Diaries, portfolio

portfolio

Research reports, scientific observations

43 Time of Rebirth44 > Cross in France45 To the Janhagel46 In the Hero's Tomb47 > Roses of Waplitz cf. Signatur NL 117 : E 1, 1548 > Port Cannon of Daressalam49 German-Africa from a Radio Play50 Old Trinity51 Hans Allerlei52 > City "I myself "53 > Song of the Tree54 Summer Song55 Heroic Peoples cf. Signature NL 117 : E 1, 2056 We come see signature NL 117 : E 1, 2257 Believers tear see signature NL 117 : E 1, 1458 His mother son see signature NL 117 : E 1, 1759 Song of the boys60 Song of the girls see signature NL 117 : E 1, 461 Consecration song see signature NL 117 : E 1, 2362 Wilhelm Gustloff63 You fought hard

Correspondence between inspectors Ronicke u. Kittelvitz u. Sister Magdalena Hagena, mostly thank-you letters for donations, often expressed in the form of poems, 1922-1944; membership card of the Sarepta-Afrikabund, 1933; obituary for sister Magdalene Hagena, 1944; estate of sister Magdalena Hagena circulars to the members of the Afrikabund, partly printed with photos of the first baptized Tutsi, 1925-1941; letters of African Christians, u.a. by Hermann Kanafunzi, Jakobo Ngombe, Samuel Stepke, Sospater Boko, Johana Kikkule, Heilgehilfe Paulo, Elisabeth Nyaboro and many more with a photo by Sospater Boko, 1929-1938; letters from missionary sisters and missionaries from Africa, 1925-1937; letters from the Missionaries Gleiß, von der Heyden, Hosbach and Johanssen, 1924-1930

Contains: - Bronze - Height with pedestal: 48 cm - Dedication: "His Excellency Governor Dr. Schnee in remembrance of war years spent together in D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a".

History of the Inventory Designer: Life data 03.07.1889 born in Weißenburg/Elsaß I. married with Edith ..., died 1927 II. married with Miranda ... Military service in the royal prussia. Army and in the Reichswehr 01.10.1907 Entry 30.09.1920 Release from the 200,000 man army Promotions 1908 Corporal 31.03.1909 NCO 10.08.1909 Deputy Sergeant 19.11.1909 Flag Junker 22.03.1910 Lieutenant (with patent of 22.3.1908) 25.02.1915 Lieutenant Colonel 18.06.1917 Captain Positions 01.10.1907 Inf.Rgt. 143 One-year volunteer 04.02.1909 Inf.Rgt. 132 Voluntary exercise 16.06.1909 Inf.Rgt. 60 Exercise A 23.08.1909 Inf.Rgt. 56 Flag officer 26.11.1913 Schutztruppe Deutsch-Ostafrika, Recruit Depot Schutztruppe Deutsch-Ostafrika, 10th field comp. 03.1914 Schutztruppe Deutsch-Ostafrika, 1st field comp. Kp-Führer, Ordonnanz-Officier beim Kommandostab, Adjutant der Schutztruppe und Generalstabsoffizier bei General Wahle 31.03.1920 VII AK budgeted Kp chief 07.1920 Schutztruppen-Abwicklungsamt Berlin-Adlershof Inventory description: Eugen Friedrich Ludwig Boell, was born on 03.07.1889 in Weißenburg/Elsass. He attended the elementary school and the grammar school in Weissenburg, as well as the University of Strasbourg/Elsass where he studied philology. Married in second marriage to Miranda Machalitzky born 13.01.1908, with whom he had four children. Hildegard Ingeborg Boell born 19.02.1934 Friedrich Ludwig Boell born 12.05.1935 Gisela Adelheid Boell born 14.03.1939 Erika Miranda Boell born 03.04.1943 Ludwig Boell was an officer in the army and in the Schutztruppe Deutsch-Ostafrika (1914-1918). In 1920 he retired from the Reichswehr due to the reduction of the Wehrmacht and due to military service damage. After his retirement from the army, he was responsible for collecting and sifting the material for the history of the East African campaign at the Schutztruppenamt and the Colonial Central Administration. Furthermore, he was adjutant of the staff chief of the senior management of the organization "Escherich", as well as office manager and accountant at the Theresientaler Kristallglasfabrik. 01.08.1936, appointment to the government council in the Reichsdienst at the Forschungsanstalt für Kriegs und Heeresgeschichte in Potsdam. 01.05.1938, was promoted to the senior government council. On 01.09.1944, Ludwig Boell was awarded the War Merit Cross 2nd Class with Swords. Military service in the Royal Prussian Army and in the Reichswehr 01.10.1907 Entry 30.09.1920 Discharge from the 200,000 man army Promotions 00.00.1908 Corporal 31.03.1909 NCO 10.08.1909 Sergeant 19.11.1909 Fahnenjunker 22.03.1910 Lieutenant (with patent dated 22.03.1908) 25.02.1915 Lieutenant Colonel 18.06.1917 Captain Positions 01.10.1907 Inf.Rgt. 143 One-year volunteer 04.02.1909 Inf.Rgt. 132 Voluntary exercise 16.06.1909 Inf.Rgt. 60 Exercise A 23.08.1909 Inf.Rgt. 56 Flag-junker 26.11.1913 Schutztruppe Deutsch-Ostafrika, Rekrutendepot Schutztruppe Deutsch-Ostafrika, 10. field company 00.03.1914 Schutztruppe Deutsch-Ostafrika, 1. field company 00.03.1914 Schutztruppe Deutsch-Ostafrika, 1. field company 00.03.1914 Schutztruppe Deutsch-Ostafrika, 1. field company 00.03.1914 Feldkompanie Kompanieführer, Ordonnanz-Offizier bei beim Kommandostab, Adjutant der Schutztruppe und Generalstabsoffizier bei General Wahle 31.03.1920 VII. AK budgeted company commander 00.07.1920 Schutztruppen-Abwicklungsamt Berlin-Adlerdorf Einsatz 1914-1918 Deutsch-Ostafrika citation method: BArch, N 14/...

