History of the Inventory Designer: In 1885, the New Guinea Company was formed in Berlin from the consortium that had undertaken numerous voyages of discovery in New Guinea between 1884 and 1885 under the direction of Adolph von Hansemann. The aim was to establish a state in the South Seas with its own sovereign rights under the protection of the German Reich; in May 1889, the German Reich temporarily took over bisSept. In 1892 the administration of the protectorate, the costs continued to be borne by the company; when the investments in 1893 increased to 7 million. In April 1895 the administration was transferred to the German Reich; the company thus became a purely private acquisition company, which in 1900 was transformed into a German colonial company; its headquarters became Rabaul; after the ownership of the New Guinea company had been confiscated by Australia in 1920, it sought a new field of activity in Venetzuela and Cameroon. Characterization of the content: Takeover of New Guinea and the Solomon Islands by the German Reich with the help of the New Guinea Company (Imperial Protection Letters); annual reports of the management and business correspondence. State of development: Publication Findbuch and Online Findbuch 2003 Citation method: BArch, R 8133/...

Contains among other things: Thomas, Bermuda, Santa Cruz, San Domingo, Kingston, Port-au-Prince, S.M.S. "Moltke": Livorno, Abbazia, Fiume, S.M.S. "Loreley": Piraeus, Constantinople, S.M.S. "Loreley": Piraeus, Constantinople, S.M.S. "Livorno, Abbazia, Fiume, S.M.S.": Piraeus, Constantinople, S.M.S. "Loreley": Piraeus, Constantinople, S.M.S. "L.": Piraeus, Constantinople, S.M.S. "Loreley". "Cormoran": Jaluit, Ponape, Ruck-Atoll, Jap, Guam, Saipan, Sydney, Jervis-Bey, Thursday-Island, Bismarck-Archipelago, Herbertshöhe, Matupi, New-Mecklenburg, Solomon Islands S. M. S. "Charlotte": Horta, Port of Spain. Trinidad S. M. S. "Wolf": Cameroon, Loanda, Cape Town, Duala, Southwest Africa, Cape Lopez S. M. S. "Stosch": Zibau, Madeira S. M. S. "Gazelle": Newport News, Charleston, Kingston S. M. S. "Sparrowhawk": Zansibar, Dar es Salam S. M. S. "Panther: Annapolis S. M. S. "Vineta": Halifax S. "Vineta": Halifax S. "Zansibar", Dar es Salam S. M. S. "Panther: Annapolis S. M. S. "Halifax S. M.S. "Falcon": Port Antonio, Port-au-Prince, Santiago de Cuba S.M.S. "Condor": Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Jervis-Bay, Freemantle, Brisbane, Fidji, Apia, Samoa

Contains among other things: S.M.S. "Hansa": Palma, Naples S.M.S. "Hertha": Halifax, Vera Cruz (political unrest), Havana, Port-au-Prince, St. Thomas, Jamaica, Trinidad, St. Lucia S.M.S. "Eber": Duala, Boma, Matadi, Loanda S.M.S. "Victoria Luise": Gibraltar S.M.S. "Panther": Southwest Africa, Duala (report of unrest in Cameroon) S.M.S. "Condor": Japan, Maron, Kaiser Wilhelm Land, Bismarck Archipelago, Solomon Islands, Rabaul, Käwieng, Suva, Samoa, Ponape S.M.S. "Goeben": Pola S.M.S. "Nuremberg": Honolulu, West Coast Mexico (political unrest) Cruiser squadrons: East Asia, Nanking (uprising in South China, plan of Nanking) S.M.S. "Otter": Upper Yangtse S.M.S "Bremen": Vera Cruz, Pampico, Tampico (political unrest, report on the situation in Mexico) S.M.S. "Tiger": Futschau S.M.S. "Fatherland": Nanking S.M.S. "Seagull": Zanzibar Mediterranean Division: Egypt, Corfu, Shutari, Venice, Trieste, Athens S.M.S. "Cormoran": Sydney, Rabaul, Käwieng, New Guinea (unrest) S.M.S. "Strasbourg": Freetown Detached Division: Las Palmas, Santa Cruz, Lome S.M.S. "Sea Eagle": German East Africa, Aden S.M.S. "Dresden": Madeira, St. Thomas. Vera Cruz

