Contains: Manuscript and printed copy

Description of the holdings: Manuscripts, elaborations, material collections, excerpts from files on his own historical research, in particular on Scharnhorst and Bismarck as well as individual questions of European history in the 19th century; general and academic correspondence, especially as professor in Freiburg (1929-1937), Gießen (1937-1938) and Tübingen (since 1938). (as of 1977) Citation method: BArch, N 1183/...

History of the Inventory Designer: 27.06.1875 - 09.07.1903, Lieutenant of the Imperial Protection Force Inventory description: Correspondence from his service with the Protection Force in D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a; manuscript of a biography. Citation style: BArch, N 85/...

Estate:; Various documents in photocopy from the family's possession:; Mission Trips on Sailing Ships, 16 S., hs., o. J.; Wo u. wie ich nächtigte, 17 S., hs., 1902; Die äußeren Schwierigkeiten d. Missionufens, Referat, o. J.; Brief Lebensabriß von d. Rheinischen Missionar Johann Georg Krönlein, 4 S., hs.., 1903; Chronicle of Nama-Hereroland, 1858-1905, 7 p., hs., design, 1905; Short Chronicle of the Witboic concerning mission work, 3 p., hs, ca. 1905; contribution to the history of the Kurasi tribe, 1897, as supplement to Olpps March Report, 4 p., hs., 1906; [All manuscripts listed here are available only in photocopy. The originals are in the possession of Mrs Lucie Olpp (granddaughter), who left photocopies of the archive in January 1985].

History of the Inventory Designer: 01.11.1858 - 15.02.1928, General of the Infantry Inventory description: Documents from the entire period of service, e.g. in colonial service in Africa (1889, 1894), as military attaché¿ in Constantinople (1897-1901), about the participation in the Sudan campaign of Lord Kitchener (1896-1898) on the English-Turkish side, in the Thessalian War (1897) on the Greek side, from the 1st World War as commander of the 3rd Reserve Division and commander general of the 1st and 4th Reserve Corps; manuscript of the memoirs. Citation style: BArch, N 227/...

Deposit of the Reich Institute for the History of the New Germany

Contains: - Born, geometer in Sonnenburg, deputy of the country Sternberg to the Prussian National Assembly, 1848 - Carl Herrlich (1822 - 1901), rendant of the Ballei Brandenburg of the Johanniterorden - Peter Joseph Lenné (1789 - 1866), designer of the garden at the Johanniterordenskrankenhaus in Sonnenburg 1856 - Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781 - 1841), was involved in the new building of the tower of the Johanniterordenskirche in Sonnenburg 1816 - 1818 - Dr. Wilhelm Heinrich Solf (1862 - 1936), Governor of Deutsch-Samoa since 1900 - Wilhelm Voigt (1849 - 1922), alias "The Captain of Köpenick", convict in the Sonnenburg penitentiary - Heinrich Zille (1858 - 1929), draughtsman - Wilhelm Kube (1887 - 1943), Gauleiter and Commissioner General for White Ruthenia - Erich Schulz: Samoa - Governor with school years in Sonnenburg. In: Die neue Oder-Zeitung, Vol. 8, No. 2, May 1988 (printed) - Erich Schulz: Hauptmann von Köpenick 1867/79 in Sonnenburg. At that time he was young and not famous - Wilhelm Voigt "did many things" and died in 1922. In: Die neue Oder-Zeitung, Vol. 6, No. 4, November 1986 (printed) - Erich Schulz: Dr. Wilhelm Solf, last Imperial State Secretary of the R e i c h s k o l o n i a l a m t and first State Secretary of the Foreign Office of the Weimar Republic. April 1988 (manuscript, 3 p.) - Erich Schulz: Wilhelm Voigt, the "Captain of Köpenick" was also a "guest" at the Sonnenburg penitentiary. October 1986 (manuscript, 5 p.).

