Explanation: Founded in 1908 with significant participation of Norddeutscher Lloyd with its registered office in Bremen for the exploitation of mineral deposits in the German protectorates in the Pacific. In 1914 the mine installations were confiscated by Japan and later no longer returned. From 1923 the company participated in N. V. Phönix Handel- en Cultur Maatschappij, which was finally taken over, and from 1925 in Vereinigte Blei- und Zinkerzbergbau-Gerwerkschaft in Mies (Stribro/CSR). It expired in 1936. Content: Business correspondence - Reich compensation for war damage - Participations - Company archive of N. V. Phoenix Handel- en Cultur Maatschappij with information on branches in Amboina, Manokwari, Sarwi, Bonggo, Wakde and Hollandia (Dutch New Guinea)

Book page and print photographs

• 1891-1897, State Archives Hamburg, 314-1 Customs and excise, trade statistics description: Contains a.o.: Reports with statistics about: Goods and ship traffic with East Africa 1889-1890, export of spirits to East Africa 1890, export of German products to Deutsch-Westafrika 1891, trade with Portugal 1889-1893, with Uruguay 1893, with Argentina 1895, export to Walfischbay and the Swakop estuary 1895, Hamburg's trade relations with Great Britain 1697-1897, ship and goods traffic with China 1891-1895, with Russia at the Baltic Sea 1890-1896, with Mexico 1896. Contains, among other things: Reports with statistics about: Goods and ship traffic with East Africa 1889-1890, export of spirits to East Africa 1890, export of German products to Deutsch-Westafrika 1891, trade with Portugal 1889-1893, with Uruguay 1893, with Argentina 1895, export to Walfischbay and Swakopmündung 1895, Hamburg's trade relations with Great Britain 1697-1897, ship and goods traffic with China 1891-1895, with Russia at the Baltic Sea 1890-1896, with Mexico 1896.

Darin: 1. statute of the association for trade, commerce and agriculture in Palestine, 1884; 2. photograph of the entertainment of the music band of the ship "Moltke" on the Württemberg colony Haifa, 1896.

Scope: 3.00 cm. Includes: Albertuswerke, Chemische Fabrik/Maschinenfabrik, Hanover Purchase of floor care products, 1939; Auslandsbrief-Prüfstelle Köln-Riehl Bank transfer of prey mail (Reisewerk von Le Vaillant) to the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, 1941; Auslands-Zeitungshandel G.m.b.H., Cologne Purchase of foreign newspapers and magazines, 1944; Bauer, H.W., 1940 - 1942 Letterhead: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, Hauptdienststelle München Ankauf der Zeitschrift "Deutscher Kolonial-Dienst", 1940; Discussion of ethnological problems; Behrens, Josef Potsdam Ankauf von optische zeichengerät, Prospekt, 1938; Benzinger, Theodor, Stuttgart Ankauf von Fotoalben über außereuropäische Völker, 1941; Berthold, Karl Borromäus, Köln (Meisterschule des Deutschen Handwerks) Congratulation on Bs. 50. birthday 21.12.1939; C

Includes among others: Abels, Hermann, Kunstsalon, Cologne Address by Julius Lips to the opening of the exhibition of the painter Emil Flecken; purchase of a watercolour by the painter Vollmberg; 1929-1931; farewell party for museum director Rademacher on 28.1.1931; Albrecht, H. collecting activity on his Africa expedition; 1931-1932; 'Anthropos', international magazine, St. Petersburg, Germany; 'Anthropos', international magazine, St. Petersburg, Germany; 'Anthropos', Germany Gabriel-Mödling b. Vienna Purchase of the General Index for the years 1906 to 1931; Workers' Cult, Berlin Loan or purchase of Lenin's death mask for the exhibition "Masks of People", 1931; Exhibition, Fair and Tourism Office of the City of Cologne Loan of ethnographics for the International Leather Show Berlin, 1930; Brown

Treaty on Kiautschou with previous files can be found in the Political Archive of the Federal Foreign Office

Contains among other things: Regulation of the German postal service in Kiautschou, abolition of a Chinese post office, Chinese sea customs office in Tsingtau, 1900 - 1901 "Denkschrift über die Entwicklung des Kiautschou-Gebietes in der Zeit von Okt. 1899 bis Okt. 1900" (printed, with maps and illustrations, report to the submission in the Reichstag), 1901

