Contains: Construction of the railway from Bonaberi (Duala) to the Manenguba Mountains in Cameroon. - Contract between the Kamerun-Eisenbahngesellschaft, Berlin and the Deutsche Kolonial-Eisenbahn-Bau- und Betriebs-Gesellschaft zu Berlin dated 6 March 1907 (copy) Otavi-Eisenbahn. - Purchase and lease contract between the treasury of the German South West African protectorate and the Otavi Minen- und Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, Berlin of 23 November 1909 and 30 March 1910 respectively (copy) Südbahn between Lüderitzbucht and Keetmanshoop and Seeheim and Kalkfontein. - Lease agreement between the treasury of the protectorate Deutsch-Südwestafrika and the Deutsche Kolonial Eisenbahn-Bau- und Betriebsgesellschaft, Berlin from 9.12.1909 respectively 15.1.1910 operation of the Cameroon railway Bonaberi (Duala) - Manengubagebirge, Cameroon. - Contract between the Kamerun-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, Berlin and the Deutsche Kolonial-Eisenbahn-Bau- und Betriebs-Gesellschaft, Berlin of 1 and 8 Oct. 1913 (copy) Construction of railways in South Angola. - Draft contract (without date) Future of the state railways in German South West Africa. - Note from Sept. 3, 1909

Contains above all: Correspondence with the State Secretary of the R e i c h s k o l o n i a l a m t and the Southwest African Aviation Association Keetmanshoop on support for the promotion of aviation in the German colonies; financing of a flight expedition in Cameroon and flight tests in 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 , Cameroon; contracts with Emil Jeannin Flugzeugbau Gesellschaft mbH, Berlin-Johannisthal, with Luft-Fahrzeug-Gesellschaft mbH, Berlin, with Automobil-

1877-1910 in Keetmanshoop, s.a. RMG 1.420 for a life picture; letters, station reports, conference and travel reports, 1876-1910; life sketch d. Chief Fredrik Willem, Tseib/Keetmanshoop; The beginnings of the mission in Greater Namaqualand and the first martyrs in it, 12 p., hs, 1885; Versuch e. Hausordnung d. Evangelistenschule zu Keetmanshoop, 1888; draft e. Programme for admission to the Evangelist School, 1888; Festvereinicht über d. Kirchweihe zu Keetmanshoop, with 2 drawings, views of the New Church and the Mission House, 1895; Briefe d. Evangelists Paulus Platje: Request for Tobias Fenchel to return, 1896/1897; Letters of the Evangelists Paulus Platje: In the Name of the Suffering People of Velschoendrager, 1899; Letters of the Evangelist Paulus Platje: Report about the work in Khoes, 1899; Report about the e. school examination in Keetmanshoop, 1898; Letter of Captain Hans Henrick with the urgent request for e. missionary for the Velschoendrager in Khoes, 1899; Meta Holzapfel, née Brill to Mrs. Anna Fenchel, née. Bröder: Description of the murder of Ludwig Holzapfel, 1904; letter of appreciation from the governor for school in Keetmanshoop, 1905; Proclamation from General von Trotha to the rebellious Namas tribes, 1905; My thoughts concerning the establishment of industrial schools under the Hottentots after the war, 12 p..., hs., 1906; Major Maerker and Lieutenant Colonel von Estorff to Tobias Fenchel, 1907; obituaries for Tobias Fenchel, 1910/1911;

and others: Lazaret in Windhoek; Warrior Association Windhoek; Native Church in Windhoek; Natives (Herero; Nama; Owambo); German Schutztruppe; Fortress Omaruru; Church in Bethany; Oitjo; Artillery of the German Schutztruppe; Kunene river; Owambo mission station; native animal species; Gobabis fortress; Oas fortress; Auasberg heliographer station; Keetmanshoop fortress; (28 x 21 cm) various sizes; album with photographs, black and white; z. T. strongly faded

Reports about the educational institution for half-white children in Keetmanshoop, especially by missionary Christian Ludwig Kühhirt and Sister Annette Kroll;

