Contains among other things: Scales in Duala Coal procurement and supply

Contains among other things: New construction of a storage shed Operation of the repair workshop and Duala

Contains among other things: Floating docks in Duala and Dar es Salaam Improvement of landing conditions in Swakopmund

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/...

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

description: Contains:StartVNr: E 1843/1908; EndVNr: E 2775/1908; and others: Cooperation with the Botanical Museum, pp. 2 f., the Botanical Central Office for the Colonies at the Royal Botanical Garden and Museum, pp. 1, and the Museum of Natural History, Berlin, (1908), pp. 58 - Delivery of duplicates to the Hzgl. collections of the Veste Coburg, pp. 175 f., the Museum für Völkerkunde, Leipzig, (1908), pp. 93, 95, 235 ff., 253 ff., and the Wachsenburg Committee, Gotha, (1908, 1909), pp. 12 ff., 151 ff.- Cooperation with the Städtisches Museum für Natur- und Heimatkunde, Magdeburg, pp. 243 f., and the Reichsmuseum, Leiden, (1908), pp. 324 f.- Cooperation with the Royal Institute for Infectious Diseases, Berlin, pp. 130, the Commission for the Study of the Protectorates, Leipzig, (1908), pp. 40, 53, 72 ff., 89, 91 f., 251, and the African Society, London, (1908, 1909), pp. 180 ff. - submission of duplicates to the Colonial Economic Committee, Berlin, pp. 58, and the Handelsschule, Cologne, (1908), pp. 58.- cooperation with the Governor of Togo, (1908), pp. 174.- cooperation with the German Colonial Society, Berlin, pp. 231, and the Gesellschaft Nordwest-Kamerun, Duala, (1908), pp. 6 ff. - cooperation with the German Colonial Society, Berlin, pp. 631, and the Gesellschaft Nordwest-Kamerun, Duala, (1908), pp. 6 ff. Cooperation with missionaries, pp. 15, 141, the Basler Mission, pp. 267 ff., 275, and the White Fathers, (1908), pp. 293 ff.- Kamerun-Expedition, Thorbecke, (1908), pp. 59 ff.- Zimmermann: Report on the Exploitation of Weapons, (1908), p. 16 - Rehse: Suggestions for a Research Trip, p. 23 f., together with Map, (1908), Sketch, p. 25 - "The Origin of the Bushmen, Hottentot and Bantu Negro". In: Windhoek News : 1909-07-10, p. 149 - "Bushman paintings." In: Cape Times : 1908-10-07, p. 173. - Thomas, Struck and others: Creation of a linguistic questionnaire for the colonies, (1908, 1909), pp. 177 ff. - offer of the Grundmann company, [1908], pamphlet, pp. 262 f. - Vöhringer: Description of the programme, (1908), pp. 271 f. - Karasek: Request for support for his research on the Waschambae, (1908), pp. 282 f. - Proposals for honouring Weule and Meyer, (1908), pp. 286 ff. - Scheunemann: Offer of the scepter of Diba von Bertua, (1908), pp. 300 f.

description: Contains:StartVNr: E 3/1908; EndVNr: E 899/1908; and others: Cooperation with the Botanical Museum, page 135, the Botanical Central Office for the Colonies at the Royal Botanical Garden and Museum, page 85 f., and the Museum of Natural History, Berlin, page 257 f., 271.- Sale of doublets to the Hzgl. collections of the Veste Coburg, page 87 ff.., the Upper Silesian Museum, Gleiwitz, pp. 193 ff., the Wachsenburg Committee, Gotha, pp. 208 ff., the Museums of Ethnology, Frankfurt a.M., pp. 130, 204, 206 ff., Cologne, pp. 203, 279 ff., and Leipzig, (1908), pp. 145 ff. - Cooperation with the Imperial and Royal Court of Germany (k.k.) Geologische Reichsanstalt, Vienna, (1908), pp. 116 ff. - Sale of duplicates to private individuals, (1908), pp. 18 - Cooperation with the governors of DOA, pp. 185 ff., Cameroon, pp. 252, and Togo, (1908), among others on the whereabouts of the ethnographica from the colonial exhibition in Friedenau, pp. 67, 200 f., 205, 276 - Cooperation with the Society Northwest Cameroon, Duala, (1907, 1908), p. 1 - Cooperation with missionaries, p. 68, 188 f., 259 ff, and the Basler Mission, (1908), p. 78 - Beunat: "Catalogue d' armes et objets divers prosenant du Congo ...", (1908), Abzug, p. 6 ff - "Litteratur zur Völkerkunde der Watussi, Wasimsa, Wassuttuma, Waschaschi, Wayaia etc. Nach Mittheilung von B. Struck.", (1908), pp. 22 ff. - Catalogue of offers Just, Görlitz, (1908), Printed by Druckschr., pp. 26 f. - Rohrbach: Donation of an autograph by Njoya von Bamum, (1908), pp. 28 f. - "... Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory ..." In: Vossische Ztg. : 1908-01-22, pp. 44 - Adametz: Report on the Use of Juju Heads, (1907), pp. 74 ff., and on Collecting in Connection with Military Actions, (1908), pp. 80 f.- "Lepidopten-List der Naturhistorischen Anstalt von Arnold Voelschow in Schwerin in Mecklenburg", (1907), Druckschr., pp. 95 ff.- Fromms departure for a DOA expedition, In: Geraisches Tagebl. : 1908-03-11, p. 183 - "Report on the activities of the Wachsenburg Committee and the Wachsenburg Association in 1907", p. 211 f., "Report of the 'Verein Wachsenburg' zu Gotha on the year 1907", (1908), print print, page 213 - Dempwolff: Sendung eines Schädels, (1908), page 248 - Struck: "Schutzgebiet Kamerun. Questionnaire for the first recording of the languages of the Adamaua tribes, compiled on behalf of the Royal Museum of Ethnology ...", (1908), Druckschr., pp. 253 ff.- Schmitz: Bericht aus Rhodesien, (1908), pp. 260 f.