'Honouring six chiefs with old German uniform pieces for official occasions. - Approval of the proposal of the Syndicate for West Africa

'Exploratory Expedition to the North-East of the Togo Hinterland (1889 Staff Doctor Dr. Wolf). Report from Imperial Commissioner von Puttkamer to von Bismarck

'Conservées sont seulement pp. 1-175

'Erkundungsmarsch in das Gebiet des Benue vom 21.10.1902 -7.1.1903. - Bericht von Oberleutnant Dominik

'Europäische Expeditionsangehörige. - Directory

Buea - enthält hauptsächlich: - Forstwissenschaftliche Artikel aus den amtlichen Veröffentlichungen über die deutschen Schutzgebiete'

Dienststellen der Lokalverwaltung. - Banjo. - Appointment of Lieutenant Sandrock as deputy station master, 13 Feb. 1902 [fol. 2] Trade of the locals in country produce. - Report by Lieutenant Sandrock, Banjo, April 1902 [fol. 8 - 10] General political, military and economic conditions. - Adamaoua. - In Tibati. - Report by Lieutenant Sandrock, 4 April 1902 [fol. 11 - 12] Expedition of the station chiefs from Banjo (Lieutenant Sandrock, Lieutenant Houben). - Galim expedition (14-26 March 1902), 1902 [fol. 21 - 28] General political, military and economic conditions. - Adamaua. - Banjo area - report by Lieutenant Sandrock, 15 May 1902 [fol. 31 - 32] Local government offices. - Banjo. - Takeover of the station by First Lieutenant Houben, 18 June 1902 [fol. 33] Expedition of the station commanders of Banjo (Lieutenant Sandrock, First Lieutenant Houben). - Battle at Kumbo on 4 June 1902 and attack by the Bansso (Bascho) on 7 June 1902, 1902 [fol. 34 - 35] Expedition of the Banjo station commanders (Lieutenant Sandrock, First Lieutenant Houben). - Bafut Expedition (June-July 1902), 1902 [fol. 36 - 46] Njoya, Chief of Bamum (Fumban). - Presentation of a flag and a revolver by the Banjo station, September 1902 [fol. 48 - 51] Lake Chad expedition (Lieutenant-Colonel Pavel). - Expedition Bali Banjo (8 Jan. - 7 Feb. 1902) herein also: Murder of First Lieutenant Nolte on 1 Feb. 1902 in Banjo, 1902 [fol. 53 - 57] Individual cases. - Nolte, First Lieutenant. - Murder in the castle of Lamidos Omaru in Banjo on 1 February 1902, 1902 [fol. 58] Merima Issa (brother of Lamidos Omaru von Banjo, shot on 1 February 1902 on the occasion of the murder of Lieutenant Nolte). - Transport to the coast and shooting on the run together with Sariki-n-zaggi and the Kaigama Adamau by the escort detachment under Lieutenant Sandrock on 25 February 1902, 1902 [fol. 68] General political, military and economic circumstances. - Adamaua. - Banjo area. - Report of Lieutenant von Madai, August-October 1902 [fol. 69 - 112] Reports of the departments of the general administration. - Banjo June - September 1902, 1902 [fol. 121 - 140] Reports of the departments of the general administration. - Banjo 24 January - 12 June 1902, 1902 [fol. 130 - 141] Reports of the general administration departments. - Banjo December 1903, 1903 [fol. 155 - 156] General political, military and economic conditions. - Banjo, Bamun (Fumban) Tikar area. - Report by Lieutenant Müller, (1 Feb. 1904) [fol. 160 - 165] Lake Chad journey of 6 Aug. 1904 (Governor von Puttkamer). - Galim expedition from 15 October to 15 November 1904 (Lieutenant Achenbach), 1904 [fol. 178 - 201] Reports of the departments of the general administration. - Banjo July 1904, 1904 [fol. 184 - 187] Reports of the general administration departments. - Banjo August - September 1904, 1904 [fols. 198 - 199] Location sketch of Banjo station (with ground plan sketch) without scale. Pen and ink drawing with coloured inscriptions, Sandrock, Leutnant, 31.3.1902 New establishment of the station by Leutnant Sandrock after the murder of Oberleutnant Nolte on 1.2.1902, 20.4.1902

