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Current business of the Colonial Department and planning of a R e i c h s k o l o n i a l a m t .
HZAN La 142 Bü 396 · File · 1905-1906
Part of State Archive Baden-Württemberg, Hohenlohe Central Archive Neuenstein (Archivtektonik)

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).
Hearing of Ernst II (as former head of the Colonial Department in the Foreign Office) in the investigation proceedings against Matthias Erzberger, member of the Reichstag, for insulting members of the Schutztruppe für Südwestafrika and officials of the Reichskolonialverwaltung.
HZAN La 142 Bü 402 · File · 1908
Part of State Archive Baden-Württemberg, Hohenlohe Central Archive Neuenstein (Archivtektonik)

Contains: Copies (in extracts) of the request of the Regional Court of Ravensburg to the District Court of Berlin-Mitte for the interrogation of Ernst II and of the incriminated newspaper article by Erzberger; inquiries of the District Courts of Berlin and Langenburg to Ernst II regarding the interrogation date; concept of a reply letter.