Contains among other things: Direct communication of the court in Kiautschou and the naval courts abroad with domestic courts; simplification of mutual legal assistance Also includes: execution of sentence against the planter Wilhelm Wödy from Öhringen

Missions-Kirchenordnungen, Dr., 1869, 1875 o.J.; Agreement on the transfer of the Hakka Mission (China) to Berlin, 1882; Negotiations on a joint teacher training institution and on the ordination of colored helpers in Africa, 1903; Negotiations on the coordination of the work at the Cape, 1904; Report on the death of Insp. Sauberzeig-Schmidt in Hong Kong, Dr., 1906; J. Neitz: Report of a journey to Samuel Maherero, 13 p., 1907; Foundation of church coffers in China, Vorschlag Glüer, 1907; Satzung d. Berliner Missionsgesellschaft, Dr., 1907; Die Aufsicht über die Missionsarbeit d. Berliner Mission, 18 p., ms., ca. 1908; Admission of Miss. Behrens/Hermannsburg, 1913; Reports of fights in Tsingtau, 1914; Vertraul. Report on obstruction of missionary work by World War I, 18 p., ms., 1915; conflict with P. Theo. Fliedner/Madrid, 1920; What still holds us to the pagan mission today, pamphlet, ca. 1920

Includes:Replies to Circular No. 1791 of June 2, 1899

Five Chinese are executed by the German Schutztruppe in Litzun in the German colony of Tsingtau. Undated recording. / Photographer: Scherl

Five Chinese are executed by the German Schutztruppe in Litzun in the German colony of Tsingtau. Undated recording. / Photographer: Scherl

Contains: Budget Department of the R e i c h s m a r i n e a m t concerning the possibility of a fleet amendment, May 1905 Records of the immediate lecture of 11 Feb. 1905 on the statement in the Budget Commission Second consultation of the navy budget in the Reichstag on 25 Feb. 1905. 1905 (print) Third draft of the novella (print) with statement of the General Marine Department of the Reichsmarineamts/August of Heeringen, July 1905 Notes to the Immediatvortrag in Rominten on 4 Oct. 1905 and submission of the administrative department of the Reichsmarineamts/Eduard von Capelle of 26 Sept. 1905 Draft of the novella (print), as of Sept. 1905 Tirpitz to Bernhard Fürst von Bülow betr. Marinvorlage 1906 und Deutschen Flottenverein, 8. Nov. 1905 Correspondence with Prince Heinrich von Preußen, Nov. - Dec. 1915 Throne speech of Emperor Wilhelm II from 28. Nov 1905 (print) Reichstag speech of Tirpitz on the naval template (revised version), Dec. 1905 Marinvorlage (print), Nov. 1905 Leaflets of the German Fleet Association, 1905 - 1906 Shortening the lifespan of liner ships Manuscripts and notes for speeches in the Reichstag Negotiations of the Budget Commission on Kiautschou and the Navy (print), Feb. - March 1906 Karl von Sauer, March 1906 Felix von Bendemann, 17 March 1906 Karl Hollweg, 17 March 1906

Contains: also:Eleventh Deutscher Handlungsgehilfentag, 1909;Handlungsgehilfen-Forderungen zur Verbesserung des Handelsgesetzbuches (Schriften des Deutschnationalen Handlungsgehilfen-Verbands, Bd. 42), Hamburg 1909;Handels- und Gewerbekammer Plauen, Die besondere Revision bei der Gründung von Aktiengesellschaften in der Praxis, Teil I, Dresden 1899;Excerpts from the Commercial Register of the Imperial Court of Kiautschou 1899ff.