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. 'Panther': Key West, Port Limon, Bluefields, Nassau, Inagua, Santiago de Cuba, Kingston; Havana, St. Thomas, Port-au-Prince, Vera Cruz, Coatzacoaleos, Colon (map of Panama Canal) Puerto Colombia S. M. S. 'Stosch': La Valetta, Barcelona, Naples, Palermo, Cadiz, Ferrol S. M.S. 'Loreley': Constantinople, Piraeus, Syria, Egypt, Rhodes, Smyrna, Therapia, Thessos, Thessos, Thessaloniki, Athos S.M.S. 'Stein': New Orleans, San Juan de Puertorico, Kingston, Havana, Bermuda, Horta, Nieuwendiep, Stockholm S.M.S. "Charlotte": Volo, Smyrna, Alexandria, Kartagena, Arosa Bay, Beirut, Messina, Naples, Rotterdam, Copenhagen, Gothenburg S. M. S. "Bremen": Puerto Cortez, Livingston, Galveston, Savannah, Pensacola, Tampa, Jacksonville, Kingston, Newport News, Hampton, Boston, Newport, St. Thomas S.M.S. "Planet": Amboina, New Guinea, Admiralty Islands, Simpson Port, Nusan Jap, Palau Islands S.M.S. "Condor": Palaus, West Caroline, Mariana Islands, Apia, Samoa, Ellice, Gilbert and Marshall Islands, Ponape, Nouméa, Melbourne, Sydney, Auckland S. M. S. "Falcon": Chile, Brazil, Las Palmas, Lisbon, Montevideo, Dakar S. M. S. "Sparrowhawk": Lome. Monrovia, Freetown, Dakar, Bissao, Boloma, Sekondi, Cameroon, Port Bouét, Togo, Duala, Cape Town, Lobito Bay, South West Africa, Lüderitz Bay Squadron of Cruisers: Korea, South Journey (Yangtze Unrest) S. M. S. "Planet": Manila, Hong Kong S. M. S. Buzzard: Port Elisabeth, East London S. M. S. Borussia: Port Said S. M. S. Roon: Hampton

Contains among other things: S. M. S. "Charlotte": Livorno, Naples, Syracus, Palermo, Cadiz, Arosa Bay, Rotterdam S. M. S. "Falcon": California, Guymas, Mexico, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Panama, Report on the construction of the Panama Canal, Ecuador S. M. S. "Stone": Piraeus, Messina, Genoa, Barcelona S. M. "Stone": Piraeus, Messina, Genoa, Barcelona S. M. S. "Loreley": Constantinople (refugees of the Russian Revolution, confiscation of a German ship), Piraeus, Santorini, Alexandria, Galatz S. M. S. "Sperber": Lome, Duala, Cape Town, Loanda, Swakopmund S. M. S. "Stosch": Kartagena, Caligari, Palma, Cadiz S. M. S. "Planet": Lisbon, St. Vincent, St. Helena, Freetown, Cape Town S. M. S. "Bremen": New Orleans, St. Thomas, Newport News S. M. S. "Condor": Suva, Marshall Caroline Islands, Bismarck Archipelago (punitive expedition) S. M. S. "Panther": Santos, Buenos Aires (strikes), Parana and Paraguay Rivers, Pernambuco, Para, Port of Spain, St. M. S. "Bremen": New Orleans, St. Thomas, Newport News S. M. S. "Condor": Suva, Bismarck Archipelago (punitive expedition) S. M. S. "Panthers": Santos, Buenos Aires (strikes), Parana and Paraguay Rivers, Pernambuco, Para, Port of Spain, St. Thomas, San Juan, Mayaguez, Port-au-Prince Cruiser Squadron: China, Consequences of the 1905 War in East Asia, Dutch India, Hong Kong, Japan S. M. S. "Hansa": Kobe S. M. S. "Buzzard": Lourenzo-Marques, Durban (Kaffer Uprising)

Contains among other things: Cruiser squadron: (S.M.S. "Tsingtau", "Fatherland", "Tiger"): Reports about riots in China, among others about: Canton, Nanking, Shanghai, Yangtze River; various maps S.M.S. "Leipzig": Events in China S.M.S. "Otter": Events in China S.M.S. "Iltis": Events in China (Hong Kong, Canton) S.M.S. "Emden": Yaß - Rabaul, Events in China S.M.S. "Nuremberg": Events in China S.M.S. "Condor": Japan (test of a telephone), Marianen S.M.S. "Bremen": Port of Spain, Para, Cameroon, Togo, St. Helena, Rio de Janeiro S.M.S. "Dresden": Rodosto (situation in Turkey) S.M.S. "Boars": Madeira, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Las Palmas, Monrovia, Freetown, Lome Mediterranean Division: Piraeus, Phaleron Bay, Constantinople, visit to the Chataldja Line, Syracus S.M.S. "Vultures": Bojana Estuary, Castelnuovo S.M.S. "Gneisenau": New Pomerania, Kuta S.M.S. "Wroclaw": Bojana, Constantinople, Therapia S.M.S. "Seagull": German East Africa (Riots) S.M.S. "Panther": Cape Town, Southwest Africa S.M.S. "Victoria Luise": Ferrol, Valencia, Palma S.M.S. "Vineta": Ferrol, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Las Palmas, Porto Grande, Pernambuco, Santos S.M.S. "Loreley": Batum, Sinope, Sebastopol, Yalta, Gagri, Thessaloniki, Therapia, Constantinople (sale of antiquities) S.M.S. "Hertha": Dartmouth, Villagarcia, Horta S.M.S. "Hansa": Bilbao, Palma S.M.S. "Cormoran": Sydney, Norfolk, Iceland, Suva, Samoa Islands S.M.S. "Sea Eagle: Seychelles, Zanzibar, Dar es Salaam Cruise Wing: South Seas (partial unrest) I. Half Flotilla: Stockholm, Wisby S.M.S. "Strasbourg": Mersina, Alexandrette, Alexandria

