Contains among other things: Overview of expenditure and income of German postal institutions in the protectorates and abroad in the accounting year 1903 Qu. 26a; memorandums: on the construction of a railway from Lüderitzbucht to Kubub together with a map (Reichstag printed matter 1905 Beil I, p. 5 - 15) Qu. 39b, the continuation of the Usambarabahn from Buiko to Moschi (1909, 25 p.) Qu. 40

Content: Colonial Policy - Colonial Legislation - Protectorate Act - Reichskolonialamt - Colonial Service - Colonial Procurement - Schutztruppe - Togo, Cameroon, D e u t s c h - S ü d w e s t a f r i k a, D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a - Herero Uprising - Railway Construction - Colonial and Settlement Societies - Kiautschou/Tsingtau - Caroline Islands, Palau Islands and Mariana Islands - Colonial Policy and Research under National Socialist Rule - Position of Bremen in the Colonial Movement, especially Institute of Colonial Research

History of the inventor: In 1884 the German Reich took over the protection of the Bremen merchant Franz Adolf Eduard Lüderitz by acquiring land; in 1885 the German administration was established; the German colonial society, founded in 1895, expanded the German sphere of influence; in 1915 the Schutztruppe surrendered to the armed forces of the South African Union and the German administration ended. Inventory description: Inventory history At the end of the 1930s, the Reichsarchiv took over the files of the Colonial Administration of D e u t s c h - S ü d w e s t a f r i k a, in some cases with considerable gaps in their transmission. After the relocation caused by the war, they were transferred to the Central State Archive in Potsdam in 1945. Here, the classification of the holdings into the central administration of Windhoek, the local administrations and the special administrations (justice, police, mining, railways) with their substructures, which had already been carried out in the Reich Archives, was preserved. The few volumes of files kept in the Federal Archives in Koblenz were assigned to the holdings after the reunification of Germany. Archive evaluation and processing In addition to the factual files of the most varied areas and administrative levels, the personnel files of the inspection of the state police as well as the railway administration and railway construction authorities form the most extensive groups of files with about 80 per cent of the transmission. The classification of the stock was carried out largely in accordance with the classification shown in the provisional finding aid, which was based on the registry scheme valid at the time. Only in a few individual cases were volumes assigned to a different classification. The order and titles of the volumes remained essentially unchanged. An index of persons, objects and places has been omitted, so that searches are only possible via the online version of this finding aid book. Content characterisation: Central administration; governorate in Windhoek; commissioner of the former governorate in Windhoek; local administration; district offices; district offices; administration of justice; high court in Windhoek; district courts; mountain authorities; registration aids. State of development: Findbuch 1942; Online-Findbuch 2002 Citation method: BArch, R 1002/...

Contains among other things: "Attempts to Cultivate Cigarette Tobacco in the German Protectorates", 1922; "The Colonial Problem"; "The German Schools in Southwest Africa", Kastl paper, 1921; newspaper article on colonial policy (1914) and Hindenburg's death (1934); Report of the Deutsche Afrika-Bank Aktiengesellschaft, 1908; Report of the Deutsche Kolonial-Eisenbahn-Bau- und Betriebs-Gesellschfat, 1908; Outline of the Terms and Conditions for the Mortgage Loans of the Southwest African Soil Credit Society

Contains among other things: Agreement with the British government on the delimitation of the mutual spheres of interest in the hinterland of Cameroon; instructions to Varnbüler's representative of the Bundesrat; railway construction in Togo Darin: "Deutscher Reichsanzeiger und Königlich Preußischer Staatsanzeiger" of 20 November 1893; maps of the above-mentioned colonies; "Zur Trassierung der Togo-Eisenbahn Lomé - Palimé. Mit Karten, Längenprofil, Tafeln und Abbildungen" ("With Maps, Longitudinal Profile, Plates and Illustrations"), published by the Colonial Economic Committee, 1 issue, 50 p., Berlin 1904; Report on a study trip of the settlement commissioner Dr. Rohrbach to the Cape Colony and the adjoining British parts, print, 10 p.; "Die Kolonialdeutschen aus Kamerun und Togo in französischer Gefangenschaft" ("The Colonial Germans from Cameroon and Togo in French Captivity"), published by the R e i c h s k o l o n i a l a m t, 178 p.., Berlin 1917; "Behaviour of the English and French troops under English supreme command against the white population of the German protectorates Cameroon and Togo", published by the Reichskolonialamt, 258 p., Berlin 1916

Contains among other things: "Die Marmorvereommen Deutsch-Südwest-Afrikas" Partnership agreement of the Afrika-Marmorgesellschaft of 11 Apr. 1910

Contains among other things: Annual Report for 1910/1911

Contains among other things: Annual reports for 1912 and 1913

Contains among other things: Annual Report for 1914 and Minutes of Supervisory Board Meetings

Contains among other things: Annual reports for 1923 - 1928, 1932, 1933, 1936, 1937

Files of the District Court Berlin-Mitte

Enthält u.a.: South West Africa Company, Ltd. 1913.

Contains: Construction of the railway from Bonaberi (Duala) to the Manenguba Mountains in Cameroon. - Contract between the Kamerun-Eisenbahngesellschaft, Berlin and the Deutsche Kolonial-Eisenbahn-Bau- und Betriebs-Gesellschaft zu Berlin dated 6 March 1907 (copy) Otavi-Eisenbahn. - Purchase and lease contract between the treasury of the German South West African protectorate and the Otavi Minen- und Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, Berlin of 23 November 1909 and 30 March 1910 respectively (copy) Südbahn between Lüderitzbucht and Keetmanshoop and Seeheim and Kalkfontein. - Lease agreement between the treasury of the protectorate Deutsch-Südwestafrika and the Deutsche Kolonial Eisenbahn-Bau- und Betriebsgesellschaft, Berlin from 9.12.1909 respectively 15.1.1910 operation of the Cameroon railway Bonaberi (Duala) - Manengubagebirge, Cameroon. - Contract between the Kamerun-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, Berlin and the Deutsche Kolonial-Eisenbahn-Bau- und Betriebs-Gesellschaft, Berlin of 1 and 8 Oct. 1913 (copy) Construction of railways in South Angola. - Draft contract (without date) Future of the state railways in German South West Africa. - Note from Sept. 3, 1909

Contains among other things: Geological investigations in German Southwest Africa.

Contains among other things: Letter from H. Richter to Kastl concerning the uprising of the natives and the construction of a school in Windhoek, 3.5.1921; list of the German private schools in South West Africa, March 1921; minutes of the extraordinary general meeting of the Landesverband der deutschen Schulvereine für Südwestafrika, 1920; overview of the financial situation of the Landesverband der Deutschen Schulvereine, 8.11.1920

Files of the District Court Lüderitzbucht

Contains among other things: Correspondence of Ernst II, Draft of an ordinance and memorandum concerning the R e i c h s k o l o n i a l a m t ; conditions of the German Schutztruppe in South West Africa (including the Herero Uprising, railway construction, port facilities, organisational issues) ; border issues (including correspondence with King Leopold II of Belgium) ; business distribution plans ; budget for 1906 ; newspaper clippings Darin: overview plan of the railway line Windhuk-Rehoboth ; caricature from the "Kladderadatsch" (with illustration of Ernst II).

Contains: Memorandum on the violation of the interests of the Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft für Südwestafrika by the Damaraland Concession