Schutztruppe für Kamerun. - 1st Company. - Formed by conversion of the Garua Expedition by the command of the Schutztruppe für Kamerun without authorisation by Governor von Puttkamer, 1902 [fol. 4] Personalwesen der Schutztruppe für Kamerun. - Regular company of the Schutztruppe für Kamerun. - Strength report, 7 Dec. 1902 [fol. 19] Expedition to the area north of the Benue from 13 Jan. to 18 Aug. 1902 - Alleged border crossing by the Garua expedition. - Investigations into a British protest, 4 April 1902 [fol. 27 - 31] Garua. - Takeover or handover of the Residentur by First Lieutenant von Bülow (successor to First Lieutenant Count Fugger von Glött, murdered on 5 February 1903), 8 March 1903 [fol. 49] Establishment of a factories in Garua. - Unsuccessful endeavours with German and British companies, 1902 - 1904 [fol. 54] Reports of the general administration departments. - Garua. 1 Company of the Schutztruppe für Kamerun April - December 1903, 1903 [fol. 67 - 108] Companies. - Randad & Stein, Hamburg. - Establishment of a factory in Ngaundere for the purpose of exploiting the wild rubber deposits in the border region of Kunde. - Commitment to the governorate, 1904 [fol. 92 - 213] Garua. - Establishment of the Residentur, competences of the Resident and provisional takeover of the business by Captain Thierry. - Order by Governor von Puttkamer (draft), 20 September 1903 [fol. 103 - 104] Garua. - Takeover and handover of the Residentur, 8 March 1903 [fol. 105 - 106] Preparation for the introduction of cash transactions at Garua station, September 1903 [fol. 109] Garua. - Delivery of a house made of asbestos manufacturing parts from the company Asbest- und Gummiwerke Alfred Calmon AG, Hamburg, 1903 [fol. 128 - 143] Garua. - Handover of the station by the 1st Company to the Resident. - Order by Governor von Puttkamer (draft), 20 Nov. 1903 [fol. 145 - 159] Lake Chad voyage of 6 Aug. 1904 (Governor von Puttkamer). - Alleged encroachments by the Sultan of Tibati against the Wute. - Extract from the monthly report of the Joko station, January 1904 [fol. 150] Tibati-Ngaundere expedition of 27 February - 12 July 1904 (Captain Thierry), 1904 [fol. 152 - 252] Establishment of a police force of the Garua Residentur. - Preparations, September 1903, May 1904 [fol. 159 - 199] Offices of the local administration. - Dikoa. - Service instructions for the garrison commander in accordance with the instructions of the Foreign Office, 14 April 1903 [fol. 164 - 165] Garua. - Budget - applications for the 1905/06 budget, 1904 [fol. 176 - 189] Assassination of the Deputy Resident in Garua, Captain Thierry, on 16 September 1904 near Mubi. - Reports by Deputy Governor Dr Ebermaier to the Foreign Office, October 1904 [fol. 226 - 277] Personnel changes in the administration after the death of Captain Thierry on 16.9.1904 - Planning, 1904 [fol. 226 - 277] Livestock farming by the natives in Adamaua. - Report by Captain Thierry, 1904 [fol. 253 - 254] Services of the local administration. - Garua. - Service instructions, 15 July 1904 [fol. 260 - 263] Implementation of military measures in the Garua Resident District. - Complaint by Captain Thierry about Lieutenant Strümpell, August 1904 [fol. 264 - 270] Battle at Duhu on the Dikwa (Dikoa) Garua road on 3-4 July 1904 (Lieutenant Schipper), 1904 [fol. 258 - 259] Distribution of European members of the Schutztruppe for Cameroon. - Lists, some with names Garua - plans, 1902

