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Content: Colonial Policy - Colonial Legislation - Protectorate Act - Reichskolonialamt - Colonial Service - Colonial Procurement - Schutztruppe - Togo, Cameroon, D e u t s c h - S ü d w e s t a f r i k a, D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a - Herero Uprising - Railway Construction - Colonial and Settlement Societies - Kiautschou/Tsingtau - Caroline Islands, Palau Islands and Mariana Islands - Colonial Policy and Research under National Socialist Rule - Position of Bremen in the Colonial Movement, especially Institute of Colonial Research

• Contains, among other things: German East Africa Company (1887); German West Africa Company, establishment of a trading station in 'German South West Africa' (1887)<br />Includes: 'Appeal to all friends of German colonial policy in the name of the German West African Company', printed booklet, 10 p. [1887]; 'Statute of the German West African Company', printed booklet, 6 p. [1887]; 'Memorandum concerning the development of Kiautschou' (today's capital Qingdao) with maps, printed booklet, 43 p. (1898); 'Memorandum concerning the development of the Kiautschou area in the period from October 1899 to October 1900' with maps and illustrations, printed booklet, 50 pp. (1901); 'Overview of the income and expenditure of the protectorates of Cameroon, Togo, New Guinea, the administration of the Caroline Islands, Palau Islands and Mariana Islands as well as the Samoa protectorate', printed booklet, 39 pp. (1901)n* Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Abt. Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart, E 14 Königliches Kabinett II

Content: Administration of services, personnel, cash management and accounting - Collection of legal provisions and decrees, including judicial decisions on postal, telegraphic and telephone services - International postal agreements and treaties with individual states - Supervision and regulation of postal services, organisation of subordinate postal and telegraph institutions - German postal institutions abroad, especially in German New Guinea, on the Caroline Islands, Mariana Islands, Palau Islands and Marshall Islands, on Samoa and in Shanghai - relations of the Oberpostdirektion with shipping companies, railway companies and forwarding agents - postal statistics - postal traffic with overseas countries, also establishment of postal steamship lines - air and rail postal services - radio and radio broadcasting

Explanation: When the North German Confederation was founded, the postal system was organised as a unified state transport authority with the simultaneous disappearance of the territorial postal institutions. Bremen received a federal post office. In 1871, postal sovereignty was transferred to the German Reich. In 1874, the Reichspostverwaltung appointed Bremen as the seat of an Oberpostdirektion, which became the medium Reichspostbehörde. In addition to the territory of Bremen, its area of responsibility included the part of the administrative district of Hanover on the left bank of the Weser, parts of the administrative district of Stade and the administrative district of Thedinghausen in Brunswick. Until the First World War she was also responsible for the postal services in German New Guinea, on the Caroline Islands, Mariana Islands, Palau and Marshall Islands and Samoa. From 1934-1945 the Oberpostdirektion was called Reichspostdirektion Bremen. In 1943 it also took over the district of the Oldenburg management, which had until then been independent, and which included the Weser-Ems district. The privatization of Deutsche Bundespost was initiated in 1989, and in 1990 it was separated into the postal service and telecommunications divisions at OPD. At the end of 1992, the Postal Directorate was divided into the Postal Service and Telecommunications Directorates. Since 1995 they have been part of Deutsche Post AG and Deutsche Telekom AG. Lit.: Christian Piefke, Die Entstehung der Oberpostdirektion Bremen, in: Postgeschichtliche Blätter aus der Weser-Ems-Gebiet, Vol. 1, H. 1, 1955, S. 2-3; Werner Guddat, 100 Jahre Oberpostdirektion Bremen, Leer 1974; Theodor Windmann, 100 Jahre Oberpostdirektion Bremen, in: Postgeschichtliche Hefte Weser-Ems, Vol. 1, 1955, S. 2-3. 4, H. 4, 1973, p. 77-84; Johannes Rust, Die Postgeschichte des Bezirks der Reichspostdirektion Bremen für den Kriegsjahre 1939-1945, Bremen 1949; K. Johanns, Die ersten Schritte. Attempt to reconstruct postal conditions in the Reichspostdirektions district of Bremen after the end of the Second World War until the resumption of limited correspondence on 1 July 1945, in: Philatelie und Postgeschichte, 20, No. 89, 1986, p. 1-19; Alexis Wegener, Die Post in Bremen und Bremerhaven 1945-1964, in: Wachsende Städte an der Unterweser, 1965, p. 88-96; Der OPD-Bezirk Bremen, in: Zeitschrift für das Post- u. Fernmeldewesen, 7 (1955), p. 41-53; Oberpostdirektion Bremen (ed.), Oberpostdirektion Bremen im neuen Haus, Bremen 1985; Herbert Leclerc, Von Apia bis Yap. Former German postal institutions in the South Seas, in: Archiv für deutsche Postgeschichte 1982, pp. 7-32; Fritz Thole, Die Leiter der Oberpostdirektion Bremen, in: Postgeschichtliche Blätter aus dem Weser-Emsgebiet, vol. 1, H. 1, 1955, p. 3, H. 3, 1956, p. 29-38, vol. 2, H. 6, 1961, p. 118-119. Reference: Christian Piefke, Die Entstehung der Oberpostdirektion Bremen, in: Postgeschichtliche Blätter aus der Weser-Ems-Gebiet, vol. 1, H. 1, 1955, p. 2-3; Werner Guddat, 100 Jahre Oberpostdirektion Bremen, Leer 1974; Theodor Windmann, 100 Jahre Oberpostdirektion Bremen, in: Postgeschichtliche Hefte Weser-Ems, vol. 4, H. 4, 1973, p. 77-84; Johannes Rust, Die Postgeschichte des Bezirks der Reichspostdirektion Bremen für die Kriegsjahre 1939-1945, Bremen 1949; K. Johanns, Die ersten Schritte. Attempt to reconstruct postal conditions in the Reichspostdirektions district of Bremen after the end of the Second World War until the resumption of limited correspondence on 1 July 1945, in: Philatelie und Postgeschichte, 20, No. 89, 1986, p. 1-19; Alexis Wegener, Die Post in Bremen und Bremerhaven 1945-1964, in: Wachsende Städte an der Unterweser, 1965, p. 88-96; Der OPD-Bezirk Bremen, in: Zeitschrift für das Post- u. Fernmeldewesen, 7 (1955), p. 41-53; Oberpostdirektion Bremen (ed.), Oberpostdirektion Bremen im neuen Haus, Bremen 1985; Herbert Leclerc, Von Apia bis Yap. Former German Post Offices in the South Seas, in: Archiv für deutsche Postgeschichte 1982, pp. 7-32; Fritz Thole, Die Leiter der Oberpostdirektion Bremen, in: Postgeschichtliche Blätter aus dem Weser-Ems-Gebiet, vol. 1, h. 1, 1955, pp. 3, h. 3, 1956, pp. 29-38, vol. 2, h. 6, 1961, pp. 118-119.

