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

Captured English march through the streets of Windhoek / Photographer: Scherl

Cardboard 1:1. German Reichstag and other German parliaments 1850-19142. People's Chamber GDR 1957ff.3. newspaper clippings parliamentary stenography 1885-1995Cardboard 2: Saxon Landtag 1850-1931Cardboard 3: International 1860-1914: e.g. German South West Africa (Windhoek, minutes of 1913/1914), Italy, France, Hungary, Austria, Spain

German Sunday Society" sitting at tables in a beer garden, probably Gustav Wefer postcard by Gustav Wefer, dated 2. 5. 1911, addressed to Mr. Joh. Becker

Contains: among others: essay by Erwin Finlay-Freundlich "Über die Notwendigkeit der Errichtung eines auswärtigen astronomischen Forschungsinstituts" - publication by Paul Range "Neue Temperaturbeobachtungen aus dem Süden Deutsch-Südwest-Afrikas" - memorandum about the erection of a German imperial observatory in Windhoek by Paul Guthnick - German astronomical journalist School reports of a German school in Swakopmund - "Points of view for the selection of a place for the German astronomical station" by Friedrich Becker - Map of Pretoria and surroundings (1908) - General plan of the city of Windhoek (1916).

Contains among other things: Elimination of self-administration and connection of South West Africa as 5th province to the South African Union Granting of credit to German South West Africans Singing movement of the German Evengelisch-Lutheran community of South West Africa Dürerhaus in Windhoek