Contains: Sub-contracting relations South West Africa

Contains: Postal agents in South West Africa Use of laymen in the postal service to save money

Contains: Local aid workers South West Africa

History of the Inventor: Founder of the Gesellschadt für deutsche Kolonisation (the later Deutsch-Ostafrikanischen Gesellschaft), Reichskommissar in the German protectorate of East Africa Citation method: BArch, N 2223/...

Contains: Petition for a referendum on the dissolution of the Prussian Landtag and against the Young Plan

History of the Inventory Designer: The Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt (PTR), founded in 1887 as a scientific institution subordinated to the Reich Ministry of the Interior and from 1934 subordinated to the Reich Ministry of Science, Education and People's Education, was the result of years of efforts to establish a state organisation for experimental natural research and precision engineering. The execution of extensive scientific-physical investigations as well as the simultaneous practical implementation of the results in precision mechanics and technology allowed the PTR to quickly play an important role in basic research. This scientific institution was headed by its president and a board of trustees set up for technical supervision and consultation. Presidents of the PTR: Hermann von Helmholtz 1887-1892 Friedrich Kohlrausch 1895-1905 Emil Warburg 1905-1922 Walther Nernst 1922-1924 Friedrich Paschen 1924-1933 Johannes Stark 1933-1939 Abraham Esau 1939-1945 In 1923, the Reichs-anstalt für Maß und Gewicht, which had emerged from the Normaleichungskommission in 1919, was merged with the PTR. Over the years, constantly growing or more specialised areas of responsibility have led to changes in the structure of the department. In the presidential department, laboratories, main workshop, main library and administration were directly subordinated to the president. Division II: Electricity (from 1936: for electricity and magnetism) Division III: Heat and Pressure Division IV: Optics Division V: Atomic Physics and Physical Chemistry (from 1939) Division VI: Precision Mechanics and Acoustics (from 1939) After 1945, the tasks of the PTR were transferred to the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (Braunschweig) and the Deutsche Amt für Maß und Gewicht (Berlin). Inventory description: In 1977 and 1981 files of the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt and the Normaleichungskommission (NEK) were transferred from the Office for Standardization and Metrology of the GDR to the Zentrale Staatsarchiv Potsdam. They were combined under the designation PTR to form a stock (R 1519). The files of Divisions III to VI of the PTR as well as the organisation and business operations of NEK have been handed down incompletely. The file fragments for sound, vibration and pressure measurements in torpedo and mine development and further development of precision measuring instruments for the 1936 Olympic Games (inventory R 105), which were previously stored in the Federal Archives in Koblenz, were assigned to inventory R 1519 in Berlin in 1996. Content characterisation: An important part of the science policy of the National Socialist state is documented in the existing documents on the management, organisation, planning and reporting of the PTR. Further focal points are processes relating to research and training issues, in particular in Divisions I Measurement and Weight and II Electricity and Magnetism. Also preserved are documents on the development and testing of a target time camera that was used during the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, as well as some files on torpedo and mine development between 1940 and 1944. State of development: Findbuch, Online-Findbuch (2005) Citation method: BArch, R 1519/...

Photo documentation of the construction projects of the Holzmann construction group. U 5/3/17: Railway construction German East Africa** Scope: approx. 140 photographs Processing: not digitized Planning: Feeding into the German Digital Library (2019/20)

Contains among other things: Pro Memoria über die allgemeinen und politischen Verhältnisse auf Sansibar (transcript), o. Dat. Contract between the Society for German Colonization and Sultan Mbuela von Useghua (transcript), Nov. 19, 1884 Protective Letter for the Society for German Colonization of November 27, 1884. Feb. 1885 (transcript) Memorandum on "Acquisitions of the Society for German Colonization in East Africa with Regard to Geographical Characteristics, Political Conditions etc. and Some Aspects for the Administration to be Created There" by Carl Peters (transcript), o. Dat.

Contains: Documents for the foundation of a memorandum on some areas of South West Africa Separate print from no. 26 and 27 of the "Deutsche Kolonialzeitung" 1890 on settlement conditions in South West Africa from the point of view of organized colonization

Contains: among others: essay by Erwin Finlay-Freundlich "Über die Notwendigkeit der Errichtung eines auswärtigen astronomischen Forschungsinstituts" - publication by Paul Range "Neue Temperaturbeobachtungen aus dem Süden Deutsch-Südwest-Afrikas" - memorandum about the erection of a German imperial observatory in Windhoek by Paul Guthnick - German astronomical journalist School reports of a German school in Swakopmund - "Points of view for the selection of a place for the German astronomical station" by Friedrich Becker - Map of Pretoria and surroundings (1908) - General plan of the city of Windhoek (1916).

