History of the inventor: In 1884 the German Reich took over the protection of the Bremen merchant Franz Adolf Eduard Lüderitz by acquiring land; in 1885 the German administration was established; the German colonial society, founded in 1895, expanded the German sphere of influence; in 1915 the Schutztruppe surrendered to the armed forces of the South African Union and the German administration ended. Inventory description: Inventory history At the end of the 1930s, the Reichsarchiv took over the files of the Colonial Administration of D e u t s c h - S ü d w e s t a f r i k a, in some cases with considerable gaps in their transmission. After the relocation caused by the war, they were transferred to the Central State Archive in Potsdam in 1945. Here, the classification of the holdings into the central administration of Windhoek, the local administrations and the special administrations (justice, police, mining, railways) with their substructures, which had already been carried out in the Reich Archives, was preserved. The few volumes of files kept in the Federal Archives in Koblenz were assigned to the holdings after the reunification of Germany. Archive evaluation and processing In addition to the factual files of the most varied areas and administrative levels, the personnel files of the inspection of the state police as well as the railway administration and railway construction authorities form the most extensive groups of files with about 80 per cent of the transmission. The classification of the stock was carried out largely in accordance with the classification shown in the provisional finding aid, which was based on the registry scheme valid at the time. Only in a few individual cases were volumes assigned to a different classification. The order and titles of the volumes remained essentially unchanged. An index of persons, objects and places has been omitted, so that searches are only possible via the online version of this finding aid book. Content characterisation: Central administration; governorate in Windhoek; commissioner of the former governorate in Windhoek; local administration; district offices; district offices; administration of justice; high court in Windhoek; district courts; mountain authorities; registration aids. State of development: Findbuch 1942; Online-Findbuch 2002 Citation method: BArch, R 1002/...

album with eight views from the German colonies'

Explanation: Documents from the possession of the leader of the indigenous movement against the German colonial rule in today's Namibia, at that time German South West Africa, Hendrik Witbooi (ca. 1830-1905) had fallen into the hands of the Bremen merchant August Engelbert Wulff in 1895 in the course of military conflicts in Gibeon, Namibia. In 1935 he sold it to the then German Colonial and Overseas Museum. The documents were handed over to the National Archives of Windhoek in 1995 after reproductions had been made for the State Archives of Bremen and the Übersee-Museum. Content: Correspondence

• Contains: <br />(1) 48 photos from German Southwest Africa: Lieutenant Colonel Hoffmann; group photo of the Windhoek staff; African soldiers; group photo with members of the Bergdamara; Herero uprising and Nama uprising 1904: Panoramic view of Lüderitz Bay; Fort Keetmanshoop; views of Keetmanshoop; Kuibis; stop at Schlangenkopf Mountain; Kubuk; Naimos; Kanas; group photo "The Winners of Koës" (15th century)12.1904); prison camp on the shark island<br />(2) 37 postcards from Kiautschou: Kiautschou Bay; Tsintan; Tsingtao, Tsimo; Schadsekau; Tientsin<br />(3) 10 views from Holland and the Dutch colonies: Vlissingen; Middelburg; Cape of Good Hope; Batavia (Jakarta); Fort Cornelius; Samarang<br />Darin: Group picture of German soldiers bathing in China during the Boxer Uprising description: Contains: (1) 48 photos from Deutsch-Südwestafrika: Lieutenant Colonel Hoffmann; group photo of the officers' staff Windhoek; African soldiers; group photo with members of the Bergdamara; Herero uprising and Nama uprising 1904: panorama photo of Lüderitz Bay; Fort Keetmanshoop; local views Keetmanshoop; Kuibis; station on Mount Schlangenkopf; Kubuk; Naimos; Kanas; group photo "The Victors of Koës" (15.12.1904); prison camp on the shark island (2) 37 postcards from Kiautschou: Kiautschou Bay; Tsintan; Tsingtao, Tsimo; Schadsekau; Tientsin (3) 10 views from Holland and the Dutch colonies: Vlissingen; Middelburg; Cape of Good Hope; Batavia (Jakarta); Fort Cornelius; Samarang Darin: Group picture of German soldiers bathing in China during the Boxer Uprising 1898-1904, Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Dept. Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart, M 704 Military Historical Picture Collection 2