Schutztruppe für Kamerun. - Weapons and equipment. - Mountain gun 6.7 cm and other military equipment of the Residentur Garua - Request by Captain Thierry, April 1904 [fol. 1 - 7] Reports of the departments of the general administration. - Residentur Garua August 1904 - January 1905 [fol. 9 - 12] Police force in Garua. - Status report by Captain Langheld, 13 November 1904 [fol. 13 - 14] Affairs of the chiefs. - Chiefs' Day in Ngaundere on 11 Nov. 1904 - Report by Captain Langheld, Garua, 1904 [fol. 15 - 17] Ngaundere. - Cancellation of the resident post due to lack of personnel in the protection force for Cameroon, 17 November 1904 [fol. 18 - 21] Garua. - Transfer of supreme command of all units of the Schutztruppe für Kamerun stationed in the area of the Adamaua and Lake Chad Lands Residentures as well as command of the 7th Company stationed in Garua to the Resident Captain Langheld, 31 January 1905 [fol. 24] Takeover of the business of the Adamaua Residenture and the Lake Chad Lands Residenture by Captain Langheld, based in Garua. - Order of Governor von Puttkamer, 31 January 1905 [fol. 25] Merger of the Residentur Adamaua and the Residentur of the Lake Chad Countries to form the Residentur Adamaua-Bornu with headquarters in Garua. - Order of Governor von Puttkamer, 27 February 1905 [fol. 26] Reports of the departments of the general administration. - Residentur Garua [fol. 29 - 30] Combating unrest and uprisings. - Realisation of a joint undertaking with the Garua Residency to open the Marua Garua road [fol. 43 - 52] Unrest in the Mubi Uba area. - Report by Captain Langheld, Garua, 14 February 1905 [fol. 55 - 56] Smallpox and chickenpox. - Adamaua, January 1905 [fol. 55 - 58] Garua. - Taking over or handing over the residency to Captain Thierry, 21 September 1903 [fol. 60 - 78] Affairs of the chiefs. - Hamadjam, Lamido of Tibati. - Dismissal by Captain Zimmermann, Garua, 12 June 1905 [fol. 79 - 210] Local administration, general. - Relocation or cancellation of various military stations and posts in Adamaua. - Planning, August 1905 [fol. 88 - 89] Business trip to Ngaundere and Kunde from 27.3. - 17.4.1905 (Captain Langheld), 1905 [fol. 90 - 120] March Tibati Ngaundere Garua from mid-June - 11 July 1905 (Captain Zimmermann), 1905 [fol. 121 - 123] Affairs of the chiefs. - Lauan Haman of Kalfu. - Banishment to Duala, May-June 1905 [fol. 130 - 138] Kusseri. - Dissolution of the Residentur by Captain Stieber, 10 August 1905 [fol. 139] Reports of the departments of the general administration. - Garua Residency. - Residentur Garua July-December 1905 - February 1906 [fol. 140 - 217] Affairs of the chiefs. - Dallil, Lamido of Ngaundere. - Execution of the Dugga. - Investigations, July 1905 [fol. 148 - 150] Affairs of the chiefs. - Gerka, Ardo of Mitschiga. - Participation in the murder of Maita and banishment to Buea for ten years, September 1905 [fol. 151 - 154] Affairs of the chiefs. - Dallil, Lamido of Ngaundere. - Alleged use as a herdsman with the governorate herd in Buea, January 1906 [fol. 152] Regional border affairs. - Djau Kombol [fol. 156] Payment of food for the supply of official expeditions and transports with vouchers. - Memorandum by Captain Thierry, Garua, May 1904 [fol. 160 - 162] African members of the Schutztruppe for Cameroon. - Recruitment of deserted Senegalese into the protection force for Cameroon by Captain Langheld, Garua, March 1905 [fol. 163] Indigenous levies and services. - Collection of taxes from Mbororo herds. - Report by civil engineer Holstein, October 1905 [fol. 164] Garua. - Takeover or handover of the residency to Lieutenant Schipper by Captain Zimmermann, 31 January - 1 February 1906 [fol. 170 - 230] Recruitment of Tibati for labourers and porters. - Request by Captain Fabricius, Banjo, January 1906 [fol. 175 - 178] Tour of the Mandara Mountains from 16 Nov. 1905 - 20 Jan. 1906, 1905 - 1906 [fol. 183 - 208] Individual cases. - Freyer, senior physician of the Schutztruppe for Cameroon (deputy garrison commander in Dikoa). Repeated exercise of unauthorised jurisdiction against natives. Refusal of subsequent confirmation of executed death sentences, among others against Sultan (Lauda ?). - Report by Lieutenant Müller to the Foreign Office, 12 April 1906 [fol. 211 - 213] Garua. - Takeover or handover of the Residentur to First Lieutenant Strümpell by First Lieutenant Schipper, 24 February 1906 [fol. 221 - 225] Administrative and territorial boundaries (tribal boundaries). - Banjo, Garua and Joko, 1905 [fol. 225] Mission from Ibi on the Benue to Garua (Lieutenant Strümpell), 1906 [fol. 232] Collection of levies in the sultanates of Tibati and Tinge by the Banjo station. - Memorandum by Captain Langheld, 3 February 1905 [fol. 233] Capture of Galim Castle and reorganisation of the balance of power of the native rulers, 1904 [fol. 234] Banjo. - Non-relocation of the station to Galim for political reasons. - Report by Lieutenant Ostermayer, May 1905 [fol. 239 - 241] Occupation of Tibati. - Request from Captain Langheld, Duala, 31 Aug. 1905 [fol. 242] Schutztruppe für Kamerun. - 7th Company. - Transfer from Garua to Marua. - Memorandum by Captain Langheld, Duala, 31 Aug. 1905 [fol. 243]

