Contains among other things: Applications for authorisation to issue shares, 1900-1909; advice on a draft law on the issue of small shares in consular districts and in the Kiantschou protectorate, 1909, 1911; newspaper article on the reform of stock corporation law in Italy, 29./30.1.1914; state authorisation to set up joint-stock companies and ban on the sale of shares or other shares in colonial companies abroad, 1917-1919; grievances and excesses in the formation of joint-stock companies, 1922.

Contains: German and foreign colonial companies. - Newspaper clippings and other information material Economic situation in the colonies