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- 1893 - 1902 (Creation)
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1 Mikrofilm (FB 2287)
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Nama-Kaptein (1830-1905)
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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
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State Archives Bremen (STAB) (Archivtektonik) >> Unofficial documents >> Bequests and family archives >> Discounts T - Z
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Literaturhinweis: <br />
The Hendrik Witbooi Papers, ed. by The National Archives of Namibia, Windhoek 1995.
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- Witbooi, Hendrik (Subject)