Contains among other things: Ships: "Hyena", "Marie", "Moltke", "Polecat", "Stosch", "Falcon", "Stein", "Wolf", "Sperber", "Arcona", "Grille", "Loreley", "Alexandrine", "Gneisenau", "Hohenzollern", "Brummer", "Buzzard", "Sea Eagle", "Condor", "Seagull" "Marie": Valparaiso, Puerto Montt, 22nd, "Stosch", "Marie", "Stein", "Wolf", "Puerto Montt", "22nd, "Puerto Montt", "Stosch", "Loreley", "Lore, "Alexandrine", "Marie", "Marie": Valparaiso, "Buzzard", "Condor", "Gull" "Valparaiso - Jan 28. 1894 "Polecat": Shanghai, Ningpo, 6 - 31 Jan 1894 "Falcon": Cape Town, Melbourne, Sydney, 23 Dec 1893 - 13 Feb 1894 "Moltke": Madeira, St. Thomas, 13 Oct - 9 Nov 1894 "Hyena": Cameroon, Gabon, Luanda, 16 - 26 Nov 1894 Loanda, Mossamedes, St. Thomé, 29 Nov - 15 Dec 1894

Contains among other things: Ships: "Elisabeth", "Prinz", "Adalbert", "Olga", "Ariadne", "Stein", "Gneisenau", "Cyclop", "Nautilus", "Iltis", "Stosch", "Möwe", "Sophie", "Wolf", "Adler", "Nixe", "Albatros", "Bismarck", "Elisabeth": Sydney, New Britain, New Ireland, New Guinea, Jokohama, 16. Oct. 1884 - 2 Jan. 1885 "Nautilus": Chemulpo, Shanghai, 9 - 21 July 1885 "Polecat": Chemulpo, Mokpo, July 1885 "Polecat": Mokpo, Shanghai, 15 - 20 July 1885 "Seagull": Somali coast, Manda-Bai, island Songa-songa, May 1886 "Bismarck": Jaluit, Ebon, Namourik, Madjuro, 29 May - 3 June 1886 Meteorological observations in St. Thomas, 1878-1883

Contains among other things: Protocol of handover of the command of the cruiser squadron from Eduard von Knorr to Carl Eduard Heusner, April 15, 1887 "Instruction for the conduct of the commanders of S.M. ships and vehicles in the protectorate of the New Guinea Company" (copy), March 27, 1887 Report to the Chief of Admiralty Leo von Caprivi on conditions in Sydney, Aug 18, 1887

Contains among other things: Fleet War on Dalan and the Caroline Islands

Contains among other things: Travelogues about journeys from Apia to Sydney, in the protectorates of the Marshall Islands and the New Guinea Company, activity and training reports, etc.

Contains among other things: Situation in Scutari (Albania) after the withdrawal of the Montenegrin troops (report SMS "Breslau", excerpt of transcript), June 1913 Sale of American ships to Greece and general political situation (transcript of a conversation between the German naval attaché in Washington and the Turkish ambassador), June 1914

Contains above all: Establishment of the Overseas Commission Meeting reports Contains also: Maintenance of the German steamboat connection to Australia

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.

Contains among other things: S.M.S. "Cormoran": Sydney (strikes) S.M.S. "Condor": Nagasaki S.M.S. "Loreley": Constantinople, (murder of the Grand Vizier), Constanta, Therapia, Galatia, Bucharest (war preparations), Odessa, Nikolayev S.M.S. "Goeben": Smyrna, Covella, Piraeus, Naples S.M.S. "Breslau": Teodo, Pola S.M.S. 'Dresden': Constantinople (French-Romanian incident), Mersina, Alexandrette, Haifa, Rodosto S.M.S. 'Fatherland': Pojang Lake Cruise Wing: Yangtze River, Japan Mediterranean Division: Adana, Alöexandrette, Syria, Venice, Pola, Skutari, Port Said, Piraeus, Alexandria S.M.S. "Bremen": Philadelphia, Havana, St. Thomas, Trinidad, Vera Cruz S.M.S. "Panther": Cape Palmas, Lome, Lagos, Cameroon, Boma, Loanda, Lüderitz Bay, Swakopmund S.M.S "Tsingtau": North river (with map) S.M.S. "Vultures": Alexandrette, Port Said. S.M.S. "Srasburg": Constantinople. Naples S.M.S. "Hertha": Wiaby, Stockholm, Bergen S.M.S. "Vineta": Gotenburg S.M.S. "Eber": Dartmouth, Lisbon S.M.S. "Nürnberg": Shanghai S.M.S. "Hansa": Karlskrona, Uddewalla S.M.S. "Victoria Luise": Uddewalla S.M.S. "Planet": Australia VI Half Flotilla: Wisby, Kalmar

