Transport of German troops at the railway station in Windhoek / Photographer: Scherl

The men who had been drafted into the war meet in front of the town hall in Windhoek, Namibia, which was then the colony of German Southwest Africa. De Vaal, the son-in-law General Botha´s speaks to the German population in Windhoek / Photographer: Scherl

The Bushmen, Heinrich Vedder, 18 p., ms., 1912; Report on the Bushmen and thoughts on their future, by Th. Wetschky, Grootfontein, 1913; 2 newspaper clippings on the Bushman question in Grootfontein, 1913 1914; The Bushmen, Result e. Interrogation, by Friedrich Pönnighaus, 11 p.., ms., Ill., 1926; The Bushmen in North Southwest Africa, N. N., 7 p., hs, under the Bushmen in South West Africa, Alfred Unterkötter, 10 p., ms., o. J.; I will exterminate the wizard with you, Alfred Unterkötter, 14 p., ms., o. J.; Experiences between Operet and Onguma, Alfred Unterkötter, 4 p.., ms, no year; Self-biography of the Bushman //Kou-goa-//ob, Alfred Unterkötter, 13 p., ms, no year; Among the Bushmen of Southwest Africa, Alfred Unterkötter, 9 p., ms., no year;

Departure from the railway station in Windhoek. The German group goes south / Photographer: Scherl

Memories of d. Witbooi Uprising in Gibeon, by Else Spellmeyer; Experiences from the first days of the occupation of Gibeon by the troops of General Mackenzie, by Else Spellmeyer; Ochsenwagen journey to the new beginning e. Mission at the edge of the Kalahari desert (!Gochas) from 27 August to mid October 1901, by Else Spellmeyer; A visit to the diamond fields near Lüderitzbucht; Report on a branch trip (1923), by Christian Spellmeyer; "Gibeon without a missionary", letter by Christian Spellmeyer to d. Brüder d. Vorstandes, January 23, 1936; Various newspaper articles;

Article:The Christianity of the Weak ; A brutal consideration: Does a slight exceeding of the field size prevent the closure of the prospecting field? Progress in surveying Various advertisements

Journalist and freelance writer; 1910-1914 editor at the Mühlheimer Zeitung; 1911-1912 editor at the "General-Anzeiger" for Mülheim (Ruhr); 1914-1919 member of the Schutztruppe in Deutsch-Südwest-Afrika, participation in the campaign and internment until 1919; 1940-1943 editor at the colonial picture newspaper "Kolonie und Heimat" in Munich; 1933-1940 member of the Reichsverband der Schriftsteller, 1933-1945 member of the Reichsverband der Presse; 1940-1943 member of the Reichskolonialbund

Rider of the Schutztruppe in the colony Deutsch-Südwestafrika in the First World War / Photographer: Scherl

Contains among other things: Reports (e.g. from Paris, Bordeaux, Venice, Copenhagen) on general issues, economists. Lage, Neutrale Staaten 10.10.-24.10.[1914]; "Truthful description of the cause and the beginning of the brawl with the operating directors which took place on 18 August 1918 in Bogenfels near the Deutsche Diamanten-Ges."; Explanations of the budget statement for 1913; Memorandum concerning the establishment of an institute for the granting of land credit in Deutsch-Südwestafrika

The railway line Windhuk - Keetmanshoop in the colony Deutsch-Südwestafrika was haunted in 1914. Here soldiers of the Schutztruppe walk along their tracks / Photographer: Scherl

Provisioning column from Windhoek in German South West Africa / Photographer: Scherl

Gun of the protection force in fire position at the railway line Windhoek - Keetmanshoop / Photographer: Scherl

On the way through a village the mounted Schutztruppe moves into the field in German Southwest Africa / Photographer: Scherl

The German pilot Scheele bombed a fine army in the Namib Desert / Photographer: Scherl

Colony of German South-West Africa in the First World War: Bombs dropped by airplane burst in the English camp near Garub / Photographer: Scherl

Protective troops resting in the dry savannah / Photographer: Scherl

Improvised field kitchen in South Africa, camp Pietermaritzburg / Photographer: Scherl

Colony Deutsch-Südwestafrika in the First World War: On 14.09.1914 a crane was bombed on the bridge in Swakopmund. / Photographer: Scherl

ambulance transport of the Schutztruppe with the help of camels / photographer: Scherl

