Contains among other things: Monthly Shipments of Ceylon Black Tea to all Ports in 1908-1909. Petition of the Pflanzerverein von Samoa to the German Reichstag, Apia, Nov. 1911.

Darin: Notice of Recruitment of Three Year Volunteers for the Crew of Kiautschou (China), December 1903 (Qu. 410)

Record Type: Memorandum. Former Reference: GT 6404. Title: Retention of Nauru Island, Caroline Islands and Marshall Islands under British Government. Telegram from High Commissioner of Western Pacific to Secretary of State for Colonies. Author: Rodwell.

Record Type: Memorandum. Former Reference: GT 171. Title: Memorandum on question of Indian Immigration into acquired territory in German East Africa and German possesssions in the Pacific. Author: India Office.

Record Type: Conclusion. Former Reference: WC 162. Attendees: A Bonar Law; Curzon; Milner; G Barnes; J Smuts; A Balfour; R Cecil; Derby; W Robertson; A Chamberlain; A Stanley; J Jellicoe; H Rew. Agenda: 1. Petrol Control; 2. The Agricultural Programme: Fertilizers; 3. Greece: Abdication of King Constantine; 4. British Troops for Corinth; 5. Development of Western Ports; 6. Portugal: Contingent for France; 7. Aeroplane Raid; 8. Prisoners Captured by the Enemy; 9. General Wilson; 10. H.M.S. "Grafton."; 11. Japanese Destroyer Torpedoed; 12. United States Destroyer in Collision; 13. German East Africa; 14. Submarines; 15. Convoys; 16. Sinking of German Submarine "U 92."; 17. German Allegations of Gross Inhumanity; 18. Report of the Mesopotamia Commission.

Contains: Corrected manuscript

Plans, cost estimates, considerations on new concept, 1960-1962; correspondence to the Museum Schönebecker Str., 1912; procurement and description of objects, 1912; brochure e. Völkerkundl. Exhibition i. d. Stadthalle, 1913; Inquiry e. Collectors about acquisition e. Neu-Guinea-Götzen, incl. 2 photos, 1952-1954; Inquiry d. Museums Recklinghausen, 1957

Contains among other things: Preparation and conclusion of a mining regulation between the German Society for Mining and Industry Abroad and the Governor of the Province of Schantung in Chifu, July 9, 1901, 1900 - 1901 Statutes, administrative and supervisory board members, shareholders of the German Society for Mining and Industry Abroad, 1901 Map of the Province of Shantung with the German lease area of Kiautschou, by Bruno Hassenstein (1 : 650,000), with drawings

Contains among other things: Annual reports of the Deutsch-Asiatische Bank for 1904 and 1905 (prints), 1904 - 1905 Travel report of Dr. Fischer from the management of the SEG and successor by former ministerial director Dr. Josef Hoeter, 1909 Projected renunciation of the concession for railway construction on the line Kiautschou to Ichoufu, 1908 - 1909 Rumour about forthcoming plans for nationalization of the SEG by China, 1909

Contains among other things: Founding of the Deutsch-Chinesische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft mbH, Berlin (Chairman: v. Hansemann), with articles of association (print), 1903 Opening of the Yuen Han railway near Kanton, financed by the USA, France and Belgium (Report of the German Consul in Kanton), Nov. 1903 Economic efficiency of the railway construction project Kowloon - Kanton (report of the German consul in Hong Kong), 1903 criticism of the behaviour of employees of the SEG towards Chinese (introduction of investigations), 1904 "Baugeschichte der Schantung-Eisenbahn", ed. by the SEG on the occasion of the completion of the railway line leading from Tsingtou to Tsinanfu (print, with map and plans of the buildings), 1904 criticism of the personnel of the SEG in China (talks of the governor in Kiautschou, troops, with the Chinese governor of Schantung, Choufu, in Weihsien (transcript), Apr. 1904 "Building and Operating Concession for the SEG" and "Statute of the SEG" (prints), [1899], [1899], (in German)

