This series is in German only. No English translation is available. The files in this series cover a wide variety of topics relating to the German administration of the Island Territory ('Inselgebiet'). This covered the Caroline, Mariana and Marshall Islands. Material relating to the mainland appears to have been left in New Guinea and destroyed during the Japanese invasion.

This series consists of material created by the Imperial Government of German New Guinea. The material was seized by the Australian Government when the Territory was captured during the First World War. The records of this series were among a large collection of material relating to the former territory of German New Guinea which came into the custody of the then Commonwealth Archives Office in 1963. This material is believed to have been shipped to Australia from Rabaul in 1937 for safekeeping following the volcanic eruption in May of that year. The collection comprised all the extant material from the four periods of colonial administration: (1) the New Guinea Company 1885-1899, (2) German Imperial administration 1899-1914, (3) British Military Administration 1914-1921, and (4) Australian Civil Administration of the mandated territory. There is record of the material having been examined in Canberra in August 1937 by Miss M Jacobs of the Department of History, University of Sydney. The collection was then in the custody of the National Library but was subsequently stored in large wooden crates at the premises of the Government Printer at Kingston. It remained there, more-or-less forgotten, until rediscovered in 1963 during a re-location of the Government Printing Office. It was transferred to the custody of the Commonwealth Archives Office on 20 August 1963 and accessioned as AA1963/83. A handwritten inventory was prepared (in English.) Various conversion to 'G' series were effected and, in 1991, the remaining records created by the Imperial German administration 1899-1914 were separated and arranged to constitute this series by a visitng archivist from the German State Archives (Bundesarkiv), Dr. Jurgen Real. Note that Dr. Real's arrangement is in accordance with the practice of the Bundesarkiv, and not with the precepts of the Australian CRS system. The original order is not maintained - the items are not attributed to a particular agency recording and the original item number control is ignored in favour of an imposed simple numerical sequence. The inventory received from Dr. Real in December 1992 displays a number of discrepancies in the numerical sequence. In particular numbers 48, 293, 498, 547, 548 and 934 have not been used. Also several numbers were used twice; these have been differentiated by use of 'A' and 'B' suffixes. Dr Real's inventory is entirely in German. An English translation was arranged by Australian Archives in 1993 and this version has been entered in the ANGAM2 database. The records were subsequently microfilmed and, in 1994 and after a sojourn of 57 years in Australia, the original records were returned to Papua New Guinea. They are now held by the National Archives of Papua New Guinea in Port Moresby. Microflilm copies are available for use in this office. The reference copy is G255/4. This series consists of records covering all matters relating to the administration of the German settlements on the mainland of New Guinea (that is, on the North-East Coast), on New Britain and New Ireland. It complements series G1 (1899-1911) and G2 (1911-1914) which consist of records of the Imperial Government of German New Guinea relating to the external Island Territories (Carolines, Marianas and Marshall Islands) - that is, those territories which were not subsequently administered by the occupying power which succeeded the German government at Rabaul after 1914. In 2018, the microfilm was digitised and uploaded to National Archives RecordSearch database.

This series was created by top-numbering from CRS A1780
and was intended to contain records of the Custodian of Expropriated Property as opposed to the records relating to the Public Trustee (CRS A1782). In fact this series now contains at least one file which is purely a record of the Public Trustee while CRS A1782 now consists mainly of the Custodians records. No reason can yet be discerned for this change in policy and no indication can be given for the basis for the distinction between the two series. This seriescontains records relating to the management of properties in
New Guinea, to the disposal of Expropriated assets, various
administrative transactions and some policy and routine of the Central Office of the Custodian. Some top numbering has occurred from GRS A1345.