Contains among other things: "Attempts to Cultivate Cigarette Tobacco in the German Protectorates", 1922; "The Colonial Problem"; "The German Schools in Southwest Africa", Kastl paper, 1921; newspaper article on colonial policy (1914) and Hindenburg's death (1934); Report of the Deutsche Afrika-Bank Aktiengesellschaft, 1908; Report of the Deutsche Kolonial-Eisenbahn-Bau- und Betriebs-Gesellschfat, 1908; Outline of the Terms and Conditions for the Mortgage Loans of the Southwest African Soil Credit Society

in Windhoek, Tsumeb, Omajette; Personalpapiere; Ärztliche Befundberichte; Jahresberichte u. Rundbriefe; Korrespondenz; 

• Including:<br />- two negatives from a court martial in South West Africa<br />- 183 postcards (partly descriptive) with motifs (incl. Schutztruppen, locals, landscapes, places and buildings) from:<br />- German South West Africa (Namibia): a.o. Walvis Bay, Swakopmund, Windhoek, Abbabis, Otjitundo, Owamboland, Omaruru, Karibib, Kubas and Lüderitz Bay,<br />- German East Africa (Tanzania): including Tanga, Dar-es-Salaam<br />- Cape Colony (South Africa): Cape Town, Aliwal North<br />- Brazil: Guaruja. Brusque<br />- India: e.g. Ahmedabad, Abu<br />- Egypt: Port Said, Suez Canaln* 1904 - 1926, Stadtarchiv Nürnberg, E 10/32 NL Friedrich Stahl

Kaiserliche Reichspost, Post Office Windhoek [client];

motif: Colonel Theodor Gotthilf Leutwein and Lieutenant General Adrian Dietrich Lothar von Trotha in front of Hotel Stadt Windhoek',;nunknown manufacturer;n'Colonel Leutwein and Lieutenant General von Trotha,/the leaders of the German armed forces in/German South West Africa. '

Verlag der Windhuker Nachrichten GmbH [publisher] Swakopmunder Buchhandlung GmbH [printer];n'Windhuker Nachrichten', 'Unabhängige Zeitung/für/Deutsch=Südwest=Afrika'; page 13

Kaiserliche Reichspost (1871 - 1918) [publisher];n'Telegraphie des Deutschen Reichs./Amt Windhuk.'; front page print date/print item no: 'C. 187'; front page

Imperial Reichspost (1871 - 1918) [publisher];n'Amt', 'Karibib/Deutsch-Südwestafrika', 'Heft', 'No. 41'; front

Kaiserliche Reichspost, Postamt Windhuk [Verwender];n'M.60,10/in Worten Fünfzig Mark 10 Pfg.'; Vorderseite

G. Linke (Centrales Formular Magazin) [Hersteller];n'Deutsch-Südwest-Afrika.', 'Heliographie d. Schutztruppe', 'Station Kt Windhoek'; front side print date/print item no: 'Centr.-Form.-Mag. G.Linke,Berlin,S.Sebastianstr.19./und Buchdruckerei', 'Form. 636.'

Kaiserliche Reichspost (1871 - 1918) [publisher];n'Telegraphie des Deutschen Reichs./Hamburg Telegraphenamt.'; front side print date/print item no: 'C. 187.'; front page question: 'bestehen ehehindernisse bezueglich berta sophie elise massen/frueher rappstrasze 18 = bezirksamt+'; front in pencil: 'Classen'; front page 'Bezirksamt/Windhoek/Bertha Sophie Elise Classen/is.../obstacles to marriage not known/mayor; front page

Kaiserliche Reichspost (1871 - 1918) [Herausgeber];n'Telegraphie des Deutschen Reiches./Amt'; front side postmark: 'Windhoek/German South West Africa' Printing date/printed matter no: 'C. 187.'; front side