Contains among other things: Mediterranean Division: Report on the situation in Thessaloniki, Constantinople (War with Greece S.M.S. "Vineta": Syracuse, Naples, Algiers, Vigo S.M.S. "Vultures": Port Said, Haifa, Constantinople (War) Mersina, Alexandrette S.M.S. "Panther": Liberia (Uprising, River Cass incident) S.M.S. "Wroclaw": Alexandrette, Beirut, Smyrna, report on blockade of Albanian and Montenegrin coast and case of Skutari S. M. S.: "Victoria Luise": St. Thomas, Tenerife S. M. S. "Otter": Szechuan (tense situation) S. M. S. "Seagull": Lüderitz Bay, British South Africa, Portuguese East Africa S. M. S. "Bremen": Monrovia (River Cess incident), Pernambuco, Freetown, Cap Verde, Bermuda S. M. S. "Condor": New Guinea (punitive expedition), Bismarck Archipelago, Empress Augusta River (expedition), Rabaul, Ponape, Truk, Jap, Palau Islands, Guam, Saipan S.M.S. "Hansa": Las Palmas, Vigo S.M.S. "Cormoran": Pago-Pago, New Zealand, Sydney S.M.S. "Lynx": Manila S. M. S. "Tsingtau": Canton (tense situation) S. M. S. "Sea Eagle": South Africa, Mozambique S. M. S. "Loreley": Corfu, Trieste, Ragusa, Piraeus, Costantinopel S. M. S. "Emden": Tsingtau S. M. S. "Boars": Monrovia, Freetown, Porto Praya, Porto Grande S. M. S. "Nuremberg": Siamese Cruise Wing: Labuan, Batavia, Makassar, Dutch India, Singapore, Hong Kong S. M. S. "Gneisenau": Telok-Betong, Samarang, Batavia S. M. S. "Dresden": Gibraltar, Malta

Contains among other things: S. M. S. "Stone": Vigo, Havana, Charleston, Dartmouth, Plymouth, Las Palmas, Balearic Islands, Madeira, Gibraltar, Cartagena S. M. S. "Loreley": Piraeus, Syria, Egypt, Black Sea, Constantinople Cruising Division: Canada, Mexico, Haiti, West Indies, Newport News, Norfolk S. M. S. "Wolf": Loanda, Southwest Africa, Cape Town S. M. S. "Condor": Bismarck Archipelago, New Guinea, Samoa, Jahuit, Caroline Islands, Mariana Islands, Admiralty Islands (Riots), Tonga, Pago-Pago S.M.S. "Falcon": Jamoel, Aux, Cayes, Carriacon, Bequia, Montserat, Nevis, Barbuda, Tortola, Guadeloupe, Sam Luis de Maranhao, Maceia, Rio de Janeiro S.M.S. "Goshawk": South West Africa, Cape Town, Mossamedes, Loanda, Duala S. M. S. "Sea Eagle": Shanghai S. M. S. "Lynx": Hong Kong S. M. S. "Tsingtau": Canton S. M. S. "Moltke": Karlskrona, Portmouth, Madeira S. M. S. "Panther": Port-au-Prince/tense situation S. M. S. "Stosch": Stockholm, Bergen, Dartmouth, Centa, Almeria, Malta, Corfu S. M. S. "Vineta": Neuport News S. M. S. "Bremen": Rio de Janeiro, Ilha Grande, Barbados S. M. S. "Fatherland": Lake Poyang

