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Establishment of a German native school in Dar es Salaam at the suggestion of the governor of D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a Freiherr von Soden; recruitment of a teacher by the German Colonial Society; correspondence with von Soden, the Württemberg Minister of Churches and Education Sarwey and applicants for the position; acceptance of teacher Barth from Friedrichshafen to complete a Swahili language course; establishment of the school in Tanga; complaints by Barth about lack of support and his return to Germany.
HZAN La 140 Bü 231 · File · 1891-1895
Part of State Archive Baden-Württemberg, Hohenlohe Central Archive Neuenstein (Archivtektonik)

Darin: 3 photographs of the school in Tanga, 1894.
Execution of an anti-slavery lottery; appointment of Prince Hermann to the Executive Committee; support of the Wißmann Sea Expedition and the Wißmann Steamship; expedition in D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a; dispute between the Carl-Peters Foundation and the Anti-Slavery Committee about the use of foundation funds; correspondence with the Federal Foreign Office (Dr. Kayser), Prince Wilhelm zu Wied, Bergrat Dr. M. Busse; Koblenz and others; minutes of meetings, printed matter, press releases.
HZAN La 140 Bü 228 · File · 1890-1894
Part of State Archive Baden-Württemberg, Hohenlohe Central Archive Neuenstein (Archivtektonik)
Expedition to Witu to take over the land acquired by the Denhardt brothers and to investigate the economic possibilities; reports by Captain R. Rabenhorst as expedition leader and Lieutenant Schmid from Lamu to Prof. Eggert in Berlin and his successor as head of the Witu affairs E. Arnhold; differences between Lieutenant (retired) von Wittich and Lieutenant Schmid with Captain Rabenhorst.
HZAN La 140 Bü 199 · File · 1886-1888
Part of State Archive Baden-Württemberg, Hohenlohe Central Archive Neuenstein (Archivtektonik)

Berichte des Kapitäns R. Rabenhorst als Expeditionsleiter und des Leutnants Schmid aus Lamu an Prof. Eggert in Berlin und seinen Nachfolger als Leiter der Witu-Angelegeheiten E. Arnhold; Differenzen des Leutnants a.D. von Wittich und des Leutnants Schmid mit Kapitän Rabenhorst.
Foundation of a settlement company for Southwest Africa (Syndicate for Southwest African Settlement); preparatory exploration in the Windhoek area; correspondence with the Colonial Department of the Foreign Office; allocation of settlement land by the Colonial Department; establishment of a regular steamboat connection to Walfischbay; establishment of a protection force.
HZAN La 140 Bü 218 · File · 1891-1896
Part of State Archive Baden-Württemberg, Hohenlohe Central Archive Neuenstein (Archivtektonik)
Foundation of the company "Friedrich Colin, Deutsch-Afrikanisches Geschäft in Hamburg", for the purpose of promoting and developing trade with West Africa; recruitment of business members (Prince Hermann zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Count Frankenberg, Varnbüler, G. Siegle and others); Founding meeting on 9 March.1885; submission to the Imperial Chancellor Bismarck for the dispatch of an imperial official to Koba, Kabitai and Sumbayland; conclusion of contracts with several indigenous chieftains; attempt to settle differences with France with the involvement of the German envoy in Paris, Prince Clovis of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst; Rejection of an intervention by the German Reich (deployment of a warship); renunciation by the Reich of Koba and Kabitai in the delimitation of the spheres of interest with France; withdrawal of the prince from society; annual reports of the society.
HZAN La 140 Bü 256 · File · 1884-1888
Part of State Archive Baden-Württemberg, Hohenlohe Central Archive Neuenstein (Archivtektonik)
Foundation of the Deutscher Kolonialverein.
HZAN La 140 Bü 159 · File · 1882-1891
Part of State Archive Baden-Württemberg, Hohenlohe Central Archive Neuenstein (Archivtektonik)

