Contains:- Letters from natives: Tred Mukuri, T. Walter Meso, Peter Ntouga, Andreas Mbange, Franz Mukuri, Martin Ekwembu, Audt Toko assistant teacher in Duala, 1893-1908;- Brother Wilhelm Borchert, 1893-1895;Including a letter from Brother Jost Imhof and a letter to Fr. Georg Walter;- Br. Engelbert Britz, 1904;- Br. Michael Busan, 1912- Br. Josef Fischli, 1895- Br. Karl Hirlmeier, 1897- Br. Bernhard Hoffmann, 1894-1895- Br. Josef Höver, 1895- Br. Johann Jäger, 1910- Br. Franz Käsling, 1911- Br. Albert Labonte, 1915- Br. Konstantin Kwiatkowski, 1903- Br. Jakob Meurer, 1902, 1907- Br. Hermann Raible, 1912- Br. Johann Schäfer, 1893-1894- Br. Alfons Schilitz, 1894- Br. Josef Stadlin, 1912- Br. Peter Staudt, 1901-1903- Br. Gregor Stenzel, 1903- Br. Wilhelm Stroer, 1898- Br. Heinrich Tenhof, 1905-1908;- Br. Johann Tenhof, 1907- Br. David Wilte, 1903- Br. Bernhard Wöhrmann, 1905

In it picture postcards:- Kahnpartie auf dem Kribifluss, 1907- Jasuku, secondary school of Marienberg, buildings and pupils, inhabitants and Pallottine Father, 1907- vegetable garden in Duala, 1909 June 30 - Catholic choral society in Duala (Cameroon), 1909 Aug. 10 missionaries with their pupils in Engelberg (Cameroon), 1909 Oct. 22- Cameroon chief with his ministers, 1909 Oct. 27- Der hochw. Herr Apostol. Vicar D. Heinrich Vieter with his missionaries in Jaunde (Cameroon), 1913

Includes letters to:- Adams, Gustav (reference only)- relatives and friends: brothers Theodor and Wilhelm, 1904-1905; Bueer family, 1905; niece Henriette, 1912- Bauhus, Theodor, art and church painter in Süchteln, 1905-1913- Jöhren, Rev. Father, 1905-1906- Confreres: P. Bancken, 1904-1905; Br. Eugen Christlieb, 1905, 1901; P. Halbing (near Bancken); P. Alojzy Majewski, 1906; P. Massmann, 1914; P. Nekes, 1906-1914; P. Päppl, 1896; P. Rieder, 1902-1914; P. Rosenhuber, 1908; P. Georg Walter, 1893; Letters from and to several confreres:- Weiskamp, Hermann, 1896-1913- Benefactors, Mission Societies, 1906-1911; In it picture postcards:to Bauhus:- View of Bonaberl from Balldorf, 1911- View of Hickory from Akwa, 1911- Duala, Port Authority, 1911- Duala, Government Hospitalan family and friends:- Interior of the St. Peter and Paulskirche in Duala (Cameroon), 1905 to confreres, Massmann:- Buildings of the Catholic mission of the Pallottines in Yaoundé (Cameroon), 1914 to confreres, Nekes:- Abbaasspiel, verbotenes Glücksspiel der Neger, for photographic purposes, depicted by Catholic Christians of the Pallottine mission in Yaunde (Cameroon), 1914- Orphans of the Catholic Church. Mission of the Pallottines to Yaoundé (Cameroon), 1914 to confreres, several:- Bellstadt (Cameroon), 1904- Koblenz, Herz-Jesu-Kirche, St. Castor-Kirche- Ravensburg, St. Jodocuskirche

Contains among other things: Memorandum on the execution of the redevelopment of Duala and the execution of facilities due to the settlement of the natives elsewhere, 1914 (?)

