History of the Inventory Designer: 1885 Imperial letter of protection issued for the acquisitions of the D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a Gesellschaft, 1885-1890 administration by the D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i kanische Gesellschaft under Carl Peters; 1891 assumption of direct administration by the German Reich; 1916 retreat of the Schutztruppe from the British-Belgian troops and collapse of the German administration; end of the war in D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a in November 1918. Inventory description: Inventory history The original inventory Authorities of the German protectorate Deutsch-Ostafrika is located in the National Archive of Tanzania in Dar es Salaam. The Central State Archives in Potsdam had 33 supplementary films for the period 1900 to 1916 made from this stock, some of which were selected. The 5 archive units described in the online find book presumably came with other colonial traditions to the Reichsarchiv and in 1950 to the Deutsches Zentralarchiv in Potsdam. Archivische Bearbeitung (Archive processing) The remaining files recorded in the Central State Archives in Potsdam have been the subject of a search index, whose information was stored in the database of the Federal Archives in 2002. In 2003, a finding aid book (R 1003 FC) was produced for the supplementary inventory films. Content characterization: Imperial Government of Dar es Salaam; Imperial Residences of Bukoba, Gitega, Rwanda, Urundi; Imperial District Branch Office of Umbulu; Imperial Administrative Branch Office of Usumbura; Personal Files. State of development: Findbuch 2003; Online-Findbuch 2005 Citation method: BArch, R 1003/...

In the German colony of East Africa, the administration experimented with the use of zebras as mounts. For this purpose a zebra stud was established in Dar-es-Salaam / Photographer: Scherl

Contains among other things: Copies of acquisitions of the Society for German Colonisation in East Africa Map of the division of court districts in D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a. M: 1:5 000 000, Dar es Salaam, 1912

Minutes of committee meetings; minutes of the board meeting in Berlin in January; draft statutes ; letter of the German East African Society about uprising in Dar-es-Salaam

Street scene in the capital of German East Africa, Dar-es-Salaam / Photographer: Scherl

Travelogue Johanssen "From Dar-es-Salaam to Wuga, 1892; Untersuchungsreise von Gleiss u. Wohlrab von Hohenfriedeberg nach Wuga, 1894; Report on the founding negotiations of Wuga concerning von Wohlrab, 1895; diary reports, chronicles, letters (originals and copies), statistics especially of Gleiss, Langheinrich u. Rösler, 1895-1914 u. 1919-1920; Report on the founding of Wuga by Franz Gleiss, 12 p. printed, published as supplement to Semesterbrief Number 23 of the Greifswald Theological Society, 1896; "How it looks like in an African school by N. Rösler, 14 p., ms., January 1900; "Auf den Trümmern von Wuga von Missionar Döring, 14 p., Druck, 1902; "Die ersten Jahre der Station Wuga 33 p., ca. 1902; Berichte über die Station Mshihwi (s. a. M 603), 1908-1909