Contains: 1st correspondence with individual personalities intended for the executive committee (e.g. Maltzan, Varnbüler, Arnim-Boitzenburg, Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Jobst, Friedenthal, Stumm-Halberg, Stolberg-Wernigerode, Victor zu Hohenlohe-Ratibor), 1882-1884; 2nd draft statute; founding meeting, 1882; 3rd founding of branch associations, 1883-1891; 4th lists of members, 1883.
Foundation of the Institut Colonial International in Brussels; Prince Hermann joins as a member. Election of further members: Former State Secretary Dr. H. Herzog, Prof. Karl von der Heydt, H. von Wißmann, Carl Peters, Adolph Woermann; resignation of the Vice-Presidency of the Prince due to assumption of the governor's post in Alsace-Lorraine.
HZAN La 140 Bü 246 · File · 1893-1894
Part of State Archive Baden-Württemberg, Hohenlohe Central Archive Neuenstein (Archivtektonik)

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.
General correspondence of the Witu Society; expedition under Captain Rabenhorst to take possession in the autumn of 1886; weapons provided by the Prussian War Ministry; negotiations on the sale of Witu to the British East African Society.
HZAN La 140 Bü 204 · File · 1886-1889
Part of State Archive Baden-Württemberg, Hohenlohe Central Archive Neuenstein (Archivtektonik)

Expedition unter Hauptmann Rabenhorst zur Besitzübernahme im Herbst 1886; Stellung von Waffen durch das preußische Kriegsministerium; Verhandlungen über den Verkauf von Witu an die Britisch-Ostafrikanische Gesellschaft.
General development in Witu: Reports of the authorized representative of the Witu Society in Lamu Kurt Toeppen to the Board of Directors and the authorized representative of the Society in Germany Heinrich Scharrer; transmission of Toeppen's correspondence (in copy) to Prince Hermann; correspondence of the Prince with Toeppen; merger of the Witu Society with the German East African Society; efforts to obtain an imperial award for Consul Schwabe; dismissal of Toeppen.
HZAN La 140 Bü 205 · File · 1887-1890
Part of State Archive Baden-Württemberg, Hohenlohe Central Archive Neuenstein (Archivtektonik)

Übersendung der Korrespondenz Toeppens (in Abschrift) an den Fürsten Hermann; Korrespondenz des Fürsten mit Toeppen; Fusion der Witu-Gesellschaft mit der Deutsch-Ostafrikanischen Gesellschaft; Bemühungen um eine kaiserliche Auszeichnung für Konsul Schwabe; Entlassung von Toeppen.
Individual matters in connection with the Prince's activities in the Colonial Society.
HZAN La 140 Bü 242 · File · 1883-1890
Part of State Archive Baden-Württemberg, Hohenlohe Central Archive Neuenstein (Archivtektonik)

Darin: 1. offer of land for settlement in Mexico, 1883; 2. description of the conditions in the governorate Perak, in Smyrna and in Palestine (Templer), 1883; 3. letter of Lüderitz about his plans in South West Africa, 1883; 4. sending of a poem printed about Fort Tacrana in Guinea on the hereditary prince of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen (1784) to Prince Hermann, 1884; 5. letter of Lüderitz about his plans in South West Africa, 1883; 4. sending of a poem printed about Fort Tacrana in Guinea to Prince Hermann, 1884; 5. letter of Lüderitz about his plans in South West Africa, 1883; 5. letter of Lüderitz about his plans in South West Africa, 1883; 4. letter of Lüderitz about his plans in Fort Tacrana in Guinea, 1884; 5. letter of Lüderitz about his plans in Fort Tacrana in Guinea Election of Prince Hermann as Non-Resident-Fellow of the Royal Colonial Institute, 1884; 6th sending of a book by Mannheimer, 1884; 7th congratulatory letter of the Presidium to Bismarck on his 70th birthday, 1885; 8th mediation of medical information about tropical diseases by a questionnaire campaign, 1890; 9th invitation to visit the Nordwestdeutsche Gewerbe- und Industrieausstellung in Bremen, 1890.