Archive guide to the German Colonial Past

* Banjo, African chief of the Herero* Herero captain Banjo

Ph 2006/118
File
um zwischen 1904 und 1909

Part of German Historical Museum Foundation

In: German Historical Museum Foundation

* Chief Bandjo. German-South-West-Africa * Herero chief Bandjo

PK 2012/70
File
11.03.1905 (Poststempel)

Part of German Historical Museum Foundation

In: German Historical Museum Foundation

Spenker, Fritz

* Nama Chief Hendrik Witbooi in Rehoboth* Captain Hendrik Wittboi

Ph 2006/117
File
um 1900

Part of German Historical Museum Foundation

In: German Historical Museum Foundation

A journey to the Sira Landscapes

ALMW_II._MB_1898_27
File
1898

Part of Francke's Foundations in Halle

Author: Report by Miss. Müller in Madchame, June 1898. Scope: pp. 365-371. Includes among others: - (SW: search for new mission areas; lending a tent from Schangali; chief of Kiboscho - Mlelya; meeting with chief Ngalami; gifts; visit to chief Mem...

In: Francke's Foundations in Halle >> Archive of the Evangelical Lutheran Mission Society Leipzig e.V. >> Ev.-Luth. mission to Leipzig/ Ev.-Luth. mission work Leipzig >> Evangelical Lutheran Mission Gazette >> Evangelical Lutheran Mission Gazette 1898

Leipziger Missionswerk

A mission budget on the hike and in the tent

ALMW_II._MB_1900_2
File
1900

Part of Francke's Foundations in Halle

Author: By Miss. Clean in Mulango in Kitwi. Scope: p. 20-22* 42-43. Contains, among other things: - (SW: Miss.'s journey from Ikutha to Kitwi; description of the move; arrival at Simba Chief) - (SW: nutrition of the missionaries; beginnings o...

In: Francke's Foundations in Halle >> Archive of the Evangelical Lutheran Mission Society Leipzig e.V. >> Ev.-Luth. mission to Leipzig/ Ev.-Luth. mission work Leipzig >> Evangelical Lutheran Mission Gazette >> Evangelical Lutheran Mission Gazette 1900

Leipziger Missionswerk

A noble woman in Madschame

ALMW_II._MB_1895_13
File
1895

Part of Francke's Foundations in Halle

Author: By Miss. Cooper. Scope: pp. 168-171. Contains, among other things: - (SW: trade on the mission; a lot of visit by ways over station hills; Nuya - mother of chief Schangali; jewellery; repair work on station buildings - help of Nuya; visit ...

In: Francke's Foundations in Halle >> Archive of the Evangelical Lutheran Mission Society Leipzig e.V. >> Ev.-Luth. mission to Leipzig/ Ev.-Luth. mission work Leipzig >> Evangelical Lutheran Mission Gazette >> Evangelical Lutheran Mission Gazette 1895

Leipziger Missionswerk

A visit to Chief Schangali in Madschame

ALMW_II._MB_1900_3
File
1900

Part of Francke's Foundations in Halle

Author: By Miss. Fox in Madchame. Scope: p. 39-42. Includes, among other things: - (SW: three Dschagga stations - Madchame with Schangali, Moshi with Meli and Mamba with Koimbere; visit of the dwelling of the chief Schangalis; influence of Europea...

In: Francke's Foundations in Halle >> Archive of the Evangelical Lutheran Mission Society Leipzig e.V. >> Ev.-Luth. mission to Leipzig/ Ev.-Luth. mission work Leipzig >> Evangelical Lutheran Mission Gazette >> Evangelical Lutheran Mission Gazette 1900

Leipziger Missionswerk

A visit to our new station Kwarango in Madschame

ALMW_II._MB_1894_4
File
1894

Part of Francke's Foundations in Halle

Author: According to Miss's diary. Päsler. Scope: pp. 74-78* 89-93. Includes, but is not limited to: - (SW: visit to Chief Schangali; language studies; exchange and gifts; Swahili service; contact to Madchame people; construction work hindere...

In: Francke's Foundations in Halle >> Archive of the Evangelical Lutheran Mission Society Leipzig e.V. >> Ev.-Luth. mission to Leipzig/ Ev.-Luth. mission work Leipzig >> Evangelical Lutheran Mission Gazette >> Evangelical Lutheran Mission Gazette 1894

Leipziger Missionswerk

A visit to the new Mamba station and its surroundings

ALMW_II._MB_1895_2
File
1895

Part of Francke's Foundations in Halle

Author: By Miss. Althaus, Mamba. Scope: p. 28-35. Contains among other things - (SW: directions to Mamba; agriculture - bean fields; Chief Koimbere sends men with sickle-like knives against the undergrowth; description of the station square; strea...

In: Francke's Foundations in Halle >> Archive of the Evangelical Lutheran Mission Society Leipzig e.V. >> Ev.-Luth. mission to Leipzig/ Ev.-Luth. mission work Leipzig >> Evangelical Lutheran Mission Gazette >> Evangelical Lutheran Mission Gazette 1895

Leipziger Missionswerk

Administration of Cameroon. - Separation of places of residence from local and European populations, complaints by Duala chiefs

BArch, R 1001/4227
File
Juli 1903 - Aug. 1914

Part of Federal Archives (Archivtektonik)

In: Federal Archives (Archivtektonik) >> North German Confederation and German Reich (1867/1871-1945) >> Foreign Affairs, Colonial and Occupation Administration >> R e i c h s k o l o n i a l a m t (inventory) >> R 1001 Imperial Colonial Office >> Cameroon and Togo >> administrative matters

Anecho: Chief election chaired by the district governor.