Contains among other things: State of railway construction in China in general (report of the command of the cruiser squadron from Yokohama), (Aug.) Oct. 1902 Chinese participation in the share capital of the SEG, acquisition of shares by Mandarine, 1902 "Principles for the transfer of Bavarian civil servants to the colonial service of the Reich", o. Dat. Visit of the Governor of Schantung Province, Choufu, to the SEG in Tsingtau (thanks to the Chinese envoy in Berlin and correspondence with Choufu), Dec. 1902 - March 1903 Conversion of the American Railway Construction Syndicate Hankau - Canton into an American-Belgian Railway Company, Aug. 1902

Contains: Box 6: - 1 wooden jug - 1 head of a turtle - 5 inventory labels - 1 ornamental bench, 5 water birds, Chinese with vessel - 1 wooden bottle-like part without bottom (damaged) - 2 turtle shells with skeleton - 1 turtle shell - 5 coral parts - 1 ashtray, ceramics "Step into the League of Colonial Friends e...V. bei" - 7 small shells - 3 decorated broken off parts made of tortoiseshell - 5 parts animal teeth - 4 wooden sticks with attached wooden ring - 5 knitting needles made of bone/ivory? (4 with brown wool) - 2 glass tubes each with 2 small snails (misery and Rottleberode) - 1 broken (2 parts) shell limestone structure, grey - 1 curved brownish part, similar to tortoiseshell - 1 wooden part, tip with cross parts - 1 dark brown nut-like part, jewellery? - 1 dark light brown chestnut-like piece, jewellery? Shell? - 1 small wooden ring - 1 round small perforated broken wooden part (belonging to the damaged wooden jug?) - 1 piece of string with fringes

Contains: Carton 2: - 1 stone tool with wooden handle - 1 stone tool, longer, damaged handle - 1 stone tool, broken wooden handle - 2 stone tools without wooden handle - 1 stone tool with short broken handle - 1 axe, Stone Age, New Guinea - 1/2 coconut in bast stand (drinking vessel) - 1 wooden vessel, Edge decorated (cup) - 1 animal head-like painted piece of wood, end broken off - 1 brown ribbon with beads - 1 ribbon turquoise/brown - 1 ribbon with light, flat jewellery parts - 1 bast jewellery part with straps and fringes - 1 part of bone/horn? beige with a smaller hole at the end - 1 stick with a fibrous frond - 1 fly swatter from Samoa - 1 fly swatter with feathers - 1 bast mini hat - 1 bone-drawn hard strand (stalk-like) - 2 light-coloured worked stones - 2 light-coloured stones with a hole in the middle

Contains: Box 1: - 2 pieces of ebony wood (1 of which with "East Africa" labels) - 1 comb, Guinea - 1 "clock" (round part with hands, necklace?) - 2 pieces of wood, wall decoration (1 x "Mulca", 1 x with flower motif) - 1 dried fruit or nut - 1 fish spear, New Guinea - 1 "Tetrapleura", ... Victoria, Cameroon, Dr. Schnee 28.04.1904 - 1 "Cassia Fistuea L", East Garden Victoria, Cameroon, Dr. Schnee 28.04.1904 - 1 knife in wooden case - 4 horns / teeth? (2 separated in the middle)

Contains: Box 3: - 1 water creator, wood, New Guinea - 1 bast bag black/beige (by Mr. Magi Magi... in East Africa), New Guinea - 2 shorter tusks - 1 drum, East Africa - 2 small tusks - 4 tusks of different sizes - 1 black polishing stone - 1 large shell of 2 parts - 1 piece of lava stone - 2 petrified decorated sponges

Contains: Moving box 2: - 1 turtle shell with chain, 1 part loose, 60 cm long - 1 turtle shell with chain, 1 part missing, 80 cm long - 1 wooden tube, inside open, decorated, 70 cm long - 1 fish spear, decorated, New Guinea - 1 ivory tooth, 95 cm long