Contains among other things: S. M. S. "Seagull": Walvis Bay S. M. S. "Hansa": Charleston, Havana (Riots), St. Thomas, Kingston S. M. S. "Bremen": Montevideo, Punta Arenas, Cape Horn, Buenos Aires, Liberia (Uprising) S. M. S. "Otter": Ichang S. M. S. "Condor": Matupi, Ponape, Truk, Jap, Palau Islands, Angaur S. M. S. "Sea Eagle": Zansibar, Portuguese East Africa Squadron of Cruisers: Beijing, Tsingtau, Pukou, Yangtze River S. M. S. "Gneisenau": Nagasaki (sketch of Japan) S. M. S. "Goeben": Constantinople S. M. S. "Hertha": Mersina, Beirut, Jaffa, Alexandria, Port Said S. M. S. "Geier": Haifa, Alexandria Mediterranean Division: Constantinople (war against Greece, coup d'état) S. M. S. "Geier": Haifa, Alexandria Mediterranean Division: Constantinople (war against Greece, coup d'état) "Fatherland": Wong Shi Kong S. M. S. "Panther": Liberia (Uprising) S. M. S. "Eber": Liberia (Uprising), Cameroon S. M. S. "Vineta": Alexandria S. M. S. "Cormoran": Australia S. M. S. "Victoria Luise": St. Thomas, Curacao, Barbados, Dominica S. M. S. "Breslau": Alexandrette

Contains among other things: S. M. S. "Freya": Caligari, Genoa, Bermuda, Horta, Vera Cruz S. M. S. "Sperber": South West Africa, British South Africa, Madagascar S. M. S. "Bremen": Coronel, Puerto Montt, Chile, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Taltal, Callao S. M. S. "Condor": New Guinea, Bongainville, Australia, Tasmania, S.M.S. Planet: Brisbane, Sydney, Nouméa, Port Villa, Singapore S.M.S. "Cormoran": Apia, Hong Kong, Nouméa, Matupi, Jap S.M.S. "Hertha": Gothenburg, Norway, Plymouth, San Sebastian, Tangier, Barcelona, Palma, Biserta S.M.S. "Hertha": Gothenburg, Norway, Plymouth, San Sebastian, Tangier, Palma, Biserta S.M.S. "Boars": Oporto, Madeira, Las Palmas, Bissao, Dakar, Freetown, Liberia (riots), Lome, Forcados, Warri, Duala, Libreville, Congo, Southwest Africa S. M. S. "Nuremberg": Colombo, Singapore, Yangtze River, Hankau, Pulo, Lant S. M. S. "Emden": Montevideo, Chile, Tahiti, Apia Cruiser Squadron: Japan, Hunan (riots), Yangtze River (riots), Padang, Batavia, Labuan, Manila, South Sea trip, East Asia S.M.S. "Sea Eagle": Zanzibar, Lorenco, Marques, Nossibé, Durban, Mozambique S.M.S. "Tiger": Hupeh, Hunan (riots), Shanghai, Yangtze River (flooding) S.M.S. "Polecat": Nanking, Yangtze River S. "Tiger": Hupeh, Hunan (riots), Shanghai, Yangtze River (flooding) S.M.S. "Polecat": Nanking, Yangtze River S. M.S. 'Victoria Luise': Norway, Madeira, Cartagena, Tunis, Malta S.M.S. 'Hansa': Norway, Lerwick, Edinburgh, Queenstown, Madeira, Santa Cruz, Tenerife, Las Palmas S.M.S. 'Panther': Cape Town, South West Africa, Lobito Bay, Cape Lopez, Cameroon, Togo, Monrovia S.M.S. 'Loreley': Therapia. Eastern Mediterranean, Black Sea, Athos, Thessaloniki S. M. S. "Lynx": Tsingtau S. M. S. "Tsingtau": Nanking S. M. S. "Leipzig": Yangtze River, Nanking, Korea (taken over by Japan), Port Arthur

