History of the inventor: In 1884 the German Reich took over the protection of the Bremen merchant Franz Adolf Eduard Lüderitz by acquiring land; in 1885 the German administration was established; the German colonial society, founded in 1895, expanded the German sphere of influence; in 1915 the Schutztruppe surrendered to the armed forces of the South African Union and the German administration ended. Inventory description: Inventory history At the end of the 1930s, the Reichsarchiv took over the files of the Colonial Administration of D e u t s c h - S ü d w e s t a f r i k a, in some cases with considerable gaps in their transmission. After the relocation caused by the war, they were transferred to the Central State Archive in Potsdam in 1945. Here, the classification of the holdings into the central administration of Windhoek, the local administrations and the special administrations (justice, police, mining, railways) with their substructures, which had already been carried out in the Reich Archives, was preserved. The few volumes of files kept in the Federal Archives in Koblenz were assigned to the holdings after the reunification of Germany. Archive evaluation and processing In addition to the factual files of the most varied areas and administrative levels, the personnel files of the inspection of the state police as well as the railway administration and railway construction authorities form the most extensive groups of files with about 80 per cent of the transmission. The classification of the stock was carried out largely in accordance with the classification shown in the provisional finding aid, which was based on the registry scheme valid at the time. Only in a few individual cases were volumes assigned to a different classification. The order and titles of the volumes remained essentially unchanged. An index of persons, objects and places has been omitted, so that searches are only possible via the online version of this finding aid book. Content characterisation: Central administration; governorate in Windhoek; commissioner of the former governorate in Windhoek; local administration; district offices; district offices; administration of justice; high court in Windhoek; district courts; mountain authorities; registration aids. State of development: Findbuch 1942; Online-Findbuch 2002 Citation method: BArch, R 1002/...

description: Contains:StartVNr: E 2210/1910; EndVNr: E 1670/1911; and others: Cooperation with the Botanical Museum, pp. 387, and the Museum of Natural History, Berlin, (1911), pp. 110, 387 ff. - Sale of doublets to the Anthropological Institute of the University, Wroclaw, (1910), pp. 33 ff., the Museums für Völkerkunde, Leipzig, pp. 78 ff, Hamburg, pp. 280, Munich, (1911), pp. 383, and Stuttgart, (1910, 1913), pp. 14 ff., 148 on loan from the Saalburgmuseum, Homburg v.d.H., (1911, 1959), pp. 360 - Cooperation with the Kolonialinstitut, Hamburg, (1911), pp. 62 f. - Distribution of duplicates to private individuals, (1911), pp. 154 ff, 199, 238, 249, 372 - Cooperation with the editors of the Globus, (1910), p. 56, the Kolonialkriegerdank Association, p. 87, 129, 233, the Command of the Schutztruppen, p. 133, the Ethnological Assistance Committee, p. 220 ff, the German Colonial Society, Berlin, pp. 240 ff., the Kriegsmarine-Ausstellung, Oldenburg, pp. 50, and the Command of the Schutztruppe, Windhoek, (1911), pp. 130 - Cooperation with the White Fathers, (1910, 1911), pp. 58 ff, 251 ff. - Fechtner: Skull Shipment, (1911), p. 75 - Siegmann: Origin of the Skeletons Sent in by Maercker, (1910), p. 121 - von Sick: Corrections and Negotiations for His Work on the Wanyaturu, (1911), p. 138 ff - Lunkenbein: Offer of Skeletons, (1911), p. 160 - "General Adjustment pr. Steamship 'Oron' ...", (1911), duplication, pp. 170 ff.- [Peters:] "Ophir of the ancients. Dr. Carl Peters' theories..." [1911], Ztg.-Article, pp. 202 f.- Braunschweig: Report on planned colonial activities in the southeast of DOA, (1911), pp. 228 f.- His: "Description of the ... Poison arrows and daggers of the Herero..." (1911), Bl. 247.- Minist. the Spiritual Affairs: Report on awards, (1911), p. 283 - van Gennep: Report on his collecting activities and contacts among Mediterranean cultures, (1911), p. 293 ff - "From Grootfontein. In: Südwest-Afrikanische Ztg. : 1911-06-13, p. 326 - Staudinger: Request for support for Crompton, (1911), p. 342 ff.

1936-1972 in Okahandja, Windhoek, 1947-1972 Praeses South West Africa; letters and reports, correspondence; circulars to d. Members of the RMG in South West Africa; letters from the internment camp Andalusia, 1940-1945

Contains among other things: Overview of the transactions of the Reich Court in 1904 Annual reports of the Reich Insurance Office for 1904 and 1905 Drafts of laws concerning the pensions of widows and orphans of professors at the Kaiser Wilhelm University of Strasbourg from Feb. 1905, the Trade Accident Insurance Act from March 1905, the Reich Civil Servants Act from Apr. 1905, discharge of the Reich Invalidity Fund from Oct. 1905, and the annual report of the Reich Insurance Office for 1904 and 1905. 1905 Draft of provisions on the use of means of the Reich for the purposes of social welfare for war invalids dated Aug. 1917, contract of settlement between the German Reich and the Netherlands dated March 1905, application for legal capacity for "Turnverein Windhuk" in Deutsch-Südwestafrika dated Apr. 1905, calculation of the period of service for determining retirement pension

Contains among other things: Disputes about the farm Otjituezu of the deceased farmer Fr. Koppe, 1917; Resolution of the Windhoeker German population on the future of the protectorate Deutsch-Südwestafrika, March 1919; Regulation of the return journey of German civil servants and employees and their families to Germany and the forced return journey of civil servants, Schutztruppe members and ZIvil persons, March 1919-Nov. 1919; "Südwest im Friedenstraktat": Ausführungen zur Übernahme Deutsch-Südwestafrikas durch die Südafrikanische Union, 29.7.1919; Economic and financial negotiations with the South African Union, Jan. 1920; "Die Eingeborenen in Südwestafrika und die britische Verwaltung": Elaboration, author not named, 1920 (?)

Minutes and correspondence concerning; claims on land; mistreatment of prisoners; Herero war; exile of Witbooi; site plan and profile railway Swakopmund-Windhuk, 1:1.200.000, 1901; correspondence with the president of the German colonial society concerning the lecture by Insp. Hannig in Bielefeld, 1927 (see also RMG 1.092)

Contains among other things: Laws to prevent the mixing of whites with blacks - report of the German Consulate in Windhoek, 1934 jurisdiction of "non-Muslim" religious courts in Jerusalem in matters of personal status of foreigners, 1935 recognition of marriages and divorces between "Reich Germans" in Southwest Africa, 1935-1936 inheritance of a Jewish doctor with Palestinian nationality who died in Palestine, 1939