description: Contains:StartVNr: E 2376/1909; EndVNr: E 667/1910; and others: Cooperation with the Vorderasiatisches Museum, (1909), p. 34, the Botanical Central Office for the Colonies at the Royal Botanical Garden and Museum, p. 113, and the Museum of Natural History, Berlin, (1910), p. 213 ff., 235 f.- Sale of duplicates to the Hzgl. collections of the Veste Coburg, (1909), p. 36 ff.- Cooperation with the Städtisches Museum, Bremen, (1912), pp. 75 - Cooperation with the Kgl. Landesaufnahme, pp. 167, the Kgl. Bergakademie, Berlin, (1910), pp. 219 f., and the Seminar für Geographie, Hamburg, (1909), pp. 1 ff - Lending of doublets to a girls' school, Berlin, (1910), pp. 237 - Cooperation with the BGAEU, (1910), pp. 17 ff - Cooperation with the Kgl. Landesaufnahme, pp. 167, the Kgl. Bergakademie, Berlin, (1910), pp. 219 f., and the Seminar für Geographie, Hamburg, (1909), pp. 1 ff - Lending of doublets to a girls' school, Berlin, (1910), pp. 237 ff - Cooperation with the BGAEU, (1910), pp. 17 ff, and the command of the Schutztruppe für DSW, Windhoek, (1910), p. 182, 184 Schipper: Explanation of the term "Kobirra" for Hörige, (1910), p. 72 - Karasek: Bericht über Fehldeutung des Verhaltens von natischen, (1909), p. 95 f. - by Ramsay: Explanation of his donation, (1910), p. 154 f. - Kaufmann: Donation of a skeleton, (1910), pp. 170 f.- Leupolt: Explanation of his donation, (1910), pp. 191 f.- Adametz: Report on religious ideas in Cameroon, pp. 195 ff, and on metallurgy, (1909, 1910), pp. 205 ff - "Darwinsche pathognomische Fragen", [1910], pp. 223 f.- Rathgen: Report on anthropological research in Tunisia, (1910), pp. 238 f.