Contains among other things: "The Fish River Expedition. Travels and Work in German South West Africa in 1903" by A. Kuhn "Negotiations of the Colonial Economic Committee E. V." No. 1/04 "The Cotton Question. Ein weltwirtschaftliches Problem" by Prof. Dr. Helfferich, reprint from the "Marine-Rundschau" of June 1904

Contains among other things: Reports on German Colonial Cotton Enterprises from 1906 to 1908 Negotiations of the Colonial Economic Committee No. 1 and 2 of 1906 and 1907, respectively, and No. 1 of 1908 Applications for the Establishment of Enterprises Report on Fruit Growing in the Protectorate

Contains among other things: "Magazin für Technik und Industriepolitik", Magazine of the German Technical Society, III. year, No. XIV and XV of 1913 Dissolution of the Schantung-Bergbau-Gesellschaft and acquisition of assets by the Schantung-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft Negotiations on the construction of an ironworks in Tsingtau

Contains among other things: Financial Budget Hong Kong Development of the English Protectorate New Territories from 1899 to 1912 Act on National Defence of the South African Union and Related Matters Act regulating the establishment, organization and management of the South African Police Report on the conservation of historic sites and former monuments and buildings in the West Indian colony Development of the New Territories under English Rule Legislation in Hong Kong Act "An Ordinance to amend and consolidate the Law with regard to Municipalities" Regulation of the Governor of Straits Settlements

Contains among other things: Monthly reports on events and conditions Police and passport matters Kiautschou - Government activity reports: Monthly reports on events and conditions in construction matters, health conditions, ship lists, trade and traffic, residence of foreign squadrons, activity among the Chinese

Contains among other things: Accounting of the South Manchurian Railway Company for 1913/14 Report on negotiations concerning the Kaumi Railway and the West Railway concerning negotiations with the Schantung Railway Company Settlement of the Company's 1922 claim for damages

Contains among other things: Extracts from the Commercial Register of the Imperial Court of Kiautschou Expansion of Trade with China Overview of China's National Economy, Administration and Trade Annual Report 1900/01 of the Colonial Economic Committee List of the Chambers of Commerce existing in the German Reich (as of early 1902) Trade and Shipping Report for the German Kiautschou Region for the Year 1901

Contains among other things: Treatment of the German prisoners of war in Japan and the Germans in the occupied Kiautschou area during the war Draft of a supplementary legal agreement to the peace treaty Preparation of peace negotiations, peace conferences on the Kiautschou protectorate Measures for economic development and development

Contains among other things: Exchange of severely wounded persons, treatment of prisoners of war in Japan Prehistory of the war with Japan The German prisoners of war in Japan, translations and excerpts from the Japanese press

Contains among other things: Conviction of prisoners for escaping from Japanese captivity; visit of various prison camps in Japan by employees of the American embassy in Tokyo; report by Sumner Welles on the visit of the prisoner-of-war camps Fukuoka, Kurume, Aonagahara, Marugame, Matsuyama, Nagoya, Osaka, Narashino, Oita, Shidzuoka, Tokushima, March 1916; conquest of the German leasehold area in Kiautschou in autumn 1914

Contains among other things: Battle for Tsingtau, transcripts of letters of the fighters Treatment of prisoners of war in Japan

Contains among other things: German severely wounded prisoners from Japanese prison camp return home Treatment of prisoners in Japanese prison camps Report on fighting for Tsingtau

Contains among other things: Memorandum of the English Government concerning the regulation of the cost of transporting prisoners of war, treatment of prisoners of war in Japan

Contains among other things: Reports on imprisonment in Siberia and Japan Agreements between the German and French Governments and the German and British Governments on prisoners of war and civilians

Contains among other things: Exchange of German prisoners of war in Japan Treatment of prisoners in Japan

Contains among other things: Report on prisoner camps in Japan and treatment of inmates Memorandum on the demands of prisoners of war for full equality with the other members of the army News bulletin of the Reichszentralstelle für Kriegs- und Zivilgefangene, No. 7, Berlin May 1919

Contains among other things: Losses of the Tsingtau crew From the war diary of the Tsingtau fortress Location of prisoners of war in Japan and on Ceylon List of prisoners of war from the camps Fukuoka, Marugame, Matsuyame

Contains among other things: Short political and military orientation about Japan and China Expedition of the Japanese Red Cross Society to Tsingtau Report from a prisoner of war camp of the Japanese demands of Japan on China and the interests of other countries affected thereby List of names of prisoners of war (high officers) The attack S.M. Torpedoboot "S 90" in the night from 17. to 18. Oct. 1914 on the blockade forces off Tsingtau and the march to Nanking