Contains: - Censur book of the Gymnasium Nordhausen for the pupil H. Schnee; - letter of the boy H. to an uncle about his Christmas presents; - matriculation certificate; - certificate of studies and customs of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg; - certificate of qualification after completion of the one-year voluntary service obligation; - certificate of leadership of the Inf.-Rgts. No 85; - leaving certificate of the Christian-Albrecht-Universität Kiel; - leaving certificate of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin; - legal examination task of the Oberlandesgericht Naumburg; - examination certificate of the OLG Naumburg; - appointment as trainee lawyer at the OLG; - transfer from Naumburg to the Landgericht Nordhausen; - doctor's diploma; - appointment as Reg.Ref. at RP Erfurt; - Patent as Secondlieutenant; - Appointment as Reg. Assessor; - Appointment to the Foreign Office, Colonial Department; - Certificate of the AA for a monthly renumeration of M 180,--; - Certificate of the AA for an increase of the renumeration to M 210,--; - Comm. Judge in the Bismarck Archipelago; - Appointed Deputy Governor in Herbertshöhe; - Appointed Speaker and Judge in Apia; - AA passport to travel to Apia; - Appointed Deputy Governor Dr Solf; - Invited to return to Germany; - Awarded Landwehr Service Badge to Lieutenant Schnee; - Stayed in Apia because of introduction of German real estate law for Samoa; - Awarded Red Eagle Order 4. Kl.; employment in the Colonial Department of the Foreign Office, Berlin; - appointment to the Legation Council; - appointment to the Advisory Board for Colonial Affairs at the Embassy in London; - travel passport of the AA for relocation to London; - appointment to the Personnel Department of the Colonial Department, Berlin, Berlin; - Lecturer at the Seminar for Oriental Languages, Berlin; - Appointed to the Effective Legation Council and Lecturer Council; - Transfer to the R e i c h s c h - K o l o n i a l a m t; - Directorial business at the R e i c h s k o l o n i a l a m t; - Award of the commemorative coin on the occasion of the uprising in Southwest Africa, 1907; - Award of the 3rd Crown Order Kl.; - Appointment as Commissioner of the R e i c h s k o l o n i a l a m t for the Colonial Institute in Hamburg; - Certificate of Appointment to the Privy Upper Government Council; - Award of the Red Eagle Order 3. Kl.; - approval of the farewell for Lieutenant Schnee; - appointment as director with the rank of a council 1st Kl.; - appointment as deputy authorized representative at the Federal Council; - appointment as governor of D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a; - travel passport of the expatriate; - appointment as deputy authorized representative at the Federal Council; - appointment as deputy authorized representative at the Federal Council; - appointment as deputy authorized representative at the Federal Council; - appointment as deputy deputy authorized representative; - appointment as deputy deputy deputy deputy deputy deputy deputy deputy deputy deputy deputy deputy deputy deputy deputy. The colonial commemorative coin was awarded to the colonial minister Dr. Bell on Schnee: Mrs. Ada Schnee was not allowed to travel with her to Paris for the peace negotiations; - Certificate of possession for the colonial badge.

