Contains among other things: Construction of a railway Lome - Palime, Togo. Support of railway construction in Togo and D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a by the welfare lottery Report on railway construction in Togo Railway map of West Africa 1901. scale 1 : 18 000 000

Contains among other things: Map of Belgian Congo, M.: 1:8 000 000, 1910 Sketch of the spread of sleeping sickness in Uganda, 1910/11

Edition: 3rd edition: Gaebler, Leipzig Format: 286 x 198 cm Scale: 1:15.000.000.

Contains among other things: Map of the Torricelli Mountains, M.: 1:75 000, 1907/1909

Contains among other things: Map of the Minjem-Kabenau region, 1907

Contains among other things: Map of Kaiser-Wilhelmsland - Astolabe Bay - Minjem-Kabenau area, M.: 1:25 000, n.d.

Darin: 1. the limited liability company. A legislative study by Rob. Esser II, Cologne. Berlin: Julius Sittenfeld, printed as manuscript. Confidential, 1886; 2nd utilization of E. Nagel's contract on land acquisition in Pondoland, South Africa, 1886; 3rd annual report of the South American Colonization Society of Leipzig for 1885, 1886; 4th draft of a law regulating emigration in the German Empire. By A.W. Sellin, o.D.; 5. statutes of the German Women's Association for Nursing in the Colonies; 6. map of Kaiser-Wilhelms-Land and Bismarck-Archipel; 7. circular letter of the Colonial Society.

Dr. Hermann Haack (Verfasser). Justus Perthes (Verlag), van ... Grinten (Entwerfer). Druck vollkoloriert (Staaten vielfarbig, Deutsches Reich orange, ehemalige deutsche Kolonien orange schraffiert). 1 : 20.000. Gotha. Gerollt (auf Holzleisten), 210 x 122 cm; thematische Karte mit Einzeichnung der Staatsgrenzen zu Beginn des 2. Weltkriegs (Inselnamen farbig unterstrichen); politische Schulwandkarte (auf Leinen aufgezogen). Bem.: Maßstab im metrischen System; äquatorständiges Meridiangitternetz; Deutsches Reich mit Stand der Grenzen von Anfang 1940 ("Großdeutsches Reich" mit Generalgouvernement). Bezeichnung der Sowjetunion als "Russisches Reich".

Contains among other things: Map of the District of Bangala, M: 1: 1 000 000., 1914

