Contains among other things: Awarding of orders on the occasion of the successful implementation of the anti-plague measures in the protectorate of Kiautschou (proposals of the Reichsmarineamt with excerpts from the roll of trunks), 4 July 1911 manoeuvre of the 16th Japanese Division (Kyoto) from 14 to 21 Nov. 1911 (report of the commander of the III. sea battalion, copy), 8. Jan. 1912 The Schantung Ironworks (excerpts from the expert opinion of the metallurgical engineer Otto F. Weinling, prepared for the Schantung Railway Company, with map sketches), 18. Feb. 1914

The governor of the Kiautschou region, Admiral Meyer-Waldeck, introduces Prince Heinrich of Prussia to the Taoist main priest of the country / Photographer: Scherl

After the spring race in Tsingtau, the winner of the horse race is acclaimed in front of the stage / Photographer: Scherl

Beach of Tsingtau / Photographer: Scherl

Carcass of the Gouvernements service building in Tsingtau / Photographer: Scherl

Inauguration ceremony of the Protestant Christuskirche in Tsingtau by the officials and officers of the German colonial administration and their family members / Photographer: Scherl

Contains: Superintendent Vosberg from Tsingtau about Japan; Sch. Gaev. about the general situation; Sch. Gaev. about Central Europe; Reichstag deputy bollert about naval battle at the Skagerrak; Secretary of State Posadowsky about the relationship with Russia; Professor von Liszt about arbitration agreement with America; Interview by Mc. Clure with Privy Councillor Dr. Breger; von Lossow, states at outbreak of war; v. Sch. Gaev. Interview with Ahmed Nessimi Bey, Constantinople, on trade and price relations; envoy Wolff Metternich on the causes of war; Geheimrat Deutsch on peace issues; Baron. E. von der Heydt on the outbreak of war; Privy Councillor Gneist, German Gesandschaft in The Hague on the Dutch-English treaty; Secretary of State Zimmermann on peace issues; parliamentary group meeting of the Progressive People's Party on the general situation; Professor Jäckh and Privy Councillor Meinecke on submarine warfare; Baron von der Ropp on United States; Graf Bernstorff, former ambassador to Washington on American sentiment; Graf Posadowsky on Russian folklore; Professor Jäckh on Turkey; Hecht, Noske, Zimmermann, Ricklin on the food issue; Naumann on Poland; Gothein, Deutsch, Haußmann on the general situation; State Secretary Zimmermann on peace issues; Dr. Stresemann on Reichstag resolution; parliamentary group meeting of the Progressive People's Party on general situation; Erzberger, Naumann, Rechenberg, Solf in the "German Society" on general situation in Central Europe; Reichstag delegate Marquard on rapprochement of the liberal parties; Gothein and Dernburg in the Central Committee of the Progressive People's Party on the general situation; communications of the American Odell and Dr. Altschul about Russia and the United States; Naumann inner and outer, war situation; Zimmermann about outbreak of war and submarine war; faction meeting: Naumann üner Austria, Haas, Gothein, Fischbeck, Wendorf; von der Heydt about pre-war situation; Graf Posadowsky about Poland; Professor Somary about Central Europe, Guttman about Austria, literature about Central Europe; Professor Jäckh about Turkey; Regierungspräsident Schwander about peace; K.E. Haenisch about social democracy

Contains among other things: Establishment of a direct Tsingtaus steamboat connection with the Yalu estuary for the transport of raw material for silk production from Manchuria (application by the German-Chinese Silk Industry Society), (1903) 1904 Attacks on the German administration in Kiautschou in the Chinese press, 1904 Railway construction projects of the Chinese-German Tschunghsiang Coal Society of Ihsien in Schantung ("Ihsien Society") and question of German concession rights in the province of Schantung, 1904 customs collection procedure in Tsingtau, 1904

Contains among other things: Promotion of the activities of the German-Chinese Silk Industry Society, Tsingtau, 1905 Simplification of customs and restriction of the free port area of Tsingtau, 1905