Kaiserliche Reichspost (1871 - 1918) [publisher];n'Feldtelegraph.','Telegr.- Abtlg. S.W.A.'; Front

description: Contains:StartVNr: E 2376/1909; EndVNr: E 667/1910; and others: Cooperation with the Vorderasiatisches Museum, (1909), p. 34, the Botanical Central Office for the Colonies at the Royal Botanical Garden and Museum, p. 113, and the Museum of Natural History, Berlin, (1910), p. 213 ff., 235 f.- Sale of duplicates to the Hzgl. collections of the Veste Coburg, (1909), p. 36 ff.- Cooperation with the Städtisches Museum, Bremen, (1912), pp. 75 - Cooperation with the Kgl. Landesaufnahme, pp. 167, the Kgl. Bergakademie, Berlin, (1910), pp. 219 f., and the Seminar für Geographie, Hamburg, (1909), pp. 1 ff - Lending of doublets to a girls' school, Berlin, (1910), pp. 237 - Cooperation with the BGAEU, (1910), pp. 17 ff - Cooperation with the Kgl. Landesaufnahme, pp. 167, the Kgl. Bergakademie, Berlin, (1910), pp. 219 f., and the Seminar für Geographie, Hamburg, (1909), pp. 1 ff - Lending of doublets to a girls' school, Berlin, (1910), pp. 237 ff - Cooperation with the BGAEU, (1910), pp. 17 ff, and the command of the Schutztruppe für DSW, Windhoek, (1910), p. 182, 184 Schipper: Explanation of the term "Kobirra" for Hörige, (1910), p. 72 - Karasek: Bericht über Fehldeutung des Verhaltens von natischen, (1909), p. 95 f. - by Ramsay: Explanation of his donation, (1910), p. 154 f. - Kaufmann: Donation of a skeleton, (1910), pp. 170 f.- Leupolt: Explanation of his donation, (1910), pp. 191 f.- Adametz: Report on religious ideas in Cameroon, pp. 195 ff, and on metallurgy, (1909, 1910), pp. 205 ff - "Darwinsche pathognomische Fragen", [1910], pp. 223 f.- Rathgen: Report on anthropological research in Tunisia, (1910), pp. 238 f.

description: Contains:StartVNr: E 2210/1910; EndVNr: E 1670/1911; and others: Cooperation with the Botanical Museum, pp. 387, and the Museum of Natural History, Berlin, (1911), pp. 110, 387 ff. - Sale of doublets to the Anthropological Institute of the University, Wroclaw, (1910), pp. 33 ff., the Museums für Völkerkunde, Leipzig, pp. 78 ff, Hamburg, pp. 280, Munich, (1911), pp. 383, and Stuttgart, (1910, 1913), pp. 14 ff., 148 on loan from the Saalburgmuseum, Homburg v.d.H., (1911, 1959), pp. 360 - Cooperation with the Kolonialinstitut, Hamburg, (1911), pp. 62 f. - Distribution of duplicates to private individuals, (1911), pp. 154 ff, 199, 238, 249, 372 - Cooperation with the editors of the Globus, (1910), p. 56, the Kolonialkriegerdank Association, p. 87, 129, 233, the Command of the Schutztruppen, p. 133, the Ethnological Assistance Committee, p. 220 ff, the German Colonial Society, Berlin, pp. 240 ff., the Kriegsmarine-Ausstellung, Oldenburg, pp. 50, and the Command of the Schutztruppe, Windhoek, (1911), pp. 130 - Cooperation with the White Fathers, (1910, 1911), pp. 58 ff, 251 ff. - Fechtner: Skull Shipment, (1911), p. 75 - Siegmann: Origin of the Skeletons Sent in by Maercker, (1910), p. 121 - von Sick: Corrections and Negotiations for His Work on the Wanyaturu, (1911), p. 138 ff - Lunkenbein: Offer of Skeletons, (1911), p. 160 - "General Adjustment pr. Steamship 'Oron' ...", (1911), duplication, pp. 170 ff.- [Peters:] "Ophir of the ancients. Dr. Carl Peters' theories..." [1911], Ztg.-Article, pp. 202 f.- Braunschweig: Report on planned colonial activities in the southeast of DOA, (1911), pp. 228 f.- His: "Description of the ... Poison arrows and daggers of the Herero..." (1911), Bl. 247.- Minist. the Spiritual Affairs: Report on awards, (1911), p. 283 - van Gennep: Report on his collecting activities and contacts among Mediterranean cultures, (1911), p. 293 ff - "From Grootfontein. In: Südwest-Afrikanische Ztg. : 1911-06-13, p. 326 - Staudinger: Request for support for Crompton, (1911), p. 342 ff.