Related series unregistered
Subject index cards for correspondence files, single number series
with 'A' prefix, 1931-1937
Register of files and associated files, record of sales, 1926-1957
Subject index cards for correspondence files, 'A', 'S' and 'T'
series, 1931-
Nominal (purchases) index cards for correspondence files, 'A', 'S'
and 'T' series, 1931-
Plantation index cards for correspondence files, 'A', 'S' and 'T'
series, 1931-
Register of original contracts of sale in action, 1951-
Record of sales, 1926-1957
Original contracts for sale of expropriated property, 1926- (Less)

Includes: Katsumi Takizawa (1ff); Dr. Eduard Thurneysen (12ff); Prof. Dr. Viktor Warnach (47ff); Mission Director Dr. Johannes Warneck (52ff); Werner Andreas Wienecke, Southwest Africa (103ff); Dr. Adolf Wischmann (129ff); Prof. Dr. Ernst Wolf (143ff); Rev. G. F. Woods (237ff); Siegfried Zöllner, Dutch New Guinea/ Indonesia (248ff)

Contains among other things: Map of Ngaumdere (Cameroon), M.: 1:1 000 000, 1909 Map of the Morocco Agreement (Cameroon, Nigeria, French Equatorial Africa, Belgian Congo, Spanish Guinea), without scale, without D.

New Guinea: Imperial letter of protection dated 17.05.1885 for the New Guinea Company / Photographer: Scherl

Contains among other things: 1. granting of licences to Portuguese companies in Portuguese Guinea to the detriment of the German companies already operating there (so-called Praso system) (1900-1903) 2. the French Surtaxe d'entrepot and the Austrian differential customs duty on coffee (1900-1916) 3. the French Surtaxe d'entrepot and the Austrian differential customs duty on coffee (1900-1916) The German jewellery trade in Austria made more difficult (1903) 4. The financial situation of the Republic of Haiti (1903-1904) 5. The Hamburg Exporters Association's submission on France's action in the Siamese province of Battambang (1903) 6. German claims for damages due to the turmoil of war in Venezuela (1903) 7. German interests in Morocco (1903-1910) 8. Input of the Woermann Line on the threat to trade interests in West Africa by the introduction of differential tariffs by France (1903-1904) 9. Protection of German interests in Shanghai (1906) 10. German claims for damages due to the unrest in Spain (1909).

Direktionskorrespondenz und weitere Unterlagen 1937-1941: 1 portfolio, loose-leaf collection; copies or handwritten, authors: Diels, Dr. Friedrich Bolle, R. Pilger; Prof. Dr. Hoppe (all Botanischer Garten Berlin), Milos Deyl (botanist, Prague); Wilhelm Engelmann (publishing bookshop Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig), Wimmer (priest, editor of the Lobeliaceae for the plant kingdom). contents: air-raid protection measures in the Botanical Museum (removal of alcohol collection etc.)); financial means of the Englerstiftung; whereabouts of lost herbarium loans (Spanish Civil War); reminder to return herbarium loans; printing of various volumes of the Pflanzenreich (Richtlinien zur Korrektur, Korrespondenz mit der Verlagsbuchhandlung Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig), editing of the Lobeliaceae für Pflanzenreich scientific manuscripts on the flora of SW Africa, individual letters [see FA1/1] diaries 1943-1945 (copy, p.p. in copy); incl. transcript; diaries 1943-1945 (copy, p.p. in copy); incl. transcript

Contains: Feedback for the prorectorate reports; painting by Alexander Ecker by university painter Hermann (1887); donation by Robert Wiedersheimer of Ethnographica from New Guinea to the Museum für Urgeschichte; psychiatric objects by Mr. Langermann; various books, some with detailed indexes; 2 "Negerschädel" from Togo by Dr. Beck (1894); bust of general physician Beck (1894); photo collection West-Bormeo (1894); lattice micrometer (1898); Otto von Puchstein reports 20 Aegyptica; several Peruvian mummies and skulls (1900); casts and Egyptian fragments (1900); physical instruments (1902); wax model of an embryonic lizard skull to the anatomy (1903);16 lithographs to the Psyciatrische Klinik zur Wanddekoration (1903); collection of stuffed birds (1903); petrifactions (1903), donations of money; special prints by hans Spemann; estate of the pianist Olga Naswanoff (1939); painting Amazonenschlacht by Max Beckmann from the estate of Joachim Kleemann (1937) and renunciation of the Senate; donation Stelzmann; Portheim Foundation (1941),

