History of the authorities The legation in Hamburg was one of the most important diplomatic representations of Prussia in Germany. Its importance lay above all in the field of trade and customs policy and shipping. Special emphasis was placed on the economic geographic location of the embassy's area of responsibility as the starting point for German overseas trade and as the end point of the important inland waterways Elbe and Weser. The legation gained an additional significance in the context of colonial politics. The development of the competence of the Hamburg legation is quite complicated, but it should be noted that the three Hanseatic cities of Hamburg, Bremen and Lübeck as well as the two Mecklenburg usually belonged to the legation area. From the Tilsit peace of 1807 until the annexation of the Hanseatic cities and Oldenburgs by France in December 1810, the competence of the mission extended to Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz in addition to the states mentioned. After the dissolution of the Hamburg legation in 1810 due to the French annexation of the German North Sea coast, the diplomatic contacts of Prussia to Mecklenburg, bound to the person of the previous legation in Hamburg, were essentially perceived by the legation in Dresden. After the Paris Peace of 30 May 1814, the legation was newly founded and was given a large area of responsibility, which extended not only to the Hanseatic cities and Mecklenburg but also to Hanover, Brunswick, Oldenburg, Schaumburg-Lippe and Lippe-Detmold. In 1832 the representatives near Hanover, Braunschweig, Schaumburg-Lippe and Lippe-Detmold were taken over by the Kassel legation. In 1837 Oldenburg was included in the newly founded mission in Hanover. The area of responsibility thus narrowed to the Hanseatic cities and Mecklenburg remained constant until the dissolution of the Hamburg legation, which took place on 31 March 1920. Heads of Mission 1804 - 1811 Grote, Count August Otto from 1814 - 1830 1830 - 1832 Maltzan, Mortimer from 1832 - 1848 Haenlein, Johann Christian Ferdinand Louis from 1848 - 1859 Kamptz, Carl Ludwig Georg Friedrich Ernst Albert from 1859 - 1867 Richthofen, Baron Emil Carl Heinrich from 1867 - 1869 Kamptz, Carl Ludwig Georg Friedrich Ernst Albert from 1869 - 1872 Magnus, Anton from 1872 - 1875 Rosenberg, Baron Adalbert from 1875 - 1885 Wentzel, Robert Albrecht Friedrich Otto from 1885 - 1890 Kusserow, Heinrich from 1890 - 1894 Thielmann, Baron Max from 1894 - 1895 Kiderlen-Waechter, Alfred from 1895 - 1898 Wallwitz, Count Nikolaus from 1898 - 1902 Metternich, Count Paul from 1902 - 1907 Tschirschky and Boegendorff, Heinrich Leonhard from 1907 - 1908 Heyking, Baron Edmund from 1908 - 1915 Bülow, Gustav Adolf from 1915 - 1920 Quadt von Wyckradt und Isny, Albert inventory description: Inventory history The inventory consisted of five registry or (A-E), which came into the archive between 1834 and 1940. In 1840 a find book was created for Group A, in which the other tax layers were also entered. Accessions No. 8042 to 8168 were combined into groups in January 1870, some of them classified as worthless (cf. VI. HA Nl. Friedländer, G., No. 13, fol. 33). During the Second World War, the Rep. 81 Hamburg stock was transferred to the salt mines in Staßfurt and Schönebeck and brought to the Soviet Union at the end of the war. In 1955 he was returned to the Central State Archives in Merseburg. The stock was divided into the part before 1807 and the part after 1807. The latter part was newly recorded in 1968 by Joachim Nossol and arranged in 1969 under the guidance of Dr. Joachim Lehmann and Roswitha Nagel according to factual aspects. The lowest level of classification is arranged chronologically - while preserving factual contexts. The editorial work was done by the archivist Maria Lehmann, the find book was written by Magdalena Sabor. The history of the institution was written by Dr. Joachim Lehman. In the course of the re-listing of the I. HA Rep. 81 Hanover legation, a file was found which belongs to the Hamburg legation in terms of provenance (old signature Rep. 81 Hanover B 4 a). The Hamburg legation comprises a total of 1,350 files from the period 1804 to 1920, Merseburg, signed in June 1981. Nagel revised Berlin, signed in February 2011 Dr. Puppel last assigned number: ____ to order: GStA PK, I. HA Rep. 81 Hamburg legation: GStA PK, I. HA Rep. 81 legations and consulates after 1807, Hamburg legation finding aids: database; find book, 1 vol.

