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Darin: Membership Directory, 1883.

Contains: 1. reports of the district governor of Usambara, Major Krenzler, 1891; 2. letter of Major H. Wißmann, 1891-1892; 3. letter of J. Rindermann to the secretariat of the German Colonial Society, 1897.

Denkschriften und Petitionen an den Reichskanzler und den Kaiser (Samoafrage, Kamerun).

Contains: Correspondence of Ernst II (among others with Kaiser Wilhelm II, Reich Chancellor Bernhard von Bülow, Prince Hermann zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg and Ernst's successor as deputy head of the Colonial Department Bernhard Dernburg); commissioned as deputy head of the Colonial Department (copy); diploma of appointment as Imperial Plenipotentiary to the Federal Council (copy); letter of congratulations; notes on the emoluments of Ernst II.Newspaper clippings (including an excerpt from a speech of Ernst II by the Reichstag) Darin: Edition of "Die Zukunft" (The Future) with mocking article about Ernst II. "("Ubi Bubi?"), 1906 (printed); correspondence between Prince Hermann and Wilhelm II concerning the appointment of Ernst II.

Zuwahl weiterer Mitglieder: Staatssekretär a.D. Dr. H. Herzog, Prof. Karl von der Heydt, H. von Wißmann, Carl Peters, Adolph Woermann; Niederlegung der Vizepräsidentschaft des Fürsten wegen Übernahme des Statthalterpostens in Elsaß-Lothringen.

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.

Contains: Subpoenas before local courts in Berlin and Langenburg; concept of a letter from Ernst II asking for his appearance in Berlin to be waived; letter from the court on the subject of the interrogation (comments by the defendant on the exploitation of the monopoly position in transport traffic with South West Africa by the Wörmann company at the expense of the Reich).

Darin: Letter from Baron Capanema.

Darin: Newspaper clipping (concerning Ernst's appointment as Head of the Colonial Department at the Federal Foreign Office)

entstanden bei einer Erkundungsreise von Keller-Leuzinger und Jorge Jenckner nach Brasilien im Auftrag des Deutschen Kolonialvereins (mit einer Landkarte).

Contains among other things: Use of the Grand Duchess for Prince Alexander von Sayn-Wittgenstein (1906); dismissal (1909); death of Bodo von dem Knesebeck (1911); Italy's entry into the war, Austria's role (1915) Darin: Berliner Tagblatt, 25.3.1906 (Colonial policy, Bülow and Hereditary Prince [Ernst] von Hohenlohe-Langenburg); letter by Princess [Maria] von Bülow (1909)