Series was formed archival

Contains among other things: Situation in the Province of Schantung, Nanking, Exploitation of Events for German Interests for the Economic Conquest of China "Political Achievements and Tasks in China" by Dr. Fritz Wertheimer in "Die Guldenkammer", 3rd Vol. No. 5 of Feb. 1913 Japan's Demands on China, Japanese-Chinese Agreement of May 25, 1915 "Parties and Colonial Policy" in Journal "Koloniale Fragen" No. 2 published by the Action Committee of the German Colonial Society, Berlin 1916

Keywords: Reichskolonialbund, German Colonial Society Size: 0.1 m Period: 1935-1940

Contains among other things: Increased activities of German colonial associations in South Africa Immigration of German settlers to South Africa

Contains among other things: List of wanted persons to whom monetary claims are open as creditors, representatives or heirs of the trustee of the Reich Government

Contains among other things: Elimination of self-administration and connection of South West Africa as 5th province to the South African Union Granting of credit to German South West Africans Singing movement of the German Evengelisch-Lutheran community of South West Africa Dürerhaus in Windhoek

Contains among other things: Foundation of a German Confederation for Southwest Africa Naturalisation Act Reorganisation of immigration regulations for Southwest Africa Nationality issues for Germans in Southwest Africa

Contains among other things: Visit of General J. B. M. Hertzog to the Mandate Area of South West Africa, Oct./Nov. 1924

Contains: Appeal of the Working Committee for the Kaiser Wilhelm Dankesgabe concerning exemptions in hospitals and for Landerholung (print), c. 1929; Kampfbund für deutsche Kultur, 11 Jan. and May 1929; Wilhelm Cuno, 24 Jan. and 1 May 1929 (letters), 20 and 28 Apr. [May] 1929 (telegrams); Deutscher Hochschulring, 1 and 16 Feb. 1929; Flyer "Was sind die Vereinigten Vaterländischen Verbände Bayerns? (print), (6 March 1929); Levetzow to Otto Schmidt-Hannover concerning the statement of the Reich President Paul v. Hindenburg on the Reich Constitution, 17 March 1929; GL Friedrich Graf v. der Schulenburg, 24 March and 4 April 1929; Reich Secretariat of the United Patriotic Associations of Germany: Mitteilungen Nr. 1 (reprint), 26. March 1929; Ewald v. Kleist-Schmenzin, 5. Apr. 1929; Two drafts for the call of the steel helmet - Bund der Frontsoldaten, 17. Apr. 1929; Political thoughts of Wilhelm Cuno, 18. Apr. 1929; Correspondence between HdR Franz Seldte and the Prince of Oettingen concerning the following Takeover of the protectorate via the Reichsfrontsoldatenrat 1929 by Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria, Apr. 1929; Adolf Hitler to Stahlhelm - Bund der Frontsoldaten - concerning accession of the NSDAP to the petition for a referendum (copy), Apr. 1929 (22. May 1929); list of military associations, political alliances, alliances for German culture, women's, sports and youth alliances, economic and cultural organisations (reprint), (May 1929); programme of the "Vaterländische Kundgebung gegen Versailles, Kriegs- und Kolonialschuldlüge" (patriotic rally against Versailles, war and colonial guilt lie) on 28 June 1929 (reprint), o.Dat.

Dr. Hermann Haack (Verfasser). Justus Perthes (Verlag), van ... Grinten (Entwerfer). Druck vollkoloriert (Staaten vielfarbig, Deutsches Reich orange, ehemalige deutsche Kolonien orange schraffiert). 1 : 20.000. Gotha. Gerollt (auf Holzleisten), 210 x 122 cm; thematische Karte mit Einzeichnung der Staatsgrenzen zu Beginn des 2. Weltkriegs (Inselnamen farbig unterstrichen); politische Schulwandkarte (auf Leinen aufgezogen). Bem.: Maßstab im metrischen System; äquatorständiges Meridiangitternetz; Deutsches Reich mit Stand der Grenzen von Anfang 1940 ("Großdeutsches Reich" mit Generalgouvernement). Bezeichnung der Sowjetunion als "Russisches Reich".