Contains: Box 7: - 1 dagger with wooden part in wooden case, handle strongly decorated - 1 war horn for the "Maisa-Maisa uprising" in East Africa, dyed ivory - 1 wooden hatchet, New Guinea - 1 bast fan with decorated handle, end broken off (broken off part is there) - 1 tortoise shell as water creator, wooden handle on back - 1 tortoise shell with chain

Contains among other things: Report on the negotiations of the Colonial Economic Committee e.V., inter alia on tasks, compensation issues in the colonies, accounting of the colonial societies, economic situation in the colonies of Togo, Cameroon, East Africa, Southwest Africa, New Guinea and the South Seas

I. Introduction1) On the history of the Rautenstrauch-Joest-MuseumWilhelm Joest was born in Cologne on 15 March 1852 as the son of the merchant Eduard Joest. After studying natural sciences in Bonn, Heidelberg and Berlin, he travelled to Africa, America and the South Seas. When he died on 25.11.1897 on the island of Ureparapara in the South Seas, he left behind an ethnographic collection comprising about 3,400 list numbers. This collection, which formed the basis of the museum, was accepted by the City Council on 16 February 1899 as a gift from the married couple Eugen Rautenstrauch and Adele Rautenstrauch at Joest, - she was Wilhelm Joest's sister - for the Natural History Museum. After the death of Eugen Rautenstrauch on 18.5.1900, Adele Rautenstrauch donated 250,000 Marks to the City of Cologne for the construction of a museum and another 25,000 Marks for the appointment of a museum director. The city council adopted these foundations on 9.8.1900. After the death of Adele Rautenstrauch on 30.12.1903, her heirs increased the building capital for the museum by 180,000 Marks. This donation was subject to the condition that the respective head of the Rautenstrauch family or, in his absence, another member of the Rautenstrauch family to be presented to the city by the family should have a seat and vote in the municipal commission of the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum. The city council assembly accepted this foundation on 13.5.1904. Joest's collections found their first accommodation in the Bayenturm in 1901. The office was located in a neighbouring harbour building. Later, parts of the collections, which had increased considerably in the meantime due to other donations, as well as the office had to be moved to the old Quatermarktschule. The collections, however, gained such a size in the following years through further donations that the space was soon no longer sufficient here either. This is why the completion of the museum building in 1906, which was begun according to the designs of architect Edwin Crones in the spring of 1904, came just in time. The ceremonial inauguration took place on November 12 of the same year, 1918, when the English occupying forces settled in the building of the State United Mechanical Engineering School Cologne, Ubierring 48. As a result, the mechanical engineering school was relocated to the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum for a short time in 1919. A "quartering", which should last longer, took place by the opening of the Kammerspiele on 24.10.1948. The Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum survived the bombing raids during the Second World War quite lightly, because only the north wing and the rear wing had been destroyed by bomb hits. After provisional repairs after the end of the war (Kammerspiele), the final reconstruction of the destroyed parts began in the spring of 1963. The completion of the shell of the north wing took place in 1964. From 1965 onwards, the museum was closed due to the construction work both in the old building and on the new part until its ceremonial opening on the 7th of July.Since the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum was more dependent on private than public aid at the time of its foundation, the Verein zur Förderung des Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museums was founded on 17.5.1904 on the initiative of Adele Rautenstrauch's heirs. On 28.2.1951 the association was renamed "Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde" (Society for Ethnology). 