description: Contains:StartVNr: E 950/1900; EndVNr: E 644/1901; and others: Cooperation with the Natural History Museum, (1901), p. 140, and the German Colonial Museum, Berlin, (1900), p. 10 - Cooperation with the Museum für Völkerkunde, Leipzig, p. 114 f., and the Natural History Museum, Cologne, (1901), p. 183 ff. Cooperation with the governors of DOA, (1900, 1901), pp. 13, 104, and Togo, (1901), pp. 220 - Cooperation with the Krupp Educational Association, Altendorf, pp. 128, 187 f., the Colonial Economic Committee, pp. 119, the Northwest Cameroon Society, Berlin, pp. 268, and the South Cameroon Society, Hamburg, (1901), pp. 226 ff. Cooperation with Herrnhuter Missionaren, p. 70, and the Norddeutsche Missionsgesellschaft, (1901), p. 100 - Müller: Acquisition of the Götzen Ekongolo unmöglich, (1900), p. 24 f. - Rigler: Remarks on the Distribution of His Collection to German Museums, (1900), p. 34 f. - Meinhof: Attitude of colonial officials towards the native population, (1901), p. 67 - von Luschan: Assessment of the Collection of Zech, p. 72, Assessment of the so-called war standard of the Sultan of Yendi, p. 87 f., 95 f., 172 f., Bitte an von Götzen und Fülleborn sich nach Sinne des ethnographischen Sammelns einzubommen, p. 127, Exclusive acceptance of lawfully acquired objects for the MV, (1901), p. 170 - "Art, Science, and Literature" In: Dt. Reichs- und Preußischer Staatsanzeiger, (1900), Abschr., p. 89 - Ubisch: Sammelauftrag des Zeughaus, Berlin, (1901), p. 90 - Minist. der geistl. Affairs: Refusal to support the expedition of Heinemann and Schrader, (1901), p. 107 - Schrader: Lebenslauf, (1900), p. 109 - Dt. Kolonialschule Wilhelmshof: "Timetable for the winter semester 1900/1901", and "Schülererverzeichnis des Sommersemesters 1900.", printed version, p. 107 - Schrader: Lebenslauf, (1900), p. 109 - Dt, Bl. 123 f.- "Deutsch-Ostafrikanische Sonder-Ausstellung C.G. Schillings (2nd Journey 1899/1900)", (no year), printed by.., pp. 131 f. - Founding minutes of the Museum Association, Essen, (1901), pp. 187 f. - Mischlich: Bericht zur Zahnpflege, (1901), Abschr., pp. 221 ff. - Laasch: Bericht über einen Fetisch, (1901), pp. 252 f. - Maas: Bericht über einen arabischen Frauenschmuck, (1901), pp. 260 ff - Gruner: Sendung eines Skeletts, (1901), pp. 282.

Cameroon: 1884-1914, colonies: German-Westafrica, Germany, German Reich Group photo of the first 20 native Askaris under the leadership of Lieutenant von Stetten in the German protectorate Cameroon / Photographer: Scherl

Contains: Local aid workers in Cameroon contracts

Contains: Local aid workers in Cameroon

Contains: Local subcontractors in Cameroon

Contains: Local aid workers in Cameroon

Contains: Native Auxiliary Officers in Cameroon

Correspondences and notes on the history of the German colony of Cameroon; reports on district trips; materials on the transfer to the Spanish Rio Moni colony (1916). (as of 1977)

Contains among other things: uprising of the local population

Contains among other things: 7 photos of the Balinga station with local population

Forestry. - Activities in the districts. - Tree species of the Cameroon protected area, their indigenous names and their utility value for the locals. - Overviews, 1909

