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Current business of the Colonial Department and planning of a R e i c h s k o l o n i a l a m t .

Contains among other things: Correspondence of Ernst II, Draft of an ordinance and memorandum concerning the R e i c h s k o l o n i a l a m t ; conditions of the German Schutztruppe in South West Africa (including the Herero Uprising, railway con...

In: Estate of Prince Ernst II. (*1863, 1950) (holdings) >> 1. fact files >> 1.6 Political and military activity. >> 1.6.2 Provisional management of the Colonial Department at the Federal Foreign Office (as planned State Secretary)

Federal Foreign Office Berlin, Colonial Department

Correspondence concerning the sale of the house in Otjimbingue; restriction of the import of spirits; pastoral care for the white population; free seeds for botanical experiments; contract with cultural engineer Borchardt-Ott according to meteorol...

In: Archive and Museum Foundation of the VEM (Archivtektonik) >> Archive of the Rhenish Mission Society >> Government offices of the German Reich, the Weimar Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany

Rhenish Missionary Society

Federal Foreign Office Berlin, Colonial Department

Protocols and correspondence on issues such as:; customs privileges; education; arbitrariness of colonial officials; whereabouts of mission property after World War I; internment and exchange of prisoners of war; overview of activities, assets and...

In: Archive and Museum Foundation of the VEM (Archivtektonik) >> Archive of the Rhenish Mission Society >> Government offices of the German Reich, the Weimar Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany

Rhenish Missionary Society

Federal Foreign Office Berlin, Colonial Department in Southwest Africa Affairs

Minutes and correspondence concerning; claims on land; mistreatment of prisoners; Herero war; exile of Witbooi; site plan and profile railway Swakopmund-Windhuk, 1:1.200.000, 1901; correspondence with the president of the German colonial society c...

In: Archive and Museum Foundation of the VEM (Archivtektonik) >> Archive of the Rhenish Mission Society >> Mission and Colonialism

Rhenish Missionary Society

Hearing of Ernst II (as former head of the Colonial Department in the Foreign Office) in the investigation proceedings against Matthias Erzberger, member of the Reichstag, for insulting members of the Schutztruppe für Südwestafrika and officials of the Reichskolonialverwaltung.

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 B...

In: Estate of Prince Ernst II. (*1863, 1950) (holdings) >> 1. fact files >> 1.6 Political and military activity. >> 1.6.2 Provisional management of the Colonial Department at the Federal Foreign Office (as planned State Secretary)

Hearing of Ernst II (as former head of the Colonial Department in the Foreign Office) in the private suit of the Hamburg transport company Wörmann against the "Simplicissimus" editor Hans Kaspar Gulbransson for insulting him.

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 explo...

In: Estate of Prince Ernst II. (*1863, 1950) (holdings) >> 1. fact files >> 1.6 Political and military activity. >> 1.6.2 Provisional management of the Colonial Department at the Federal Foreign Office (as planned State Secretary)