History of the Inventory Designer: The All-German Association was founded on 9 April 1891 under the name "Allgemeiner Deutscher Verband" with its headquarters in Mainz as a reaction against the German-English Zanzibar Treaty. The main tasks were to revive German national consciousness, to support German nationality abroad and to promote German interests in Europe and overseas, especially German colonial policy. In 1894 the name was changed to Alldeutscher Verband. In 1918 the seat was moved to Berlin. The association's programme was expansionist and nationalistic. Especially in the Habsburgs' Austro-Hungarian Empire, anti-Semitism and anti-Slavism were already pronounced before the First World War. With his ideological aim he acted as an intellectual precursor of Hitler's fascism. In March 1939 he was dissolved by Reinhard Heydrich on the grounds that his programme had now been fulfilled. Processing note: Findbuch (1960/70) Inventory description: Inventory history In 1942, the last chairman of the association, Dr. Heinrich Class, handed over the remains of the association archive to the Reichsarchiv. In 1943 further files of Prof. Calmbach (Stuttgart) were added to the Reichsarchiv. In 1950, the German Central Archive in Potsdam (later Zentrales Staatsarchiv Potsdam) took over the AV documents, which had been stored out together with other holdings of the Reichsarchiv during the Second World War. Due to a lack of old finding aids, there is no information about possible war-related losses. Archive evaluation and processing As a result of the first simple indexing of the documents in the German Central Archive in Potsdam, a finding index was created in 1960 which described 720 file units with a circumference of 9.2 linear metres. In 1970 the collection was reworked, partly refoliated, renumbered and redefined in terms of content. As a result, a preliminary finding aid book was created, which was technically processed in the period from 2003 to 2005. The search book can now be searched online on the website of the Federal Archives. Characterisation of the contents: Main points of the tradition: Foundation, organisation and history of the association, meetings of the board, meetings of the executive committee, general correspondence by year, relations and relationships with organisations and persons, publications and situation reports of the office, submissions and public declarations 1895-1933, collections, war target movement in the 1st World War. World War II, Ethnic and Anti-Semitic Movement, Position on Christianity, Position on State and Government during the Weimar Republic, Relations with Austria-Hungary, Anschluss Österreichs, Verhältnis zum Ausland Erschließungszustand: Findbuch (o.Dat.), Online-Findbuch (2005) Citation method: BArch, R 8048/...

Contains among other things: Study trip of Dr. Rohrbach to Angola, 1912 General economic situation and situation of the German planters in Angola

Contains: Manuscript "Files of the Execution Commission of the German Antisklaverei Committee on the Wissmann Steamship Enterprise" on the Use of Funds from the Antisklaverereilottery Conferences and Reichstag Sessions

Contains: Trial Peters versus Münchner Neue Post, newspaper clippings Darin: Münchner Neue Post 26.6.-3.7.1907, No. 142-147

Contains among other things: Ordinance on the Defense Act for the Protectorates

On the occasion of Hans Delbrück's "Government and People's Will", in: The Christian World, 1914, nos. 34 and 35, sp. 791-796 and 809-813The first part of these reflections, published on 20.8.1914 and like the second "written at the beginning of this year in the deepest peace in Florence", Bonus adds: "We are in danger of letting the wave of excitement beat over us and of forgetting over the will of victory why we want and must win" (sp. 795). "Is not ... political thinking as religious already since the entry of Christianity into history, sonun also moral ... and by our real circumstances ... and uprooted by our real sense of culture?" (Sp. 791). With spruce against Wilhelminian colonial policy (Sp. 793). Then to the "will of the people" as a "mythical greatness" or a "concept of life", far away from any statistics and all majority thinking (Sp. 794, 809); only "rabble" understands "by German a loutish uprising against the foreign nationalities in our fatherland; ... It is the people for whom we fight, whose blood we have in our veins, whose future we have in our will" (Sp.795). Bonus for true liberalism, including the liberal "idea of solidarity of the cultural peoples" (Sp. 812).very instructive; from special-print folder "Evidence. 1912-1914"4 sheets

in: General Observer. Halbmonatsschrift für alle Fragen des modernen Lebens, 15.6.1913, p. 43-44All-German Nationalism and its extreme demands rejects Bonus, "... we can only want full participation". The "policy of open doors" to a "western federal state with independent individual members, but common colonial administration," from which "another practically practicable way to the organization of mankind would then open up," was correct, from the special-print collection folder "Evidence. 1912-1914"1 sheet

in: Der Kunstwart, 25.24 (1912), 2nd September issue, p. 388-389 "It looks dark over Europe." "Cultural workers" such as Bonus could not and would not remain silent about the growing "tensions". His interest is aimed at an "occidental cultural coexistence". And as far as the dispute over the colony is concerned, he considers it intolerable that the "colonial capitalist states of the Tripleentente "possess more than they need", while Germany, on the other hand, may "at most grab the crumbs" from the special-print collection folder "Evidence. 1912-1914"2 sheets

in: Youth (?), 1911 (?)Sarkasmen to the French, in addition, to the English colonial politics.from special prints folder "Documents. 1910-1911"1 sheets

Review of an unwritten book, in: Die kritische Tribüne. Halbmonatszeitung für Politik, literarische Kunst und Kritik (Leipzig), 2 (1913), January, p. 73-76Lightly ironic, but on the other hand quite determined to the growing "mismatch between landowning and dispossessed peoples", which is attributed to the "strong closure of the colonies against foreign trade" and even to the possibility of "providing the children of the country with worthwhile employment in colonial civil service posts". Then the "true love of the fatherland of all our great men (Lessing, Herder, ... Fichte, Arndt)" and "the new plant of German >Nationalism>" are confronted with each other - "the German mouth that punishes the German soul with lies". Bonus positive, which concerns a "Western League of Nations" according to the model of "Pangermanism in the Björnson sense". Conclusion: "That we don't want >to have a place in the sun<, but want and demand the participation clearly and clearly, not for us alone, but for all; just the open door. "very instructive; from special print collection folder "Documents. 1912-1914"2 sheets