Agricultural schools. - Establishment of an agricultural school at the outwork of the Buea government station, 1910

Quinine. - Extraction of raw quinine for the natives. - Plans, 1913

Contains among other things: Restraint of a complaint telegram of the local population List of expropriation costs 6 photographs of huts of the local population in Duala

Contains among other things: Submission of the Association of West African Merchants to the Reichstag due to rapid execution of the expropriation, Hamburg, 23 March 1914 Memorandum from the State Secretary Solf on the expropriation and relocation of the local population in Duala to the Reichstag on 1 May 1914

Contains among other things: Unrest of the local population in Cameroon. Map of Biafra Bay o.M. o J.

German soldiers of the imperial Schutztruppe with native Askaris in a defensive position during riots or the military submission in Cameroon. Undated photo, ca. 1900. / Photographer: Scherl

A member of the German Schutztruppe (left) next to a local Askari / Photographer: Scherl

Inventory description Inventory history The entire file inventory was essentially the old file registry of the Buea governorate, which had been left there when it was evacuated in 1914. The holdings were later divided between the English administration in Buea and the French administration in Yaounde and merged in 1974 in the National Archives in Yaounde. After the evacuation of Yaounde on 1 January 1916, after the destruction of the unneeded parts, the files went to Spanish-Muni, from there via Fernando Poo to the seat of the Madrid embassy governorate. In 1919 the files were transferred to the Reichsarchiv, where a large part was destroyed as not worthy of preservation. The rest fell victim to a bombing raid on Potsdam on 20 April 1945. Thus the files kept in the National Archives in Yaounde - apart from the preserved files of the R e i c h s k o l o n i a l a m t - constitute the only official written record of the period of German colonial rule in Cameroon. Archival evaluation and processing The Federal Archives' efforts to secure and film the files stored in Cameroon from the time of the German colonial administration date back to 1970. Through the mediation of the Federal Foreign Office and the German Embassy, the Federal Archives were able to offer the Director of the National Archives in Yaounde Cameroon the opportunity to send a German archivist to Cameroon for a limited period of time in order to arrange and record the German holdings together with local staff. The project was approved on 6 August 1971. After solving various organizational, financial and personnel problems, the project was realized in 1974/75. In a subsequent phase of the project, beginning in 1983, the files were to be filmed by means of microfilm exchange, whereby the technical equipment was to be left to the National Archives, after local staff had received appropriate training during the filming campaign. The films exposed in Cameroon were developed, controlled and duplicated in the Federal Archives. The National Archives in Yaounde received a duplicate film.

Contains: Theft of a cash box expedition and collision with the local population

Contains: Relationship with local population Cattle disease control Arable farming and livestock breeding

Contains: Survey of the local population Supply of equipment Business trips

Contains: Expeditions Famine and terrorization of the local population Redefinition of borders

