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Contains: (spec.) Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft Abt. Solingen Kolonial-wirtschaftliches Komitee e.V., Economic Committee of the Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft: 'Die Arbeit des Kolonial-wirtschaftlichen Komitees, 1896-1906', 6 pages of the statutes of the Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft, 16 pages, 1913;Deutsche Kolonialzeitung, 20.01.1917, 20.07.1917, 20.08.1917;Organ der Deutschen Kolonialgesellschaft, Berlin, 20.09.1917

Carl Richard Müller was born on 2 June 1889 in Knauthain near Leipzig. After finishing school, he learned the profession of gardener from 1903-1906 and then worked in several German and Swiss towns. From the beginning of 1908 until October 1909 he had a job as a gardener at the cemetery on Casinostraße in Solingen. In 1910 and 1911 he did his military service as a naval artillerist in the German colony of Tsingtau in China. At the end of his service he concluded a contract of several years with the company Hernsheim, which traded and planted in the German colonial area of New Guinea/Bismarck Archipelago on the equator north of Australia. In 1912 he worked on the Bismarck Archipelago and the Solomon Islands Bougainville. After an eventful year in which he was able to realize his childhood dream as a planter in the South Seas for the first time, but also lost some illusions about life in the colonies, the employment contract was terminated prematurely (apparently after differences with the company) and Müller returned to Germany via Australia. Severe malaria attacks tortured him on his way home and in Germany, but his homeland could not keep him in the long run. From summer 1913 to spring 1914 he sought his fortune in Argentina, but found no satisfactory job and decided to apply for immigration to Australia. At the end of June 1914 he had the necessary entry papers and boarded the German steamer Roon in Antwerp with the destination Freemantle. When the world war broke out in August 1914 and Great Britain took the side of the German opponents, the ship had to break off the voyage to Australia and seek refuge in Dutch India. From 1914 to 1940 he worked at four different stations, from 1927 on Tandjongdjati in southern Sumatra, where he cultivated coffee and rubber, and in 1939 the Belgian owners appointed him manager. The climax of his career was followed by a sudden end. The invasion of the Netherlands by the Wehrmacht on 10 May 1940 turned German citizens into enemies in the Dutch colonial empire. For Müller and many others the period of internment began - until the end of 1941 in the Dutch camp Alasvallei in northern Sumatra, then under British control in the camp Premnagar near Dehra Dun in northern India at the foot of Hima-laya. Only in autumn 1946 the prisoner Carl Richard Müller number 56134 was released and arrived in Solingen in December 1946. Here he found work in the nursery Diederich in Wald, to which he also remained faithful as a pensioner with casual work. In 1966 he had to give up his independent life because of bad health and moved to the Eugen-Maurer-Heim in Gräfrath. There he died on 21 March 1973. The estate has preserved some of Müller's adventurous life. Müller and other prisoners used the enforced inactivity during the long internment years for writing and for lectures in their own circle. Of these works, pieces have been preserved which are of particular interest for research into German colonial rule and European planting in the South Seas. Müller's autobiographical manuscripts about the years 1912-1940, which he thought he could summarize as the "ro-man of a fortune-seeker" (documents 11 and 12 with the addition of the photographs in documents 6 and 7 and cards in documents 17 and 26), are to be mentioned first and foremost. In addition there are numerous essays by Müller on plant cultures, economic and technical problems on the plantations and abstracts on the nature and fauna of Indonesia, mainly Sumatra (documents 13 to 16). Work done by fellow prisoners on their experiences in Indonesia and Australia can be found in file 23, including a report on detention in Sumatra with a shorter annex on time in India. Relatively little is known about camp life in Dehra Dun; Müller, however, kept a booklet titled "Männerworte" (Aktenstück 5), in which 22 fellow prisoners registered themselves with words of remembrance. The photographs of Müller's life in Solingen after 1946 are primarily preserved, of which the works for Diederich may be of local historical interest (file 8). Furthermore, the collection contains a file of the Social Welfare Office of the City of Solingen. The stock was handed over to the City Archive by the Social Welfare Office in a suitcase, which was separated from the above documents at the time of recording. The stock was recorded for the first time in September 1998 by Anika Schulze, developed by Hartmut Roehr in 2007.

