'The North German Missionary Society in Bremen avoids the mission territory in Togo. - Report by the Grade Secretary for the attention of the Foreign Office - Including: - Presentation of the situation by the German Missionary Society in West Africa by the Foreign Office according to information from Mission Inspector Zahn

The collection comprises the documents (files and official books) from the city of Lemgo before the formation of the administrative district of Lemgo in 1932 and the encirclement of Lemgo in 1934. Until then, Lemgo was a free city, i.e. it was directly subordinated to the sovereign government without an intermediate instance. In the Late Middle Ages, the constitution of the city of Lemgo was laid down in three documents, which subsequently documented the traditional constitutional reality: the so-called "Kerbschnittbrief" (mid 14th century, U 86), the so-called Regimentsnottel I (mid 15th century, U 763) and the Regimentsnottel II (1491, U 764). The political bodies were therefore organised in so-called four heaps. The New or Jury Council (12 members), the Old or Resting Council (12 members), the Meinheit (24 members) and the Dechen of the nine "councilable" offices (= guilds, guilds). Each of the two councils consisted of six councillors (without functional assignment), two chamberlains, an assessor, a council sealant and two mayors. The Old and New Councils alternated annually in the context of the Council change on 6 January. New members were selected on the basis of the co-optation principle, i.e. the "outgoing" Council elected the "dormant" Council again. Only when a councillor retired (due to death or other reasons) was a new councillor elected. Meinheit and Dechen had a say in this; they could reject a candidate. The members of the Meinheit were composed of the elected representatives of the six Lemgo building communities according to the principle of residence. In addition, there were six farmer masters who carried out police duties in the city quarters and six red masters, i.e. the former farmer masters who carried out the tax assessment in the residential districts. The two councils were responsible for the day-to-day political and legal business of the city. The other two piles represented the municipal community and were supposed to exercise a limited control function over the council bodies. In 1843, a uniform legal basis was created for the first time with the Lippe city order and the four-heap constitution in Lemgo, which had been valid until then, was abolished. The municipal bodies were now the magistrate and the city council. The magistrate headed the municipal administration and consisted of the mayor and other members of the magistrate. The city councillors were elected by the entire citizenry, i.e. those who also possessed citizenship. The City Council elected the Magistrate and exercised a control and oversight function over the Magistrate (with the exception of police matters). With the city order, a separation between administration and justice took place for the first time. The municipal jurisdiction was finally abolished only with the formation of the district courts in 1879. With the Lippe city order of 1886, the acquisition of citizenship was solved from house and land ownership, exercise of a trade and secure income. Every man who had lived in the city for more than two years and paid taxes was now a citizen. The election was conducted in accordance with the three-class system. The City Council and the Magistrate had to make their decisions separately in matters of self-government. In matters of statutes and budget, the magistrate could not decide without the city council. The provisional municipal constitution of 1919 granted the right to vote to women and men over the age of 20 who had lived in the municipality for more than three months. This was the first time that a universal and equal right to vote had been created at municipal level. In 1928 the separation between official municipalities and city municipalities was abolished (see also H-existing stocks). The magistrate or city council now needed the confidence of the city council. Stock A originally also included the documents after 1932/34, which were only later renumbered stock B. The documents were then transferred to stock A. The documents were then stored in the museum. The town archivist August Schacht ordered the files for the first time. He concentrated mainly on the trial records of the various Lemgo dishes. There was no separation by provenance here. In short: all files, which originated before 1932/34 in Lemgo, form the stock A. The classification is oriented after subject matter (pertinence principle), whereby the current classification represents a revision of the original classification. The current classification attempts to make the original provenances and contexts of origin more visible again. Nevertheless, many court acts are no longer filed under the respective court instance, but can be found under other classification points (e.g. under guild matters) according to the subject matter of the dispute or the parties to the dispute. This also applies to other classification points or archive materials. In the case of files from the A inventory which do not expire until after 1934, they are assigned to the B inventory (see there). In the opposite case, files with B signatures are included in the A inventory if their terms expire before 1934. The respective signatures are always retained. The court files of the two councils or the magistrate and the other court instances are summarized in the holdings 01.02.01 - 01.02.11 and 01.03.01 to 01.03.05. The witch trials can also be found there. The so-called Audience Protocols of inventory A 01.01.01 also contain court hearings, primarily in civil law. Court files of the Lemgo City Court (= magistrate of justice, as successor to the sovereign judge) are also found in the L 88 Lemgo holdings in the NRW State Archive, Detmold, OWL Department. The tradition of the schools (Gymnasium, Bürgerschule, Lyzeum, Technikum, Fortbildungsschule...) is also in the inventory A 01.01.01, independent of the formation of the independent school communities independent of the political communities 1849 (until 1937). This is mainly the tradition of the school boards, which were mostly composed of the local pastors and the mayor. Supplementary material can also be found in the T (school) holdings. The records of the Lemgo registry office (established throughout the Reich in 1876) in the form of birth, marriage and death certificates can be found in the holdings F 1 to F 3. In addition to the A holdings, personal documents / personal data can also be found in the holdings J - personal files. The old archive signatures (such as Gw 1, Gy 1, Ki 1...) have been retained and are searchable, so that a concordance is given when sources from literature are cited.