Contains among other things: Letters from prisoner-of-war camps to relatives Memorandum concerning expulsions of Germans from Japan Transfer agreement from Tsingtau to Japan Report on the German prisoners of war from Tsingtau, the siege of Tsingtau, English prisoner-of-war camps, siege and transfer of Tsingtaus

Contains among other things: Named list of medical personnel and officials deployed during the siege of Tsingtau Reports on perceptions and experiences during the military operations in the Kiautschou Protectorate Letters from prisoner-of-war camps on conditions there Communications on prisoner-of-war camps

Contains among other things: Reports about the battles of Tsingtau, observations and experiences during the war, English prisoner of war camps, English regulation concerning trade with the enemy

Contains among other things: Records concerning the Japanese in Schantung Conditions in Japanese prisoner-of-war camps Extract from a diary of records from the Fukuoka prisoner-of-war camp Memorandum on the foreign colonial areas which could be considered new acquisitions at the conclusion of the peace Treatment of German prisoners of war in Japan "Tokushima-Anzeiger", Zeitschrift für das Gefangenenheim, No. 15 bis 17, July/Aug. 1915

Contains among other things: Fate of the crew of Tsingtau during defense and after surrender and treatment of prisoners in Japan Observations during a trip through Russia Evidence of Japanese prison camps

Contains among other things: Investigative files on military criminal court proceedings; decree of the Imperial Director of Customs in Alsace-Lorraine of 29 March 1895 on the use of border guards for the capture of deserters, note and draft decree of the State Ministry of Finance, Stuttgart to the State Ministry of War of 8 March 1900 on the reorganization of the representation of the financial system in legal disputes under public and civil law; draft law of 30 March 1959 on the use of border guards for the capture of flag fugitives, Stuttgart to the State Ministry of War, Stuttgart; draft law of 30 March 1959 on the use of the border guards for the capture of flag fugitives; draft law of 30 March 1959 on the use of the border guards for the capture of flag fugitives, note and draft decree of the State Ministry of Finance, Stuttgart to the State Ministry of War, Stuttgart to the new regulation of the representation of the financial system in legal disputes under public and civil law. Jan. 1900 for decision by the Bundesrat, Berlin, on the military administration of justice in the Kiautschou area (China); Note of 27 May 1900 from the Staatsministerium der Justiz, Stuttgart, on the contractual regulation of judicially certified documents in dealings with Switzerland Darin: Vorschläge des Deutschen Juristentags für die Art der Anferenführung von Rechtsquellen, Entscheidungen und wissenschaftlichen Werken (German Lawyers' Day proposals for the type of citation of legal sources, decisions and scientific works (printed). Published 27th German Lawyers' Congress 1904 Berlin 1905, 48 p.

contains, among other things, demands by Germany concerning Kiautschou at the Peace Commission; proposals by the Navy for amendments and additions to the guidelines for German peace negotiators; article: "Die wirtschaftliche Ausbeutung des Saarbecken"; proposals by the R e i c h s m a r i n e a m t for the negotiations of pre-peace