VIII A 4326
File

Part of Ethnological Museum, National Museums in Berlin

photography

In: Ethnological Museum, National Museums in Berlin >> VIII A

Lohmeyer, Robert

Archivalie - Process

E 1378/1894
File
1894-01-01 - 1894-12-31

Part of Ethnological Museum, National Museums in Berlin

description: Contains:Content: P. Walter, Berlin: Send a sketch of an object by the chief of Gapé from Togo for publication in the Miscellen of the Ethnological Notepad (p. 6). Explanations of the background to the history of the letters: 1

In: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin >> E

Walter, Paul

Archivalie - Process

E 387/1894
File
1894-01-01 - 1894-12-31

Part of Ethnological Museum, National Museums in Berlin

description: Contains:Content: Herold sends a drawing of a drum with human skulls from Togo, which are only in the possession of the tribal chieftains and only hung with skulls of enemies killed in the war, mostly Aschanti. Reference to Ashanti Wa...

In: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin >> E

Gruner, Hans

Archivaly - Akte

I/MV 0725
File
1901-01-01 - 1903-12-31

Part of Ethnological Museum, National Museums in Berlin

description: Contains:StartVNr: E 654/1901; EndVNr: E 1483/1901; and others: Cooperation with the Museum of Natural History, p. 51, the German Colonial Museum, (1901), p. 293, the Botanical Museum, p. 56, and the Numismatic Collection, Berlin, (19...

In: Ethnological Museum, National Museums in Berlin >> I/MV

Area of Chief Jan Jonker African

BArch, R 1001/2151
File
Mai 1885 - Okt. 1889

Part of Federal Archives (Archivtektonik)

In: Affairs and uprisings of the indigenous tribes

Assignment of sovereign rights of African tribes in Cameroon and West Africa to the German company Jantzen und Thormählen, Hamburg

BArch, R 9350/227
File
1885

Part of Federal Archives (Archivtektonik)

Contains: Photocopies of contracts (handwritten, 47 p.) Contracts with chieftains in Cameroon and West Africa

In: Sachthematische Sammlung Reich >> R 9350 Sachthematische Sammlung >> 1789 - 1918 >> Deutsches Kaiserreich 1871 - 1918 >> Ausland; BArch, R 9350 Sachthematische Sammlung Reich

Attack of the English mission station Kabai in East Africa

ALMW_II._MB_1896_2
File
1896

Part of Francke's Foundations in Halle

Author: Letters from Miss. Hofmann and Pfitzinger. Scope: p. 43-47* 60-63. Contains, among other things: - 1. (SW: Miss. Hofmann from Mbungu to Jimba; many attacks by Maasai and Arab chiefs; description of the attack on the neighbouring station Ka...

In: Francke's Foundations in Halle >> Archive of the Evangelical Lutheran Mission Society Leipzig e.V. >> Ev.-Luth. mission to Leipzig/ Ev.-Luth. mission work Leipzig >> Evangelical Lutheran Mission Gazette >> Evangelical Lutheran Mission Gazette 1896

Leipziger Missionswerk

Bandjo, Chief of the Northern Herero Community near Otjombonde

Ph 2015/313
File
um 1897

Part of German Historical Museum Foundation

In: German Historical Museum Foundation

Heyer, C.

Bernsmann, Peter Friedrich (1845-1920)

RMG 1.613 a-d
File
1871-1920

Part of Archive and Museum Foundation of the VEM (Archivtektonik)

1874-1919 in Otjimbingue, Otjikango, Omburo, Omaruru; Letters, travel and war reports, 1871-1920; Fieldpost letters from the time of the French campaign, 1871; Reports from the sea voyage to Capstadt and Walfishbay, 1873; A visit in d. Grootkloof,...

In: Archiv- und Museumsstiftung der VEM (Archivtektonik) >> Archiv der Rheinischen Missionsgesellschaft >> Die Rheinische Mission in Südwestafrika/Namibia >> Missionare

Rhenish Missionary Society

Bokamonene Chief (Neukamerun)* Portrait of a man called "Chief" from the village of Bokamonene against a neutral background

BA 2015/1548
File
zwischen 04.11.1911 und 1914

Part of German Historical Museum Foundation

In: German Historical Museum Foundation

Koch, Carl

Carl Peters' contracts signed in Africa for the acquisition of land

BArch, N 2223/46
File
September 1889 - September 1905, 1925

Part of Federal Archives (Archivtektonik)

Contains: Contract between King Kwanga of Buganda and C. Peters' letters from African chieftains and others to C. Peters (partly copies of letters from K. Roehl, made around 1925, available).

In: O - R >> Peters, Karl (inventory) >> N 2223 Peters, Carl >> Activity in Africa

Peters, Carl

Chief Malitoa. - Appointment as King of Samoa by the American Steinberger, deposition, capture and internment by the German Reich and appointment of the Viceroy Tamasese as King.