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Schutztruppe für Kamerun. - Distribution of the protection force for Cameroon. - Entire protection area. - Planning, 1912 - 1913 [fol. 1 - 18] Schutztruppe für Kamerun. - Distribution of the protection force for Cameroon. - Reinforcement. - Planning, 1912 - 1913 [fol. 1 - 18] Local administration, general. - Transfer of the administration of the German Lake Chad countries from Kusseri to Mora on 1 January 1913 as part of the preparations for the spillover of a European war into the protectorate of Cameroon and the resulting withdrawal of the Schutztruppe für Kamerun, February 1913 [fol. 20 - 21] Local administration, general. - Withdrawal from the German Lake Chad countries and Adamaua during the invasion of British and French troops on the occasion of European entanglements and the resulting transfer of the administration of the German Lake Chad countries from Kusseri to Mora. Report by Governor Dr Ebermaier, February 1913 [fol. 20 - 21] Individual cases. - Pulver, Lieutenant-Colonel. - Illness and request for release from the escort of Governor Dr Ebermaier during the Lake Chad trip, 14 February 1913 [fol. 21a] Individual cases. - Hansen, Privy Government Councillor, First Officer. - Action due to his behaviour as representative of Governor Dr Ebermaier during his official trip to Adamua, 1912 - 1913 [fol. 22 - 24] Schutztruppe für Kamerun. - 12th Company. - Establishment and co-operation with the provincial governor for the territories in East Cameroon requested for the 1913/14 financial year, 1913 [fol. 35 - 36] Schutztruppe für Kamerun. - 12th Company. - New Eastern Territories (Provincial Governor's Office) [fol. 35 - 36] Return of the Bangwa chief Fontem, allegedly involved in the murder of the explorer Conrau in October 1900, from his place of exile Garua to the Dschang district. - Efforts of Governor Dr Ebermaier, 1913 [fol. 46] Geology and Mining. - The Niger Company, Ltd - Co-operation in Mining Matters, 1913 [fol. 48] Deposition of the Sultan of Mendif. - Report by Governor Dr Ebermaier for failure to report, 1913 [fol. 62 - 64] Installation and removal of important native rulers. - Circular by Governor Dr Ebermaier (draft), February 1913 [fol. 62 - 64] Exploration of cotton cultivation possibilities in North Cameroon. - Instructions for the agricultural expert Dr Wolf, 1913 [fol. 66 - 69] Affairs of the chiefs. - Pardon of the Etudi chief Tanga-Jiki, exiled to Garua. - Proposal by Dr Ebermaier, 1913 [fol. 70]Individual cases. - Netzbrand, medical assistant. - Transfer of Tiko as police master to Bare to replace police master Zydel, January 1913 [fol. 76] Individual cases. - Oertel - transfer to Ebolowa, January 1913 [fol. 76] individual cases. - Wilske, secretary. - Secondment from Ossidinge to Bare, January 1913 [fol. 76] Individual cases. - Zimmerer, Eugen von, Bavarian District Court Councillor. - Appointment as Chancellor of the Governorate of Cameroon and assignment to temporarily deputise for the Governor, 1887 [fol. 76] Individual cases. - Zydel, police master in Bare. - Replacement by medical orderly Netzbrand, Tiko, January 1913 [fol. 76] Economic expeditions Dr Fickendey and Dr Mildbread: Instructions for execution. - Telegram from Governor Dr Ebermaier from Germany, 1913 [fol. 92 - 94] Kamerun-Mittellandbahn. - Continuation to Ngaundere. - Memorandum from Governor Dr Ebermaier, 1913 [fol. 95 - 98] Cameroon-Midland Railway. - Unplanned extension beyond Bamum (Fumban) or the Mbam. - Memorandum by Governor Dr Ebermaier, 1913 [fol. 95 - 98] Livestock breeding: Golombe, stud farm. - Budget (draft) 1914/15 (with explanatory notes), 1913 [fol. 102 - 109] Railway exploration expedition (engineer Thévos - 1913). - Exploration of the railway line Ngaundere - Tibati Joko Jaunde, 1913 [fol. 148 - 151] Affairs of the chiefs. - Jaimo, deposed Lamido of Kontcha. - Search measures. - Instruction from Governor Dr Ebermaier to Captain Eymael, 1913 [fol. 153 - 165] Gold deposits in the Garua (Njum) district. - Granting of mining licences, 1912 [fol. 166 - 171] Offices of the local administration. - Akoafim - Provisional formation of the district of Iwindo and transfer of administrative powers to the 11th Company of the Cameroon Protection Force, 1913 [fol. 182 - 188] Elevation and route map of the Lake Chad journey of the Governor of Cameroon, Dr. Karl Ebermaier, in 1914, elevation 1:25,000, longitude 1:2,000,000, based on photographs of the expedition and the available statistical material with explanations, 1914 expropriation and relocation of the native settlements in Duala, (1912 - 1913)