Contains: - Wounded badge for the army and the colonial troops of 1918 - Leibniz Medal of Gold - Medals of Gabriele d Annunzio, Johannes Ronge, Professor Curtius and Ernst Peter Hecht - 23 coins: 12 One Thaler (1691), 5 change badge from Nordhausen (1917); Reichspfennig: 1 (1940), 10 (1889); Rupees: 1/4 (1904), 15 (1916) and Heller: 1/2 (2 x 1906), 1 (4 x 1908, 1910, 1912), 5 (4 x 1916), 20 (3 x 1916) from D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a; New Guinea Mark: 1/2 (1894), 1 (1894), 2 (1894), 5 (1894) - 1 loose ribbon - 2 empty leather cases.

Contains: 1. reports of the district governor of Usambara, Major Krenzler, 1891; 2. letter of Major H. Wißmann, 1891-1892; 3. letter of J. Rindermann to the secretariat of the German Colonial Society, 1897.

Photographs in the volumes are glued in.

Contains also: Letters to the parents steamer "Feldmarschall" - passenger list, 13 January 1914

Contains also: Letters to the parents steamer "General" - passenger list, festive programs, 23 September 1911 travel reports Pangani district

Contains also: Business Cards Geographical Sketches Steamship "Adolph Woermann" - Passenger List, May 8, 1911

Contains also: Letters to parents Cruise with the Reichspostdampfer "Kronprinz" menu list, passenger list and program

Drucksachen

List of Ronicke's written works up to and including 1942; "Von Träumen u. Gesichten der Neger, 26 S., ms., o.J.; "Von theologischen Fragen in der Mission, 37 S., ms., n.J.; "Africa Observations, Then and Now", 20 S., ms., 1954; Obituary for Gerhard Jasper sen., 2 S., ms., 1970

enth. et al: Journey to Egypt, 1905

Drucksachen

The part in the district archives from the estate of the German colonial pioneer Carl Peters, who acquired the core area of the later "D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a", was mainly compiled by his wife Thea née Herbers and enriched by copies and transcripts from the Federal Archives Koblenz and the then Central State Archives Potsdam as well as by materials from the Berninghaus family - Asta Berninghaus was a sister of Thea Peters. At the beginning of the 1950s the collection came into the possession of the archives of Altena Castle. In eight boxes, the estate contains documents, correspondence and newspaper clippings, most of which relate to the disciplinary proceedings and insults brought by the colonial politician. In addition to these documents there are photos and personal belongings. In addition, the collection was supplemented by books and essays on colonial topics, in particular by and about Carl Peters. The indexing was done in 1990 by the trainee Elke Röscher. Biography: - 27.11.1856 born as son of a pastor in Neuhaus a. d. Elbe - studies in Göttingen, Tübingen and Berlin - 1879 doctorate in history - 1880 Oberlehrerexamen in history and geography - since 1881 stay in London, occupation with the English colonial politics and administration - 1883 return to Berlin - 28.03.1884 Carl Peters founds the "Society for German Colonization" - September 1884 departure for East Africa, in the same year conclusion of colonial contracts with the chiefs of Useguna, Uguru, Usagara and Ukami - 12.02.1885 foundation of the DOAG ("Deutsch-Ostafrikanische Gesellschaft") - 27.02.1885 signing of the first colonial letter of protection by Wilhelm I. for the area acquired by Peters - March 1889 to August 1890 expedition to liberate Emin Pasha, conclusion of further contracts in Africa - 01.07.1890 Helgoland-Sansibar-contract - 1891 dispatch as Imperial Imperial Commissioner at the disposal of East Africa - 1992 cooperation in the German-English border regulation in East Africa - 03.05.1894 Appointment to the statutory "commissioner" - 13. to 16.03.1896 colonial debate of the Reichstag, attack Bebels against Peters, soon afterwards move to London, journalistic activity, foundation of a business enterprise - 24.04./15.11.1897 disciplinary judgements against Carl Peters for misconduct towards natives: Dismissal from the Reichsdienst (legal consequences of the verdict were reversed in 1937 by Hitler in favor of Peters' widow) - 1899-1911 Trips to South Africa: Managing Director of the Carl Peters Estates Company - 1905 pardon from Kaiser Wilhelm II.Peters gets back the title "Reichskommissar" - 1907-1909 various insult suits especially against editors of social democratic newspapers - 1909 marriage with Thea Herbers - 1914 Carl Peters is granted his pension by grace - 10.09.1918 died in Waltorf near Peine