Carl Richard Müller was born on 2 June 1889 in Knauthain near Leipzig. After finishing school, he learned the profession of gardener from 1903-1906 and then worked in several German and Swiss towns. From the beginning of 1908 until October 1909 he had a job as a gardener at the cemetery on Casinostraße in Solingen. In 1910 and 1911 he did his military service as a naval artillerist in the German colony of Tsingtau in China. At the end of his service he concluded a contract of several years with the company Hernsheim, which traded and planted in the German colonial area of New Guinea/Bismarck Archipelago on the equator north of Australia. In 1912 he worked on the Bismarck Archipelago and the Solomon Islands Bougainville. After an eventful year in which he was able to realize his childhood dream as a planter in the South Seas for the first time, but also lost some illusions about life in the colonies, the employment contract was terminated prematurely (apparently after differences with the company) and Müller returned to Germany via Australia. Severe malaria attacks tortured him on his way home and in Germany, but his homeland could not keep him in the long run. From summer 1913 to spring 1914 he sought his fortune in Argentina, but found no satisfactory job and decided to apply for immigration to Australia. At the end of June 1914 he had the necessary entry papers and boarded the German steamer Roon in Antwerp with the destination Freemantle. When the world war broke out in August 1914 and Great Britain took the side of the German opponents, the ship had to break off the voyage to Australia and seek refuge in Dutch India. From 1914 to 1940 he worked at four different stations, from 1927 on Tandjongdjati in southern Sumatra, where he cultivated coffee and rubber, and in 1939 the Belgian owners appointed him manager. The climax of his career was followed by a sudden end. The invasion of the Netherlands by the Wehrmacht on 10 May 1940 turned German citizens into enemies in the Dutch colonial empire. For Müller and many others the period of internment began - until the end of 1941 in the Dutch camp Alasvallei in northern Sumatra, then under British control in the camp Premnagar near Dehra Dun in northern India at the foot of Hima-laya. Only in autumn 1946 the prisoner Carl Richard Müller number 56134 was released and arrived in Solingen in December 1946. Here he found work in the nursery Diederich in Wald, to which he also remained faithful as a pensioner with casual work. In 1966 he had to give up his independent life because of bad health and moved to the Eugen-Maurer-Heim in Gräfrath. There he died on 21 March 1973. The estate has preserved some of Müller's adventurous life. Müller and other prisoners used the enforced inactivity during the long internment years for writing and for lectures in their own circle. Of these works, pieces have been preserved which are of particular interest for research into German colonial rule and European planting in the South Seas. Müller's autobiographical manuscripts about the years 1912-1940, which he thought he could summarize as the "ro-man of a fortune-seeker" (documents 11 and 12 with the addition of the photographs in documents 6 and 7 and cards in documents 17 and 26), are to be mentioned first and foremost. In addition there are numerous essays by Müller on plant cultures, economic and technical problems on the plantations and abstracts on the nature and fauna of Indonesia, mainly Sumatra (documents 13 to 16). Work done by fellow prisoners on their experiences in Indonesia and Australia can be found in file 23, including a report on detention in Sumatra with a shorter annex on time in India. Relatively little is known about camp life in Dehra Dun; Müller, however, kept a booklet titled "Männerworte" (Aktenstück 5), in which 22 fellow prisoners registered themselves with words of remembrance. The photographs of Müller's life in Solingen after 1946 are primarily preserved, of which the works for Diederich may be of local historical interest (file 8). Furthermore, the collection contains a file of the Social Welfare Office of the City of Solingen. The stock was handed over to the City Archive by the Social Welfare Office in a suitcase, which was separated from the above documents at the time of recording. The stock was recorded for the first time in September 1998 by Anika Schulze, developed by Hartmut Roehr in 2007.

Contains among other things: Correspondence with Adam von Müller; A. Langhans; Prince Heinrich von Preußen, Malte Hass, Tsingtau; Albert Ballin, General Director of the Hamburg-America-Line Correspondence with Field Marshal Freiherr von der Goltz; Lieutenant General von Falkenhayn; Admiral von Ingenohl; Staff Veterinarian M. Pfeiffer (Kumamoto/Japan); Lieutenant of the Reserve Breternitz (Kumamoto/Japan) Correspondence with C.J. Voskamp, Tsingtau; Captain at Landsturm Popert, Leipzig; Dr. Dernburg, Berlin Miscellaneous: Question of the International Arbitral Tribunals for the Prevention of the Sudden Outbreak of War, Obtaining a German Arbitral Formula

