History of the Inventory Designer: 1885 Imperial letter of protection issued for the acquisitions of the D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a Gesellschaft, 1885-1890 administration by the D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i kanische Gesellschaft under Carl Peters; 1891 assumption of direct administration by the German Reich; 1916 retreat of the Schutztruppe from the British-Belgian troops and collapse of the German administration; end of the war in D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a in November 1918. Inventory description: Inventory history The original inventory Authorities of the German protectorate Deutsch-Ostafrika is located in the National Archive of Tanzania in Dar es Salaam. The Central State Archives in Potsdam had 33 supplementary films for the period 1900 to 1916 made from this stock, some of which were selected. The 5 archive units described in the online find book presumably came with other colonial traditions to the Reichsarchiv and in 1950 to the Deutsches Zentralarchiv in Potsdam. Archivische Bearbeitung (Archive processing) The remaining files recorded in the Central State Archives in Potsdam have been the subject of a search index, whose information was stored in the database of the Federal Archives in 2002. In 2003, a finding aid book (R 1003 FC) was produced for the supplementary inventory films. Content characterization: Imperial Government of Dar es Salaam; Imperial Residences of Bukoba, Gitega, Rwanda, Urundi; Imperial District Branch Office of Umbulu; Imperial Administrative Branch Office of Usumbura; Personal Files. State of development: Findbuch 2003; Online-Findbuch 2005 Citation method: BArch, R 1003/...
Names: Gilcher, Julius Remarks: after stopping teacher training, he travelled to German East Africa in 1893, worked as a scientific assistant at the German naval observatory in 1902, from 1906 for the Public Meteorological Service, which he had headed since 1917, founded the Siedlungsverein Sasel Umfang in 1919: 0.1 running metre Period: 1875-1955
History of the Inventor: Founder of the Gesellschadt für deutsche Kolonisation (the later Deutsch-Ostafrikanischen Gesellschaft), Reichskommissar in the German protectorate of East Africa Citation method: BArch, N 2223/...
Peters, CarlPhoto documentation of the construction projects of the Holzmann construction group. U 5/3/17: Railway construction German East Africa** Scope: approx. 140 photographs Processing: not digitized Planning: Feeding into the German Digital Library (2019/20)