Correspondence, 1910-1968; Ordination Certificate, 1912; Obituary for Dr. Mensching, 1964; Memories of Rwanda (from his estate), 1912-1913; Wedding photo of the Mensching couple, 1913

Maps of Germany; Central Germany; D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a i a , e.g. Klöden's Repetitions-Maps, printed by Dietrich Reimer, Berlin.Uhlig, Carl (Bearb.): Economic Map of D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a . Sheet I: Mineral resources, production possibilities by collecting and hunting, livestock breeding, industry. Berlin: Reimer. From: Annual Report on the Development of German Protectorates in Africa and the South Seas, reporting year 1902/03.Uhlig, Carl (Bearb.): Wirtschaftskarte von Deutsch-Ostafrika. Leaf II: Vegetation conditions, agriculture of indigenous plantations. Berlin: Reimer. From: Annual Report on the Development of German Protectorates in Africa and the South Seas, reporting year 1902/03.

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Contains: Correspondence of Ernst II with snow and with the Commissioner and Military Inspector of Voluntary Nursing Prince Hermann von Hatzfeldt-Trachenberg.

"Heimatbasis - 18 essays on the homework of mission; Mission in Confrontation with Colonial Thoughts and "Mission under the Inflow of European Civilization - 17 essays; "Church Building from the Gospel in East Africa - 16 Works; "From the Spiritual World of Primitive Peoples of Africa - 10 Works; Excerpts on the Literature and Spiritual World of the Primitives - 15 Works; "Nachschriften von Fricks Kolleg, Marburg 1930; "From the World of the Primitives - 18 Works

Darin: 3 photographs of the school in Tanga, 1894.

Scientific partial estate with botanical manuscripts and records, photo plates.

Lange, Erich (1889 - 1965) Prof. Dr.phil.; Professor of Fuel Geology 1946 President of the German Geological Survey; Director of the Geological Service of the GDR The estate contains: Excerpts from the file 1957 "Preparation of the commemorative event 10 years StGK (Staatliche Geologische Kommission) (contains among other things: material, elaborations and handwritten notes) Correspondences Personal letter of Gottlieb A. Seberna Handwritten notes among other things from and to geological books, to Cameroon, manuscripts to geological observation in French, German and English. Colonies (e.g. East-Adamaua), excerpts from the journal of the German Geological Society vol. 84(1932), photographs of tree trunks in a basalt stream near Meiganga

botanical manuscripts on the vegetation and flora of Africa (c. 0,5 m) [FA5] Photographs Vegetation pictures Kilimanjaro [H206] AETFAT (Association pour l'Étude Taxonomique de la Flore d'Afrique Tropical) - Correspondence (1 file, 1951-1954) [P 39] Correspondence to the manuscript of Ledermann (see entry under: Ledermann estate) Manuscript "Mangrove und Strandpflanzen", handwritten and typewritten, manuscript "Mangrove und Strandpflanzen", handwritten and typewritten, German only. numerous drawings, black ink [P39], [H57?] Manuscript "Life of desert plants", handwritten and typewritten Notes "On coffee " Personal documents [FA3/1] Files Dr. Mildbraed 1907-1917 [1 issue]: equipment lists, customs correspondence and trade correspondence for the procurement of equipment for expeditions to Africa; correspondence 1917 for the imprisonment of Mildbraed in France, the rescue of the records of the research expedition Mildbraed (5 diaries) intended for burning, thank-you note by A. Engler Curriculum vitae of Mildbraed, six pages, one-sided manual description, o.D. [after 1928]; one letter incl. Curriculum vitae and statement on the NSDAP etc. to the Amt für Wissenschaft, 20.10.1945 Annual report Botanischer Garten, 1951-1953, 1 cover folder, various notes and copies for the annual report "Innerafrika-Expedition des Herzzogs Adolf-Friedrich zu Mecklenburg": 6 reports (copies; authors: J. Mildbraed and A. Schultze), 1 Photoplattenliste Exchange of letters between Mildbraed and Hertha Schultze-Rhonhof (wife of Arnold Schultze), 1949-1952; contents a.o. biography of A. Schultze

In 1994 the library received 546 volumes from the estate of Dr. Jürgen Herzog (deceased 1993), who worked as an African historian at the Institute for General History of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR (AdW). He worked at the Leibniz Centre for Modern Oriental Studies from 1992-1993. The signatures of the Duke's estate begin with the letter H (e.g. H 280). (Author: Leibniz Centre for Modern Oriental Studies, Library, Humanities Centres Berlin e.V.)