Archive guide to the German Colonial Past

3-R.1.g. Deutsche Kolonien und Schutzgebiete (Bestand)

Staatsarchiv Bremen (STAB), 3-R.1.g.
Fonds
1886 - 1955

Part of State Archives Bremen (STAB) (Archivtektonik)

Content: Colonial Policy - Colonial Legislation - Protectorate Act - Reichskolonialamt - Colonial Service - Colonial Procurement - Schutztruppe - Togo, Cameroon, D e u t s c h - S ü d w e s t a f r i k a, D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a - Herero...

In: State Archives Bremen (STAB) (Archivtektonik) >> Senate Registry (1875-1958) >> Foreign Affairs and Military

"Personnel Affairs." vol. 2

BArch, RM 5/5309
File
1903-1913

Part of Federal Archives (Archivtektonik)

Contains among other things: Immediate report of the command of the cruiser squadron concerning, among other things, continued insulting of the governor of Samoa Solf by Germans resident there, 16.5.1909 Mistaken bombardment of the district manage...

In: Personnel Affairs"

"Scientific work", winter work, partly with assessments: vol. 2

BArch, RM 5/618
File
1899-1901

Part of Federal Archives (Archivtektonik)

Contains among other things: Lieutenant at Sea Küsel: About railways and telegraph lines in western Africa, 1899 Lieutenant at Sea Wilhelm Taegert: Economic and military value of the Canary Islands for Germany. Which forces are necessary for the s...

In: Personnel matters of the Navy and the Admiral Staff >> officers >> Training and further education of officers >> "Scientific work", winter work, partly with evaluations

(Colourfully drawn) "Landscape in Neumecklenburg (South Sea). Kolonialkriegerdank, registered association for the support of former colonial warriors of the army, navy, the protection and police forces as well as their surviving dependants. Patron: Duke Johann Albrecht zu Mecklenburg, Honorary President: Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg; Baron von Gayl, general of the infantry, member of the manor."

Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Abt. Staatsarchiv Sigmaringen, N 1/85 T 1 Nr. 152
File
Ab 1918

Part of State Archives Baden-Württemberg, Sigmaringen State Archives Department (Archivtektonik)

In: Estate of Heinz Braun, technician (born 1927) >> Estate of Heinz Braun, technician (born 1927) (inventory) >> field postcards

Certificates, patents, appointments

Geheimes Staatsarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz, VI. HA, Nl Schnee, H., Nr. 1
File
1880 - 1922

Part of Secret State Archive of Prussian Cultural Heritage (Archivtektonik)

Contains: - Censur book of the Gymnasium Nordhausen for the pupil H. Schnee; - letter of the boy H. to an uncle about his Christmas presents; - matriculation certificate; - certificate of studies and customs of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heide...

In: Secret State Archive of Prussian Cultural Heritage (Archivtektonik) >> NON-GOVERNMENTAL PROVENANCES >> Companies, Families and People >> people >> State and local government and civil servants >> Ministry officials and employees in subordinate departments >> colonial administration >> Schnee, Heinrich (population) >> 01 Personal

Schnee, Heinrich

Correspondence A - L

Best. 614, A 34
File
1929-1932

Part of Historical Archive of the City of Cologne (Archivtektonik)

Includes among others: Abels, Hermann, Kunstsalon, Cologne Address by Julius Lips to the opening of the exhibition of the painter Emil Flecken; purchase of a watercolour by the painter Vollmberg; 1929-1931; farewell party for museum director Radem...

In: Serien

Correspondence, Partner K-R

Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Abt. Staatsarchiv Ludwigsburg, EL 232 Bü 334
File
1895-1896, 1903-1926

Part of State Archives Baden-Württemberg, Dept. State Archives Ludwigsburg (Archivtektonik)

Contains: Offers of collections; takeover of collection objects from New Guinea, Fidji (South Seas), West Africa, Bogainville (Solomon Islands, French Polynesia) Darin: Index of ethnographic objects donated by the Linden Museum to the Leather Muse...

