Chinese recruits with their rifles have started the roll call and are instructed by German non-commissioned officers / Photographer: Scherl

Contains among other things: Postal connection to Shanghai

Recording date: 01.06.1904 Chinese celebrities in Jinan, the provincial capital of the Chinese province Shandong, before the opening train of the so-called Shantung Railway built by the Germans between Qingdao (Tsingtau) and Jinan (also: Jinanfu or Tsinanfu). She connected the German protectorate Tsingtao with the Chinese railway network / Photographer: Scherl

German colonialists on the opening trip over the Hanku railway bridge / Photographer: Scherl

Officers of the landing squad S.M.S. 'Kaiser', the flagship of the Rear Admiral of Diederichs, at the time of the coastal occupation. They are the first German colonial rulers to arrive in Tsingtau / Photographer: Scherl

German soldiers of the imperial navy in the main street in Tsingtau / Photographer: Scherl

Contains among other things: Paul Rohrbach: German-Chinese Studies Tsingtau, in : Special print from the Prussian Yearbooks, edited by Hans Delbrück, volume 134, 2nd/3rd issue, Berlin 1908 H. Graf Schlieffen: Politisches Wetterleuchten in Ostasien, in: March, Halbmonatsschrift für deutsche Kultur, edited by Ludwig Thoma et al., 3rd volume, 1st February issue, Munich 1909, pp. 168 - 173 Die Zukunft, edited by Maximilian Harden, XVII volume, issue no. 10, 05 Dec. 1908, Otto Corbach: Fort aus Kiautschau, in: Das Blaubuch. Weekly, h.g. by H. Ilgenstein, Volume IV, Issue No. 6, 1909, p. 135 - 145 Johannes Leonhart: Kiautschou, in: Fortschritt. Halbmonatsschrift für Politik, Wirtschaft und Marinefragen, edited by Johannes Leonhart, Volume 2, Issue 24, Kiel, 15 Dec 1908, pp. 699 - 702

Japanese tree shooters shoot German planes in Tsingtau / Photographer: Scherl

Inauguration of the Diederichstein, a memorial plaque carved into the rock to commemorate the German acquisition of Kiautschous and to commemorate Admiral von Diederichs / Photographer: Scherl

On 27 January 1898, the first troop parade of the German army took place in the new colony at the beach camp in Tsingtau. Before the squadron commander Admiral von Diederichs and his officers the newly landed troops defile / Photographer: Scherl

Contains among other things: Annual Report of the German School Tsingtau for 1938/39

German sailors of the Marine Landing Command in front of the 'Hotel Irene' in Tsingtau / Photographer: Scherl

Contains among other things: Law concerning the friendship treaties with Tonga and Samoa and the friendship, trade and shipping treaty with Zanzibar of 15.02.1900 together with the implementing ordinance of 17.02.1900 Qu. 135, 140; ordinance concerning the expropriation of real property in the protectorates of Africa and the South Seas of 1903 Qu. 170; decrees concerning: declaration Kiautschous to the protectorate of 1898 Qu. 110, Declaration of Protection over the Caroline Islands, Palau and Mariana Islands of 1899 Qu. 123, Declaration of Protection over the Samoa Islands west of 171st degree of longitude w.L. of 1900 Qu. 142; Granting of corporate rights to the Schantung Mining Company Tsingtau and the German Society for Mining and Industry Abroad, Tsingtau 1899/1901 Qu. 126, 156

German patrol with Kaumi (today: Gaomi) in the German colony Kiautschou during the Boxer Uprising / Photographer: Scherl