History of the Inventory Designer: 1907 Formation of the R e i c h s k o l o n i a l a m t from the Colonial Department of the A u s w ä r t i g e s A m t ; 1919 Transformation into a R e i c h s k o l o n i a l ministry and assumption of the liquidation business for the former German colonial territories; after its dissolution in 1920, assumption of the tasks by the R e i c h s m a r i n a m i n g for reconstruction (Colonial Central Administration) until its dissolution in 1924; thereafter, processing of colonial affairs again by the A u s w ä r t i g e s A m t . Inventory description: Inventory history The files of the central colonial administration of the German Reich have been subject to organisational changes from the subject area or department at kaiserli‧chen Auswärtiges Amt to the Imperial Reichsamt and Ministry of the Wei‧marer Republic and back to the department or department at the Auswärtiges Amt. Many volumes of files or subject series were easily continued organically beyond the verschie‧denen changes; for the period after 1920 this often means that they slowly ebbed away. Real breaks in the Aktenfüh‧rung can usually not be determined. The registry of Reichskolonialmi‧niste‧riums therefore formed a closed one in 1919 and after the extensive loss of colonial political tasks in the eyes of many even closed Kör‧per. The files were distributed according to the former secret registries of the Reichsko‧lonialamts as follows: Secret registry KA I East Africa Secret registry KA II Southwest Africa Secret registry KA III South Sea Secret registry KA IV Cameroon and Togo Secret registry KA V Legal cases Secret registry KA VI Scientific and medical cases Secret registry KA VII General secret registry KA VIII Agriculture Secret registry KA I-VII Foreign Countries and Possessions Secret Registry KB I Budget and Accounting Secret Registry KB II Technical Matters Secret Registry KB III Railway Matters Already in the Cabinet Meeting on 1. In 1919, the Reich Minister of the Interior, Matthias Erzberger, had spoken about the files of the then still existing Kolonialministeri‧ums and had suggested that "the archives of the Reichs‧kolonialamts and the Reich Marine Office should be merged with the corresponding facilities of the Großer Generalstab and an independent Reich archive should be created in a city yet to be determined, which would be directly subordinated to the Reich Ministry [cabinet]". Ministerialdirigent Meyer-Gerhard had contradicted this in his memorandum of 30 Sept. 1919 and demanded that both the files and the extensive library of the R e i c h s k o l o n i a l ministry be handed over to the A u s w ä r t i g e s A m t , where he also wanted to see the permanently preserved Orga‧nisati‧onseinheiten of the Colonial Ministry located. Only the files that were no longer needed were to be destroyed or handed over to the Reich Archives. In fact, the files were initially handed over to the R e i c h s m i n g e r a m i n g for reconstruction and were inspected in 1924 when the Colonial Department was transferred to the Foreign Office. An inventory shows which files were transferred directly to the Reichsarchiv, transferred to the Auswärtiges Amt, or immediately became ver‧nichtet . While only very few files were immediately destroyed and by far the largest part of the files were immediately handed over to the archive, bean‧spruchte the Federal Foreign Office, in addition to some documents of fundamental Be‧deutung, even from long chronological volume sequences, mostly only those volumes which were important for the ak‧tuellen business and left the older volumes in each case to the archive. However, a large part of the Ak‧ten taken over from the Federal Foreign Office was also handed over to the Reichsarchiv during the course of the continuous reduction process to which the kolonialpoliti‧sche subdivision or the "Colonial Department" was exposed. Remnants of these documents were handed over to the Federal Archives by the Auswärti‧gen Office in February 2000. In 1945 the Reichsarchiv was probably home to a largely complete record of the central colonial administration of the German Reich. The orga‧nische character of the tradition forbid a breakdown of the documents, so that the entire tradition was stored in one inventory at the R e i c h s k o l o n i a l a m t zusammenge‧faßt . The R e i c h s k o l o n i a l a m t's destruction of the R e i c h s c h s a f t on 14 April 1945 severely affected the R e i c h s k o l o n i a l a m t's Ak‧ten . Approximately 30 of the holdings were burnt, including the registries KB I (budget and Rech‧nungswesen), II (technical matters) and III (railway matters). Also the files of the Schutztruppen and the files of the administrations that have reached the Reichsarchiv ein‧zelner Schutzgebiete have completely fallen victim to the flames. Archivische Bewertung und Bearbeitung In the Central State Archives of the GDR in Potsdam, the original registry order was discarded as Klassifika‧tion for the holdings during the processing of the Be‧stands 10.01 R e i c h s k o l o n i a l a m t . The mixed