Contains: Street scenes in China, including those shot dead, injured on stretchers, prisoners, beggars, colonial officials, road construction.

Contains among other things: Statute of the New Guinea Company, Berlin 1886

Contains: Criminal case against the former police master Kaltenbach because of insulting

Contains among other things: Expert opinion concerning the English request for maintenance of jurisdiction in the German protectorates of the South Seas. n.d.

Contains: Untersuchungsausschuss - Schreiben von Dr. Hermann Münch wegen Verteidigung unterliefernden Personen zulieferden bereit, masch., 24.9.1919 - Transit Camp Giessen sends extensive material from interrogations of former prisoners of war on Allied violations of international law and martial law (approx. 150 sheets of interrogation protocols, masch.), 8.11.1919 - Schreiben von Dr. Bühler mit Gutachten "Zur Auslieferungsfrage", masch, 15.2.1920 - "Strafrecht und Gerichtsbarkeit der Entente über deutsche Staatsangehörige" by Prof. Hafter from Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Strafrecht, ed., 1.4.1920 - "Die deutsche Gegenliste - Über 400 französische Kriegsverbrecher", ed, o.D. - Letter from Dernburg on the question of war guilt, mechanical, 4.4.1919 - Letter from the Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry with manual draft answer, mechanical, 12.1.1921 - Letter from Dr. Herz with previous results of the Committee of Inquiry, mechanical, 12.1.1921 - Letter from Dr. Herz with previous results of the Committee of Inquiry, mechanical, 12.1.1921 - Letter from Dr. Herz with previous results of the Committee of Inquiry, mechanical, 12.1.1921 - Letter from Dr. Herz with previous results of the Committee of Inquiry, mechanical, 12.1.1921 - Letter from Dr. Herz with previous results of the Committee of Inquiry, mechanical, 4.4.1919 - Letter from the Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry with manual draft answer, mechanical, 12.1.1921 - L from Dr. Herz with previous results of the Committee of Inquir, 17.3.1921 Committee on Foreign Affairs - Numerous notes by Haussmann, handschr. - Letter from State Secretary v. Kühlmann with return Letter from Stegemann, masch., 5.1.1918 - Invitation to meeting of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, masch.., 21.8.1919 - List of members of the Foreign Affairs Committee, ed., 21.8.1919 - Letter from Dr. Fuchs with recommendation for J. A. Ford of the "Morning Post", masch., 22.8.1919 - Letter from F. Wetterhoff with reports on the situation in Finland (18., 23., p. 1).

Five Chinese are executed by the German Schutztruppe in Litzun in the German colony of Tsingtau. Undated recording. / Photographer: Scherl

Five Chinese are executed by the German Schutztruppe in Litzun in the German colony of Tsingtau. Undated recording. / Photographer: Scherl

Contains among other things: Information from Ulrich Rauscher on the conditions for the takeover of "März", 7.11.1916; letter from a civilian prisoner from the Indian concentration camp Ahmednagar, 15.10.1917; plan for the foundation of an "International Newspaper" 1921/22; submission by the Association of German Newspaper Publishers on the situation of the German press, 26.1.1921; petitions against the classification of the city of Pfullingen in place class C, Febr. 1922 and against the decree of the Reich Chancellor concerning the liquidation of French private property in Germany, July 1917; communication of Conrad Haußmann to Max Warburg for the election of the German envoy in China, n.d. (Early 1920?) Report to the Prime Minister of Württemberg, von Weizsäcker, on a meeting on 2 October 1914 with the Reich Chancellor, 12 October 1914; R e i c h s k o l o n i a l a m t responded to the complaint of an intern, previously a civil servant resident in Duala, Cameroon, about his salary, 8 October 1914.6.1917; Contestation of the Schultheiss election in Wildbad because of the ballot papers used, 1922; Memorandum on the necessity of the freight reduction for food, no. D. (Early 1920?)

Statements, petitions, minutes of board meetings; correspondence; Die Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft: Geschichte, Ziele, Satzung, Dr., 1903; Petition of the Deportation Association to the Reichstag concerning the settlement of released prisoners in the South Seas, 17 p., D., 1907; Initiation and purpose of the Deportation Association Appendix to this appeal, Dr., 1907; Koloniale Erziehungsstätten, Denkschrift, c. 1908; Miss. Simon: Memorandum on the question of the mission in the colonies, 10 p., ms., 1927; Statute and list of members of the colony German Colonial Society, Abtlg. Essen, Dr., 1930; Kolonialverein u. Dt. Kolonialgesellschaft, eine Grundsatzerklärung zur Unterscheidung, ca. 1930; newspaper reports on lecture by Dr. Johannsen: Südwest-Afrika - Urdeutsches Land, 1931; advertising letter concerning membership of the RMG, 1938; NN: Future missionary activity. Church and School of the Natives in Africa, 5 p., 1941; Statement by You. Berner to Colonial Secretary of State of Lindequist, 5 p., ms., 1941

