Contains among other things: Colonial Director O. Freiherr v. Richthofen; Prof. Robert Koch on protective vaccination against rinderpest; Governor Eduard von Liebert

Samoan warrior with headdress. In his hands he holds a head knife. / Photographer: Scherl

View of the Villa Vailima in Apia, currently the seat of the German Governor of the Samoa Colony / Photographer: Scherl

Scope: 337 sheets.file number: III-1-27. Old signatures: Order 403, M-1-144.Contains:Communication from the Minister of Ecclesiastical Affairs and Education concerning the secondment of a married rector to the Rector's Office in Samoa in intermediate years (14); detailed submission for medical opinion (16); instructions on fitness for service in the tropics (18); investigations into deferred college fees and deferred fees in the case of teachers' appointments (40); Ministerial Decree on the effects of war on teacher appointments (75); teacher exchanges with France (98); leave requests (103); measures to improve popular nutrition and teacher participation (175); Prussian government instructions on the employment of foreign teacher candidates (176); Minister of Education on vacant teacher posts in Bucharest (222); Association of German Crèches: Training course for after-school teachers (231); the head of the German civil administration for the Longwy and Briey area on apprenticeships (246); overviews of teachers trained in seminars at middle and high schools not belonging to elementary schools, institutions for the deaf and dumb and institutions for the blind as well as schools run by state enterprises, military youth welfare (320); request from the German school Rotterdam for a teacher for the lower classes (325).

Contains: 1st South Sea - Micronesia/Caroline Islands/Ponape - Mikrones. I, Ponape 1 - ECR Thiel and Parkinson's disease (2 photos); 2 South Seas - Polinesia/Samoa - Polinesia. II, Samoa 35 - Col. Missionary Fellmann, Munich (3 photos); 3rd South Seas - Melanesia/D. New Guinea - Melanes. I, D. N. G. 32 - ECR Hildebrandt (4 photos)

Curriculum Vitae Dr. jur.; Dr. rer. pol. h. c.; Real Privy Counsel; Governor a. D., Excellenz; MdR. Born 4.2.1871 in Neuhaldensleben. Father: District Court Councillor Hermann Schnee. Mother: Emilie, née Scheibe. - Married to Ada Adeline, née Woodhill, from New Zealand, whose father was an Englishman from Birmingham and whose mother was Irish from the old O'Donnell family. Schnee attended high school in Nordhausen, studied law and political science in Heidelberg, Kiel and Berlin, passed the bar exam in 1892 and received his doctorate in law in 1893. He then turned to the study of Swahili and colonial science at the Oriental Seminar Berlin and passed the examination as a government assessor in 1897. He joined the Foreign Office, Colonial Department, in 1898 and worked as Richter and deputy governor in German New Guinea. In 1900 he became district administrator and deputy governor in Samoa. 1904: Legation Council in the Colonial Department, 1905: Colonial Advisory Council at the Embassy in London. 1906: Lecturer Council, 1907: Conductor, 1911: Ministerial Director in the Reich Colonial Office and Head of the Political and Administrative Department. In 1912, Schnee became Real Privy Counsel with the title of Excellency. From 1912 - 1919 he was Governor of German East Africa. The Prussian Academy of Sciences awarded Schnee the Leibniz Gold Medal. He received an honorary doctorate in political science from the University of Hamburg in 1921 and was a member of the Reichstag (German People's Party) from 1924. 1925: President of the Working Committee of German Associations, 1926: President of the Association of Foreign Germans. 1930: President of the German Colonial Society. 1931: President of the German World Economic Society. As a member of the Interparliamentary Union and as a delegate of the World League of League Societies - Schnee was also president of the German League for League of Nations - he participated several times in international congresses. In 1932 he was delegated by the Foreign Office to the Manchuria Commission (Lytton Commission). In 1933, after one - the only - meeting with Hitler, Schnee resigned almost all presidential offices, unless they had been equalized or dissolved. Only he was head of the German Society for League of Nations, later renamed the "German Society for International Law and World Politics", until 1945. Heinrich Schnee's main literary works are: Pictures from the South Seas. Reimer, Berlin 1904 German East Africa at War. well

For the photographer, Samoan warriors show how to use their head knives in battle / Photographer: Scherl

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.

