Showing 304 results

Archival description
Cameroon Letters
N.59-3 · File · 1927 - 1976
Part of Central Archive of the Pallottine Province

Contains:- Memoirs of Pierre Mebe, graduate of the Mission School of Mvolyé 1911, then co-worker of Mission Yaunde after 1914-1967, 14 page letters by Katharina Atangana, 1950-1975- letters from Cameroon, 1953-1975- letter by Pierre Mebe with notes on the founding history of the mission station Yaunde, with notes by Baumann, 1970- correspondence with abbé Theodor Tsala, taken from 1970-1976:- Portrait photo of Barthelemy Owona (Cameroon), 1927, taken from U.1-912- Photos by Katharina Atangana (Cameroon), 1970, taken from U.1-913- Photo by Pierre Mebe, 1966, taken from U.1-923

Untitled
BMW bmw 1/12273 · File · 01.01.1930 - 31.12.1932
Part of Protestant Regional Church Archive Berlin

Contains among other things: Cash book District Cash Registers and Synodal Cash Registers South Africa, East Africa; Mission Main Cash Registers China; Income and expenses, accounting entries; details e.g. to departures, entries, welfare, interest, deposits, missionaries in South Africa, East Africa and China; Njassasynode, mission stations Kapland, Zulu-Xosa, Oranje, South and North Transvaal, East Africa; school funds, foreign creditors, mission operation, Ngambo GmbH, property sales, Berlin association for medical mission in East Africa, medical association China

Berlin Missionary Society
128/4 · File · 1924-1933
Part of State Archives Bremen (STAB) (Archivtektonik)

Note: Entries about baptisms or confirmations, in chronological order, in prebound business book, folio format, approx. 100 pages, in Ewe. Delivered by staff members of the project Transculturation of the University of Bremen, found in Ho/Ghana 2003.

Letters of Father Halbing from Cameroon to his family of origin, copies of letters in family ownership, copied by the sister of Father Halbing, two diaries 1894-1913Liturgical notes from Pentecost and the Sundays after Pentecost, 1895-1911Removed: - Bishop Vieter with black boy, 1904, taken from U.1k-1 - Portrait photo of Father Ernst Ruf, 1908, taken from U.1-2448; - P. Hermann Nekes with the native Vincent Isala in Jaunde, before 1915, taken from U.1-2449- P. Hermann Nekes, Repros of two half-portraits, made as postcasrte, 1914 - 1936, taken from U.1-2450- Former Cameroon missionaries: P. Hermann Skolastser, Br. H Raible, Br. G. Gleissner, (ex-)brother E Britz, after 1916, taken from U.1-2451- house and chapel of the Pallottines interned in Spain, 2 photos, 1916, taken from U.1-2452- missionary []O. Raible] with his teachers, ca. 1910, taken from U.3-181- Mission Station Marienberg am Sanaga in Cameroon, postcard o.J., taken from U.3-182 - Mission Stations Douala and Edea in Cameroon, postcard o.J. ca. 1910, taken from U.3-183

Untitled
BMW bmw 1/11513 · File · 01.01.1908 - 31.12.1917
Part of Protestant Regional Church Archive Berlin

Contains among other things: Press article about the mission station Maneromango; description of the church of Ribbekart and its history; letter from missionary Wentzel (all in the parish magazine 1908); handwritten accommodation list of the troops in the area of the 197. division 1917

Berlin Missionary Society
RMG 1.103 · File · 1935-1942
Part of Archive and Museum Foundation of the VEM (Archivtektonik)

Correspondence and memos on the situation of mission members in China and the Netherlands India; lists of names and news about internees; description of the conditions on mission stations after the Chinese-Ja-Panic War; newspaper article by journalist Zentgraff against RMG, IN: "de Java-Bode", No. 109, 110 112, May 1935; K. Helbig: Something about Atjeh & the Alas Valley, p.-Dr., Ostasiatische Rundschau, 3 p., 1940; The situation of Germans in Dutch and English overseas possessions, 7 leaflets, printed, partly in English. Ill. from internment camps, 1940-1942

Rhenish Missionary Society
FA 1 / 11 · File · 1906
Part of Cameroon National Archives

Acquisition of the land for the Engelberg mission station and its transfer to the mission's own company Gesellschaft für Schulen, Bodenkultur und Handwerk mbH, Duala (signature uncertain), May 1914 Tiko plantations (signature uncertain), 1909 - 1914

Gouvernement von Kamerun
RMG 2.144 · File · 1888-1900
Part of Archive and Museum Foundation of the VEM (Archivtektonik)

Letters and reports from Java, 1888-1890; letters and reports from New Guinea, 1890-1900; letter to Missionary Kunze about the construction of a missionary station in a newly discovered jungle region, 1897; fragment of a contract for Doctor Frobenius with the hospital Tannenhof, 1900; private letters to Inspector Spiecker u. Managing Director Schindelin, 1888-1900; private letter to relatives in Würzburg with a brief description of his medical work in Java and New Guinea, 1890[left to the archive by grandnephew Dr. Karl Weitnauer from Zell/Main 1985].