Marking: Marked with an asterisk: The first Huassafrau, Maria Adzera. The other three women are Alata or Yoruba people (Lagos). One of them said: "I don't know Tschi, I don't know Ewe, but Jesus, I know him. The young man taught the women. In the back left the chieftain evangelist Kwasicvi. See P. Motte's report: Work in the Diaspora. monthly paper

Note from other hand: 20.11.1947 Front row from right to left: Pastor Anku and wife (Amedzofe), E. Vöhringer, Mrs. Beveridge, Rev. Th. Twente, Rev. Beveridge, Pastor Adinyira (French Togo), Re. E. Grey (Ho), Pastor Chr. Baeta

Note Müller: Ho, housework before 1914, contains: Women, Fufu, Crushing, Clothing

Note from another hand: Christian family life. - Note. Müller: Lomé, pastor Andreas Aku with family after 1910, contains: married couple, women, children, clothes, photo studio

Müller: Keta, Maria Tosi with family 1893-1911, contains: Women, children, clothes, homestead, palm trees, duck, house - content identical with 0314.

Phototype: Photo. Format: 8,8 X 5,7 Description: Group of girls in white dresses with dark sash, white headscarves, some with book, some with folded hands, sister E. Vierhub, African teacher?, other women in the background.

Phototype: Photo. Format: 14,1 X 10,0. Description: Chagga house (West-Kilimanjaro design: round, covered with banana bark), left storage hut, 2 women and small child in front (clothed).

Photographer: Frau Blumer?. Phototype: Photo. Format: 10,9 X 8,2. Description: Group European : Married couple Ihmels, Leonhard Blumer and others, man, 1 boy on the floor with spread out cloths and picnic baskets; in the background 14 Africans (men, women, children) sitting or standing in line. Remark: (refers to no. 60!) On the back of the photo it says: "Murri sleeps! An Willibub" then - see title - "... Rißmann, Mattias as cook ...". Reference: Cf. estate Blumer, No. 775 (11.1 X 8.3).

Phototype: Photo. Format: 16,8 X 11,9 Description: 2 rows of traditional round grass houses (5 in all), men and women sitting in front of them, man in front of them, dressed with cloth and cap, holding small calabash with opening towards them, other spectators on the right side. Remark: something faded; publication..: Gl. 1908, No. 1, Light Street No. 5.

Müller note: Atakpame, family before 1914, contains: Men, women, children

Photographer: Hohlfeld?. Phototype: Photo. Format: 16,5 X 11,0. Description: Woman, clothed with cloth, in the foreground, children and other women at the back, clothed with cloth.

Phototype: Photo. Format: 8,2 X 6,0. Description: Group picture in front of 2 traditional Pare houses (roof made of plant fibres), men, women and children, in front a man with sliding cap, with Kanzu or with Kanzu. Cloths bekl., caps on head. Reference: See proofs, no. 3/488a (9,9 X 7,4) "2nd Mission House in Shigatini".

Note: Image content identical to 2094.

Note from another hand: Fräulein Töpfer sent out in 1884, returned as Mrs. Missionary Knüsli

Note: Picture content identical with 4591.

Note from another hand: Mrs. Roßmann later wife of Missionary Fies

• description: A school set up by the Schutztruppe for German lessons for soldiers, their wives and children* Photography

Photographer: Guth?. Phototype: Photo. Format: 10,6 X 7,7. Description: Group of pupils (men, women, teenagers), partly with Slates, in them European with tropical helmet. Reference: See proofs no. 10/806a (11.5 X 8.9) "Church in Christmas Ornaments".

Phototype: Photo. Format: 8,3 X 5,7. Description: also Schw. Elisabeth Vierhub?: m. 13 African men, women and children in front of 2 rectangles. Buildings with a roof made of plant fibres standing behind bananas. Remark: Published..: Miss. medical report, Lydia 1912, No 10, Nachr. 1912, No 10, Weishaupt: Wandertage. Reference: See album 11, no. 262 (7.6 X 10.5) m. Title "The Eldest Christian: Ndeshika (died)". Cf. print templates sample book, no. VII/474, Auf. 266, Diap. a.III 47 (8,2 X 11,2) faded.

Phototype: Photo. Format: 11,9 X 8,0. Description: 2 women, 1 man and 3 children squatting on the floor, clothed with scarves. Remark: Up. 90, pale.

Müller note: Wedding company after 1914, contains: Men, women, clothing