Father August Halbing was born in Mellrichstadt (Diocese of Würzburg) on November 5, 1870, was ordained a priest in Limburg on August 27, 1894 and died in Limburg on February 28, 1956. He was sent to Cameroon in October 1894, but already in July 1895, very weakened by tropical diseases, he had to return home. After his recovery he worked for several years as a teacher in our study home in Ehrenbreitstein, until he was able to travel to Cameroon a second time in 1900. During this second period in Cameroon he worked almost exclusively in Duala. The study of the national language was very important to him. He was able to print the Biblical story, the catechism and prayers in the Duala language, as well as a German grammar in Dula and a dictionary (German Duala) - all very valuable tools for the work of missionaries in the Duala district. In 1905 a second holiday trip to Europe became necessary and in 1906 he travelled to Cameroon for the third time, first again to Dula, until in 1907 he took over the management and the development of the catechist school in Einsiedeln on the slopes of the Cameroon Mountains, to which a Latin school for local priest candidates could be attached shortly before the war. He was able to train four courses of catechists himself, who together with the black teachers carried the mission work in Cameroon after the expulsion of the German missionaries in the First World War. At the end of 1913 P. Halbing had to return to his German homeland in need of rest. The outbreak of the First World War prevented his return to his beloved mission, which is why he sought to facilitate the lot of foreign prisoners of war by providing pastoral care in various camps until the end of the war. (from the death certificate) The estate largely comprises the papers Halbing brought from Cameroon to Germany in 1913. Bibliography of the works of Halbing on Cameroon in the library of the Mission House in Limburg 1. phrasebook Kleine Grammatik der deutschen Sprache mit nebenst einem Deutsch-Duala Wörterbuch für die katholischen Schulen in Kamerun / Beleedi ba gerama o jokwa bwambo ba teuto na leêle la beyala ba teut-duala, Limburg 1907[Library No. 192, 1717, double piece at the end of the collection; Fibel o nyol'a besukulu ba Katolik na bwambo ba Duala o Kamerun, Limburg 1907[Library No, 191 (p. 1-102, handwritten with phonetic characters, 1913)No. 1757 (only p. 1-16, 65-104) No. 1764 (only p.1-16) Only title of Halbing, which is proven in KVK. 2nd Pastoral Texts Little Biblical Story / Kalat' a Miango ma Bibel nisadi, by Franx Xaver Schulte, translated by August Halbing, Limburg 1903[Library No. 1726, Double piece at the end of the collection Passio Domini nostri Jesu Christi / Miango ma mutaka ma Sango asu Jesus Kritus tengêné evangelo inêi ya bosangi, Salzburg 1905[Library No. 1725, Double piece at the end of the collection[Prayers] / Makane, S. 1-16, Duala 1912[Text table with lime trees, Katekismus a katoik, pp. 3-18 (see below)[Library No. 189[Prayers to Christ and other prayers] / Makane ma mot'a Kristus, Lame (Togo) 1913[Library No. 1738, Doppelstück am Ende des Bestandes[Songbook] / Kalat'a Evangelo na Epistel, 158 pages, Leipzig 1914[Library No. 1731, Doppelstück am Ende des Bestandes3. Printed works of other authors in use by P. Halbing Carl Meinhof, Die Sprache der Duala in Kamerun[mit einem Duala-Deutsch Wörterbuch] (German Colonial Languages, vol. IV), Berlin 1912 According to the entry probably not received until 1914 in Limburg from P. Sasse[taken from library no. 5906; P. Linden S.J.., Katekismus a katolik nyn boso nisadi na bwambo ba Duala (Cameroon), Limburg 1913[p.3-18 textidentisch mit Makane, p.1-16 (see above)[Library No. 1728, double piece at the end of the collection4. Manuscripts by P. Halbing: Psalms translation into the language of the Duala in Cameroon, handwritten, Christmas 1949, taken from the archive N.151 (Nachlass Halbing)