1st About the Aldinger-Ostermayer family: Karl Aldinger and Hertha Ostermayer married on 24 January 1944. The marriage lasted over six decades. Only the death of Karl Aldinger in 2005 brought her to an end. The ancestors of the married couple were widely ramified and can be traced far back through the stored documents of the inventory. Due to the numerous traditional sources and many patient family history researches, they were deeply anchored in the consciousness of Karl and Hertha Aldingers. During the Second World War Karl Aldinger (1917-2005) was a soldier (last lieutenant). He then managed various agricultural estates (Staufeneck estate, Schafhof estate, Alteburg estate). In 1957 he took over the management of the youth hostel in Esslingen, which he continued to run until 1963. He then ran a guesthouse in Saig (Black Forest) until 1990, which came from the inheritance of an aunt of his wife. Hertha Aldinger (1920-2012) had undergone agricultural training and had been a teacher of agricultural household science since January 1944. After 1 July 1944, she no longer worked for the company, but devoted herself to her five children (one had died very early) and supported her husband in his various tasks. The family archive Aldinger-Ostermayer documents the ancestors of Karl and Hertha Aldinger in almost all lines back to the end of the 18th century. There are rich documents on the families Aldinger, Trißler, Unrath (ancestors of Karl Aldinger) and Ostermayer, Görger, Baur/Giani, Heldbek/Gaiser, Riedlin and Schinzinger (ancestors of Hertha Aldinger). The documents refer to members of the upper middle class in Württemberg and Baden. Some family members were soldiers in the First and Second World Wars (among others Eduard Ostermayer (1867-1954), Helmut Ostermayer (1919-1941) and Karl Aldinger) and have left photos, diaries and memories as well as letters from the wartime. The Aldinger family provided agricultural estate managers for several generations. There are numerous physicians from the family circle: Dr. Oskar Görger (1847-1905), who founded his wealth through his practice in Australia, Dr. Eduard Ostermayer (1867-1954), who was still practicing in his 80s and was thus known in the 50s as Stuttgart's oldest practicing physician, Dr. Karl Schinzinger (1861-1948), also a physician in Australia, and Dr. Albert Schinzinger (1827-1911), who began his career as a surgeon and after his habilitation worked as a professor of medicine at the University of Freiburg (about him Pagel: Biographisches Lexikon outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century. Berlin, Vienna 1901, Sp. 1499-1500). Also worth mentioning are the pastors: Karl Ludwig Heldbek (1756-1829), pastor in Scharenstetten, Christoph Erhardt Heldbek (1803-1877), city pastor in Weilheim, Emil Heldbek (1849-1884), pastor in Auendorf, and Dr. Paul Aldinger (1869-1944), pastor in Kleinbottwar, colonist and pastor in Brazil. The Ostermayers were merchants for several generations, initially locally in Weilheim/Teck and from around 1870 in the Württemberg state capital Stuttgart. Max (1860-1942) and Gottlieb Ostermayer (1871-1910) finally worked as merchants in India. The Heldbek/Gaiser family also knew merchants whose activities later extended as far as Africa (Lagos). The most famous is Gottlieb Leonhard Gaiser (1817-1892). He tried to found a German colony in Mahinland (east of Lagos), but failed because of Bismarck's colonial-political restraint (Ernst Hieke: Gaiser, Gottlieb Leonhard, in: Neue Deutsche Biographie, 6 (1964), p. 39f.). Robert Karl Edmund Schinzinger (1898-1988), university professor and lecturer in Japan, and Ernst Ostermayer (1868-1918), professor and painter are to be emphasized as representatives of science and art. Albert Joseph Fridolin Schinzinger (1856-1926), the Japanese Consul General in Berlin, worked in the field of politics and diplomacy. 