Contains among other things: Colonial Director O. Freiherr v. Richthofen; Prof. Robert Koch on protective vaccination against rinderpest; Governor Eduard von Liebert

View of the Villa Vailima in Apia, currently the seat of the German Governor of the Samoa Colony / Photographer: Scherl

Samoan chieftains stand at the jetty to welcome a new German governor. / Photographer: Scherl

Contains among other things: Immediate report of the command of the cruiser squadron concerning, among other things, continued insulting of the governor of Samoa Solf by Germans resident there, 16.5.1909 Mistaken bombardment of the district manager of Ponape by the landing command of the small cruiser "Emden" in Jan. 1911, 1911-1912

Enthält u.a.: Vertragsverlängerung für Kontraktarbeiter (Formular) Memorandum on the procedure followed at present with respect to the introduction of labour from China 1991, Singapore, Febr. 1911 The Tamil immigration fund and its working 1910 Indian Labour in the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States, 1911 Chinesische Arbeiter. Verordnung des Gouverneurs vom Samoa

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.).

Issue of a warning and farewell to the military; insults and accusations against the governor of Samoa; prison sentence for poor treatment of a foster child; Franz was owner of a plantation in Falelauniu (Samoa); time of the crime: 1909.

Contains among other things: Rules of Procedure for the Imperial Government of Apia of 1 July 1910

Contains among other things: Dedication address of the representatives of the London Mission Society in Samoa to Solf, Nov. 1908

Contains among other things: Treatment of the Samoan controversy with Prof. Siegfried Passarge

Contains among other things: Dr. Erich Schultz, The Development of Political Conditions in Samoa

Enthält u.a.: Report of the appointed commission. By Captain Pallu of the Barrière Gouverneur de la Nouvelle-Calédonie. In order to study different interesting questions about free colonization. O.O. o.J. Handels- und Schiffahrtsverhältnisse (Samoa- und Tonga-Inseln), insbes. der Abschluß von Freundschaftsverträgen

Former villa of the German governor in Motaotua on Samoa / Photographer: Scherl