Contains only: "Otavi copper in late autumn" - article of the "Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung" of 25 June 1937

Periodika:
Allgemeine Zeitung (1920 - 1939) [Digitalisat: 1919 - 1939]
Allgemeine Zeitung (1943 - 2021) [Digitalisat: 1943 – 1994]
ditto: Bestandaufnahme; Stichworte in PP5 (Listen E. Mercker) (1920 - 2013)
Tourismus Beilage (AZ) (1994 - 2021)
Deutsch-Südwestafrikanische Zeitung (1901 - 1914) [Digitalisat: 1901 – 1907; 1910 – 1914]
ditto: Fotokopien (1901 - 1914)
Deutscher Beobachter (1939 - 1943)
Der Farmer (1919 - 1920)
Der Farmwirtschaftliche Ratgeber (Beilage zu Kriegsbote) (1917 - 1919)
Keetmanshooper Zeitung (1913 + 1915)
ditto: Fotokopien (1913 + 1915)
Der Kriegsbote (1916 - 1919)
Der Kriegsbote / Allgemeine Zeitung (1919)
Kriegsnachrichten (1915)
Landeszeitung & Allgemeine Zeitung (1919)
Landeszeitung (1919 - 1924)
Lüderitzbuchter Zeitung (1909 - 1914) [Digitalisat: 1909 – 1937]
Lüderitzbuchter Zeitung (1919 - 1937)
Namib Times (1958 - 2021)
Namibia Nachrichten (1984 - 1992)
Namibia Today (1990 - 1992)
Namibian (1998 - 2021)
New Era (1992 - 2014)
Plus (1995 - 2007)
Republikein (1985 - 2021)
South West Times (1930 - 1933)
Südwest (1910 - 1915) [Digitalisat: 1910 – 1915]
ditto: Fotokopien (1913 - 1915)
Südwestbote (1911 - 1915) [Digitalisat: 1903 – 1915]
ditto: Fotokopien (1915)
S.W. Persianer-Markt (1934 - 1941)
Die SWA Boer / Farmer (1956 - 1958)
Die Suidwes Afrikaner (Afrikaans) + Voksblatt (1927)
Die Suidwes Afrikaner (1928 - 1941)
Swakopmunder Echo (1916)
Die Suidwester (1947 - 1990)
SWA Farmer (Beilage zu AZ) (1924 - 1931)
Swakopmunder Zeitung (1911 - 1912) [Digitalisat: 1911 – 1912]
Swakopmunder Zeitung (1919 - 1938) [Digitalisat: 1919 – 1939]
Tempo (1992 - 1997)
Times of Namibia (1988 - 1991)
Tourismus Beilage (AZ) (1994 - 2021)
Tsumeber Nachrichten (1915)
Volksblatt (Beilage zu AZ) (1930+1931)
Walvis Bay Messenger (1928 - 1929)
Der Weltkrieg (1916 - 1919)
Windhoek Advertiser** (1923 - 1997) [Digitalisat: 1919 – 1945; 1961 – 1994]
Windhoeker Anzeiger (1898 - 1901) [Digitalisat: 1898 – 1901]
ditto: Fotokopien (1898 - 1901)
Windhuker Nachrichten (1906 - 1910)

Adressbücher DSWA / SWA * (1908 - 1958)
Afrikanischer Heimatkalender (1930 - 2009)
Amtsblatt für das Schutzgebiet DSWA (1910 - 1915)
Amtsblatt des durch die Unions-Feldtruppen besetzten Gebietes SWA : 1915 - 1920
Deutsches Kolonialblatt (1890 - 1915)
Deutsche Kolonialzeitung** (1888 - 1939)
Die deutsche Kolonial-Gesetzgebung. (1892 - 1909)
Die deutschen Schutzgebiete (1909-1910 - bis 1912/13)
Koloniale Zeitschrift (1903 - 1907)
Der Kreis (1957 - 1963)
Leuchtturm (1919 - 1920)
Meinerts Monats Magzin (1930 - 1931)
Die Muschel (1961 - 1967)
Namib & Meer (1970 - 1990)
Namibiana (1979 - 1997)
SWA Annual (1945 - 1986)
SWA Handbuch (1960 - 1971/72)
Swakopmund (1929-30 - 1939/40)
Swakopmund (1948/49 - 1965/66)

Anmerkungen:

• • Lüderitzbuchter Zeitung:
    · 1.Jg Nr. 1 -1909 – 31. Juli 1914
    · 1919 ab 1. Mai – 1925 vorhanden
    · 1926, 1927, 1928 fehlen
    · 1929 vorhanden
    · 1930 fehlt
    · 1931 - 1934 vorhanden
    · 1935 – bis Juni, lose, nicht gebunden
    · 1936 + 1937 vorhanden

• ** Windhoek Advertiser: bisher nicht einzeln aufgelistet. Die gebundenen Jahrgänge, vorhanden im Lager, wie folgt:
  · 1923 bis 1942
  · 1943 & 1944 nur zum Teil vorhanden, müssten genauer kontrolliert werden
  · 1945 & 1946 fehlen ganz, 1947 Teil 1 +2 fehlt, ab Teil 3 vorhanden
  · 1948 bis 1966 vorhanden
  · 1967 + 1968 fehlen
  · 1969 bis 1993 vorhanden
  · 1994 fehlt
  · 1995, 1996, 1997 vorhanden

• *** Adressbücher DSWA / SWA:
  · Nicht durchgehend vorhanden

• **** Deutsche Kolonialzeitung:
  · Nicht durchgehend vorhanden

Enthält u. a.: Ausbildungsfragen im Heere: "Erziehung" oder "Drill und Erziehung", S. 5; Offiziere: Starker Offizierverlust in Südwest-Afrika wegen allzu sichtbarer Rangabzeichen, S. 9; Offiziersehre und Militärehrengericht: Broschüren von Oberst a. D. Hüger und Oberst a. D. Gaedke, S. 14, 15

Enthält u. a.: Der Kaiser: Seine Ratgeber, mangelhafte Orientierung, Abnahme der monarchischen Gesinnung, S. 23, 31; Abrüstungsfragen: Armeereform in England, S. 27, 29; Feldzug in Deutsch-Südwestafrika: Glossen von Oberst a. D. Gaedke, S. 39; Sozialdemokratie: Heer und Sozialdemokratie, S. 49; Sanitätsfragen: Einrichtung von Sanitätsinspektionen, S. 51; regierende Fürsten: Kritik der Frankfurter Zeitung, S. 63

Contains among other things: Offiziere: Aussichten der Offizier Karrierebahn, p. 47; Transfer of officers, excerpt from a brochure "Militärische Bedenken" by K. von Wartenberg. p. 59; Reichstag: Lieutenant General von Trotha, Commander of the Troops of Deutsch-Südwestafrika: His Appearance in the Reichstag, p. 61; Hague Conference 1899: Criticism of the German Representative, Count Münster, by Alfred H. Fried, p. 17; the Emperor and the Idea of Arbitration, by Alfred H. Fried, p. 31

Map of the movements of the German Schutztruppe and the South African armed forces in German Southwest Africa during the First World War / Photographer: Scherl

Soldiers of the Schutztruppe load the horses in the colony Deutsch-Südwestafrika during the First World War / Photographer: Scherl

