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Contains: Correspondence concerning planning and financing (e.g. creation of an expedition fund) as well as follow-up (e.g. operation of the order award to the patron Hugo von Gahlen, owner of factory and manor); scientific expert's opinion: drawn map of Central Africa; reports on the expedition in the "Tägliche Rundschau" (mainly parts of the travel report "Ins Innerste Afrikas", 1908, written by Adolf Friedrich himself).

Colonial enterprises.

Contains: 1st colony Dona Franziska in Brazil, 1897; 2nd liberation of Carl Neufeld, captured in Sudan, 1898; 3rd offer for sale of files from the time of the foundation of the German Colonial Society by Richard Jakob, 1898-1899; 4th promotion of the German settlement in Palestine (Prince Carl von Urach), 1899; 5th liberation of Carl Neufeld, captured in Sudan, 1898; 4th promotion of the German settlement in Palestine (Prince Carl von Urach), 1899; 5th liberation of Carl Neufeld, captured in Sudan, 1898. South West African Shepherding Society (former Minister of State v. Hofmann), 1901; 6th Railway Construction Project Porto Alegre-Pelotas (Carl Bolle), 1901; 7th Safata Samoa Society, 1903; 8th Evangelical Africa Society, 1903; 9th Fazenda do Baranco Branco in Matto Grosso, Brazil, 1908.

Contains: 1. individual correspondence on Brazilian affairs, 1884-1891; 2. information trip by Professor Keller-Lenzingen, Stuttgart, to Brazil on behalf of the Colonial Society to examine the conditions of settlement; reports by Professor Keller; letters of recommendation for the Nuncio in Brazil and the Emperor of Brazil from Cardinal Gustav zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst; requests from Keller for assistance in finding a suitable position or for use in the service of the Colonial Society, 1885-1887; 3. information trip by Professor Keller-Lenzingen, Stuttgart, to Brazil on behalf of the Colonial Society to examine the conditions of settlement; 4. letters of recommendation for the Nuncio in Brazil and the Emperor of Brazil from Cardinal Gustav zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst; requests from Keller for assistance in finding a suitable position or for use in the service of the Colonial Society, 1885-1887; 4. Reports by Jorge Jenckner on the journey undertaken in part with Keller-Lenzingen, 1886-1887; 4th exploratory journey by Dr. Hermann Soyaux to Brazil, 1885-1887; 5th exploration trip by Dr. Hermann Soyaux to Brazil, 1885-1887. Correspondence with the half-brother of the Emperor of Brazil Baron de Capanéma, director of the Brazilian Telegraph Company, about possible land assignments of the Brazilian government to the Kolonialverein, 1885-1887; 6th foundation of a company for German settlement in South America "Herman", 1886-1894.

Contains: 1. letter to Count Hatzfeld about the foundation of a South American trading company, 1883; 2. foundation of a South American colonization company by Prof. Ernst Hesse, Leipzig, 1883,1887; 3. project of the foundation of a colony New Germany by Dr. Bernhard Förster in Paraguay; suicide of Förster, 1883, 1885-1889; 4. letter of the German ambassador in Brazil, Holleben, about the conditions in Paraguay, 1884-1886.

mit Richard Jakob, Berlin; Graf Stolberg-Wernigerode; Otto von Tettenborn, Oberst z.D., Dresden; Paul Zilling, Stuttgart; Prof. H. Wagner, Göttingen; Prof. Ratzel, München; Richard Lesser, Berlin (Deutsche Kolonialzeitung); Livonius, Vizeadmiral a.D.; Graf Hatzfeld-Trachenberg; Dr. M. Lindemann, Bremen; Graf Behr-Bandelin; Admiral von Werner; Achter Deutscher Geographentag-Freiherr von Richthofen; Fürst zu Wied-Neuwied; Prof. W. Detmer, Jena; G. Schweinfurth; R. v. Bennigsen, Hannover u.a..