Explanation: Documents from the possession of the leader of the indigenous movement against the German colonial rule in today's Namibia, at that time German South West Africa, Hendrik Witbooi (ca. 1830-1905) had fallen into the hands of the Bremen merchant August Engelbert Wulff in 1895 in the course of military conflicts in Gibeon, Namibia. In 1935 he sold it to the then German Colonial and Overseas Museum. The documents were handed over to the National Archives of Windhoek in 1995 after reproductions had been made for the State Archives of Bremen and the Übersee-Museum. Content: Correspondence

Contains among other things: Treatment of the indigenous population in South West Africa

• Including:<br />- two negatives from a court martial in South West Africa<br />- 183 postcards (partly descriptive) with motifs (incl. Schutztruppen, locals, landscapes, places and buildings) from:<br />- German South West Africa (Namibia): a.o. Walvis Bay, Swakopmund, Windhoek, Abbabis, Otjitundo, Owamboland, Omaruru, Karibib, Kubas and Lüderitz Bay,<br />- German East Africa (Tanzania): including Tanga, Dar-es-Salaam<br />- Cape Colony (South Africa): Cape Town, Aliwal North<br />- Brazil: Guaruja. Brusque<br />- India: e.g. Ahmedabad, Abu<br />- Egypt: Port Said, Suez Canaln* 1904 - 1926, Stadtarchiv Nürnberg, E 10/32 NL Friedrich Stahl

description: Contains:StartVNr: E 2376/1909; EndVNr: E 667/1910; and others: Cooperation with the Vorderasiatisches Museum, (1909), p. 34, the Botanical Central Office for the Colonies at the Royal Botanical Garden and Museum, p. 113, and the Museum of Natural History, Berlin, (1910), p. 213 ff., 235 f.- Sale of duplicates to the Hzgl. collections of the Veste Coburg, (1909), p. 36 ff.- Cooperation with the Städtisches Museum, Bremen, (1912), pp. 75 - Cooperation with the Kgl. Landesaufnahme, pp. 167, the Kgl. Bergakademie, Berlin, (1910), pp. 219 f., and the Seminar für Geographie, Hamburg, (1909), pp. 1 ff - Lending of doublets to a girls' school, Berlin, (1910), pp. 237 - Cooperation with the BGAEU, (1910), pp. 17 ff - Cooperation with the Kgl. Landesaufnahme, pp. 167, the Kgl. Bergakademie, Berlin, (1910), pp. 219 f., and the Seminar für Geographie, Hamburg, (1909), pp. 1 ff - Lending of doublets to a girls' school, Berlin, (1910), pp. 237 ff - Cooperation with the BGAEU, (1910), pp. 17 ff, and the command of the Schutztruppe für DSW, Windhoek, (1910), p. 182, 184 Schipper: Explanation of the term "Kobirra" for Hörige, (1910), p. 72 - Karasek: Bericht über Fehldeutung des Verhaltens von natischen, (1909), p. 95 f. - by Ramsay: Explanation of his donation, (1910), p. 154 f. - Kaufmann: Donation of a skeleton, (1910), pp. 170 f.- Leupolt: Explanation of his donation, (1910), pp. 191 f.- Adametz: Report on religious ideas in Cameroon, pp. 195 ff, and on metallurgy, (1909, 1910), pp. 205 ff - "Darwinsche pathognomische Fragen", [1910], pp. 223 f.- Rathgen: Report on anthropological research in Tunisia, (1910), pp. 238 f.

Contains: Complaint by F. Kreuz about the book by Eugen Hobein, Untouched Africa

Contains:

Enthält u.a.: Cape of Good Hope. Reports and Correspondence respecting the State of Affairs at Walfisch Bay. Cape Town 1888

Contains among other things: Map of D e u t s c h - S ü d w e s t a f r i k a with drawings of the most important tribal areas, military and mission stations. M.: 1:3 000 000. 1892