Contains: American neutrality issues enemy convoy security and their combat behavior of the Gaullists distribution of the enemy fleet Italian submarines in the Atlantic Japanese submarines in the rubber supply report on operations of heavy cruisers "Admiral Hipper", "Admiral Scheer", "Lützow" auxiliary cruisers and auxiliary ships supply by Russia (Siberian Railway) for auxiliary cruisers to Japan (1941) "Bismarck" enterprise (sinking battleship "Bismarck" supply of German submarines in Las Palmas and in Cadiz supply ships for auxiliary cruisers and submarines supply ship "Nordmark" affairs of the own and enemy merchant shipping (prices, sinking and sinking of ships) a.) Sinking of English auxiliary cruiser "Voltaire" by "Ship 10" Italian submarine "Capellini" (20. Jan. 1941 damaged, arrived in Las Palmas) Enterprises of German and Italian blockade breakers Greek armoured cruiser "Georgios Aweroff" English steamer "Laconia" (with 1,500 Italian prisoners) sunk by German submarine, Sept. 1942 Italian colonial cruiser "Eritrea" overflowed to enemy, Sept. 1943 Japanese submarine "Tanne" (from Nov. 1943 in rubber transport, torpedoed and sunk off Penang port) End of the auxiliary cruiser war on 17. Oct. 1943 by loss of "Schiff 28" Termination of the blockade breach by Führer's decision, Jan. 1944 battle of Dec. 28, 1943 (loss of "Z 27", "T 25" and "T 26") Submarine operations (undertakings)

Contains among other things: Treatment of the German prisoners of war in Japan and the Germans in the occupied Kiautschou area during the war Draft of a supplementary legal agreement to the peace treaty Preparation of peace negotiations, peace conferences on the Kiautschou protectorate Measures for economic development and development

Contains among other things: Exchange of severely wounded persons, treatment of prisoners of war in Japan Prehistory of the war with Japan The German prisoners of war in Japan, translations and excerpts from the Japanese press

Contains among other things: Battle for Tsingtau, transcripts of letters of the fighters Treatment of prisoners of war in Japan

Contains among other things: Memorandum of the English Government concerning the regulation of the cost of transporting prisoners of war, treatment of prisoners of war in Japan

Contains among other things: Reports on imprisonment in Siberia and Japan Agreements between the German and French Governments and the German and British Governments on prisoners of war and civilians

Contains among other things: Exchange of German prisoners of war in Japan Treatment of prisoners in Japan

Contains among other things: Report on prisoner camps in Japan and treatment of inmates Memorandum on the demands of prisoners of war for full equality with the other members of the army News bulletin of the Reichszentralstelle für Kriegs- und Zivilgefangene, No. 7, Berlin May 1919

Contains among other things: Losses of the Tsingtau crew From the war diary of the Tsingtau fortress Location of prisoners of war in Japan and on Ceylon List of prisoners of war from the camps Fukuoka, Marugame, Matsuyame

Contains among other things: Short political and military orientation about Japan and China Expedition of the Japanese Red Cross Society to Tsingtau Report from a prisoner of war camp of the Japanese demands of Japan on China and the interests of other countries affected thereby List of names of prisoners of war (high officers) The attack S.M. Torpedoboot "S 90" in the night from 17. to 18. Oct. 1914 on the blockade forces off Tsingtau and the march to Nanking

Contains among other things: Letters from prisoner-of-war camps to relatives Memorandum concerning expulsions of Germans from Japan Transfer agreement from Tsingtau to Japan Report on the German prisoners of war from Tsingtau, the siege of Tsingtau, English prisoner-of-war camps, siege and transfer of Tsingtaus

Contains among other things: Records concerning the Japanese in Schantung Conditions in Japanese prisoner-of-war camps Extract from a diary of records from the Fukuoka prisoner-of-war camp Memorandum on the foreign colonial areas which could be considered new acquisitions at the conclusion of the peace Treatment of German prisoners of war in Japan "Tokushima-Anzeiger", Zeitschrift für das Gefangenenheim, No. 15 bis 17, July/Aug. 1915

Contains among other things: Fate of the crew of Tsingtau during defense and after surrender and treatment of prisoners in Japan Observations during a trip through Russia Evidence of Japanese prison camps