Rhenish Missionary Society
BMW 9/28 · File · 1903 - 1930
Part of Protestant Regional Church Archive Berlin
  • The stations in the southwestern Cape / The mission stations in Kafferland and Natal / Areas of the Berlin Mission in the English colony Natal / ... in the Orange Free State and on the Diamond Field / ... in South Transvaal / ... in North Transvaal / ... in the Njassalande (Konde and Hehe Synods) / ... in Usaramo / in the Cape Colony / Protestant Continental European Missions in South Africa / Map of and Missions in Swaziland* Author/Photographer: F. Pönnighaus
Berlin Missionary Society
German-Southwest Africa
Geheimes Staatsarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz, IX. HA, SPAE, IV Nr. 29 · File · ca. 1901 - 1907
Part of Secret State Archive of Prussian Cultural Heritage (Archivtektonik)

Contains among other things: Gobabis; cemetery and slaughterhouse in Windhoek; Seeis station; natives; members of the German Schutztruppe (7th company); German settlers; Samuel Maharero's house (?); Kunene river; Ovambo river; various mission stations and plantations; (approx. 17 x 24 cm) approx. 11 x 8.5 cm; paper; album with photographs, black and white; some strongly bleached out

Length: 207 sheets.Reference number:HI XIII 3c 3IIA11 I 7 347-52,245.Damage: cat. B (can only be used as a digital copy) Contains: Gift from various groups of fish, including migratory fish of the Rhine from E. vom Rath, wildlife in the Gulf of Naples from Louis Hagen, wildlife of East Africa from the Africa traveller B. Kreuser by the board of the Verein zur Förderung des Museums für Naturkunde (Eduard Lent), approval of funds for the establishment of the animal groups (1907, with cost estimate of the taxidermist Heinrich Sander, Cologne, and plan for the establishment of the East African animal groups, provision of funds by the association); willingness of the Museum für Handel und Industrie, Wiedenfeld, to provide limited rooms in the Severinstorburg for the preparation (July 1907); contract between the city, Laué, and Sander regarding the preparation of the East African animals (31. July 1907); reports of the director Janson about the progress of the preparation work, inspection with Lent (1907/1908); acceptance of the work, listing of the animal groups, payment of the installments to Sander by the association (1908/1909); collection of association contributions for the museum promotion (1910/1923); donation of a collection of bird skins and other animals by the district judge Dr. Steinkopf, now Mülheim, which he captured in Cameroon, granted funds for preparation (1910); donation of a gorilla by the association, Lent (1910); correspondence with Hansen concerning payment of the tax on a donation by Franz Clouth for purchase of the Jakob Scheiner collection, Torburgen and street pictures (March 1911); complaint by Janson concerning donation of a butterfly collection by Miss F. Voelkers, Rodenkirchen, suggestion for the donation for drawing lessons in schools and sale of surplus pieces (February-March 1910, with statement of the heads of the secondary schools); report of Willi Foy concerning the use of the granted funds for the acquisition of objects of South East European gypsies, arrows from southwest New Guinea, cult figures of the Pueblo Indians, a collection of the Caroline Islands (September 1911); donation of animals by the physician Dr. Bermbach (November 1911); purchase from the Zoological Station in Naples (1911); application Jason for the processing of the butterfly collection of Eduard Lent by the head teacher Dr. Rupp (1912); purchase of a collection of Dr. Steimann, Bonn, concerning petrefacts from the Eifel from the Middle Devonian with the support of the association, especially from Theodor von Guilleaume and Richard Grüneberg (1912); determination of the invoice for von B. Wiemeyer, Warburg, sold rocks (August 1912); donation of a bust of Lent by the heirs, installation in the museum, procurement of a granite plinth (1911-1912); cost estimate of the carpenter C. Stratmann concerning two exhibition tables (1912); transfer of funds from the association, Heidmann, Louis Hagen, concerning an elephant group (1912); reorganization of the beetle collection of Lamers, Düsseldorf, by the rector W. Geilenkeuser, Elberfeld, grant of funds (1910-1911, with claim of Geilenkeuser); sale of duplicates from collections, permission, booking of income; regulation concerning the purchase of objects from collections of foreign mission stations by the Museum für Volkshygiene, the Natural History Museum and the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum (1912); consultation of the constitutional commission concerning the acquisition of collections, butterfly collection of Philipps (1913); Acceptance of Becker's donation to the