Also includes: Sending a research expedition to the protectorate of New Guinea Darin: Map of German possessions in the Pacific Ocean; R. Thurnwald: "Die eingeborenen Arbeitskräfte im Südseeschutzgebiet", 1910 (print); "Die Vermessungsschiffexpedition nach Neu-Guinea", 1914 (print)

Contains among other things: Budget for the accounting year 1909; also contains: budget for the East African protectorate, the protectorate of Cameroon, the protectorate of Togo, the protectorate of New Guinea, the protectorate of Samoa, the administration of the Caroline Islands, Palau, Mariana Islands and Marshall Islands, the R e i c h s k o l o n i a l a m t office

Contains among other things: Budget for the accounting year 1908; also includes: budget for the Reichs-Kolonialamt, the East African protectorate, the Cameroon protectorate, the Togo protectorate, the Samoa protectorate, the administration of the Caroline Islands, Palau, Mariana Islands and Marshall Islands,

Volumes 1-15 were not handed over to the Reich Archives, but remained in the central office of the Foreign Office.

Contains among other things: Memorandum of the German Agricultural Council, Berlin, 1898, print, 38 p. Qu. 3; Memorandum concerning the archipelago of the Caroline Islands, Palau and Mariana Islands together with an overview map of the German possessions in the Pacific Ocean, Berlin, 1899, print, 5 p. Qu. 54

Contains among other things: Germany's occupation of the Mariana Islands Germany's regulation of legal relations Missions Damage caused by typhoons Japanese expeditions in the Mariana Islands Occupation of the Mariana Islands and Marshall Islands by Japanese

Contains among other things: Acquisition of the Caroline, Palau and Mariana Islands Declaration on the Protectorate Survey of the indigenous population on Ponapé

Contains among other things: E. Krämer-Baunow, Homeland Security to the German Colonies! 117th pamphlet on the expressive culture of the Dürer Federation, Munich 1913

Contains among other things: Acquisition of real estate by the local population Award of order to Spanish officers Instructions of the Spanish government for the forthcoming transfer of ownership of the Caroline Islands to Germany Payment of the purchase price for the Caroline Islands Compensation of the merchant Zarza in Ponapé for the destruction of his ammunition supplies

Contains among other things: Granting of concessions and privileges to promote economic development Memorandum of the Jaluit Society, Hamburg, 19 Sept. 1900

Contains among other things: Spanish archive material on the Caroline Islands General emigration conditions, propaganda in the Philippines Purchases of land by local people Flag hoisting on Tobi Island and Helen Reef Expulsion of Japanese traders from Truk Islands

Contains among other things: Disarmament of the local population Establishment of a station in Ruk-Attoll Born, Some remarks about music, poetry and dance of the Yaplente, 1903 Born, Some observations of ethnological nature about the Oleai Islands (o.D.) Map of Palau, m.: 1:300 000 with registered shipping lines, trade and mission stations (o.D.)

Contains among other things: Destruction by typhoons Residence of warships

Contains among other things: Pictures about the landscape and local population of Palau, Sonserol and Tobi

Contains among other things: Riots due to land disputes Journey of the head of the South Sea Phosphate Syndicate Schönau through the Mariana Islands and Ponapé (Aug./Sept. 1907)

Contains among other things: Transfer of native population to foreign territories Mutiny on the Norwegian barque Odd Cruise of the cruiser squadron Death of 6 Japanese on Assonsong due to Beriberi disease