History of the Inventory Designer: Lieutenant General, Reichsminister Karl Eduard Wilhelm Groener Life data 22.11.1867 born in Ludwigsburg (Württemberg) 03.05.1939 died in Bornstedt near Potsdam Development 22.11.1884 as a flag squire in the 3rd Württemberg Infantry Regiment No. 121 joined Ludwigsburg 01.04.1890 Battalion adjutant 01.10.1993-July 1896 Commanded to Kriegsakademie 01.04.1897-01.04.1899 Commanded to Großen Generalstab 25.03.1899 Transferred to Großen Generalstab 12.09.1902 Company commander in infantry regiment no. 98 transferred 01.10.1904 to the Great General Staff transferred 01.07.-11.09.1907 to the General Command VII Army Corps commanded 18.04.1908 to the spring voyage of the deep-sea fleet commanded 10.09.1908 with effect from 01.10.1908 to the General Staff of the XIII Army Corps transferred 18.10.1910 as battalion commander in the 7th Württemberg Infantry Regiment No. 125 transferred 13.09.1911 with effect from 01.10.1911 to the Great General Staff commanded 01.10.1912 appointed head of department in the Great General Staff 03.08.1914 chief of the field railway 26.05.1916, leaving his position as chief of the field railways for use at the War Food Office, 01.11.1916 appointed chief of the War Office at the War Ministry and appointed representative of the Prussian War Minister 09.11.1916 appointed Deputy Plenipotentiary of Prussia in the Federal Council 16.08.1917 appointed Commander of the 33rd Infantry Division 20.12.1917 appointed Leader of the XXV Reserve Corps 25.02.1918 appointed Leader of the 1st Army Corps 28.03.1918 appointed Chief of the General Staff of the Army Group Eichhorn - from 08. 08. 1917 appointed Commander of the 33rd Infantry Division 20.12.1917 appointed Leader of the XXV Reserve Corps 25.02.1918 appointed Leader of the 1st Army Corps 28.03.1918 appointed Chief of the General Staff of the Army Group Eichhorn - from 08. 08. 1918 appointed Commander of the 33rd Infantry Division08.1918 Army Group Kiev appointed 15.07.1919 appointed Commander of the Kolberg Command Post 30.09.1919 Approval of his farewell request 25.07.1920-12.08.1923 Reich Minister of Transport 19.01.1928 Reich Minister of Defence 08.10.1931 Reich Minister of the Interior 30.05.1932 Resignation from both offices Promotions 08.08.1885 Ensign 09.09.1886 Lieutenant 18.09.1893 Lieutenant Colonel 25.03.1899 Captain 27.01.1906 Major 01.10.1912 Lieutenant Colonel 05.09.1914 Colonel 26.06.1915 Major General 01.11.1916 Lieutenant General 29.10.1918 I. General Quartermaster Orders and Decorations 01.09.1900 Royal Prussia. Red Eagle Order 4th Class 11.05.1905 Knight's Cross 1st Class of the Royal Württembg. Friedrichs-Order 11.09.1907 Prussia. Crown Order 3rd Class 28.02.1908 Royal Bayer. Order of Military Merit 4th class with crown 09.03.1908 Officer's Cross of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. French Joseoh Order 17.09.1909 Crown to the Royal Prussia. Red Eagle Order 4th Class and Knight's Cross of the Order of the Württembg Crown 13.09.1912 Knight's Cross 1st Class of the Royal Saxon. Albrechts Order with Crown 19.07.1913 Royal Prussia. Red Eagle Order 3rd Class 29.04.1914 Cross of Honor of the Order of the Württembg Crown 17.10.1914 K.u.K. Austrian-Hungarian. Iron Crown 2nd Class 16.11.1914 Iron Cross 2nd Class 05.12.1914 Officer's Cross of the Royal Bavarian. Military Order of Merit with Swords 07.12.1914 Officer Cross of the Royal Württembg. Military Order of Merit with Swords 17.12.1914 Iron Cross 1. Class 29.12.1914 k.u.K. Austrian-Hungarian. Military Cross of Merit 3rd Class with war decoration 14.05.1915 Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern with Swords 29.06.1915 Knight's Cross of the Royal and Royal Austro-Hungarian Empire. Leopold Order with War Decoration 11.09.1915 Order pour le mérite 15.12.1915 Commander's Cross 2nd Class of the Royal Saxon. Albrechts-Ordens mit Schwertern 21.01.1916 Großoffizierkreuz des Kgl. Bulgar. militär-Verdienstorden mit Schwertern 10.04.1916 Komturkreuz 1. Klasse des Großhzgl. Bad. Order of the Zähringer Lion with Swords 23.08.1916 Commander Cross of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Franz Joseph-Ordens 27.10.1916 Bremer Hanseatenkreuz 08.11.1916 Hamburg Hanseatenkreuz 05.01.1917 Commturkreuz des Kgl. Bayer. Militär-Max Joseph-Ordens 22.03.1917 Cross of Merit for War Aid 07.06.1917 K.u.K. Österr.-Ungar. Iron Crown 1st Class with War Decoration 02.08.1917 Commander Cross of the Royal Württembg. Friedrichs-Order with Swords 16.08.1917 Royal Prussia. Red Eagle Order 2nd Class with Crown and Swords 31.08.1917 Cross of Honour 1st Class of the Princel. Hohenzollern House Order with Swords 15.06.1918 Star to the Royal Prussia. Red Eagle Order 2nd Class with Crown and Swords 27.06.1918 Grand Cross of the Royal Württembg. Friedrichs-Orden with Crown and Swords Description of the Collection: The collection includes, among others..: Memoirs 1867-1919; personal war diary, e.g. as chief of the field railways (1914-1916), chief of the war office (1916-1917); as First Quartermaster General (1918-1919); correspondence with Ebert and Hindenburg, among others; manuscripts mainly on the First World War, e.g. on the Schlieffen Plan and on field railways; material collections mainly of a war-historical and war-economical nature; political documents as Reich Minister of Transport (1920-1923), Reich Minister of the Armed Forces (1928-1932) and acting Reich Minister of the Interior (1931-1932). Further parts of the estate can be found in the Main State Archives in Stuttgart and in private hands. References to other stocks PH 3 Großer Generalstab RH 26-33 33. infantry division R 4101 Reichseisenbahnamt R 1501 Reich Ministry of the Interior R 5 Reich Ministry of Transport [online finding aids] Citation method: BArch, N 46/...

Contains: - diary in shorthand; - transmission in typography; in it - "The story of my war diary". Appendix: Literature references on German East Africa in the World War 1914/18.

Various manuscripts, including Bethany and its history;