1909 saw the first publication of its own series, the "Ethnologica", on behalf of the Society for the Promotion of the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum. The respective director of the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum acts as editor on behalf of the Association or the Society for Ethnology.2List of museum directors with terms of office - Willi Foy ( 27.11.1873, † 01.03.1929)01.10.1901 - 1925- Fritz Graebner ( 04.04.1877, † 13.07.1934)1925 - 1928- Julius Lips ( 08.09.1895, † 21.01.)1950)1928 - April 1933- Andreas Scheller 1933 - June 1940 ( 08.05.1894, † 25.3.1977 in Schwalmstadt-Ziegenhain)(provisional director (dismissed from the service of the City of Cologne on 31.12.1940)- Martin Heydrich ( 29.12.1889, † 08.02.1969)1. July 1940 - 1945- Friedrich Wilhelm Funke ( 21.06.1921)(director) 1945 - 1948- Martin Heydrich1948 - 31.12.1960- Willy Fröhlich ( 30.10.1906, † 04.09.1971)01.01.1961 - 04.09.1971- Axel Freiherr von Gagern01.12.1971 - 31.12.1978- Gisela Völger ( 28.04.1937)01.10.1979 - 27.04.20003 Sources and LiteratureContent 505, Museum Administration, No. 43Content 47 - 51, Art and Popular Education, No. 5, 53, 54, 56, 248, 250, 251, 252, 285, 286Willy Foy. Guide to the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum. (Museum für Völkerkunde der Stadt Cöln.) Köln, 1908.Verwaltungsberichte der Stadt Köln.4. Aktenübernahme und OrdnungverfahrenThe files of the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum reached the archive under Accession 404 on 05.04.1976 with a three-page delivery list The delivery list describes only summarily the subject of the files packed in 11 cartons. After completion of the indexing work and the structuring in January 1984, 108 volumes of files were still found in the heating cellar of the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum. This delivery came on 22.02.1984 in the Archivon it received no own Accessionsnummer, but was immediately registered and into the structure already provided worked in. The files date back to the period between 1901 and 1971, with the bulk of the archival material originating between 1950 and 1970. Martin Heydrich's hand-files had been mixed with the "General Correspondence". In July 1940 Heydrich was appointed full professor for the newly established chair of ethnology at the University of Cologne. He also took over the management of the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum. These Handakten essentially refer to his activities as Ordinarius for Ethnology and as editor of the journal "Ethnologischer Anzeiger". The reference files were extracted from the "General Correspondence" and placed as a separate group at the end of the index under the number L.Under the "General Correspondence, Series" there is also correspondence relating to the purchase, exchange and donation of ethnographics and literature, as well as vice versa correspondence of general content in the purchase and exchange files. After the removal from the Leitz files and the removal of metal parts, the files were listed according to numerus currens. The filing within the correspondent series with museums, institutes and scientific societies was quite arbitrary. Within a volume, correspondence is filed under the location of the institute or society as well as under the name of the institute. 614 boxes comprise 37 boxes. 13 m; 655 files.

