Contains among other things: "The Belgian-English Question" Memorandum of an unknown author (printed as "Um des teuer deutschen Blut und Vaterlandes Willen", 1915); Memorandum of an unknown author on the question of war guilt (Fragment, 30 p.), ca. 1915; "Meine Londoner Mission" Memorandum of the Ambassador in London Prince Karl Marx Lichnowsky, 1916 Also contains: "Die Irische Republik", unknown author, ca. 1917-1918

Kommandierung zur deutschen Abteilung der deutsch-französischen Grenzkommission Ost-Kamerun, 7 Aug. 1905 [fol. 2] Kröger, S. - Kommandierung als Expeditionsunteroffizier zur deutschen Abteilung der deutsch-französischen Grenzkommission Ost-Kamerun, 7 Sept. 1905 [fol. 4] Winkler, Erwin Gotthold, Oberleutnant. - Appointment as 2nd Commissioner of the German section of the Franco-German Border Commission South Cameroon, 27 Aug. 1905 [fol. 7] Engagement of workers from the Togo protectorate for the German section of the Franco-German South Cameroon Border Expedition, 1905 [fol. 9 - 14] Cancellation of the Banjo garrison and establishment of a police post under the Garua Residentur - proposal by Governor von Puttkamer, 1905 [fol. 9 - 14] Enlistment of soldiers from the Togo protectorate for the German section of the Franco-German South Cameroon Border Commission, 1905 [fol. 9 - 14] Bernhardt, Max, non-commissioned officer. - Commanding the German section of the Franco-German Border Commission East Cameroon, 1905 [fol. 47] General political, military and economic conditions. - East and South Cameroon. - Report by Captain Scheunemann, 1905 [fol. 50] Freier, Otto, cartographer at the publishing house Dietrich Reimer, Berlin. - Request for and assignment to the German section of the Franco-German East Cameroon Border Commission, 1905 - 1906 [fol. 56 - 97] Difficulties of the South Cameroon Society in supporting the German section of the Franco-German East Cameroon Border Expedition due to lack of support, 1906 [fol. 61 - 78] Incorporation of the Lamidat Binder claimed by France. - Request from Lamidos Chalid to Lieutenant Schipper, Garua, ca. 1905 [fol. 91 - 92] Regional border matters. - Binder, 1904 - 1906 [fol. 91 - 92] General political, military and economic conditions. - Njong area. - Report by Captain von Stein, 1906 [fol. 93 - 95] Glass beads as a means of payment for the German-French border commission East Cameroon due to lack of procurement of barter items from German factories, 1906 [fol. 105 - 106] Bernhardt, Max, non-commissioned officer. - Burial in Kunde after death on 5 May 1906, 1906 [fol. 108 - 113] Regional border affairs. - Djau Kombol, 1906 [fol. 140 - 144] Borders with the French possessions. - Non-recognition of the agreement approved by the Governor. - Secret decree of the Foreign Office, 1906 [fol. 142] Provisional Franco-German agreement on the course of the border in the Chari-Lagone-Tuburi region: copy, 21 July 1905 [fol. 146] Transfer of African soldiers of the protection force for Cameroon to the German section of the Franco-German Border Commission East Cameroon on 15 October 1905 - List of names, 1906 [fol. 183] General political, military and economic conditions. - Southern Musgum region. - Report by Lieutenant Kund, Bongor, ca. 1906 [fol. 194] Deployment of the Franco-German East and South Cameroon border expedition. - Memorandum, ca. 1905 [fol. 205]

Contains: Draft of a decree from the Federal Foreign Office to the German envoy in Stockholm

