the persons after completion of their training with descriptions of the farm and agriculture over years and sometimes decades, wherever the person worked. The employee and lecturer files usually contain considerably less, even CVs are rare. The complete personal files are recorded on index cards and can be searched (analogue). In addition, various material such as property administration, library books, records of the Court of Honour of the DKS. Extensive photo collection.