Carl Richard Müller was born on 2 June 1889 in Knauthain near Leipzig. After finishing school, he learned the profession of gardener from 1903-1906 and then worked in several German and Swiss towns. From the beginning of 1908 until October 1909 he had a job as a gardener at the cemetery on Casinostraße in Solingen. In 1910 and 1911 he did his military service as a naval artillerist in the German colony of Tsingtau in China. At the end of his service he concluded a contract of several years with the company Hernsheim, which traded and planted in the German colonial area of New Guinea/Bismarck Archipelago on the equator north of Australia. In 1912 he worked on the Bismarck Archipelago and the Solomon Islands Bougainville. After an eventful year in which he was able to realize his childhood dream as a planter in the South Seas for the first time, but also lost some illusions about life in the colonies, the employment contract was terminated prematurely (apparently after differences with the company) and Müller returned to Germany via Australia. Severe malaria attacks tortured him on his way home and in Germany, but his homeland could not keep him in the long run. From summer 1913 to spring 1914 he sought his fortune in Argentina, but found no satisfactory job and decided to apply for immigration to Australia. At the end of June 1914 he had the necessary entry papers and boarded the German steamer Roon in Antwerp with the destination Freemantle. When the world war broke out in August 1914 and Great Britain took the side of the German opponents, the ship had to break off the voyage to Australia and seek refuge in Dutch India. From 1914 to 1940 he worked at four different stations, from 1927 on Tandjongdjati in southern Sumatra, where he cultivated coffee and rubber, and in 1939 the Belgian owners appointed him manager. The climax of his career was followed by a sudden end. The invasion of the Netherlands by the Wehrmacht on 10 May 1940 turned German citizens into enemies in the Dutch colonial empire. For Müller and many others the period of internment began - until the end of 1941 in the Dutch camp Alasvallei in northern Sumatra, then under British control in the camp Premnagar near Dehra Dun in northern India at the foot of Hima-laya. Only in autumn 1946 the prisoner Carl Richard Müller number 56134 was released and arrived in Solingen in December 1946. Here he found work in the nursery Diederich in Wald, to which he also remained faithful as a pensioner with casual work. In 1966 he had to give up his independent life because of bad health and moved to the Eugen-Maurer-Heim in Gräfrath. There he died on 21 March 1973. The estate has preserved some of Müller's adventurous life. Müller and other prisoners used the enforced inactivity during the long internment years for writing and for lectures in their own circle. Of these works, pieces have been preserved which are of particular interest for research into German colonial rule and European planting in the South Seas. Müller's autobiographical manuscripts about the years 1912-1940, which he thought he could summarize as the "ro-man of a fortune-seeker" (documents 11 and 12 with the addition of the photographs in documents 6 and 7 and cards in documents 17 and 26), are to be mentioned first and foremost. In addition there are numerous essays by Müller on plant cultures, economic and technical problems on the plantations and abstracts on the nature and fauna of Indonesia, mainly Sumatra (documents 13 to 16). Work done by fellow prisoners on their experiences in Indonesia and Australia can be found in file 23, including a report on detention in Sumatra with a shorter annex on time in India. Relatively little is known about camp life in Dehra Dun; Müller, however, kept a booklet titled "Männerworte" (Aktenstück 5), in which 22 fellow prisoners registered themselves with words of remembrance. The photographs of Müller's life in Solingen after 1946 are primarily preserved, of which the works for Diederich may be of local historical interest (file 8). Furthermore, the collection contains a file of the Social Welfare Office of the City of Solingen. The stock was handed over to the City Archive by the Social Welfare Office in a suitcase, which was separated from the above documents at the time of recording. The stock was recorded for the first time in September 1998 by Anika Schulze, developed by Hartmut Roehr in 2007.

Contains mainly: Submission of collections of documents on D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a; drafts of laws; Commission reports Darin: Aufzeichnung der Ansprüche der Gebrüder Clemens und Gustav Denhardt; Karte von Usambara (b/w); "Die Kolonialdeutschen aus Deutsch-Ostafrika in belgischer Gefangenschaft", published by the Reichskolonialamt, 76 p., Berlin 1918; Building and operating licence for the East African Railway Company; Satzung der Ostafrikanischen Eisenbahngesellschaft, 1 Heft, 23 p., Berlin 1901