Samoan chieftains stand at the jetty to welcome a new German governor. / Photographer: Scherl

contains among other things: Staff of the "Rhine" group for the repatriation of German prisoners of war; repatriation questions from Argentina; appeals and communications from naval officer associations; list of the crew of the "Emden" small cruiser detained in Malta; monetary compensation after return from captivity; list of warships of which crew members are in captivity or internment; prevention and prosecution of attempts to defraud transit camps, district commandos and other military personnel. A.; List of Samoa Germans returning home on steamship "Wilhelm"; Fees of navy members captured in war after re-arrival in their homeland

Contains among other things: Immediate report of the command of the cruiser squadron concerning, among other things, continued insulting of the governor of Samoa Solf by Germans resident there, 16.5.1909 Mistaken bombardment of the district manager of Ponape by the landing command of the small cruiser "Emden" in Jan. 1911, 1911-1912

German settler with colored workers on a palm plantation of Mulinu in the German colony Samoa / Photographer: Scherl

Native soldiers in German protectorate Samoa / Photographer: Scherl

• Audio* description: Liver Samoa W. 20 has been listed as No. 57 in the Dem. Coll. You got it. Correspondence has been exchanged. Some transcriptions in Hornbostel 1920b, Kolinski 1930 and Schneider 1934a. W. 20 is published on LP FE 4175.

Enthält u.a.: Vertragsverlängerung für Kontraktarbeiter (Formular) Memorandum on the procedure followed at present with respect to the introduction of labour from China 1991, Singapore, Febr. 1911 The Tamil immigration fund and its working 1910 Indian Labour in the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States, 1911 Chinesische Arbeiter. Verordnung des Gouverneurs vom Samoa

Contains: - Born, geometer in Sonnenburg, deputy of the country Sternberg to the Prussian National Assembly, 1848 - Carl Herrlich (1822 - 1901), rendant of the Ballei Brandenburg of the Johanniterorden - Peter Joseph Lenné (1789 - 1866), designer of the garden at the Johanniterordenskrankenhaus in Sonnenburg 1856 - Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781 - 1841), was involved in the new building of the tower of the Johanniterordenskirche in Sonnenburg 1816 - 1818 - Dr. Wilhelm Heinrich Solf (1862 - 1936), Governor of Deutsch-Samoa since 1900 - Wilhelm Voigt (1849 - 1922), alias "The Captain of Köpenick", convict in the Sonnenburg penitentiary - Heinrich Zille (1858 - 1929), draughtsman - Wilhelm Kube (1887 - 1943), Gauleiter and Commissioner General for White Ruthenia - Erich Schulz: Samoa - Governor with school years in Sonnenburg. In: Die neue Oder-Zeitung, Vol. 8, No. 2, May 1988 (printed) - Erich Schulz: Hauptmann von Köpenick 1867/79 in Sonnenburg. At that time he was young and not famous - Wilhelm Voigt "did many things" and died in 1922. In: Die neue Oder-Zeitung, Vol. 6, No. 4, November 1986 (printed) - Erich Schulz: Dr. Wilhelm Solf, last Imperial State Secretary of the R e i c h s k o l o n i a l a m t and first State Secretary of the Foreign Office of the Weimar Republic. April 1988 (manuscript, 3 p.) - Erich Schulz: Wilhelm Voigt, the "Captain of Köpenick" was also a "guest" at the Sonnenburg penitentiary. October 1986 (manuscript, 5 p.).

Dr. Erich Schulz, Chief Justice of the Imperial Government, in front of his house in Apia in the German colony of Samoa / Photographer: Scherl

Contains among other things: Celebrations on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the German colonial rule Financial Control Minutes of meetings of the Government Council Petition of the Pflanzer-Verein von Deutsch-Samoa. Apia, Feb. 8, 1910 Rules of Procedure for the Imperial Government in Apia, July 1, 1910

Issue of a warning and farewell to the military; insults and accusations against the governor of Samoa; prison sentence for poor treatment of a foster child; Franz was owner of a plantation in Falelauniu (Samoa); time of the crime: 1909.

Contains among other things: Rules of Procedure for the Imperial Government of Apia of 1 July 1910

Contains among other things: Dedication address of the representatives of the London Mission Society in Samoa to Solf, Nov. 1908

Contains among other things: Treatment of the Samoan controversy with Prof. Siegfried Passarge

Contains among other things: Dr. Erich Schultz, The Development of Political Conditions in Samoa