Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Dept. Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart, Q 2/48 Bequests Rudolf von Gansser sen. and Rudolf Gansser jun.

Inside: On the back of three children's drawings printed and handwritten menu cards of three dinners in Schloss Possenhofen on 6, 9 and 14 August 1907; circular letter of Father Bonifacius Sauer, Prior of the Benedictine College in Dillingen/Donau, asking for financial support for the Benedictine College and for the training of the Benedictines deployed in the mission in D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a (Tanzania), 16 Dec 1908

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Monthly chronicles of the mission stations in D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a (since 1890), visitation reports of ecclesiastical and monastic superiors, travel reports on country and people, , folk customs, correspondence, statistics

Contains among other things: Memorandum of the Cardinal Lavigerie in Tunis to the Reich Chancellor on the threatened situation of Europeans in the hinterland of the coastal area of East Africa claimed by the Sultan of Zanzibar, 1887 draft treaty between the German East African Society and the Mission of the Holy Spirit and the Heart of Mary in Zanzibar, 1887

Monthly chronicles of the mission stations in D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a (since 1890), visitation reports of ecclesiastical and monastic superiors, travel reports on country and people, , folk customs, correspondence, statistics

Phototype: Photo. Format: 10,6 X 7,2 Description: 2-storey house with veranda on both floors, corrugated iron roof, bell cage on the left, European missionaries in religious costume at the staircase, 3 Africans.

Correspondence, circulars, printed matter; Statutes of Salatiga-Zending/Netherlands (print), 1922; "Does the Church of Jesus Christ have a public (political) task? by W. Nitsch, 2 p. (print), 1946

CV from 1891; Letters, circulars, reports, 1890-1907; "Bewegliche Stunden, Bericht über die Beginn der Mittelschule in Lwandai, ca. 1902; Korrespondenz (allgemein), i.a. deutsche Schule u. Mittelschule, 1908; Agreement between the Evangelische Mission u. der Katholischen Mission wegen demgrenzung der Arbeit, 1909; Correspondenz u.a. with W. Trittelvitz, 1910-1912; Überlegungen zur Errichtung einer Gewerbeschule, 1911; Correspondence during our stay at home, 1914-1927; "Urgent tasks for our female youth in Central Africa, 1927; "Wiederaufbau unserer Arbeit in Tanga, 1927; Important correspondence with the "Education Director u.a. because of English as a school language, 1928; decisions of the Mission Conference in Marangu, September 1928; "Serious questions and major tasks concerning mission schools, 1928; general correspondence, 1929-1933; correspondence Paul Wohlrab u. Daughter Frieda, 1934-1947; Obituary of Paul Wohlrab, 1949; Correspondence Margarethe Wohlrab (wife), 1951-1962; Correspondence Frieda Wohlrab (daughter), 1942-1972; Xerokopien betreffend Schulfragen, 1902-1908

Contains above all: Inquiries and mailings from associations and institutions Darin: sent publications (15 Months Austro-Hungarian War Aid in Württemberg, 1916; Modern Therapy and War Wounded, 1916; Zur Tuberkulose-Bekämpf 1914, 1914; W. Liese, Die katholischen Orden Deutschlands und der Völkerkrieg 1914/15, 1915; Report of the German Association for Medical Dogs, 1915; Adolf Bachrach, Aus dem Rechtsleben im Kriege, 1914; Kriegskonterbande und Überseeische Rohstoffe, 1914; Edward L., 1914. Blackshear, An American Proposal for an Inter-state Federation of the States of Europe into the United States of Europe (...), 1914; Annual Report of the Blind Asylum of Schwäbisch Gmünd, 1914); sent manuscript on the establishment of a trading company in D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a..

the small dots on the left station Mamba. Photographer: Schanz?. Phototype: Photo. Format: 10,5 X 7,5. Description: Landscape photograph with station. Reference: Cf. print template sample book Vb 106, Diap. 360 "Kilimanjaro" (11.2 X 8.4).

• Author: From letters of the missionaries Päsler and Althaus. Scope: p. 381-384 398-401 422-425. Contains, among other things: - 1st (SW: Division of the Dschagga area between Catholics and the Leipzig Mission; investigation trip of Miss. Althaus und Faßmann; contract with Chief Makoko; station development in the Mamba area; Chief Koimbere; Tamulen for support) - 2. Althaus supervises the construction work; Miss. Päsler and Müller from Madchame; slow progress of house building and horticulture; exchange and trade) - (SW: Start of construction of a stone house; Miss. Päsler - Return to Madchame; divine service with Tamulen and Swahili)

Author: According to Miss's diaries. Müller and Faßmann. Scope: p. 458-461. Includes, among other things: - (SW: School; language studies; plantings; construction activities; contacts to the Catholic stations Kiboscho and Kilema; Chief Sinna; devotion; animals - killing of a wildcat; visit of company commander Johannes, Lieutenant Eberhard and Dr. Widenmann; war against Maasai; arrival of Miss. Ovir; gifts from Schangali)

Film lecture by Walther Trittelvitz on the mission film "In the Service of Jesus from Bethel to East Africa 27 p., ms., probably 1934; booklet, 1934; admission card of the Filmprüfstelle Berlin, 1934

"Erlanger Mission Lecture by Friedrich von Bodelschwingh; "Father Bodelschwingh as pastor of his missionaries by Gerhard Jasper, no year .J.; Father Bodelschwingh, a witness of Jesus for East Africa by Curt Ronicke, 24 p., print, 1940; "News from the Bethel Mission 1950, number 3 and 4, tribute to Bodelschwingh on the occasion of his 40th anniversary of death by Gerhard Jasper.