Museum of Natural History (1913); submission by Major Scheunemann concerning the purchase of two monkeys from Cameroon belonging to him and exhibited in the museum, a gorilla and a great ape (1913); offer by the carpenter Caspar Stratmann concerning three viewing tables (1913); offer by the taxidermist concerning a bison bull received at the zoo (July 1914); letter by Dr. Wildschrey concerning a rock loop in the Devonian slate of the Siebengebirge, work on the geology of the Siebengebirge, acquisition of the rock collection of the main teacher Schonauer in Cuxenberg near Oberdollendorf concerning the Siebengebirge (1913); order of a collection of the deceased taxidermist Jehn in Rheinbreitbach donated by the association by Prof. Dr. Dr. Wildschrey, a professor of geology of the Siebengebirge and a professor of geology of the Siebengebirge. Rupp, remuneration (1914); Janson's submission concerning the takeover of the colour show from the Werkbund exhibition, considerations on the construction of a sample show concerning natural colours (July 1914); Heinrich Sander (July 1914) rejects the offer of a collection by the taxidermist; correspondence with Jason and Czaplewski concerning the selection, purchase of objects from collections of foreign mission stations (1914); Verein zur Förderung des Museums für Naturkunde, Gustav v. Mallinckrodt concerning Dr. Janson from his activity as a senior teacher at the Gymnasium in the Kreuzgasse, rejection because of the wartime ((1915); remarks by Heinrich Sander "Die Tierwelt in moderne volkstümlichen Museum für Naturkunde (1914, machine writing, 6 pages, written for the Kölner Zeitung); offer Sander concerning his exhibition in the Werkbund exhibition "Farbenquellen aus der Tierwelt, Verkaufsangebot, abgelehnt (1915); Inheritance Carl Bodewig, correspondence with the executor Alfred Schmidt, inheritance tax (1915, excerpt from will); donation of a collection of small butterflies by consul Hans Leiden (1917); inheritance of a butterfly collection of the pensioner Gustav Stroemer, correspondence with the executor Ludwig van Rossum (1918/1919); order of butterflies from collections of different mission stations by Prof. Dr. Peter H. H. Schmidt; order of butterflies from collections of different mission stations by Prof. Dr. H. H. H. H. H. Rupp (February 1916); donation of a collection by Minister-Resident Max Freiherr von Oppenheim, consisting of minerals, bird eggs and nests, conchylias and corals (May/June 1919); cash affairs, double payment of an invoice amount to the company A. Zausmer, Gdansk (1914); donation of a collection of fossils by Prof. F. Winterfeld, Mülheim, by the association (April 1920); proposal of the consul Heinrich Maus concerning the exchange between the Cologne Museum and the Museo Nacional de Historia Natural in Mexico (1920); donation of a sum of money by Paul Franke for the purpose of preserving the collection objects by the taxidermist Sander (July 1920); correspondence with Dr. Walter Voigt on the collections and library of the Naturhistorischen Verein der prussischen Rheinlande und Westfalens und Übernahmeangebot von Köln und Düsseldorf (1912-1920); donation of a group of kingfishers by Max Kunkel, Cologne, gift tax (1922); gift tax on the donation of the physician Dr. Frey, Wesdorf, bird group Haubentaucher am Nest (1921/1922); Please W. Voigt concerning meeting date because of emergency of the association by the money devaluation (1922, with report Janson about the inspection and the collections of the natural historical association, 14. November 1922, with the note Adenauer concerning advice in the administrative conference, investigation of storage rooms, withdrawal of an offer of surrender by the association due to support from the University of Bonn (1922-1923); circular letter of the association for the promotion of the Museum für Naturkunde (Richard v. Schnitzler and Gustav v. Mallinckrodt, concerning increase of the membership fee due to the devaluation of money) (1923); donation of the Karl Grube over 4 billion Marks (1923).

RMG 2.501 a · File · 1908-1935
Part of Archive and Museum Foundation of the VEM (Archivtektonik)

Amraal's tribe, abandoned from 1880-1907, Farm Gobabis s. RMG 2.547; annual and conference reports, by missionary Jakob Friedrich Johann Irle and others, 1908-1935; Chronology of Gobabis 1855-1910, pag. 1, ca. 1910; Reports of mission colonist Oskar Emil August Gerlach, 1908-1909; visitation report, picture postcard, 1911; report to OKR in Berlin about work on d. Gobabis district, 1911; Gobabis, report, Jakob Friedrich Johann Irle about his 25 years there, 1931; About Amral Lambert's life, the mission station Wesley Vale and Gobabis and the Mbanderu until about 1896, Jakob Friedrich Johann Irle, 10 p. ms, o. J.

Rhenish Missionary Society