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Coloured soldiers of a company of the German Schutztruppe, so-called Askari, marching out in the first days of the First World War / Photographer: Scherl

In the German colony of East Africa, the administration experimented with the use of zebras as mounts. For this purpose a zebra stud was established in Dar-es-Salaam / Photographer: Scherl

Contains among other things: Statute of the German Colonial Society for Southwest Africa. Berlin 1908. Report of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft für Südwest-Afrika zu Berlin on the 23rd Fiscal Year from Apr. 1, 1907 to March 31, 1908. Berlin 1908 Statutes of the Lüderitz Foundation. o.O. 1938 Annual Report of the Lüderitz Foundation 1937/1938, Berlin 1938

Duke Adolf Friedrich von Mecklenburg - Schwerin photograph from 1907. He wears a uniform of the German Schutztruppe. As early as 1905 he undertook a research trip to D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a , which was followed by further trips to Central Africa and Cameroon between 1907 and 1911. The Duke became a distinguished explorer and later published travelogues. / Photographer: Scherl

A German in a rocking chair in his house. A baboon sits on his shoulder / Photographer: Scherl

Contains among other things: Colonial history (esp. Asia, Africa and English colonial empire) General observations on world history (handwritten notes, lectures) France in the age of absolutism. Lecture, 1936 Germany after the First World War Contains also: Material on Colonial History Newspaper clippings Material on the Prehistory of the Foundation of the Reich Photographs Examinations on Overseas History, Apr. 1945

Black employees with zebras at the zebra stud in Dar-es-Salam. One experimented with the breeding of zebras for riding purposes. / Photographer: Scherl