Contains among other things: Support of the German-Chinese Silk Industry Society by granting export bonuses, 1907 Award of a mining concession in the province of Schantung to the company Sietas, Plambeck und Co., Tsingtau, 1908 - 1909 Counter-trials against German concessions in Schantung, danger of boycott measures, 1908 - 1909 Project to set up Chinese railway customs offices at the Schantung Railway to levy transit duties in favour of the province of Schantung, 1909 - 1910

Chinese workers expanding the port facilities of Tsingtau / Photographer: Scherl

A German military patrol in the former main street of Tsingtau / Photographer: Scherl

Contains among other things: Law concerning the friendship treaties with Tonga and Samoa and the friendship, trade and shipping treaty with Zanzibar of 15.02.1900 together with the implementing ordinance of 17.02.1900 Qu. 135, 140; ordinance concerning the expropriation of real property in the protectorates of Africa and the South Seas of 1903 Qu. 170; decrees concerning: declaration Kiautschous to the protectorate of 1898 Qu. 110, Declaration of Protection over the Caroline Islands, Palau and Mariana Islands of 1899 Qu. 123, Declaration of Protection over the Samoa Islands west of 171st degree of longitude w.L. of 1900 Qu. 142; Granting of corporate rights to the Schantung Mining Company Tsingtau and the German Society for Mining and Industry Abroad, Tsingtau 1899/1901 Qu. 126, 156

The Gouvernements-Lazarett in Tsingtau, built between 1898 and 1902 / Photographer: Scherl

This hospital in Tsingtau has a department for eye diseases, internal diseases and nervous diseases, but also an X-ray facility. / Photographer: Scherl

Contains among other things: Directories of German Companies in Kiautschou, Samoa and the German South Sea Colonial Areas Printed publication "Das deutsche Schutzgebiet Samoa", published on behalf of the Imperial Government of Apia, Apia 1903 Wilhelm Spemann, "Die landwirtschaftlichen Verhältnisse auf Samoa", special edition from the "Mitteilungen der Deutschen Landwirtschafts-Gesellschaft", Berlin 1911

Contains among other things: Minutes of the 5th Annual General Meeting on 18 Nov. 1907 Annual Report for Jan. 1906 to June 1907

Contains among other things: Report of the Chamber of Commerce of Tsingtau for 1912 Reports on visits to cotton presses in Tientsin and Shanghai Tariff regulations and tariff tables for the transportation of goods, vehicles and corpses of the Schantung Railway Company from 1 Jan. 1913

Contains among other things: Report on Ihsien coal mines and iron ore deposits at Li kuo yih Report on the conditions of the Schantung-Bergbau-Gesellschaft of Aug. 1912 "Export", organ of the Zentralverein für Handelsgeographie und Förderung deutscher Interessen im Ausland, XXXIV. Vol., No. 51, Berlin 19. Dec. 1912

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: "Ein deutsches Chinainstitut" by Dr. Vosberg-Rekow, Schriften der Deutsch-Asiatischen Gesellschaft, Berlin 1914 Satzung des Deutsch-Chinesischen Verbandes Reports on the financial years 1914 to 1917 by the Deutsch-Chinesischer Verbandes Report on the development and significance of the Kiautschou area in 1915

Contains among other things: Notarial negotiations and articles of association of the German-Chinese Silk Industry Society of 7 June 1902 Annual reports for 1902 and 1904 of the Society Minutes of extraordinary general meetings of the Society from 1904 to 1906 Minutes of the 34th session of the Federal Council of 13 Nov. 1902

Contains among other things: Minutes of extraordinary general meetings of the Society from 1906 to 1907 Annual reports for 1905 to June 1907 Statute of the German-Chinese Silk Industry Society of 29 June 1906 Reports on the silk spinning company in Tsangkou and on the company of the German-Chinese Silk Industry Society/ Colonial Society in Tsingtau