Contains: (spec.)Gymnastics clubs Statutes of the Walder Jugendturnverein, 25.01.1898;Statutes of the gymnastics club 'Einigkeit', Wald, 26.02.1898;Festprogramm zum Stiftungsfest und zur Fahnenweihe des Kreuzweger Turnerbunds, 19.08.1900;Statutes of the Ittertaler Turnerbund, 04.07.1900;Statutes of the gymnastics club 'Germania', 16.08.1902;Statutes of the Männerturnverein Wald, 20.10.1903;Statutes of the Turnverein Grün, Buxhaus, 01.07.1905;Flyer: 'Spitzel an der Arbeit', August 1906;Statutes of the free Walder gymnastics community, 04.08.1906;Statute of the Lochbachtaler Turnerbund, 19.06.1907;Statutes of the Damenturnverein Wald, August 1907;Statutes of the Merscheider Turnerbund, 16.05.1899;Statutes of the Niedermangenberger Turnverein, February 1908;Flyer: 'Youth, wake up!';Annual reports of the Wald-Merscheider Turnerbund, 1913 - 1918;Statute of the Schlagbaumer Ballspielverein, 28.08.1920;Invitation of the Walder Gymnasgemeinde to a conference, December 1893;Statutes of the Kreuzweger Turnerbund, September 1895 and January 1906;Invitation of the Wald-Merscheider Turnverein to the 42nd Gymnastics Congress of the Walder Ballspielverein, 28.08.1920;Invitation of the Walder Ballsgemeinde to a conference, December 1893;Invitation of the Wald-Merscheider Turnverein to the 42nd Gymnastics Congress of the Walder Ballspielverein, 28.08.1920;Invitation of the Walder Ballspielverein to the 42nd Gymnastics Congress of the Walder Merscheider Ballspielverein, 28.08.1920 Foundation celebration, January 1903; Letter of request from the Windhuk Gymnastics Club, Deutsch-Südwestafrika (German Colony), 1906; Letter of request from the German Haida Gymnastics Club, July 1909, with donation cards and a picture of the donations; Programme of the Wald-Merscheider Gymnastics Club for an entertainment evening, 17.11.1912; Programme of the Lower Berg Gymnastics Club: 'Jugendwettturnen des Gaus', 06.08.1916; Programme of the Wald-Merscheider Turnverein e.V., Jugendabteilung, Turnerischer Unterhaltungs- und Werbeabend, 24.03.1918; Call of the Turnkreis VIIIb (Rheinland) of the German Gymnastics Association 1917; Statutes of the Association 'Ausschuss der rheinischen Turnerschaft e.V.', January 1918

Contains among other things: "The most common abbreviations in England", 1908; Treaty on Landing in Swakopmund, o.Dat.

Contains: Budget for the financial year 1906; overview plan of the Windhik-Rehoboth line, 1905

Captured English march through the streets of Windhoek / Photographer: Scherl

in Windhoek, Otjimbingwe; certificate of appointment, 1927; correspondence, especially with Superior Margarete Scharrenberg, from 1926 with Superior Anni Viering; reports from the nursing and community work in Windhoek, 1927-1937; reports from the nursing and community work in Otjimbingwe, 1937-1958; death certificate, 1958; death announcement, message to friends, obituary, 1959;

Cardboard 1:1. German Reichstag and other German parliaments 1850-19142. People's Chamber GDR 1957ff.3. newspaper clippings parliamentary stenography 1885-1995Cardboard 2: Saxon Landtag 1850-1931Cardboard 3: International 1860-1914: e.g. German South West Africa (Windhoek, minutes of 1913/1914), Italy, France, Hungary, Austria, Spain