Three copies, no. 34 and 34a stabilised with Neschen strip, no. 34b plastic folder

Contains among other things: Draft of a law concerning the assumption of a guarantee of the Reich with regard to a railway from Duala according to the Manengubabergen traffic regulations together with tariff regulations of the Schantung-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaftof 1. March 1904 Annual report for 1904 of the Schantung-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft

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History of the Inventor: After the German Reich had abandoned an active colonial policy in the first years of its existence due to foreign policy considerations, this changed in 1884. The colonies Deutsch-Südwestafrika, Togo, Cameroon, Deutsch-Neuguinea, Deutsch-Ostafrika and Samoa, formally referred to as "protectorates", emerged. The governorates of these protectorates established in the following period were first under the control of the Colonial Department in the A u s w ä r t i g e s A m t and finally of the resulting R e i c h s k o l o n i a l a m t . The Kiautschou leasehold in China, acquired in 1898, was subject to the R e i c h s m a r i n e a m t . From the very beginning it was necessary to be able to assert and protect the interests of the empire in the colonies by military force. In the initial phase, this task was performed by ships and landing commands of the Imperial Navy. In the German South Sea colonies this remained so until the end. In the African colonies there was a development of their own. In 1889, a troupe of German volunteers with a contract under an active officer (Captain Curt von François) was formed in D e u t s c h - S ü d w e s t a f r i k a , which was initially only to perform police duties. In 1889, in D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a, the Reich Commissioner Captain Herrmann Wissmann set up a troop of recruited Africans to suppress the "Arab Uprising" that broke out in 1888. With the law of 22 March 1891 the "Schutztruppe für Deutsch-Ostafrika" was finally formed from volunteers of the army and navy as well as recruited volunteers, followed by the "Schutztruppe für Deutsch-Südwestafrika" and the "Schutztruppe für Kamerun" with the law of 9 June 1895. A protection force for Togo was planned at times, but was not formed, just as there were no protection forces for German New Guinea or Samoa. Only police troops were formed there. In the respective protectorates the governor held the highest military power, the commander of the protection troop was subordinated to him. The protection troops were responsible for maintaining security and public order. At times the individual protection troops were exclusively occupied with the suppression of insurrections of the indigenous population. To this end, some considerable personnel reinforcements were recruited from Germany. The Schutztruppen were first led by the Reichsmarineamt. With the "Gesetz betreffend die Kaiserlichen Schutztruppen in den Afrikanischen Schutzgebieten und die Wehrpflicht daselbst" of 18 July 1896, the Schutztruppen were subordinated to the Reich Chancellor, administered by the Colonial Department in the Foreign Office. In the Colonial Department, the Department M - Military Administration (Command or High Command of the Protection Forces) was responsible. The Prussian War Ministry (Army Department) took over the organizational support. Command affairs were handled by the Director of the Colonial Department, with Division M as his military staff. With the establishment of the R e i c h s k o l o n i a l a m t by the Most High Decree of 17 May 1907, the command of the Schutztruppen was placed under its control, now as a military command staff with responsible command power. Like the Navy, the Schutztruppen were under the supreme command of the Emperor. Its members were volunteers of the army (or armies of Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony and Württemberg) and the navy, who retired from the respective army or navy for the time of their service in the Schutztruppen and then returned there again. The male German population in the protectorates was subject to compulsory military service. The conscripts in the Schutztruppen were able to meet these demands. In 1913 the Schutztruppe included the following personnel: - Command of the Schutztruppe in Berlin: 80 men - Schutztruppe für Deutsch-Ostafrika: 2758 men (266 Germans, 2492 natives) - Schutztruppe für Deutsch-Südwestafrika: 1970 Mann (German) - Schutztruppe für Kamerun: 1471 Mann (171 German, 1300 indigenous) During the Herero Uprising, the Schutztruppe für Deutsch-Südwestafrika's personnel strength in 1907 was approx. 