Contains among other things: Reports on the silk spinning company in Tsangkou and the situation of the German-Chinese Silk Industry Society, on a visit to a silk spinning mill in Shanghai, on the silk industry in Chifu Copy of the commercial register, Dept. B Annual reports from July 1907 to June 1910 of the German-Chinese Silk Industry Society Minutes of ordinary and extraordinary general meetings of the society from 1908 to 1911

Contains among other things: Annual reports from July 1911 to June 1913 as well as minutes of annual general meetings for 1912 of the German-Chinese Silk Industry Society Report on the silk spinning mill in Tsangkou Sale of the German-Chinese Silk Industry Society to "New Chinese Industrial Corporation" as well as its statute Dissolution and liquidation of the German-Chinese Silk Industry Society Copy from the Commercial Register, Dept. B

Contains among other things: Granting of mining and railway construction concessions Map of Eastern China Statute of the Schantung Railway Company

Contains among other things: Building and operating licence for the Schantung Railway Construction Company dated 1 June 1899 and statutes dated 14 June 1899 "Industrielle und Eisenbahnunternehmungen in China", lecture by Brandt to the Deutsche Kolonial-Gesellschaft Report on a reconnaissance journey in the province of Schantung for the purpose of drawing up a railway statutes of the Schantung-Bergbau-Gesellschaft

Contains among other things: Annual reports on the 1st business year of the Schantung-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft as well as the Schantung-Bergbau-Gesellschaft

Contains among other things: Annual Report for the 2nd Fiscal Year 1900 of the Schantung Railway Company Treatises on deposits of usable minerals in Schantung Communications on geological mountain construction in the province of Schantung and the deposits there

Contains among other things: Partnership agreement of the Hamburger Freihafen-Lagerhaus-Gesellschaft as well as regulations and tariffs for the warehouses of the Gesellschaft Grunderwerb der Eisenbahn and expansion of the Schantung railway "Die deutsche Eisenbahn in Schantung" from the memorandum concerning the development of the Kiautschou area 1900/01 Mining regulations of 9 July 1901

Contains among other things: Note on the status of the work of the Schantung-Bergbau-Gesellschaft in Weihsien-Felde 1901/02 Memorandum concerning companies in the Yangtze and Hoangho valleys and the agreements reached thereon 1. Annual Report of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Bergbau und Industrie im Auslande dated Sept. 1902

Contains among other things: General plan of the Tsingtau-Weihsien-Mihibrücke line of the Schantung-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft Contract for keeping a coal store in Kiautschou

Contains among other things: Annual report on the 4th business year 1902 of the Schantung-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft Investigation results of the hard coal of the Schantung-Bergbau-Gesellschaft "Beiträge zur Geologie von Schantung", reprint from the yearbook of the Königl. Preuß. Geological State Institute and Mining Academy for 1902 railway construction of the Ihsien Coal Company

Contains among other things: Annual Report of the Schantung-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft on the 5th Fiscal Year 1903 Results of the Tests on Heating Power of Various Types of Coal of the Schantung-Bergbau-Gesellschaft 3. Annual Report for 1903/04 of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Bergbau und Industrie im Auslande Mining Regulations of the Chinese Government of 1904

Contains among other things: Magazine "La Quinzaine Coloniale", XV. Vol., No. 178 of May 25, 1904 (French) "Koloniale Zeitschrift", V. Vol., No. 12 of June 9, 1904 "Das wirtschaftliche Asien", Supplement to "Asien", Organ of the German-Asian Society, I. Vol, No. 2 of Nov. 1903 2nd Annual Report of the Department Tsingtau of the D e u t s c h e K o l o n i a l e s s c h e G e l l l s c h a f t of 1904 Municipal regulations for the branches Tientsin and Hankau Draft of a law amending the Consular Jurisdiction Act and the Protectorate Act Draft of a law on the issue of small shares in the districts of the Konusular Courts and in the protectorate Kiautschou Minutes of meetings of the Reichstag in July 1909, Apr. 1910, Oct. 1910