History of the inventory surveyor: A survey is the planned surveying and cartographic mapping of a country according to location and altitude. It comprises the creation of a position fixed point field by means of triangulation or trilateration, the creation of a height fixed point field by means of levelling and trigonometric height measurement, topographic mapping and finally the presentation of the results in map series of different scales. Such endeavours usually emanated from the respective government and served purposes of civilian administration, but also of the military. In Prussia, the first state surveys were already carried out under King Friedrich II (from 1767, "Cabinet Map"; 1:50,000), continued from 1816 by the Great General Staff. The resulting maps (1:25,000 and 1:20,000) became the basis for the military operation maps of the time ("General Staff Maps"; 1:80,000 and 1:100,000). These were revised between 1830 and 1865 using current surveying techniques (Prussian original photograph; 1:25,000) and published from 1868. Both due to technical progress in surveying technology and in map display and also due to higher demands, also from civilian side a new version became necessary (Prussian new admission). For this purpose, on January 1, 1875, the position of "Chief of the Landesaufnahme", to whom the Königlich Preußische Landesaufnahme was subject as an authority, was newly established in the Großer Generalstab. The foundations of the work of the Landesaufnahme were laid by the Central Directorate of Surveying in the Prussian State established in 1870. The tasks of the Landesaufnahme included the surveying itself (with determination of trigonometric points and levelling points) on the one hand and the presentation of the results in various map series on the other. The purely military needs were far exceeded, the personnel and financial requirements were considerable. As late as 1875, the head of the Great General Staff therefore attempted to hand over the tasks of the Prussian Landesaufnahme to the civilian side. This attempt was just as unsuccessful as a corresponding attempt by the chief of the Landesaufnahme itself in 1912. At the beginning of the war in 1914, the Landesaufnahme was dissolved as an institution; only the cartographic department remained in the Großer Generalstab. The long-lasting war renewed the need for such an institution, especially for war surveying, so that it was rebuilt on 29 April 1917. Finally, on 1 October 1919, it became an Imperial Authority under the jurisdiction of the Reich Ministry of the Interior, which was renamed the "Reichsamt für Landesaufnahme" on 11 July 1921. The new Prussian State Survey carried out by the Königlich Preußische Landesaufnahme (Royal Prussian State Survey) and also the smaller independent states of the German Empire finally comprised 3307 maps (so-called measuring table sheets) on a scale of 1:25,000. The individual maps each comprise six minutes of arc in width and ten minutes of arc in length. Until 1924 the geographical longitude used the so-called Ferro-Meridian (El Hierro, the westernmost island of the Canary Islands) as the prime meridian, and only from 1924 onwards the Greenwich-Meridian (difference 17°40') was used. The measuring table sheets were numbered line by line from west to east. From 1937 a four-digit row/column number grid was used. The procedure of the Prussian Landesaufnahme as of 1875 became, according to the agreement between Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony and Württemberg of 4 March 1878, the basis of the "Map of the German Reich" completed in 1909 (675 sheets of 30 arc minutes width and 15 arc minutes length; 1:100,000). Structure: Head of the Landesaufnahme (from 1. April 1894 Chief Quartermaster and Chief of the Landesaufnahme; rank Lieutenant General) - Trigonometrical Department (Geodesy) - Topographical Department (production of measuring table sheets) - Cartographical Department (processing of general staff maps) with print shop and photographic institution - Plankammer personnel size: 235 (18 of them officers), 23 commanded officers In the following years the Landesaufnahme was expanded and there were also: an Economic Commission (1878), a Photogrammetric Department (1914), a Colonial Section and a Section for Artillery Plan Material. Number of staff on 1 April 1914: 547 permanent staff (including 31 officers), plus 364 commanded soldiers (including 51 officers). Structure of the new national survey established on 29 April 1917: Chief of the national survey Chief of staff with staff - Trigonometric department - Topographic department - Photogrammetric department - Cartographic department - Geological department - Scientific computing centre - Section for artillery plan material - Planning chamber - affiliated: Office of the Central Directorate of Surveying The Geological Department was dissolved in 1919 when the Landesaufnahme became the responsibility of the Reich Ministry of the Interior, and the Scientific Computing Centre was taken over by the Army Command. Processing note: The inventory was catalogued in February/March by Mr Schütze as part of an internship. A total of 19 files were affected by mould and had to be restored before the content could be catalogued. Once these measures have been completed, these files will be made available. Inventory description: The inventory comprises the documents of the Königlich Preußische Landesaufnahme. Content characterisation: The collection mainly contains documents of the Topographical Department, including annual reports on the surveying travels undertaken in Germany, but also in the German colonies. In addition, there are some files on personnel matters. Pre-archival order: The mass of documents of the Königlich Preußische Landesaufnahme seems to have been lost due to the war. A few documents of the Landesaufnahme, newly established in 1917, were kept in the military archives of the GDR and were included in the stock PH 3 Großer Generalstab of the Prussian Army in 1995. In the year 2007 about 4 linear metres of documents of the first, 1914 dissolved, Landesaufnahme were handed over by the Secret State Archive of Prussian Cultural Heritage to the military archive and included in the newly formed stock PH 34. Citation style: BArch, PH 34/...