Administrative history: At the suggestion of Dr. jur. Friedrich Geffcken, Hamburg's business bearer in Berlin, the Hamburg Residence (cf. 132-5/1) was converted into a Hanseatic residence in 1859. Geffcken was appointed Hanseatic Prime Minister. When he took over the residence in London in 1866, he was replaced by the former Hanseatic envoy to the Bundestag and envoy on extraordinary mission in Copenhagen, Dr. Daniel Christian Friedrich Krüger (see co-owner of the company Lüb. GmbH 12/1906 page 119 - Estate in the archive Hansestadt Lübeck (list p. 745) G. Fink, Dr. Friedrich Krüger / Der Wagen, 1937, page 163 following with illustrations) as Ministerresident. At the same time, he was Lübeck's authorized representative and deputy authorized representative of Hamburg and Bremen to the Federal Council. In 1888 he received the title of extraordinary envoy and authorized minister. He was represented on various occasions by the Brunswick business bearer, Legation Councillor Dr. v. Liebe, who used to represent the Hamburg business bearer in the past, and later by the Lübeck Senator Dr. Karl Peter Klügmann, who was succeeded by Krüger after his death in 1896 in the same position he held last. He retired in 1913; he was replaced by Dr. Karl Sieveking, Senior Government Councillor and Deputy Representative of Alsace-Lorraine to the Federal Council. In contrast to his predecessors, he was only deputy representative to the Federal Council for all three cities. He was retired when the Hanseatic Legation was dissolved on 30 June 1920. Hamburg (cf. I 5 h) and Lübeck have since maintained their own legations in Berlin. With the conversion of his Hamburg residence into a Hanseatic residence, Geffcken ordered his registry in such a way that the files concerning group A before 1859, the files concerning more recent Hamburg matters concerning group B, the Bremen C files, the Lübecker D files and the files concerning Community matters concerning group E formed group A. Under Krüger, who also brought his archives from Copenhagen and Frankfurt with him to Berlin, the registry was reorganized according to factual aspects. Within the subject groups, a distinction was sometimes made between the three cities and those things which were common to all of them; do was an exception, and overall this plan of order did not include such an external division, which was also difficult to carry out in practice. From the Geffcke registry only a little was taken over into the new one, the rest was left as a reduced registry in its form. When Krüger died in 1896, it turned out that the registry, which had grown considerably in the meantime, had already become very confusing and had sometimes become disorganized. Heins, the registrar of the legation, was commissioned to conduct the sifting. He arranged them according to the existing directory and distinguished between Lübecker, Bremer, Hamburger and common things for each file title. The Lübeckers (parts from E III e, F III g 3, F VIII, J 35, M 4 and N 1) were then sent to the Lübeck archive, the Bremeners (parts from E III c, F III g 3, F VIII, J 35, N 1, O I f 1 and 2) to the Bremen archive, all the rest to Hamburg (Geffcken registry with expiration). of 02.05.1896, common things with expiration. of 29.05.1896, Hamburg things with expiration. of 01.06.1896), after Klügmann's suggestion to transfer the common things to Lübeck had not penetrated. In Hamburg, the latter should be carefully reviewed once again and distributed among the cities. But only the Lübeck archivist insisted on it, and so the common things were divided by Dr. Becker once again into the following groups: Hamburg, Hamburg and Lübeck, Hamburg and Bremen, Lübeck, Lübeck and Bremen, Bremen, common things, and in 1902 everything that Lübeck also concerned was sent to Lübeck. While the first splitting by Heins had already led to a rupture of the registry contexts, which was all the more absurd as much was obviously classified incorrectly, the second splitting carried out in Hamburg finally led to practically every second subject being searchable in both the Lübeck