The missionary work in Southwest Africa according to the annual reports of 1949; Der künstliche Abortus bei d. Herero u. Ovambo, N. N., o. J.; Arigene Religion u. Christentum, August Carl Heinrich Kuhlmann, o. J.; Foreign - and yet at the heights of Christianity, August Carl Heinrich Kuhlmann, o. J.; As under d. Church of the Urafrikans, August Carl Heinrich Kuhlmann, n.d.; The "Old Holy Book" in Africa, August Carl Heinrich Kuhlmann, n.d.; Visiting d. Hei-//om (Buschschläfern), Friedrich Pönnighaus, 1936; Unter d. Buschmännern in Südwestafrika, Alfred Unterkötter, 1936; Ein Dankopfer, Friedrich Hermann Rust, no year; Der heute Stand d. Missionsarbeit im Waterberg-Reservat, Friedrich Pönnighaus, 1936; Death Sunday in Swakopmund, Heinrich Johann Brockmann, 1937; Abendmahl u. Orunjara bei d. Herero, Friedrich Pönnighaus, n. J.; Comfort in the African earth sorrow, August Carl Heinrich Kuhlmann, n. J.; The natives of Southwest Africa, Heinrich Vedder? o. J.; Unterwegs (im Ochsenwagen), by Friedrich Pönnighaus, o. J.; Zur Frage d. finanz Selbstständmachung unserer Gemeinden oder wie erziehehehe ich meine Gemeinde zum finanz Selbstständigkeit, Christian Wilhelm Friedrich Spellmeyer, 1937; Ist finanzielle Selbstständmachung unserer Gemeinden in Südwestafrika möglich, u. wie?, Karl Schmitz, 1937; Zu d. Bericht d. Bruder's Karl Sckär über Ehescheidung, Johannes Georg Heinrich Heinrich Olpp, 1929; Ist d. Ausbau unserer Missionskonferenz zu e. Synod required and possible, Friedrich Pönnighaus, 1937; Annunciation in the Mix of Nations of Southwest Africa, Friedrich Pönnighaus, no year; The Battle with the Holy Fire, Friedrich Pönnighaus 1935; The Holy Fire (The Sacrificial Altar of Herero = okuruuo), Friedrich Pönnighaus, no year; Hurus, Friedrich Pönnighaus, 1932; "On African Travelling Routes", N.N..., Windhoek, 1934; World and world view of Bergdama in Southwest Africa, Heinrich Vedder, without year; Unter d. Betschuanen, Friedrich Pönnighaus, without year; Remarks to the Lecture by Pg Reinbeck on the activities of the Pagan Mission in South West Africa, Mission Director J. Warneck, 1935; Die Akazien unseres Landes, Friedrich Pönnighaus, no year; The trees and shrubs of the District of Windhoek (excluding the Akazien), Friedrich Pönnighaus, no year; Which duties does the Protestant Germany in South West Africa have? ca. 1910; The Jackal and the Leopard, e. Märchen aus Südwestafrika, Heinrich Vedder, without year; Das Volk hinter d. Berge, Wilhelm Loeber, 1937; A strange Christmas message, Wilhelm Loeber, o. J.; And new life blooms from the ruins, Wilhelm Loeber, no year; house building in the Heidenland (Ovamboland), N. N.?, no year; The Chief's Hunt (Mandume), N. N.., n. J.; Rasse u. Mission in Südwestafrika, N. N., ca. 1935; Between War and Crisis: On the 125th Anniversary of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in South-West Africa (Rheinische Missionskirche), press release by RMG, Werner Andreas Wienecke, 1967; Südwestafrika - e. zweites Kongo?, newspaper article, General-Anzeiger Wuppertal, 08.04.1967;

At Christmas 1914 the English landed in Swakopmund, in the colony Deutsch-Südwestafrika / Photographer: Scherl

1907-1936 in Karibib, Keetmanshoop, Okahandja, Windhoek; curriculum vitae, references, application, 1901; correspondence and work reports by Christian Ludwig Kühhirt, 1907-1958; correspondence also with Mrs. Elisabeth Kühhirt, née Wangerin, 1938-1969; correspondence also with d. Söhnen Kühhirt, 1940-1959; report e. Reise zu d. Herero in the reserve, (pale-grass), 1920; report about the journey to the Herero and Ovambo to the railway, 1920; Farmmissionsreise, 1925; newspaper article by Martin Kühhirt (son): "Das ehemalige Deutsch-Südwestafrika unter englischer Verwaltung", IN supplement of the "Aufwärts" of 30.09.1928; death announcement, sermon, obituary for Mrs. Helene Kühhirt, née Schubert, 1936; Der Heimgang unserer Mutter, Georg Kühhirt (son), 1936; Theofilus Ileka, evangelist: Letter to Christian Ludwig Kühhirt with greetings from the Ovambo parish Windhoek, 1936; travel report by Elisabeth Kühhirt, née Wangerin, 7 p. ms., 1938; copies of testimonies by Elisabeth Kühhirt, 1917, 1928, 1938; obituary for Christian Ludwig Kühhirt, 1959

Contains: Nos. 1-8, 12-15

Contains: 1st incoming letter, from Weisner, Strausberg, 03.06.1933 (2 sheets, hsl.); sheets 1r-2v 2nd outgoing letter, to C. Weiss, Berlin, 09.06.1933 (2 sheets, mschr.); sheets 3r-4r 3rd incoming letter, from Brecht´s Press

Correspondence, expert opinions, calculations; minutes of the board meeting in Karibib, 1938; newspapers: ; "S.W. Persianer-Markt", 3 issues, 1937; "Der Karakulzüchter", 4 issues, 1937-1938; "Die Lederindustrie", No. 51, 1938;

Article with photo by Werner Grumpelt