The Industrieverband Schneidwaren und Bestecke (IVSB) was formed by the merger of the Fachverband Schneidwarenindustrie (FSI), founded in Solingen in 1946, and the Gesamtverband Besteck-Industrie (GBI), founded in Wiesbaden in 1966, on May 4, 1971. The IVSB was integrated into the structure of the commercial economy as a federal trade association within the Wirtschaftsverband Eisen Blech Metallindustrie im BDI (Iron Sheet Metal Industry Association). In 2002 the company merged with the Verband Haushalts-, Küchen- und Tafelgeräte to form the Industrieverband Schneid- und Haushaltswaren (IVSH). The local manufacturers' associations of the cutlery industry can be regarded as historical forerunners of the trade association of the cutlery industry. After a strike on 13 May 1891 the association of all factory owners in Solingen was founded. Initially, it included the Tafelmesserfabrikantenverein, the Scherenfabrikantenverein, the Taschen- und Federmesserfabrikantenverein and the Gabelfabrikantenverein. After the renaming to Verband der Fabrikantenvereine Solingen on 4 May 1900, the fifth member was the razor manufacturer association. Outside of this umbrella organization stood the Waffenfabrikantenverein and the various clubs for the owners of the fights. After 27 July 1903 they organised themselves as sub-associations in the newly formed association of employers in the Solingen district. This local employers' umbrella organisation was open to all branches of industry, in contrast to the Association of Manufacturers' Associations Solingen, which was limited to the cutlery industry and changed its name again to the Association of Manufacturers' Associations Solingen in 1907. Since 1909, Dr. Hornung has managed both the AGV's and the "Verband's" business. In 1911, the membership of the two associations was demarcated, and the AGV transferred the steel goods companies to the Solinger Fabrikantenvereine association. This personal union in the management of the two trade associations existed until 1926. On 12 April 1922, the local trade associations were reorganised according to economic, technical and socio-political criteria with the founding of the Employers' Association of the Upper District of Solingen. The new AGV acted primarily as a local collective bargaining partner, no longer taking on any trade association tasks. In addition to the AGV, the Solinger Fabrikantenvereine association and the Solinger Schlägereibesitzervereine association continued to exist as independent economic organisations under the umbrella of the Eisen Stahlwaren-Industriebund (ESTI), founded on 14.6.1919 as a "representative of the entire iron and steel industry in the organisation of the Reichsverband der Deutschen Industrie". The ESTI with its headquarters in Elberfeld was active in the Bergisch-Märkischen region (Wuppertal, Remscheid, Solingen, Velbert, Hagen). With the ESTI, Solingen entered into a relationship with the umbrella organisation of the iron processing industry and thus with the RDI. AGV and ESTI worked so closely together in Solingen that they maintained joint management with two managing directors of equal rank, Dr. Oskar Bachteler and Dr. Willi Großmann. The smashing of the trade unions on 2 May 1933 was followed from 19 May 1933 by the fixing of collective wages by the "trustee of labour". The Solingen Employers' Association was also suddenly without function as a collective bargaining partner and was finally dissolved by the National Socialists on 22 January 1934. The mergers of the companies now concentrated on the specialist organisation. The umbrella organisation in Solingen was the ESTI with its three main professional associations, the Solingen Steelware Manufacturers Association, the Solingen Racketeering Owners Associations Association and the Razor Blade Industry Association (founded on 3.10.1925, 1930 Association of Razor Blade Manufacturers). The ESTI from Solingen was finally integrated into the DAF under the name "Fachgruppe Schneidwarenindustrie der Wirtschaftsgruppe Eisen- Stahl und Blechwaren" and functioned as an economic policy organisation covering the entire cutlery industry of the German Reich. Gustav Grünwald from Argenta (Düsseldorf) was the first head of the Cutlery and Cutlery Division based in Solingen. He was followed by Franz Buchenau in Heinr. Böker and Dr. Walter Müller in Pränafawerke. After the end of the Second World War, on 6 November 1945, the EBM Economic Association received permission from the occupying forces to reestablish itself. Under the chairmanship of Kurt Peres the Fachvereinigung Schneidwarenindustrie was formed. The first domicile was the former Gräfrather Rathaus, then the Fachvereinigung found its accommodation on Albrechtstraße. From 1.4. 1946 the new name was Fachverband Schneidwarenindustrie. Dr. Bachteler was able to resume his full-time activities for the association on 1 November 1946. In 1953 Bachteler became managing director of the AGV at the same time. Dr. Oskar Bachteler died on 17.3.1961. During this period, Paul Ad. Schmidt in company Müller