15,000 men. The outbreak of the First World War hit the German colonies unprepared. Defensive measures against other colonial powers had never been seriously considered, the Imperial Government had assumed that in the event of a European conflict the colonies could be kept out of the fighting according to the agreements in the Congo Act of 1885, despite warning voices from the colonies themselves. On 1 August 1914, therefore, only a state of emergency was declared in the protectorates. It was not until mid-August 1914 that mobilization began in the protectorates, but the armed units there (Schutztruppen, police troops, naval units present) were ultimately without a chance compared with the opponents who were far superior in terms of numbers and materials. The following were lost, partly after fierce fighting, partly without a fight: - on 27 August 1914 Togo - on 7 September 1914 Samoa - on 17 September 1914 Deutsch-Neuguinea - on 9 July 1915 Deutsch-Südwestafrika - in February 1916 Cameroon The Kiautschou leasehold area under the control of the Navy had capitulated after heavy fighting on 7 November 1914. It was only in D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a that the Schutztruppe was able to hold its ground to the end and thus bind considerable enemy forces. Their commander, Major General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, only laid down his weapons on 25 November 1918 on order from Berlin. Processing note: The stock RW 51 was originally created as stock for the "imperial protection troops and other German land forces overseas" and comprised 29 units. In 2010, the documents of the East Asian Expeditionary Corps were extracted and, together with the corresponding new additions, formed the newly created holdings RW 61. Since then, the holdings of RW 51 have consisted exclusively of documents of the Imperial Protection Forces and were subsequently fundamentally revised and developed further. Some new additions were added. Description of the holdings: The collection contains the documents of the Imperial Schutztruppen for 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 and Cameroon, as well as the command of the Schutztruppen, as far as they are available in the military archives. Characterization of content: The inventory contains only a few real fact files. It consists above all of a compilation of commandos of the Schutztruppe für Deutsch-Ostafrika from 1907 to 1914, as well as a file of the same commandos with reports of subordinated units and offices from 1916. In addition there are documents on organization and supply in Deutsch-Ostafrika and Deutsch-Südwestafrika and in particular some hand-drawn maps. Only two documents have survived on Cameroon. State of development: The inventory RW 51 was originally created as an inventory for the "imperial protection troops and other German land forces overseas" and comprised 29 units. In 2010, the documents of the East Asian Expeditionary Corps were extracted and, together with the corresponding new additions, formed the newly created holdings RW 61. Since then, the holdings of RW 51 have consisted exclusively of documents of the Imperial Protection Forces and were subsequently fundamentally revised and developed further. Some new additions were added. Pre-archival order: The tradition of the Schutztruppen In the Bundearchiv military archive is purely fragmentary. The Schutztruppen archive in the Heeresarchiv was destroyed during the air raid on Potsdam in April 1945. This applies to the personnel files of the Schutztruppen and to the records in the archives of the Schutztruppen in the colonies themselves. The tradition of the command of the Schutztruppen is essentially in the R 1001 R e i c h s k o l o n i a l a m t . The documents of the protection troops remaining in Africa after the First World War are now in the national archives of Tanzania (Dar es Salaam), Namibia (Windhoek) and Cameroon (Duala). In addition, the Belgian Imperial Archives in Brussels contain documents of the Rwandan Schutztruppen. Films on the documents in Windhoek and Dar es Salaam can be found in the Federal Archives in Berlin. Replacement records of the Schutztruppen and their deployments can be found above all in the documents of the Imperial Navy, which as a rule acted in a supportive capacity or, during uprisings, also issued landing commands. In addition, reference should be made to the tradition of the contingents of protection troops in the respective state archives provided by Bavaria, Saxony and Württemberg. Scope, explanation: 30 AU Citation method: BArch, RW 51/...

[Kalat'a Evangelo na Epistel, 158 pages, Leipzig 1914. - Library No. 1731] 1914; Contains: Typed copy with envelope of the Spamersche Buchdruckerei in Leipzig, sent to P. Halbing on 30 July 1914, handwritten note by P. Halbing: "Gesanguch für die Christen in Kamerun in der Dualasprache".