Reports by H. Helmich, W. Blum, E. Hannemann, F. R. Knauertz, W. H. Siemers, F. Henkel-mann, E. Dahlhäuser and Sister Hattie Engeling Site Plan of Ragetta, 1909

This reference book is a slightly modified and, if necessary, corrected transcript of the distortion (including preliminary remarks) made by Dr. Renate Endler in 1957. The estate of the envoy Joseph Maria von Radowitz came to the Prussian Secret State Archives through two accessions (acc. 112/1933 and 339/1936). According to the deposit agreement, it was not allowed to be arranged and listed. It is therefore not possible to determine exactly what losses have been incurred as a result of the outsourcing and relocation caused by the war. There are certainly gaps in diaries and personal records. The stock, whose signatures were completely new, is structured as follows: It began with Radowitz's diaries and personal notes. The diaries begin with the year 1853 and are available with interruptions until 1909. Two copies of the memoirs are available. One is the concept of Radowitz's hand, the other one is a re-examined clean copy from another hand. Next comes correspondence, divided into correspondence with the family, alphabetical and chronological correspondence. The large number of available newspapers and newspaper clippings have also been sorted chronologically. These were mainly newspaper reports on the Algeciras Conference, which was held from January to April 1906. The estate of the father Joseph Maria von Radowitz (the Elder), which is kept here, may also be used for research. The estate was used by Hajo Holborn to publish the "Notes and Memories from the Life of Ambassador Joseph Maria von Radowitz", 1925. In the course of the current database entry by Ms. Pistiolis, the register entries for the chronologically ordered exchange of letters (B III No. 1-10) and the newspaper volumes (C No. 1 Vol. 1-3 and C No. 2 Vol. 1-3) were adopted as notes in the corresponding archive units. Box 44 also contains unordered items. Duration: 1839 - 1912 and without date Volume: 2.2 running metres To order: HA VI, Nl Joseph Maria of Radowitz (the year), No..... To quote: GStA PK, VI. HA Family Archives and Bequests, Nl Joseph Maria von Radowitz (the year) (Dep.), No.... Berlin, November 2013 (Chief Inspector Sylvia Rose) Biographical data: Joseph Maria von Radowitz was born on 19.5.1839 in Frankfurt/Main, where his father worked as Prussian military representative for the German Confederation. His mother, Maria von Radowitz, was a born Countess von Voß. Radowitz attended grammar schools in Berlin and Erfurt, where the family took up permanent residence after his father retired. After studying at the universities of Berlin and Bonn and completing his military service, Radowitz became an auscultator at the Court of Appeal on 25 April 1860. He was first employed at the City Court in Berlin in the Department of Investigative Matters and later at the District Court in Erfurt. In 1861 Radowitz, supported by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Baron of Schleinitz, and other friends of the family, entered the diplomatic career. He became attaché to the Prussian legation in Constantinople. In 1862, when he returned to Berlin, Radowitz passed the Legation Secretary Examination. After a mission led by Count Eulenburg concluded contracts with China, Japan and Siam in 1859, a Prussian Consulate General was to be established in China in 1862. Radowitz applied to be employed as a delegation secretary at this consulate and was accepted because the other candidates for the position of delegation secretary refused the mission to China. He served in Shanghai until November 1864, and in May 1865 Radowitz was appointed 2nd Legation Secretary in Paris, a post he held until 1867, with an interruption due to his participation in the war of 1866. The next stations in Radowitz's career were Munich and Bucharest, where he served as Consul General. In Munich he married Nadine von Ozerow, the daughter of the Russian envoy to Bavaria (1868). From 1872 to 1880, Radowitz was employed in the Federal Foreign Office, with appointments as ambassador in Athens (25 June 1874), the mission to Petersburg (1875), the Berlin Congress (1878) and the mission to Paris (1880). After his stay in Athens, Radowitz was appointed ambassador of the German Reich in Constantinople in 1882 (until 1892) and subsequently in Madrid, where he remained until 1908, when he retired from diplomatic service. In 1906, together with Count von Tattenbach, he was the German representative at the Algeciras Conference, which was held from January to April 1906. Joseph Maria von Radowitz died in Berlin on January 16, 1912. Literature: " H. Holborn (ed.), notes and memories from the life of Ambassador Joseph Maria von Radowitz. 2 Bde, Stuttgart, Berlin and Leipzig 1925 " H. Philippi, The Ambassadors of the European Powers at the Berlin Court 1871-1914 In: Lectures and Studies on Prussian-German History... Edited by O. Hauser. Cologne and Vienna 1983, pp. 159-250 (New Research on Brandenburg-Prussian History, vol. 2) " D. M. Krethlow-Benziger, Glanz und Elend der Diplomie. Continuity and change in the everyday life of the German diplomat at his posts abroad as reflected in the Memoirs 1871-1914. 2001, Bern, Berlin et al., pp. 554-555 (European Hochschulschriften: Reihe 3, Geschichte und ihre Hilfswissenschaften, vol. 899) " J. C. Struckmann in collaboration with E. Henning, Preußische Diplomaten im 19. Jahrhundert. Biographies and appointments of foreign posts 1815-1870. Berlin 2003, p. 193 u. ö. " H. Spenkuch, Radowitz, Joseph Maria. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker

Contains: Payment transactions and lists of deliveries of equipment and tubes to France and its colonies, protectorates and mandates. Corporations: Consortium des Brevets Francais Radio (BFR), Paris; Compagnie Francaise pour L'Exploitation des Procédés Thomson-Houston (CFTH), Paris; Compagnie Générale de Télégraphie sans Fil SA (CSF), Paris. volume: 169.