Zeib's tribe, outstations: Katsus, Khoes, Narubis, Seeheim, Spitzkoppe, Farm Keetmannshoop s. RMG 2.551, Orphanage & School Keetmanshoop s. RMG 2.507, Sister Station Aroab s. RMG 2.496; floor plan and view of the building. Station Keetmanshoop, colored drawing, 1888; travel report by Carl Berger with representation of the circumstances on Woermann ships, 1898; annual, semi-annual and conference reports, by missionary Tobias Fenchel, Wilhelm Niemeier, Christi-an Ludwig Kühhirt, Karl Friedrich Wandres u. Friedrich Hermann Gustav Becker, 1903-1926; Visitationsberichte, 1903, 1906 1913; Remarks to the girl sent to South West Africa by the German Women's Federation, July 1910; Request by the community elders and by Adolf Neuhaus (son-in-law of Tobias Fenchel) for Gustav Becker as successor to Tobias Fenchel, 1910; Report on d. Visit of Prof. Mirbt in Keetmanshoop, 1913; Fr. Hans Siebold to Inspector Johannes Wilhelm Karl Spiecker, due to praise for construction technician Johannes Jürgens, 1914; 50th anniversary of the Protestant Mission Keetmanshoop, 14.4.1916, (Dr.)

Station see RMG 2.606 a-d; Documents to d. Ownership, with map sketches;

Civil Supply Certificate from the Imperial Protection Force for South West Africa 1907 - Dated postcards with inscriptions: Las Palas 1904 - Swakopmund 1904 - Daily distribution of rations to prisoners of war in Windhoek 1904 - Windhoek, Garnisionsküche 1905 - Old Zulu with pipe 1906 - Bastard beauty in Keetmannshoop digitized on CD available 19.02.2007 in ECR 200 No. 105

Contains among other things: Paul Range, The Keetmanshoop Groundwater Situation. Berlin 1915 Joachim Voigts. Lüderitzland. A field map of our former colony Deutsch-Südwestafrika. Windhoek o.J.

1899-1904 in Keetmanshoop, Warmbad; correspondence and reports; curriculum vitae; letter of the eldest Witbooi in Nabis; request of the church of Warmbad for a new missionary;

The railway line Windhuk - Keetmanshoop in the colony Deutsch-Südwestafrika was haunted in 1914. Here soldiers of the Schutztruppe walk along their tracks / Photographer: Scherl

1884-1929 in Warmbad, Windhoek, Keetmanshoop, Lüderitzbucht, Präses d. Nama-Mission; letters, reports, station reports, annual reports, statistics, 1884-1929; private letters to Inspector Ludwig von Rohden, 1885-1886; in 1.623a pages 19-21 are missing, probably 2 watercolours by Blyde Verwacht u. !Nabis im Gei!from Karl (Carl) Friedrich Wandres, ca. 1887; - Map overview of the sold places between Keetmanshoop and Warmbad, ca. 1888; Report of the elders Johannes Witbooi, Warmbad, about his evangelization journey in the area of the Bondelzwarts, 1889; Orders to Friedrich Kämpfer and Friedrich Schindelin, 1888-1889; Declaration of honour of the captains d. Bondelzwarts for Karl (Carl) Friedrich Wandres, 1891; Report about the sermon journey of two elders of the Warmbad community, 1893; Timetable of the Imperial German Reich Post Keetmanshoop - Steinkopf, 1894; map by !Nabis M. 1: 300 & projected mission station, 1896; private letters to Inspector Johannes Wilhelm Karl Spiecker, 1886-1898; Three visits to Rietfontein (Kalahari desert), essay, 1898; About the use of alcohol in our churches, 16 p. hs, 1898; Roman tissue of lies, 1900; Memorandum on land matters in Windhoek, 1903; Festivities for the inauguration of the Mission Church in Windhoek, May 1903; Native Census of Windhoek, March 1903; 1 copy of a booklet with the name of the church. "German Southwest African Newspaper", No. 2, January 1903; 1 copy "Landeszeitung für Westafrika", No. 112, September 1920; copy of a letter by Hendrik Witbooi, July 1889