The estate of the Prussian Minister of Culture Carl Heinrich Becker was given to the Secret State Archives in 1973 by his son Prof. Dr. Hellmut Becker as a deposit. The estate consists of two main groups, 1. correspondence and 2. factual documents. Business and factual correspondence were not separated, as the transitions were fluid and difficult to distinguish in individual cases. Associations, authorities, etc. are listed in the correspondence as correspondence partners and in the subject groups with writings, publications and statutes. In the case of factual files, a detailed division into individual subject groups was made. These are Carl Heinrich Becker's notes on official matters as well as Becker's publications and works as professor of Oriental Studies. The collection was edited by Dr. Cécile Lowenthal-Hensel, Heidemarie Nowak, Sabine Preuß and Elke Prinz. The technical writing work was done by Petra Bergert. The estate comprises 19 running metres from 1919 - 1933: VI HA, Nl Becker, C. H., Nr. The files are to be quoted: GStA PK, VI. HA Family Archives and Bequests, Nl Carl Heinrich Becker (Dep.), No. Berlin, September 1995 Ute Dietsch, Scientific Archivist Curriculum Vitae Carl Heinrich Becker Born in Amsterdam April 12, 1876 Father: Consul and banker of the Rothschild brothers 1895: Abitur in Frankfurt/Main, then studied Theology and Oriental Studies in Lausanne, Berlin and Heidelberg 1899 Doctorate as Dr. phil "cum laude" in Heidelberg 1900-1902 Study trips to Spain, Egypt, Greece, Turkey and Sudan 1902 Habilitation in Heidelberg Privatdozent für Semitische Philologie 14.3.1905 Married Hedwig Schmid, daughter of the Geheimes Kommerzienrat and banker Paul von Schmid-Augsburg (three children are born out of marriage) 1906 appointed full professor 1908-1913 professor and director of the Seminar for History and Culture of the Orient at the Colonial Institute in Hamburg, founder of the journal for history and culture of the Orient "Der Islam" 1.9.1913 appointed full professor and director of the newly established oriental seminar of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelm-Universität 17.5.1916 Joined the Prussian Ministry of Culture as an unskilled worker 21.10.1916 Appointed secret governmental and lecturing council, responsible for the personnel affairs of the universities; at the same time honorary professor at the University of Berlin April 1919 Undersecretary of State April 1921 Prussian Minister of Culture, after six months return to his office as State Secretary Febr. 1925 reappointment as Minister of Culture Jan 1930 Resignation as Minister, resumption of his activity as Professor of Islamic Studies at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin 1931 Appointment as 3rd professor of Islamic Studies at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin. Vice-presidents of the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften and Managing Director of the Institut für Semitistik und Islamkunde Chinareise on behalf of the Volkerbund for information on Chinese education Literature (in selection): H. Schaefer (ed.), Carl Heinrich Becker - ein Gedenkbuch. Göttingen 1950 G. Müller, University Reform and World Political Education. Carl Heinrich Becker's science and university policy 1908 - 1930 (mechanical diss.) Aachen 1989 C. Esser / E. Winkelhane, Carl Heinrich Becker - orientalist and cultural politician. In: The World of Islam (28) 1988 Description: Biographical Data: 1876 - 1933 Resources: Database; Reference Book, 5 vol.

Acquired from Arnoldi Collection in September 1955; Beige

History of the Inventory Former: The Bank der Deutschen Luftfahrt, also known as the Aero- or Luftfahrtbank, was formed by the transformation of Luftfahrtkontor GmbH into a public limited company with shareholder resolution of 6 July 1940, the object of which, according to the articles of association of that date, was "the execution of banking transactions of all kinds and of related transactions serving directly or indirectly aviation purposes, as well as the administration and supervision of aviation companies and the execution of all such transactions, including in a fiduciary capacity" [1]. Luftfahrtkontor GmbH had been founded in 1933/34 in the context of the takeover of the Junkers group by the Reich Aviation Ministry (RLM) and in 1938 was responsible for the administration of 1. the Reich-owned facilities leased to companies in the aviation industry, 2. the Reich's holdings in companies in the aviation industry and 3. the investment loans [2]. In the course of the so-called "capital cut" to reform corporate financing, the investment loans granted until then were converted into state aid for special depreciation and firms were encouraged to use more of their own funds and borrowed capital to finance investments. To this end, both the RLM and the Reich Ministry of Finance (RFM) considered it sensible to set up their own commercial bank for aviation, whose loans were intended to stimulate the involvement of other banks and other donors and to which all Reich shareholdings in the aviation industry and aviation were to be transferred. On 9 June 1939 Luftfahrtkontor GmbH received its banking licence from the Reich Commissioner for Banking and quickly acquired the character of a "universal bank for German aviation" [3] after the start of the war. In addition to the conventional investment loans, the Luftfahrtbank increasingly granted the aerospace armaments companies - similar to the Deutsche Industriebank for the suppliers of the army and navy - the credit assistance provided by the Reich Economic Ministry (RWM) for the mobilization of arms production (in short: "mobkredite") with Reich guarantees from autumn 1939 onwards. This resulted in a substantial increase in the Bank's lending volume, which, together with the significant increase in managed participations and deposits from aviation companies, as well as increased activity on the stock exchange and the money market, led to the Bank being renamed "Bank der Deutschen Luftfahrt" and converted into a stock corporation (AG). This was in response to the wish of the General Airworthiness Officer Ernst Udet that "the company's status as a bank should be expressed in the company name" [4]. Like its predecessor Luftfahrtkontor, the Bank der Deutschen Luftfahrt initially resided in Berlin-Schöneberg, Am Park 12. In the night from March 1 to March 2, 1943, Ge‧bäude burned out completely after an Allied air raid, whereupon the bank had to move its Geschäfts‧räume to the center of Berlin (Werderstr. 7). As a result of the fire, loss of files also seems to have been the cause of complaint [5]. Dissatisfied with the accommodation that was not considered to be standes‧gemäß, the bank pushed in the spring of 1944 the efforts that had previously been made by the Jewish company Panofski

