Content: Colonial Policy - Colonial Legislation - Protectorate Act - Reichskolonialamt - Colonial Service - Colonial Procurement - Schutztruppe - Togo, Cameroon, 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 - Herero Uprising - Railway Construction - Colonial and Settlement Societies - Kiautschou/Tsingtau - Caroline Islands, Palau Islands and Mariana Islands - Colonial Policy and Research under National Socialist Rule - Position of Bremen in the Colonial Movement, especially Institute of Colonial Research

Contains among other things: Authorisation of the Commander of the East Asian Expeditionary Corps to declare a state of war in the Kiautschou region (transcript), 27 July 1900

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

The mail steamer is unloaded at the port of Tsingtau. / Photographer: Scherl

Missions-Kirchenordnungen, Dr., 1869, 1875 o.J.; Agreement on the transfer of the Hakka Mission (China) to Berlin, 1882; Negotiations on a joint teacher training institution and on the ordination of colored helpers in Africa, 1903; Negotiations on the coordination of the work at the Cape, 1904; Report on the death of Insp. Sauberzeig-Schmidt in Hong Kong, Dr., 1906; J. Neitz: Report of a journey to Samuel Maherero, 13 p., 1907; Foundation of church coffers in China, Vorschlag Glüer, 1907; Satzung d. Berliner Missionsgesellschaft, Dr., 1907; Die Aufsicht über die Missionsarbeit d. Berliner Mission, 18 p., ms., ca. 1908; Admission of Miss. Behrens/Hermannsburg, 1913; Reports of fights in Tsingtau, 1914; Vertraul. Report on obstruction of missionary work by World War I, 18 p., ms., 1915; conflict with P. Theo. Fliedner/Madrid, 1920; What still holds us to the pagan mission today, pamphlet, ca. 1920

Soldiers of the Imperial Marien pose in front of a Buddhist temple in Tsingtau / Photographer: Scherl

Contains among other things: Construction of an own telegraph line between Beijing and Tongku (agreement of the Prussian Minister of War), May 1902 completion of the telegraph line Beijing - Tongku by the East Asian occupation brigade, Sept. 1902 Purchase of a plot of land in Woosung for the company Felten - Guilleaume, Mülheim, as a cable landing site, March 1904 Question of compensation for the relocation of the German cable Woosung - Tsingtau because of the river regulation of the Whangpoo, June 1907, Sept. 1907, Sept. 1911 Route of the telegraph cable near Woosung (sketch, print), n.d. Regulation of the Whangpoo (planning pause), 29 July 1912 Report on the second relocation of the German cable in the Whangpoo due to dredging work, Aug. 1912, Sept. 1912, Oct. 1912 Closure of the cable station of the German-Dutch telegraph company by the Chinese government, Nov. 1917

Contains among other things: Report about his meeting with Enver Pascha

Captain at sea Zeye, commander of the landing corps S.M.S. 'Kaiser' and commander of the landing troops with his officers and interpreters in the Chinese military camp, in the east fort of Tsingtau / Photographer: Scherl

Contains also: Kiautschou Deutsch-Samoa Deutsch-Neuguinea - Marshall and Caroline Islands

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

Accounts (1909); report about the official duties in Tsingtau (e.g. Relationship to the American Presbyterian Mission, "Case" Ruhmer, school questions (1911, 1912), Faber Hospital; Faber Hospital (1909, 1911, 1912); dissolution of the mission seminar (1909); residential building on the property of the Faber Hospital (1909); remarks about a common girls' school; report about the district school in Kaumi in the first semester (1909 - 1911); examination of the girls' preschools in Taitungtschen and Tapantau; death of Dr. Wunsch, Tsingtau, Faberhospital and occupation of the vacant position (1911); Boys' and Girls' Schools (1911); meeting of the board of trustees of the Faberhospital on 29.10.1911; plan of the mission property; testament of Dr. theol. Ernst Faber in favour of the Allgemeine Evang.-Prot. missionary association to Weimar; purchase contract of a property in Tsingtau for the General Evangelical Prot. missionary association (1912); annual report of the General Evangelical Prot. missionary association, station in Tsingtau (1912)