Contains among other things: Heinrich Mootz, German language teaching for Chinese (printed as a draft in Tsingtau), 1901 Geographical distances in the province of Schantung (based on official Chinese calculations, with hand drawing), 1902 The trade of Kiungchow in 1901 (publication of the British Foreign Office), 1902

Contains among other things: Steamer connections from Tsingtau to unopened Chinese ports, 1903 participation of German industry in the regulation of the Hsiao-Ching-ho canal and construction of connecting railways, (1903) 1904 "Das deutsche Schutzgebiet Kiautschou (1903) 1904" by A. von Janson (special edition from Deutsche Rundschau, ed. by Julius Rodenberg), 1904

Contains among other things: Establishment of a direct Tsingtaus steamboat connection with the Yalu estuary for the transport of raw material for silk production from Manchuria (application by the German-Chinese Silk Industry Society), (1903) 1904 Attacks on the German administration in Kiautschou in the Chinese press, 1904 Railway construction projects of the Chinese-German Tschunghsiang Coal Society of Ihsien in Schantung ("Ihsien Society") and question of German concession rights in the province of Schantung, 1904 customs collection procedure in Tsingtau, 1904

Contains among other things: Financial reports of the Seezollamt Tsingtau Personnel questions of the Seezollamt and question of the use of sea customs revenues for the administration of the protectorate, 1904 - 1905

Contains among other things: Promotion of the activities of the German-Chinese Silk Industry Society, Tsingtau, 1905 Simplification of customs and restriction of the free port area of Tsingtau, 1905

Contains among other things: Agreement with China on the Regulation of Customs in Tsingtau, 1905 - 1906 Interpretation of the Chancellor's Right to Supervise Colonial Companies, 1906

Contains among other things: Chinese project for the establishment of a banking institution ("Zollbank") in Tsingtau Competition with the activities of the German-Asian bank, 1906

Contains among other things: Concerns of the Chinese maritime customs authorities against the implementation of the new customs agreement, 1906 - 1907 Construction of petroleum tanks in the Schantung Province by the company Arnold, Karberg u. Co., Tsingtau as agent of Asiatic Petroleum Co., London, 1906

Contains among other things: Support of the German-Chinese Silk Industry Society by granting export bonuses, 1907 Award of a mining concession in the province of Schantung to the company Sietas, Plambeck und Co., Tsingtau, 1908 - 1909 Counter-trials against German concessions in Schantung, danger of boycott measures, 1908 - 1909 Project to set up Chinese railway customs offices at the Schantung Railway to levy transit duties in favour of the province of Schantung, 1909 - 1910

Contains among other things: Financing of the port of Chifu from income from the Chinese customs surcharge in the province of Schantung, 1910 Project for the construction of a chemical factory in Tsingtau by China Alkali Comp. Ltd., Shanghai (Moritz Koppel), 1910 Establishment of the "Chinese Chamber of Commerce of Tsingtau" (with statutes), 1910

Contains among other things: Chinese plans to increase customs duties in the province of Schantung and the attitude of the Reichsmarineamt (with numerous memorandums, etc.), 1911 "Xenophobic attitude of the Young Chinese Association for the Study of Railway and Mining Issues in Schantung" in Tsinanfu, 1912 "Report of the Chamber of Commerce of Tsingtau for the Year 1911" (print), 1912

Contains among other things: "The Tientsin-Pukov Railway and its Influence on German Trade Interests in Schantung and Tsingtau" (Denkschrift, 122 p. with 8 Appendices), 1913

Contains among other things: Project for the establishment of a company for the smelting of zinc, lead, antimony and sulphur in Tsingtau by the "East Asian Study Syndicate" (foundation of the companies Beer, Sondheimer und Co., Frankfurt/M.; Carlowitz und Co., Hamburg; Reimers und Co., Bremen), 1914 contract for the transfer of Tsingtau to the Japanese army (transcript), 1915 "The Chino-Japanese Negotiations. Chinese official Statement with documents and Treaties with Annexures, Beijing 1915 (print) Der Handel Tsingtaus vor und nach dem Kriege (publication of the Japanese military administration, copy), 1916 "Ist die Rückgabe Tsingtaus vom wirtschaftlichen Standpunkt notwendig oder zweckmäßig" (English version of a German memorandum), 1919 "Forderungen Deutschlands wegen Kiautschaos auf der Friedenskonferenz" (elaboration of the Reichsmarineamt, print), 1919