Contains: Riots in the German-Portuguese border region of Amboland and the Labour Question (1914) Situation after the World War English Secret Service in South West Africa (1938) Possibility of demonstrations by the local population in Windhoek on Dingaanotag (16 Dec 1938)

and others: Lazaret in Windhoek; Warrior Association Windhoek; Native Church in Windhoek; Natives (Herero; Nama; Owambo); German Schutztruppe; Fortress Omaruru; Church in Bethany; Oitjo; Artillery of the German Schutztruppe; Kunene river; Owambo mission station; native animal species; Gobabis fortress; Oas fortress; Auasberg heliographer station; Keetmanshoop fortress; (28 x 21 cm) various sizes; album with photographs, black and white; z. T. strongly faded

Contains among other things: Status of the Missions-Handels-Actien-Gesellschaft zu Barmen 1870 General map of the Protestant mission work in South West Africa, by Dr. Wangemann. M.: 1:5 German miles, 1875

Contains among other things: Several English publications on the affairs of Damara and Mamaqua Three Maps of Africa with drawings of Portuguese colonial possessions and the travels of Portuguese major Serpa Pinto through West Africa 1877-1879

Contains among other things: Dislocation of the Schutztruppen after the budget of 1896/97

Contains among other things: G. Hausleiter, On the Native Question in German-Southwest Africa. Berlin, 1906 I. Irle, what will become of the Herero? Z.A. Gütersloh 1906

Contains among other things: Campaign against the return of the colony to Germany

Letters from local Christians by J. F. Hein, Evangelist, 1905; Telegrams (including 1 "optical telegram"); Hypothekenangelegenheit Charles Ritter, 1903-1906; detailed account of construction and equipment e. Ochsenwagens, 1906; map sketch with travel route to Ovamboland, 1906; Letters to Johannes Wilhelm Karl Spiecker from the Heimatleitung, 1906; Reiseerlaubnis d. German authorities in Outjo, 1906

Conference minutes; The conversion and life stories of 25 evangelists, recorded at the conference in Okahandja, 1936; "Evangelisten-Ordnung", in German, Herero and Nama, 1938;

Diary & Letters d. teacher Jonas Rynhards, Rehoboth, who was trained in Barmen, 1850-1852; Letters &. Reports by Daniel Cloete, Traugott Kauapirura, Elias Kandirikirira, Paul Mbenovandu, Manasse Kaukutua, Theobald, Gottlieb oa Jonas, Gabriel Hendrik Huaaraka, Jonas Lukas, Josaphat Kamatoto, Petrus Hendrik, Gottlieb Davids, Willy Zeraua and others local Christians, evangelists, preachers and teachers, 1889-1911

Life Picture of Anania by Heinrich Vedder, n.d.; Letters by Nikodemus Kido, Sesfontein, Wilhelm Kandjii, Aminuis, 1913 1922; Correspondence Petrus Jod to Missionary Christian Wilhelm Friedrich Spellmeyer, 1935-1944; Correspondence Markus Witbooi to Christian Wilhelm Friedrich Spellmeyer, 1939-1940; Life Picture of Nikodemus Kido, Sesfontein, Wilhelm Kandjii, Aminuis, 1913 1922; Life Picture of Christian Wilhelm Friedrich Spellmeyer, 1939-1940 Jakobus Beukes, on the occasion of his ordination as first local pastor, written by Wilhelm Lind, n.d.; J. Dausab and Hendrik Isaak to Christian Wilhelm Friedrich Spellmeyer, 1940; Erastus Kandovazu, report on his death, 1941; circular letter to the local coworker and to the local priest. Gemeinden, by Christian Wilhelm Friedrich Spell-meyer and Friedrich Wilhelm (Fritz) Mayer, 1939-1945; Verzeichnis d. einheimischen Mitarbeiter (with dates of birth), 1941; circular letter in Nama language by Friedrich Hermann Rust, 1948; Korrespondenz RMG mit verschiedenen einheimischen Mitarbeiter, 1948-1963; correspondence Gustav Menzel mit Joh. Daniel Strydom, 1954-1959 1966; Correspondence G. Menzel with P. Hendrik Isaak, Maltahöhe, 1953; Report on the ordination of Bergdama parish priest Josef Hanse and inauguration of the new church school in Stamprietfontein, 1954; list of all employees in SWA (ELK) (with dates of birth), 1965;

Contains among other things: Food of the local population