In: State Archives Baden-Württemberg, Dept. State Archives Ludwigsburg (Archivtektonik) >> Higher and middle authorities since 1945 >> Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs >> Linden-Museum Stuttgart (State Museum of Ethnology) (inventory) >> 1. access to files 1993/043 >> 1.1 Correspondence series >> 1.1.1 Correspondence series, arranged as far as possible according to the principal authorised signatories >> 1.1.1.1 Early correspondence of the Württ. Verein für Handelsgeographie and the Museum für Länder- und Völkerkunde

Folder covered with coloured paper without inscription

Nachl. 322, Nr. 03
File
1908/1913

Part of Berlin State Library. manuscript department

colored card: Matoimochi, with Rumphs signature stamp postcard: Harlekinade Berlin 1912- postcard; A citizens' ball 1803. 35. anniversary of the association of pupils at the K.K.G.M. on 6. February 1913 in the zoo printed card: Dôjôji, with ...

In: Nachl. 322 (Fritz Rumpf) - Korrespondenz

General Affairs of the Caroline, Palau and Mariana Islands. - Administration, social, economic and political development, local population, expeditions: vol. 2

BArch, R 1001/2999
File
Sept. 1899 - Febr. 1900

Part of Federal Archives (Archivtektonik)

Contains among other things: Acquisition of real estate by the local population Award of order to Spanish officers Instructions of the Spanish government for the forthcoming transfer of ownership of the Caroline Islands to Germany Payment of the p...

In: General Affairs of the Caroline, Palau and Mariana Islands. - administration, social, economic and political development, local population, expeditions

General conditions in Kaiser-Wilhelms-Land and the Bismarck Archipelago. - Administration, social, economic and political development, local population, punitive expeditions, scientific expeditions: vol. 6

BArch, R 1001/2981
File
Apr. 1892 - Nov. 1892

Part of Federal Archives (Archivtektonik)

Contains among other things: Memorandum of the New Guinea Company about the German protectorate in the South Seas. Berlin, Nov. 1892 Map of German possessions in the Pacific Ocean, M.: 1:3 000 000 and M.: 1:12 000 000

In: General conditions in Kaiser-Wilhelms-Land and the Bismarck Archipelago. - administration, social, economic and political development, local population, punitive expeditions, scientific expeditions

Glued-on lacquer seals, paper seals and stamp impressions

Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Abt. Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe, U Sphragistik 10 Nr. 1
File
1700-1902

Part of Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Dept. General State Archive Karlsruhe (Archivtektonik)

Sheet 1 reverse: Imperial Customs Office St. Ludwig, o.D. Sheet 2: P. F. Schulze, Ebersdorf/Reuss, 1870. Edmund Abbot, Athens/Greece, 1868. E. Milson, Lyon, 1867. Johann von der Crone, Markkleeberg/Saxony, 1869. F. Lewthwaite, London/England, 1868...

In: Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Dept. General State Archive Karlsruhe (Archivtektonik) >> special stocks >> Collections on sphragistics, heraldry, numismatics >> Seal collection Scheffelt >> Seal collection Scheffelt >> collection

Greetings from the Bismarck Archipelago.

PK 2012/64.13
File
03.03.1902 (Schreibdatum)

Part of German Historical Museum Foundation

In: German Historical Museum Foundation

Jänike, Emil

Imperial Protection Forces (Existing)

BArch, RW 51
Fonds
1891-1918

Part of Federal Archives (Archivtektonik)

History of the Inventor: After the German Reich had abandoned an active colonial policy in the first years of its existence due to foreign policy considerations, this changed in 1884. The colonies Deutsch-Südwestafrika, Togo, Cameroon, Deutsch-Neu...

In: Protection troops and other institutions under imperial supreme command

Imperial budget plans: government statements, reports on consultations in the Federal Council

Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Abt. Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart, E 130 a Bü 1281
File
1899

Part of Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Dept. Main State Archives Stuttgart (Archivtektonik)

Darin: Denkschriften über Entwicklung von Kiautschou mit einer Bebauungsplan für die neu zu zu anlegende Stadt an der Tsingtau-Bucht (Reichstag printed matter no. 79/1899) Qu. 651, the island groups of the Caroline Islands, Palau and Mariana Islan...