Die Museumsstiftung Post und Telekommunikation besitzt eine umfangreiche Sammlung von Kommunikationsobjekten mit deutschem Kolonialbezug. Die 1995 gegründete, von der Deutschen Post und der Deutschen Telekom getragene Stiftung, zu der die Museen für Kommunikation Berlin, Frankfurt am Main und Nürnberg sowie das Archiv für Philatelie in Bonn gehören, geht zurück auf das 1872 in Berlin gegründete Reichspostmuseum. Der Staatssekretär des Reichspostamts Heinrich von Stephan hat der deutschen Kolonisierung tatkräftig die Wege ebnen helfen. Den Ausbau der Postdampfschifflinien begleitete die Schaffung von Kolonialpostämtern in allen deutschen Kolonien. Daher nimmt es nicht Wunder, dass das Lieblingskind von Stephan, das von ihm 1872 in Berlin zur Dokumentation und Veranschaulichung des Nachrichtenwesens und der Beförderungseinrichtungen „aller Zeiten und Völker“ zur Belehrung der Beamtenschaft und des Publikums gegründete Museum sich engagiert in den Dienst der Kolonialidee stellte. Das erste Postmuseum der Welt entwickelte sich durch eifrige Sammlung und repräsentative Ausstellung aussagekräftiger Objekte der Kolonialpostgeschichte zu einem vielbesuchten Ort kolonialherrschaftlicher Identitätsstiftung und nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg bis 1939 zu einer Stätte kolonialer Erinnerung und des Kolonialrevisionismus. Die vom Reichspostmuseum von 1886 bis 1939 gesammelten und ausgestellten Objekte aus kolonialen Kontexten lassen sich in sechs Kategorien gliedern: 1. Objekte mit Kolonialbezug, die nicht in den Kolonien waren wie zum Beispiel die Briefmarkendruckstöcke der Kolonialmarken oder in Deutschland für die Ausstellung angefertigte Modelle. 2. Objekte der Reichspost, die in die Kolonien gebracht oder dort angefertigt wurden, um die postalischen Verbindungen aufzubauen und zu unterhalten wie Poststempel und Dienstsiegel, Uniformen und Beschilderungen. 3. Objekte aus den Kolonien, die die Kommunikations- und Verkehrsbedingungen der einheimischen Bevölkerung thematisieren wie Originalboote, Verkehrsmodelle und Nachrichtentrommeln, darunter auch Erinnerungsstücke als „Mitbringsel“ zurückgekehrter Deutscher. 4. Objekte aus den Kolonien, die von der einheimischen Bevölkerung bezüglich der Kolonialpost geschaffen wurden wie Fetische und Darstellungen der Kolonialpost. 5. Objekte, die mit der Institution Kolonialpost verschickt wurden wie Briefe, Post- und Ansichtskarten. 6. Fotografien von Kolonialposteinrichtungen und landestypischen Verkehrseinrichtungen. Das Gros der Sammlung gelangte meist als kostenfreie Übernahme von der Reichspost oder der Reichsdruckerei in den Bestand der nachgeordneten Museumsbehörde. Darüber hinaus erhielt das Museum hinsichtlich der Kategorien 1, 2, 5 und 6 sehr viele Geschenke, vor allem von Kolonialpostbeamten. Der Ankauf stellt eher die Ausnahme dar. Bezüglich der Objekte aus den Kategorien 3 und 4, deren Anzahl viel geringer ist, bedarf es weiterer Forschungen zu den Erwerbungszusammenhängen vor Ort. Von den im Reichspostmuseum gesammelten Objekten mit deutschem Kolonialbezug hat das Gros den Krieg und die Nachkriegswirren wenigstens leidlich überstanden. Abgesehen von den Kolonialpostwertzeichen umfasste der ursprüngliche Bestand wenigstens 450 Druckstöcke der Kolonialmarken, ungefähr 600 Fotografien und 500 Objekte anderer Kategorien, darunter Gemälde, Grafiken, Dokumente und Kartenmaterial, Poststempel und Dienstsiegel, Feldpostbriefe und Feldpostausrüstung, Uniformen und Textilien, Verkehrsmodelle sowie ethnologische Objekte. Die durch den Krieg geteilte Kolonialsammlung des Reichspostmuseums gelangte nach 1945 in die Obhut der Nachfolgeinstitutionen Bundespostmuseum Frankfurt am Main und Postmuseum der DDR sowie die allermeisten Kolonialpostwertzeichen 1955 in das Postwertzeichenarchiv des Bundespostministeriums in Bonn.

Later print from the original glass negative, 13.2 x l0 cm, photographer: Marie Pauline Thorbecke, original number 528a.

a.o: List of the chiefs and number of their people in Bata; Feb. 20, 1916; also contains: "Decree of the Governor of Cameroon; Karl Ebermaier; on the crossing of the border of German officials and employees to Rio Muni on official business"; remark; file was created during the relocation of the Yaoundé district to Bata (Rio Muni, Spanish property) due to the war;