2. processing of the stock: The family archive Aldinger-Ostermayer was created step by step. In ancient times, outstanding documents were preserved and entrusted to the next generation. Initially, only a few documents were handed down, mostly letters or documents with a special memoir value. This happened with both the Aldinger and Ostermayer ancestors. Only later generations left behind complete estates, i.e. closed traditions. This was the case with Eduard Ostermayer and his son Helmut as well as Karl and Hertha Aldinger. For Oskar Görger and his wife Marie, original documents have been preserved to a considerable extent, but in smaller quantities. Family research on a larger scale had already been carried out in the 1930s in connection with the Aryan evidence by the Aldingers and the Ostermayers. Lore Braitsch, née Aldinger, collected older documents for the Aldinger family, which she also evaluated (e.g. speech in honour of Dr. Paul Aldinger, cf. Bü 360). After their death in 1998 these documents came to Hertha and Karl Aldinger, so that a family archive for the Aldinger and Ostermayer families grew together. Hertha Aldinger edited this. She supplemented the originals with copies and transcriptions. With admirable patience she transcribed the documents in old, no longer generally legible script, first by hand and later by typewriter. Already in 1996 she worked with computers. Even more important are their evaluations of the family records. She put together different material to certain persons as well as whole family branches, so for her husband Karl (Bü 179) and for herself (Bü 118). She also wrote the couple's memoirs under the title "Our 20 Initial Years" (Bü 246). She also wrote down her personal memories of her parents (Bü 181). For the Ostermayer (Bü 284, 304 and 334), Heldbek (Bü 453, 473) and Schinzinger (Bü 226, 237, 296) families she compiled material and wrote elaborations on the history of these families. Probably also the order of the family archive goes back to them. This only considered a separation of the individual family branches and was otherwise little structured. When the materials were handed over to the Main State Archives in January 2013, they were stored in guide files and the subunits were formed in transparent envelopes. There were also other types of packaging. A handwritten fixation of this order was made on the occasion of the transfer of the family archive to the main state archive in a transfer register (Bü 550). Hertha Aldinger's intensive family research and work have left traces in the state of order. The units were inflated by copies, often multiple copies. Original tradition and copy or transcription were not separated. The original letter series were torn, there was the group of already transcribed pieces and the group of still unprocessed letters. The archival order of the documents restored the series of the original letters. The copies have been reduced. There is little point in keeping an original and a copy of it in the same tuft. Multiple copies of the transcriptions could also be collected. However, different processing stages (e.g. concepts, final version) were left unchanged. There was a larger collection of postcards, which had been arranged after picture motives. This collection also contained described and run postcards, i.e. family correspondence. This had to be reassigned to the letters and cards. The collection of postcards was thus reduced to the undescribed pieces (Bü 506, 509), and the archival indexing attached great importance to a detailed characterization of the Büschel contents in the Contained Notes. This was especially necessary when the title recording for the tuft had to remain very general. The collection was structured in such a way that the central importance of Karl and Hertha Aldinger for the documents is emphasized. Karl and Hertha Aldinger are expressly referred to as related family branches. The spelling of the first names was standardized according to today's spelling: Helmut instead of Hellmut, Karl instead of Carl, Jakob instead of Jacob etc.. The index lists the women among the aforementioned families from the related circle of Aldinger-Ostermayer, but also mentions the marriage name. Women who have married into the circle of relatives are classified under their names of marriage, their names of birth are given in an explanatory manner. The stock P 45 "Familienarchiv Aldinger-Ostermayer" was sorted and listed by the undersigned in Spring/Summer 2013. The duration of the documents ranges from approx. 1770 to 2013, the volume of the stock amounts to 553 units in 6.1 m.Stuttgart, in October 2013Dr. Peter Schiffer

Letters of the ship's doctor Dr. Alfred Abenhausen from aboard the passenger ships of North German Lloyd and the Woermann Line to German colonies, among others; all seven continents ** Scope: seven travel diaries, about 180 letters and postcards, about 30 photos Processing: completely transcribed; not digitized Planning: feeding into the Caliope network (2018)