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Colonies: vol. 1
BArch, R 43-I/624 · File · März 1919 - Dez. 1923 (1926)
Part of Federal Archives (Archivtektonik)

Contains: Reichsverband der Kolonialdeutschen, Appeal for the Return of Colonies to Germany; Results of a Signature Action 1919 Dt. Kolonialgesellschaft, Resolutions; General Assembly (1920) (Continued Vol. 2) 1919, 1922 Guidelines for the Granting of Advances, Aid and Support for Damages in the German Colonies (in German) protectorates on the occasion of the war; also amendments 1919 - 1922 Koloniale Arbeitsgemeinschaft, submissions of regional "departments" 1926 Backward wages of the Askaris who fought under Lettow-Vorbeck (continued vol. 2) 1921 - 1923 Dr. Heinrich Schnee (Governor): Die dt. Colonies under Foreign Mandate; Druck Leipzig 1922 Civil Rights Question of the Germans in South-West Africa 1923 Tasks and Organization of a Colonial Central Office in the Reich Government, Memorandum of the Reich Ministry for Reconstruction 1923

Colonies: vol. 2
BArch, R 43-I/625 · File · Jan. 1924 - Dez. 1926
Part of Federal Archives (Archivtektonik)

Contains: Dr. Heinrich Schnee (Governor): The colonial guilt lie; Print. Süddeutsche Monatshefte Jan. 1924 Resolutions and Entries for the 50th Anniversary of Colonial Remembrance Apr. 1924 German Colonial Congress 1924, Program 1924 Tropical Pension and Tropical Pension for Colonial Soldiers 1925 Colonial Reichsarbeitsgemeinschaft, Richtlinien für die koloniale Propaganda und praktische Kolonialpolitik 1925 Ostafrikaner-Verband e.V.. (Colonial Association of East Africans), Request for credits for the purchase of farms 1926 Representation of colonial interests on the occasion of entry into the League of Nations, Resolutions (continued vol. 3) 1926 William H. Dawson: Return of the colonies to Germany; Print Berlin 1926

Colonies: vol. 5
BArch, R 43-I/627 · File · Feb. 1935 - Dez. 1935
Part of Federal Archives (Archivtektonik)

Contains: "Colonial Political Statement" by Reichsbank President. Schacht März 1935 Deutschlands Gleichberechtigung und die Kolonialfrage, (Shaft March 1935 of Germany's Equal Rights and the Colonial Issue), recording by Dr. Heinrich Schnee, President of the German Colonial Society 1935 What raw materials could the still mandated German protectorates supply? Elaboration by Geo A. Schmidt 1935 Written by Lieutenant Colonel (ret.) Lessner: Koloniale Vorkämpfer heraus; foreign policy concerns 1935

Geheimes Staatsarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz, VI. HA, Nl Schnee, H. · Fonds · 1867-1949
Part of Secret State Archive of Prussian Cultural Heritage (Archivtektonik)

Curriculum Vitae Dr. jur.; Dr. rer. pol. h. c.; Real Privy Counsel; Governor a. D., Excellenz; MdR. Born 4.2.1871 in Neuhaldensleben. Father: District Court Councillor Hermann Schnee. Mother: Emilie, née Scheibe. - Married to Ada Adeline, née Woodhill, from New Zealand, whose father was an Englishman from Birmingham and whose mother was Irish from the old O'Donnell family. Schnee attended high school in Nordhausen, studied law and political science in Heidelberg, Kiel and Berlin, passed the bar exam in 1892 and received his doctorate in law in 1893. He then turned to the study of Swahili and colonial science at the Oriental Seminar Berlin and passed the examination as a government assessor in 1897. He joined the Foreign Office, Colonial Department, in 1898 and worked as Richter and deputy governor in German New Guinea. In 1900 he became district administrator and deputy governor in Samoa. 1904: Legation Council in the Colonial Department, 1905: Colonial Advisory Council at the Embassy in London. 1906: Lecturer Council, 1907: Conductor, 1911: Ministerial Director in the Reich Colonial Office and Head of the Political and Administrative Department. In 1912, Schnee became Real Privy Counsel with the title of Excellency. From 1912 - 1919 he was Governor of German East Africa. The Prussian Academy of Sciences awarded Schnee the Leibniz Gold Medal. He received an honorary doctorate in political science from the University of Hamburg in 1921 and was a member of the Reichstag (German People's Party) from 1924. 1925: President of the Working Committee of German Associations, 1926: President of the Association of Foreign Germans. 1930: President of the German Colonial Society. 1931: President of the German World Economic Society. As a member of the Interparliamentary Union and as a delegate of the World League of League Societies - Schnee was also president of the German League for League of Nations - he participated several times in international congresses. In 1932 he was delegated by the Foreign Office to the Manchuria Commission (Lytton Commission). In 1933, after one - the only - meeting with Hitler, Schnee resigned almost all presidential offices, unless they had been equalized or dissolved. Only he was head of the German Society for League of Nations, later renamed the "German Society for International Law and World Politics", until 1945. Heinrich Schnee's main literary works are: Pictures from the South Seas. Reimer, Berlin 1904 German East Africa at War. well

Schnee, Heinrich