Enthält u.a.: Kreuzergeschwader: Ostasien, Japan, Sibirien, Korea, China S. M. S. "Victoria Luise": Havanna, Las Palmas, Kingston, Trinidad, Grenada, St. Thomas, Cadiz, Villagarcia, Vigo S. M. S. "Seeadler": Portugisich Ostafrika, Mozambique, Zansibar, Madagaskar, East London, Kapstadt, Port Elisabeth, Durban S. M. S. "Berlin": Las Palmas, Agadir (Unruhen), Casablanca, Tanger S. M. S. "Vineta": Trinidad, Barbados, Kingston, Port-au-Prince, Havanna, St. Thomas, Las Palmas, Vigo S. M. S. "Eber": Casablanca, Tanger, Las Palmas, Honakry, Freetown, Monrovia, Lome, Forcados, Kamerun, Kongo, Monamedes, Lüderitzbucht S. M. S. "Cormoran": Rabaul, Suva, Levuka, Samoa, Nauru, Jahut, Kusaie, Eniwetok, Gilang, Ponape, Mortlock, Guam, Saipan, Jap S. M. S. "Condor": Tsingtau, Kobe, Bonin-Inseln, Saipan, Guam, Ponape, Jahut, Samoa, Bismarck-Archipel S. M. S. "Jaguar": Futschau, Amoy S. M. S. "Geier": Piraeus, Alexandrien (Unruhe imd Sudan) S. M. S. "Hansa": Baltimore, Pensacola, Las Palmas, Madeira, Bermuda S. M. S. "Bremen": St. Thomas (Kartenskizze), Havanna, Newport News, Tampa, Kingston, Aux Xayes, Santo Domingo, Sam Pedro de Macores, San Juan de Portorico, New Orleans, Puerti Mexico, Salina Cruz, Vera Cruz S. M. S. "Hertha": Barbados, Dominicque, Martinique, Kingston, Santiago de Cuba, Charleston, Bermuda, Las Palmas, Vigo S. M. S. "Panther": Southampton, Lissabon, Las Palmas, Dakar, Freetown, Monrovia, Lome, Lagos S. M. S. "Loreley": Constantinopel, Piraeus, Alexandrien, Port Said, Jaffa, Haifa, Beirut (Türkisch-italienisches Gefecht), Messina, Smyrna S. M. S. "Planet": Jap

Contains among other things: S.M.S. "Panther": Monrovia, Freetown, Dakar, Santa Cruz, Agadir, Cadiz, Vigo S.M.S. "Cormoran": Sydney, Brisbane, Matupi, Rabaul (Riots), Solomon Islands, East Caroline, Bismarck Archipelago, Admiralty Islands, Emperor Wilhelmsland, Moeve Port, Witu Islands S.M.S. "Bremen': Montreal, Haiti (unrest), Newport News, Kingston, Newport, Philadelphia S.M.S. 'Planet': Sydney, Brisbane S.M.S. 'Loreley': Black Sea, Therapia Italian-Turkish War), Thessaloniki S.M.S. 'Victoria Luise': Norway, Iceland, Newport, Halifax, Pensacola S. M. S. "Seagull": Santa Cruz, Dakar, Freetown, Lome, Lagos, Accra, Duala, Banana, Swakopmund, Lüderitz Bay S. M. S. "Hertha": Greenock, Rotterdam, Falmouth, Bilbao, (strike), Cadiz, Gibraltar, Las Palmas, Tenerife S. M. S. "Zieten": Iceland S. M. S. "Hansa": Cowes, Vigo, Queenstown, Horta, Philadelphia S. M. S. "Tiger": Bangkok, Batavia, Soerabaya, Pulo Lant, Macassar, Menado, Manila, Yangtze River (Flooding) S. M. S. "Vineta": Palma, Tangier, Dartmouth, Tenerife, Las Palmas, St. Vincent Cruiser Wing. China, Japan S. M. S. "Eber": Liberia, Gold Coast, Lome, Cotona, Lagos, Duala, Fernando Poo, Cameroon S. M. S. "Vaterland": Hankau (unrest) S. M. S. "Geier": Aden, Port Suice (Italian-Turkish war) S.M.S. "Otter": Szechuan (unrest)

