The court system is well documented in numerous individual case files, both with regard to jurisdiction over natives and "Europeans".

The household and treasury system is essentially documented in the records of the governor's main treasury.

The administration can mainly be traced in the files of the district offices of Herbertshöhe, Rabaul, Friedrich Wilhelmshafen and Käwieng, whereby "administration" at that time also included jurisdiction over natives.

Only a few documents from the imperial stations have survived.

Contains among other things: Budgets for the protectorates Togo, Cameroon, New Guinea including the island districts of the South Seas for 1914 Budget draft for D e u t s c h - S ü d w e s t a f r i k a for 1907 Use plan for the budget funds available at the Civil Administration for the financial year 1911

Contains among other things: Budget for the accounting year 1909; also contains: budget for the East African protectorate, the protectorate of Cameroon, the protectorate of Togo, the protectorate of New Guinea, the protectorate of Samoa, the administration of the Caroline Islands, Palau, Mariana Islands and Marshall Islands, the R e i c h s k o l o n i a l a m t office

Contains among other things: Budget for the accounting year 1909; also contains: Budget of the protectorate debt Budget for the Reichs-Kolonialamt, the East African protectorate, the protectorate Cameroon, the protectorate Togo, the protectorate Samoa, the protectorate New Guinea including the island districts of the South Seas

Contains among other things: Settlement of the Kaiser-Wilhelms-Land Planting and planting of plantations Opening of government stations

Contains among other things: The idea of a greater Germany, Berlin 1890 Health control of the natives recruited as workers in the protectorate of the New Guinea Company. Decree of October 1890 Amoy emigration to the Indian Archipelago with special reference to the Deli Company, 1891

Contains among other things: Execution and recruitment of natives as workers in the protectorate of German New Guinea, excluding the Caroline, Palau and Mariana Islands. Ordinance of July 1901

Contains among other things: General provisions applicable to craftsmen and persons treated as such serving New Guinea Company, Oct. 1887 General provisions relating to the status of officials in the New Guinea Company protectorate, Oct. 1887 Disciplinary provisions applicable to officials in the New Guinea Company protectorate, Oct. 1887

Bde 1-3 destroyed.

contains: Report about the events in the protectorate of Deutsch Neu-Guinea 1914/15 of March 17th 1915

Contains among other things: "Buzzard", "Falcon" - Apia, Sydney, Marshall Area Reports on the conditions in Samoa, Ponape, Marshall Islands, New Guinea Protectorate 1895 to 1896

Contains among other things: Travelogues about journeys from Apia to Sydney, in the protectorates of the Marshall Islands and the New Guinea Company, activity and training reports, etc.

New Guinea: a Hamburg barque at the factorial building of the Hernsheim company

Contains among other things: Protocol of handover of the command of the cruiser squadron from Eduard von Knorr to Carl Eduard Heusner, April 15, 1887 "Instruction for the conduct of the commanders of S.M. ships and vehicles in the protectorate of the New Guinea Company" (copy), March 27, 1887 Report to the Chief of Admiralty Leo von Caprivi on conditions in Sydney, Aug 18, 1887

Contains among other things: Imperial letters of protection by which the company was transferred sovereignty over the protectorates of New Guinea and the Solomon Islands in return for assuming certain obligations, 17.5.1885 Agreements between the Imperial Chancellor and the company over New Guinea and the Solomon Islands