order, which combined registration, systematic and territorial criteria of order, was replaced by a structure, which arranged the files according to territorial aspects as far as possible. In the course of the revision of the finding aids for the present finding aid, which were compiled in the Central State Archives, the original order of the holdings was restored with the help of the registry aids that had been transferred to Bundesar‧chiv in 2000. The contexts of the original Regi‧straturordnung, according to An‧sicht, provide the author with a better and more systematic overview of the overall tradition than the systematic aspects of ver‧schleiernde "regionalisation" of the holdings. The former "Koblenz" inventory R 101 Reichskolonialamt consisted mainly of copies which the colonial writer Georg Thielmann-Groeg made, mainly in Reichsar‧chiv, from the files of the Reichskolonialamt. The indexing of this collection die‧sem Findbuch, which goes down to the individual file piece, is attached in an appendix because it compiles important documents on German colonial history in compressed form - with a focus on GermanSüd‧west‧afrika. For reasons of conservation, the oversized investment cards were taken from the volumes in inventory R 1001 and replaced by reference sheets. The maps were recorded on color macrofiches and organized in a mapNeben‧bestand under the designation R 1001 Kart. Content characterisation: Colonies and colonial policy, general; military and navy; colonial law, police matters; slaves and slave trade; research, surveying, demarcation; immigration, settlement, support, civil status; economy, trade, customs, taxes; agriculture and forestry; post and transport; missions and schools; health care. Non-German colonies and Liberia: British colonies; French colonies; Portuguese and Spanish colonies; Italian, Dutch, North American colonies. D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a and D e u t s c h - S ü d w e s t a f r i k a: Colonisation, general management and administration, political development; military and police, inspection and information tours; colonial law, criminal cases, inheritance and real estate; slavery and slave trade; research, surveying, demarcation; immigration, settlement, support, civil status; economy, trade, customs, taxes; agriculture, forestry, fishing; postal services and transport; missions and schools; health care. Cameroon: German-West African Trading Company, South and North-West Cameroon Society; colonisation, central and regional administration; political development; military and police, inspection and information tours; colonial law; research, surveying, demarcation; immigration, settlement, support, civil status; economy, trade, customs, taxes, banks, agriculture and forestry, fisheries; postal and transport services; health care; missions and schools. Togo: central and regional administration, political development; military and police, inspection and information missions; colonial law; research, surveying, demarcation; immigration, settlement, support, civil status; economy, trade, customs, taxes, banks; agriculture, forestry, fisheries; postal services and transport; missions, schools, health care. Congo: General; Berlin Conference. New Guinea: New Guinea company; colonization, central and regional administration, political development; military and police; colonial law; research, surveying, demarcation; immigration, settlement, support, civil status; economy, trade, taxes, customs, banks; agriculture, forestry, fishing; post and transport; health care, schools. Caroline, Mariana and Palau Islands: colonisation, general, management and administration, political development; colonial law; research, surveying, demarcation; immigration, settlement, support, civil status; economy, trade, customs, taxes; post and transport; missions, schools, health care. Samoa: colonisation, central and regional administration, political development; military; colonial law, police matters; research, surveying, demarcation; immigration, resettlement, civil status; economy, trade, customs, taxes, banks; agriculture and forestry; post, transport, shipping; missions, schools, health care. Marshall Islands: colonization, general management and administration, political development; research, surveying, settlement, employment; trade, customs, taxes, post, transport; missions, school, health care. Solomon Islands: Kiautschou/China R 1001 Annex: photocopies of documents on the acquisition of German colonial territories; photocopies of documents on Deutsch-Südwestafrika; copies of files of the Reichskolonialamt on Deutsch-Südwestafrika; diary of the Hottentot leader Hendrik Witbooi in Deutsch-Südwestafrika; horse breeding in North Cameroon. Erinnerungen von Kurt Freiherr von Crailsheim; "Kriegsnachrichten" newspaper from Deutsch-Südwestafrika, vol. 1915 no. 3; reproductions of portraits of various persons in Deutsch-Südwestafrika; curriculum vitae of Reichskommissar Dr. jur. Heinrich Goering. State of development: Publication Findbuch (2002); Online Findbuch (2003) Citation method: BArch, R 1001/...