and Hamburg archives. Some fragments of this registry that remained in Berlin came to the Hamburg archives with the delivery of 26.09. and October 1913. The files still needed by Klügmann for the ongoing administration, on the other hand, formed the basis of a new registry set up by Heins in 1897, which was in use until the end of the legation. The main department "Reichs- und Bundesratssachen" (I) was divided into subject groups A-Z, the main department "Gesandtschaftssachen" (II) into the groups HG I-VII (I-XII originally planned), of which I-IV comprised common affairs of the legation, V Lübecker, VI Bremer and VII Hamburger. Apart from the groups HG V-VII, which were handed over to the respective cities, a system cannot be discerned in the delivery of the files of this registry to the three Hanseatic archives. The Hamburg State Archives received the following deliveries: 1. 22.07.1902, contains files of Hauptabteilung I, 2. 02.09.1904, contains files of Hauptabteilung I, 3. 20.10.1909, contains files of Hauptabteilung I, 4. 25.10.1910, contains files of Hauptabteilung I, 5. 11.02.1913, contains files of Hauptabteilung I, 6. 26.09.1913, contains files of Hauptabteilung I (in addition some pieces from the delivery of October 1913), 7. 22.07.1902, contains files of Hauptabteilung I, 2. 02.09.1904, contains files of Hauptabteilung I, 3. 20.10.1909, contains files of Hauptabteilung I, 4. 25.10.1910, contains files of Hauptabteilung I, 5. 11.02.1913, contains files of Hauptabteilung I, 6. 26.09.1913, contains files of Hauptabteilung I (in addition some pieces from the delivery of October 1913), 7. 07.01.1915, contains files from Department I, 8. 09.06.1916, contains files from Department I and II, 9. 07.07.1916, contains files from Department I, 10. 12.10.1916, contains files from Department I, 11. 28.09.1918, contains files from Department I and II, 12. 20.11.1919, contains files from Department I and II, 13. 29.06.1916. contains unsigned files. In the reorganisation of the archive, in the interest of easy usability of the torn holdings, the old registry scheme had to be retained, both for the older (until 1896) and for the newer registry (from 1896), as had been the case in Lübeck, where a complete repositioning under the signature "ad B 11 a 3 c 1" was carried out in Bremen. Until 1859, the Geffckenschen Registratur set up the files as an archive of the Hamburgische Residentur (I 5 f), the rest of the "Älteren Registratur" were incorporated. Occasionally necessary reassignments and rearrangements within the Older Registry are noted in the last column. There is also indicated, if there is something in the two other Hanseatic archives for the same process. (Bremen, however, only if it could be recognized despite the reorganization). The file titles not available in Hamburg are also listed; the consecutive number is then placed in brackets. The groups A II and J from the delivery of 01.06.1896 concerning Hamburg were missing in the reorganization of the Older Registry. Inventory description: The conversion of the Hamburg Residency into a Hanseatic Legation was carried out on the proposal of the Hamburg business bearer Dr. Geffcken 1859. The Hanseatic Legation was dissolved on 30.06.1920. Hamburg and Lübeck have since maintained their own agencies in Berlin. The present collection consists of two parts. The older registry essentially comprises the files kept until the death of Minister President Dr. Krüger in 1896. The registry in use in the Legation from 1897-1920 forms the core of the Newer Registry, which is divided into Reich and Federal Council matters and legation matters. The registry property was divided among the participating Hanseatic towns according to the issues involved. Common things have reached Hamburg and Lübeck. Therefore a strong fragmentation of the registry connections is given. The inventory shows which files or parts of files are located in Lübeck. (Ga)