Contains: a.o.: Cabinet order of Friedrich Wilhelm IV. of 29.04.1852 concerning mobilization; correspondence about equipment of the servants Wilhelm Küper and Skabovius; use of Prussian subjects for military service and tax in the canton of Schaffhausen; military punitive measures against naval soldiers; proceedings concerning the mobilization of the German army; the use of Prussian subjects for military service and tax in the canton of Schaffhausen; and the death of the German army. Unteroffiziersschulen Jülich und Potsdam 1858-1866; use of prisoners of war in agriculture and in state railway construction; cancellation of an execution sentence against the servant Wiesemann; use of Prussians abroad for military service, in particular in St. Petersburg. Petersburg; issuance of hiking passes for craftsmen not yet engaged in military service; termination of lease contracts for drill grounds in Wiedenbrück and Minden and termination of a contract for a shooting range at Spellen (community of Voerde); deployment of the Order of St John in military medicine in 1857; measures against Dutch advertising for colonial troops in India; dealing with foreigners called up for military service in their home countries and living in Prussia

Carl Richard Müller was born on 2 June 1889 in Knauthain near Leipzig. After finishing school, he learned the profession of gardener from 1903-1906 and then worked in several German and Swiss towns. From the beginning of 1908 until October 1909 he had a job as a gardener at the cemetery on Casinostraße in Solingen. In 1910 and 1911 he did his military service as a naval artillerist in the German colony of Tsingtau in China. At the end of his service he concluded a contract of several years with the company Hernsheim, which traded and planted in the German colonial area of New Guinea/Bismarck Archipelago on the equator north of Australia. In 1912 he worked on the Bismarck Archipelago and the Solomon Islands Bougainville. After an eventful year in which he was able to realize his childhood dream as a planter in the South Seas for the first time, but also lost some illusions about life in the colonies, the employment contract was terminated prematurely (apparently after differences with the company) and Müller returned to Germany via Australia. Severe malaria attacks tortured him on his way home and in Germany, but his homeland could not keep him in the long run. From summer 1913 to spring 1914 he sought his fortune in Argentina, but found no satisfactory job and decided to apply for immigration to Australia. At the end of June 1914 he had the necessary entry papers and boarded the German steamer Roon in Antwerp with the destination Freemantle. When the world war broke out in August 1914 and Great Britain took the side of the German opponents, the ship had to break off the voyage to Australia and seek refuge in Dutch India. From 1914 to 1940 he worked at four different stations, from 1927 on Tandjongdjati in southern Sumatra, where he cultivated coffee and rubber, and in 1939 the Belgian owners appointed him manager. The climax of his career was followed by a sudden end. The invasion of the Netherlands by the Wehrmacht on 10 May 1940 turned German citizens into enemies in the Dutch colonial empire. For Müller and many others the period of internment began - until the end of 1941 in the Dutch camp Alasvallei in northern Sumatra, then under British control in the camp Premnagar near Dehra Dun in northern India at the foot of Hima-laya. Only in autumn 1946 the prisoner Carl Richard Müller number 56134 was released and arrived in Solingen in December 1946. Here he found work in the nursery Diederich in Wald, to which he also remained faithful as a pensioner with casual work. In 1966 he had to give up his independent life because of bad health and moved to the Eugen-Maurer-Heim in Gräfrath. There he died on 21 March 1973. The estate has preserved some of Müller's adventurous life. Müller and other prisoners used the enforced inactivity during the long internment years for writing and for lectures in their own circle. Of these works, pieces have been preserved which are of particular interest for research into German colonial rule and European planting in the South Seas. Müller's autobiographical manuscripts about the years 1912-1940, which he thought he could summarize as the "ro-man of a fortune-seeker" (documents 11 and 12 with the addition of the photographs in documents 6 and 7 and cards in documents 17 and 26), are to be mentioned first and foremost. In addition there are numerous essays by Müller on plant cultures, economic and technical problems on the plantations and abstracts on the nature and fauna of Indonesia, mainly Sumatra (documents 13 to 16). Work done by fellow prisoners on their experiences in Indonesia and Australia can be found in file 23, including a report on detention in Sumatra with a shorter annex on time in India. Relatively little is known about camp life in Dehra Dun; Müller, however, kept a booklet titled "Männerworte" (Aktenstück 5), in which 22 fellow prisoners registered themselves with words of remembrance. The photographs of Müller's life in Solingen after 1946 are primarily preserved, of which the works for Diederich may be of local historical interest (file 8). Furthermore, the collection contains a file of the Social Welfare Office of the City of Solingen. The stock was handed over to the City Archive by the Social Welfare Office in a suitcase, which was separated from the above documents at the time of recording. The stock was recorded for the first time in September 1998 by Anika Schulze, developed by Hartmut Roehr in 2007.