New Guinea:; Contains: Letters and reports from New Guinea, 1887-1889; same 1889-1891; land purchase contract (copy) with the New Guinea Company in Finschhafen, 1888; house construction bill Bogadjim, 1888; annual report on Bogadjim,1889

Letters and reports from New Guinea; land purchase contract (copy) with the New Guinea Company in Finschhafen, 1888; house construction bill Bogadjim, 1888; annual report on Bogadjim, 1889

Contains: Rest of Australia and Polynesia, New Guinea (Papua), Fiji Islands, Solomon Islands, New Hebrides, St. Gilbert and Ellice Islands, Ocean Islands

Personal documents [FA3/1] Various documents: 1 folder with a) curriculum vitae, 01.09.1945, copy, typewritten, two pages; b) report from the Botanical Congress 1950 in Stockholm (incl. documentation on contacts to the reconstruction of the BGBM herbarium and library); c) various correspondence from him 1945-49 (copies or Copies to the Dean's Office of the University of Natural Sciences, 11.04.1945 Kisten mit Ms. [FA5] Abies: handwritten preliminary work, materials, SW photographs of Abies (especially Abies nebrodensis in S-Italy), three reprints of Abies von Mattfeld in Notizblatt des Bot. Gart. u. Mus. Berlin-Dahlem vol. 9/1925, vol. 10/no. 95/1928, vol. 10/no. 96/1929 Preliminary work for: Cyperaceae of German-Sw-Africa (20 double-sided handwritten loose leaves) and the Cyperaceae of New-Guinea (34 double-sided handwritten loose leaves) Plant photographs: album of loose paper pages held together by herbarium cardboard (with SW photographs, inserted into the pages at the corners), various plants, various places (and the like).a. ex Hort. Bot. Berlin), on the back of the photos pencil lettering on the object and location materials for floristic mapping, etc., 2 booklets [FA..]* diaries from the years of study and war (1913-1918), travel diary (1921, From the Baltic Sea to Friaul) and SW photos (landscape, probably Germany) (all in one briefcase) [P37

Collection of material, especially photographs, from New Guinea, 34 sheets.

European War. Correspondence [September, 1914-April, 1915] respecting military operations against the German possessions in the Western Pacific.' Includes information on the occupation of Samoa and the island of Nauru by British forces, the capitulation of German New Guinea, and arrangements for the repatriation or internment of German nationals. Also includes a report on operations by the Australian fleet in the opening stages of the First World War. A note explains that this print only contains correspondence which was not published in the British parliamentary command papers Cd.7972 and Cd.7975. (63 pages).

Contains only: Evaluation and return of the book "Unter Papuas von Neu-Guinea" by Gino von Moellwitz, Sept. 1942

Protocols and correspondence on issues such as:; customs privileges; education; arbitrariness of colonial officials; whereabouts of mission property after World War I; internment and exchange of prisoners of war; overview of activities, assets and members of the mission in Southwest Africa and New Guinea, 1904; official stenographer. Report on speeches on the dissolution of the Reichstag and colonial politics, 47 p., Dr., 1907; Die deutsche Flagge im Stille Ozean, 25 p. m. Map, Dr., 1915

Correspondence concerning the sale of the house in Otjimbingue; restriction of the import of spirits; pastoral care for the white population; free seeds for botanical experiments; contract with cultural engineer Borchardt-Ott according to meteorological records, 1898; compilation of the Laws on the Registration of Marriages Abroad, 1894; evidence of RMG property in South-West Africa and New Guinea, 1906.

File 11008: Claim for costs incurred by the Governor of German New Guinea in conveying the crew of the wrecked British ship Aigburth to Sydney. Paper 11008, folios 313-316; paper 14260, folios 317-327; paper 43367, folios 328-330.

File 24035: Forwards report of a stranding of the SS Auchenblae off German New Guinea. Paper 24035, folios 69-72; paper 26143, folios 73-76.

New Guinea: provisional residence of the first German governor in Finschhafen, the first administrative seat of the state administration. / Photographer: Scherl