Contains among other things: Banana culture in Kosta-Rica. Darin: Karte der Republik Kosta-Rica 1:1 000 000 o.J. S. Soskin, Report about my trip to England from 9 - 21 January 1908 to study the banana import question. Berlin, 1908

302 sheet, Contains et al: - Award of the Crown Order 4th Class to Julius Wald, Plantanenhof near Basel, son of the former Konsistorialrat in Königsberg, for his great patriotic sacrifices and his services for the German Corps off Belford and at the Swiss border, Dec. 1873. Letter of thanks: "[...Already in the days of my earliest childhood I was enthusiastically attached to the lips of my blessed mother when she told us how she had baked "Kanehl waffles" [cinnamon waffles] for you in Georgienswalde on the Baltic Sea shore during a visit of your majesty and most highly your brother's majesty dormant in God, which sounded so splendid to you that you would have taken the recipe for the high sea queen with you [....]", Feb. 15, 1874 (pp. 57-69) - Award of the Crown Order of Class 4 to the Grand Duke of Luxembourg Archivist P. Ruppert for his publication of all laws, ordinances and treaties relating to the Wilhelm-Luxemburg- and Prinz-Heinrich-Eisenbahn. This facilitated the negotiations to take over the administration of the railways concessed by the Wilhelm-Luxemburg-Gesellschaft in the territory of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg by the General Directorate of the Imperial Railways in Alsace-Lorraine, Dec. 1873 (pp. 55-56) - Award of the 3rd Class Red Eagle Order (without loop) to the administrator of the Royal Imperial Austrian Consulate General in Sudan, Dr. Theodor von Heuglin because of the offer and the transfer of animals for the local Berlin garden, October 1855. Approval of 500 Reichsmark to support the equipment of an expedition to the interior of Africa (exploration of the landscapes between the Nile and Lake Tsad) under the direction of the Würthemberg court councillor Dr. Theodor von Heuglin to shed light on the fate of the lost traveller Dr. Eduard Vogel. Aug. 1860 - Jan. 1861, including exposé with coloured map of Africa (private print) Gotha, 10. Aug. 1860 (pp. 161-175) - Award of the Crown Order of the Fourth Dalai Lama (Kronenordens) The first class addressed the saltwater bath administrator Denk in Bad Kissingen for his work on the springs there and the exemplary furnishings of the bath, as well as for his courteous behaviour and great impartiality [Remembrance of the Battle of Kissingen in the German War of 1866] towards all claims of the [mainly North German] bathers, Oct. 1874 (pp. 248-250) - Award of the Crown Order 3rd class to the Kapellmeister Sir Julius Benedikt after the award of the Crown Order 4th class for the Wilhelm I. accepted dedication of the Cantate "The Legend of the Saints Caecilia", Jan. / Sept.Oct. 1867, Nov. 1874 (pp. 257-265) - Award of the Crown Order 4th Class to Professor Dr. Wagner at the Imperial Medical Academy of Tockai [Tokai] in Japan for his mediation of the transfer and donation of valuable and interesting objects shown at the Vienna World Exhibition by the Imperial Japanese Government for the Ethnological and Zoological Collection in Berlin, Dec. 1874 (pp. 295-296).

Contains among other things: Holiday Ordinance for Reich Officials of 23 Apr. 1879 Basic Guidelines for the Regulation of Holiday Remuneration of Foreign Officials of 23 June 1923 (draft) Compilation of Average Travel Times between Europe and Certain Locations Outside Europe, as at: 1 Aug. 1933, 1 Jan. 1935, 1 Dec. 1935

Contains among other things: List of the sale of ex-Enemy properties in the British Sphere of the Cameroons, West Africa in Cameroon; draft contract for Fako-Pflanzungen GmbH concerning the granting of a loan for the repurchase of land; report on the steps taken to reclaim the plantation area on the Great Cameroon Hill; Report on the result of the London auction of Cameroonian plantations; overview of the loans granted by the German government to the German purchasers through the intermediary of Fako-Pflanzungen GmbH on the basis of the auction of German plantations on the Cameroon Mountains in London in November 1924; report on the condition of the repurchased plantations on the Great Cameroon Mountain, May/June 1925; Ekona AG and Kautschuk-Pflanzung "Meanja" AG.- Estimate of the operation, 1925 to 1926; West African Plantation Company "Victoria" - Account of funds received so far