In: State Ministry (inventory) >> W Finance

Lamprecht Estate

Nachlass Lamprecht
Fonds
1856/1915

Part of Bonn University and State Library

Karl Lamprecht (1856-1915) was one of the best-known and most distinguished German historians of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He studied history in Leipzig and Göttingen, habilitated in Bonn in 1880 and worked at the Rheinische-Friedric...

In: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn >> Sonstige

Letter from Carl Meinhof from Seminar für Kolonialsprachen <Hamburg> to Wilhelm Wundt

NA Wundt/III/601-700/648/223-230
File
1914-11-12

Part of University Archive Leipzig

Find kinship between the Papuan and Sudanese languages. He refers to [Otto] Dempwolff, whose report from New Guinea he encloses as a copy. Wundt asks whether his speech on the "true war" had already appeared in print.

In: Estate of Wilhelm Wundt (Title) >> Estate Wilhelm Wundt/Letters (Title) >> NA Wundt/III/Heir's estate Wilhelm Wundt/Letters/601-700 (title)

Letter from the Colonial Department of the Federal Foreign Office to Paul Barschdorff about his forthcoming assignment as a teacher in D e u t s c h - N euguinea* After your suitability for tropical service has been determined / and you have declared yourself willing to / enter colonial service, ...

Do 90/1016
File
02.02.1907

Part of German Historical Museum Foundation

In: German Historical Museum Foundation

Kolonial-Abteilung im Auswärtigem Amt

Loss lists of the German Navy from 1849 - 1911 and military hospital evidence for the campaign 1870/71 against France, individual cases

Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Abt. Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart, M 1/8 Bü 214
File
1908-1919

Part of Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Dept. Main State Archives Stuttgart (Archivtektonik)

Contains among other things: The evidence for the 1870/71 campaign comes exclusively from the military hospitals of the Württemberg army in France. The lists of casualties of all naval personnel from 1849-1911 who died in German war operations ref...

In: Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Dept. Main State Archives Stuttgart (Archivtektonik) >> Military holdings 1871-ca. 1920 >> Authorities and formations >> Ministry of War and its subordinate authorities and formations >> War Department >> Ministry of War: Medical Department (inventory) >> 5 Construction, equipment and operation of military hospitals >> 5.3 General hospital work and individual events

Merchant ships as auxiliary warships - preparation, conversion, equipment and use: vol. 2

BArch, RM 108/142
File
o.Dat.

Part of Federal Archives (Archivtektonik)

Contains among other things: Ship plans and drawings of the mine clearance mother ship "Moss 86", night hunting lead ship "Togo", mine ship "Linz" and "Lorraine", artillery carrier "Nijenburg", net...

In: Kriegsmarinedienststellen (inventory) >> RM 108 Naval war stations >> Naval stations (1939-1945) >> Post-war elaboration on merchant ships as auxiliary warships >> Merchant ships as auxiliary warships - preparation, conversion, equipment and use

Military policy reports - disputes, disagreements: vol. 1

BArch, RM 3/3043
File
1903-1915

Part of Federal Archives (Archivtektonik)

Contains among other things: S.M.S. "Cormoran": Economic development of the Marshall Islands (differences between Frigate Captain v. Burski and Berlin on the activities of the Jaluit Society) Nov. 1902 to Dec. 1903 S.M.S. "Loreley&q...

In: Prussian and Imperial Navy 1849 to 1918/1919 >> top authorities >> Reichsmarineamt (inventory) >> RM 3 Reichsmarineamt Part 03 and 04 General Marine Department >> ships >> Maintenance and use of vessels >> Military policy reports >> Military policy reports - disputes, disagreements

German Imperial Naval Office

Military policy reports - ships: Volume 12

BArch, RM 3/3026
File
1909-1910

Part of Federal Archives (Archivtektonik)

Contains among other things: S. M. S. "Lübeck: Alexandrette, Beirut, Messina (troubled situation), Jaffa S. M. S. "Hansa: Norway, Bilbao, Vigo, Naples, Venice, Port Said, Latovia, Alexandrette, Alexandria S. M. S. "Cormoran": M...