Contains also: Correspondence about the expropriation of the natives in Duala (Cameroon)

Father August Halbing was born in Mellrichstadt (Diocese of Würzburg) on November 5, 1870, was ordained a priest in Limburg on August 27, 1894 and died in Limburg on February 28, 1956. He was sent to Cameroon in October 1894, but already in July 1895, very weakened by tropical diseases, he had to return home. After his recovery he worked for several years as a teacher in our study home in Ehrenbreitstein, until he was able to travel to Cameroon a second time in 1900. During this second period in Cameroon he worked almost exclusively in Duala. The study of the national language was very important to him. He was able to print the Biblical story, the catechism and prayers in the Duala language, as well as a German grammar in Dula and a dictionary (German Duala) - all very valuable tools for the work of missionaries in the Duala district. In 1905 a second holiday trip to Europe became necessary and in 1906 he travelled to Cameroon for the third time, first again to Dula, until in 1907 he took over the management and the development of the catechist school in Einsiedeln on the slopes of the Cameroon Mountains, to which a Latin school for local priest candidates could be attached shortly before the war. He was able to train four courses of catechists himself, who together with the black teachers carried the mission work in Cameroon after the expulsion of the German missionaries in the First World War. At the end of 1913 P. Halbing had to return to his German homeland in need of rest. The outbreak of the First World War prevented his return to his beloved mission, which is why he sought to facilitate the lot of foreign prisoners of war by providing pastoral care in various camps until the end of the war. (from the death certificate) The estate largely comprises the papers Halbing brought from Cameroon to Germany in 1913. Bibliography of the works of Halbing on Cameroon in the library of the Mission House in Limburg 1. phrasebook Kleine Grammatik der deutschen Sprache mit nebenst einem Deutsch-Duala Wörterbuch für die katholischen Schulen in Kamerun / Beleedi ba gerama o jokwa bwambo ba teuto na leêle la beyala ba teut-duala, Limburg 1907[Library No. 192, 1717, double piece at the end of the collection; Fibel o nyol'a besukulu ba Katolik na bwambo ba Duala o Kamerun, Limburg 1907[Library No, 191 (p. 1-102, handwritten with phonetic characters, 1913)No. 1757 (only p. 1-16, 65-104) No. 1764 (only p.1-16) Only title of Halbing, which is proven in KVK. 2nd Pastoral Texts Little Biblical Story / Kalat' a Miango ma Bibel nisadi, by Franx Xaver Schulte, translated by August Halbing, Limburg 1903[Library No. 1726, Double piece at the end of the collection Passio Domini nostri Jesu Christi / Miango ma mutaka ma Sango asu Jesus Kritus tengêné evangelo inêi ya bosangi, Salzburg 1905[Library No. 1725, Double piece at the end of the collection[Prayers] / Makane, S. 1-16, Duala 1912[Text table with lime trees, Katekismus a katoik, pp. 3-18 (see below)[Library No. 189[Prayers to Christ and other prayers] / Makane ma mot'a Kristus, Lame (Togo) 1913[Library No. 1738, Doppelstück am Ende des Bestandes[Songbook] / Kalat'a Evangelo na Epistel, 158 pages, Leipzig 1914[Library No. 1731, Doppelstück am Ende des Bestandes3. Printed works of other authors in use by P. Halbing Carl Meinhof, Die Sprache der Duala in Kamerun[mit einem Duala-Deutsch Wörterbuch] (German Colonial Languages, vol. IV), Berlin 1912 According to the entry probably not received until 1914 in Limburg from P. Sasse[taken from library no. 5906; P. Linden S.J.., Katekismus a katolik nyn boso nisadi na bwambo ba Duala (Cameroon), Limburg 1913[p.3-18 textidentisch mit Makane, p.1-16 (see above)[Library No. 1728, double piece at the end of the collection4. Manuscripts by P. Halbing: Psalms translation into the language of the Duala in Cameroon, handwritten, Christmas 1949, taken from the archive N.151 (Nachlass Halbing)

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