Contains among other things: S. M. S. "Kurfürst Friedrich Wilhelm/Weissenburg": Dardanellen, Algiers, Constantinople (transfer of ships to Turkey) S. M. S. "Panther": Monrovia, Cameroon, Accra, Lagos, Duala, Banana, Swakopmund S. M. S. "Nuremberg": Hansa Bay, Hatzfeldhafen (punitive expedition S. M. S. "Hertha": Marmarice, Haifa, Port Said, Cattaro, Alexandria, Pola, Venice, Corfu, Vigo, Genoa, Livorno S. M. S. "Victoria Luise": Corfu, Cattaro, Venice, Marmarice, Beirut, Alexandria, Syracus, Cadiz, Naples, Vigo S. "Hertha": Marmarice, Haifa, Port Said, Cattaro, Alexandria, Pola, Venice, Corfu, Vigo, Livorno S. M. S. "Victoria Luise": Corfu, Cattaro, Venice, Marmarice, Beirut, Alexandria, Syracus, Cadiz, Naples, Vigo S. M. S. "Tiger": Nagasaki, Kobe, Shanghai S. M. S. "Loreley": Gulf of Corinth, Constantinople, Trieste Cruise Wing: New Guinea, South Seas, Samoa, East Asia S. M. S. "Condor": Samoa, Bismarck Archipelago, Kaiser-Wilhelms-Land S. M. S. "Condor": Samoa, Bismarck Archipelago, Kaiser-Wilhelms-Land S. M. S. "Cormoran": Samoa, Marshall Islands, East Caroline Islands, Bismarck Archipelago, Hong Kong, Apia, Helen Reef, Palau Islands, West Caroline Islands, Saipan, Ponape (Riots) S. M. S. "Sparrowhawk": Diego-Suarez, Durban, Cape Town S. M. S. "Bremen': Valparaiso, Callao, Guayaquille, Panama, Amapalla, Corintu, San José de Guatemala, Callao S.M.S. 'Planet': Singapore, Makassar, Amboina, Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen (punitive expedition) S.M.S. 'Freya': Charleston, Havana, Kingston, Curacao, Puerto Cabello, Trinidad S.M.S. 'Gneisenau': Colombo S. M.S. "Hansa": Barbados, Trinidad, Kingston, Pensacola, Las Palmas, Vigo. Plymouth S. M. S. "Eber": Cape Town, German Southwest Africa, Cameroon, Old Calabar, Lome, Liberia S. M. S. "Bremen": La Libertad, Puntarenas

Contains among other things: S.M.S. "Hertha": Curacao, St. Thomas, Port of Spain, Bermuda, Ponta Delgada, Santiago de Cuba, Havana, Kingston, Vigo S.M.S. "Bremen": Port of Spain, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Punta Arenas, Valdivia, Coronel, Chile, Valparaiso, Antofagasta, Tocopilla, Taltal, Coquimbo S. M. S. "Sea Eagle": Cape Town, Durban, Dar es Salaam S. M. S. "Victoria Luise": St. Thomas, San Juan de Portorico, Kingston, Havana, Haiti, Guantanamo, Ferrol, Horta, Bermuda S. M. S. "Hansa": Corfu, Palermo, Ferrol, Algiers S. M. S. "Corfu, Palermo, Ferrol, Algiers S. M. S.": S. Thomas, San Juan de Portorico, Havana, Haiti, Guantanamo, S. M. S. "Arcona": San Fancisco, Honolulu, Seattle, San Pedro, San Diego, Yokohama, Miyashima, Port Said, Cadiz, Colombo, Aden S. M. S. "Cormoran": Matupi, Herbertshöhe, Simpson Harbour, Empress Augusta River, Blanche Bay, Samoa, Suva S. M. S. "Buzzard": Mahé, Aden, Port Said, Malaga, Southampton S. M. S. "Freya": Port Said, Alexandria, Haifa, Beirut, Messina, Adana (consequences of the Armenian massacre), Naples, Algiers, Vigo S. M. S. "Panther": Duala, Cap Lopez, Loanda, Porto Alexandre, Southwest Africa S. M. S. "Condor": Samoa, Fiji Islands, Marshall Islands, Herbertshöhe, Caroline Islands, Japan, Palau, Admiralty Islands Squadrons of cruisers: Tientsin, Beijing, Hankau, Yangtze River, Situation in China, Hong Kong, Canton, Bangkok, Singapore S. M. S. "Sperber": Lome, Old Calabar, Sekondi, Axim, Greater Friedrichsburg, Liberia (uprising), Libreville, Belgian Congo, Angola, Southwest Africa S. M. S. "Nuremberg": Barcelona (political situation) S. M. S. "Iltis": Hong Kong

Contains among other things: Remains of Prof. Dr. Leber after the outbreak of war on Sumatra and Java

Contains above all: Correspondence on cotton plantations and sales

Contains among other things: German interests in the South Seas II. Berlin 1884

Enthält u.a.: The Manifest of the South Australian Land Nationalization Society. Adelaide 1884

Contains among other things: Map of Samon Island. M.: 1:150 000 Sketch Map of New Guinea, 1883

Contains among other things: General Map of the South Seas, Table I: Map of the Western Great Ocean Islands. M.: 1:15 000 000, o.J.