Content: Origin and development of Bremerhaven 1825-1862 - Acquisition and expansion of the port area 1824-1845 - Border regulations, sovereignty issues and expansion of the area 1827-1876 - Battery (Fort Wilhelm) and other military rights of Hanover and Hanover respectively Prussia 1820-1872 - Relations to Lehe, transit traffic and road construction between Bremen and Bremerhaven through Hanoverian territory 1827-1873 - Land acquisition and settlement for the establishment of a port at the Geeste estuary by Hanover 1817-1830 - Organisation, construction and extension of the port facilities: Old Port 1826-1878, New Port 1845-1872, Imperial Port 1871-1900, Imperial Port II and III 1900-1908 - Deputation at Bremerhaven, Deputation for the ports and port facilities, Deputation for the ports and railways, in particular protocols 1827-1891 - Accounting books of the Deputation and the Office of Bremerhaven, Budgets and accounts 1828-1920 - Port inventory lists, lists of ships lying in port 1833-1842 - Port staff, in particular Port Director Jacob Johann van Ronzelen and Carl Friedrich Hanckes, Hafenmeister, Schleusenmeister und -knechte, Hafenlotsen 1827-1902 - Amtmann und Amtsassessor, especially reports of the Amtmänner Johann Heinrich Castendyk, Johann Thulesius, Georg Wilhelm Gröning und Friedrich August Schultz 1827-1904 - Rechnungswesen und Visitationen des Amts 1829-1887 - Amtsschreiber, Police commissioners, police dragons, tax collectors and other officials 1827-1898 - lawyers, notaries, consuls and consular agents, auctioneers 1831-1904 - laws and regulations 1826-1901 - taxes and duties 1834-1874 - port authorities, Port regulations, port dues 1827-1902 - Public land, buildings and facilities, including the office building and port house, ferries and bridges, shipyards and ship berths, emigration centre, fire brigade, water supply, road construction and sewage system, gas station, cemetery 1829-1910 - settlement, Cultivation and trade, in particular allocation of building sites, basic letters, trade supervision, guilds 1827-1925 - administration of justice and police, including criminal investigation of the dynamite attack against the steamship ''Mosel'' (1875) 1827-1902 - municipal constitution and administration, Community Citizenship, Accounting 1837-1902 - General Church Relations 1827-1866, Unierte Gemeinde 1833-1903, Meiergefälle from Walle and Gröpelingen 1758-1852, Lutheran Community (Kreuzkirche) 1862-1902, Catholic community (Marienkirche) 1849-1902 - school system 1827-1897 - poor system 1836-1881 - medical system 1827-1901 - markets 1852-1890 - death and support funds, associations, municipal savings bank 1862-1907 - military conditions, quartering 1869-1884

Content: Foundation of the North German Confederation, also election to the first Reichstag, 1866-1871 - Emperor and Imperial House 1868-1902 - Constitution 1866-1885 - Trade and traffic conditions 1867-1875 - Postal conditions, in particular post and telegraph facilities in Bremen, 1867-1910 - Railways 1868-1897 - Customs 1866-1900 - Stock Exchange Act 1891-1904 - Shipping to sea 1867-1901 - Seamen's Association and Seamen's Regulations 1867-1902 - Maritime Marks, Reichskanzler 1867-1901 - Bundesrat, in particular Bremischer Bevmächtigter beim Bundesrat, 1867-1933 - Reichstag, in particular Reichstag elections in Bremen, 1867-1918 - Various matters in the fields of legislation and administration, in particular passwords 1867-1871, civil status and marriage 1868-1891, Insurance 1877-1903, measures and weights 1868-1897, emigration 1891-1903, trade regulations 1867-1908, statistics 1867-1900, labour law 1914-1928 - Franco-German War 1870/71, in particular measures to protect the Weser and claims for compensation for angry ships, 1870-1897 - Colonialism 1885-1907

'Exploratory Expedition to the North-East of the Togo Hinterland (1889 Staff Doctor Dr. Wolf). Report from Imperial Commissioner von Puttkamer to von Bismarck

'The North German Missionary Society in Bremen avoids the mission territory in Togo. - Report by the Grade Secretary for the attention of the Foreign Office - Including: - Presentation of the situation by the German Missionary Society in West Africa by the Foreign Office according to information from Mission Inspector Zahn