History of the inventor: On 14 November 1897, the German Reich occupied the Chinese port of Tsingtau and, in a contract with the Chinese Empire dated 6 March 1898, leased an area of 550 km² with Tsingtau as its centre for 99 years - the Kiautschou protectorate. The province of Schantung, to which the leased area actually belonged, was declared a German area of interest and a neutral zone. In this area the empire received concessions for the construction and maintenance of railway lines and mines. However, as early as 30 October 1895, the German Reich had the right to establish branches in the international contracted ports of Tientsin and Hankou, which had existed since 1859/60. And of course the empire, like the other great powers and other states involved in China trade, also maintained a legation in Beijing. German missions were also active in the interior of China, as were German merchants, especially in Shanghai. The German Reich was therefore indeed heavily involved in China and saw itself as such. Against this background, the xenophobic riots in China in Germany that began at the end of 1899 and quickly became more serious were perceived as a threat. The regent, Empress Cixi, remained ambiguous at first in her measures against the "fist fighters united in righteousness", referred to by the colonial powers as "boxers" for short, units of the imperial Chinese army partly allied themselves with them. The uprising continued to increase from January 1900 onwards, with excessive acts of violence against Chinese Christians and foreigners. From May 1900 the foreign landscapes in Beijing were threatened by insurgents, the railway lines from Beijing to the coast were attacked. The Gesandschaften therefore requested military support. In May 1900, the German Reich sent a contingent of the III Sea Battalion stationed in Tsingtau to Beijing, two further companies were ordered to Tientsin, and the cruiser squadron moved to the roadstead before the Taku forts at the mouth of the river Peiho. Meanwhile, the situation in Beijing continued to deteriorate and further troops were needed. In June 1900, the troops of the colonial powers in China formed an expeditionary corps led by the British admiral Seymour (2066 men). However, this was stopped in mid-June by Chinese troops (boxers and regular army) and had to turn back. The foreigners and Chinese Christians in Beijing had meanwhile barricaded themselves in the Gesandschaftsviertel and were cut off from the outside world. The allied colonial powers (USA, Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Japan) stormed the Taku-Forts on June 17, the Chinese government ultimatively called on all foreigners to leave China on June 19. On 20 June the German envoy, Baron Clemens von Ketteler, was murdered in Beijing. By edict of 21 June, China effectively declared war on the Allies, but this was not reciprocated by them. The Allied troops withdrew to Tientsin at the end of June 1900. In Germany, on 25 June, a naval expedition corps of 2528 men (under Major General von Höpfner) was formed from the members of the naval infantry. In addition, on 3 July the order was given to set up an expedition corps of volunteers from the army (under Lieutenant General von Lessel). The Allies had agreed to form an international expeditionary corps, with Germany as commander-in-chief. On 12 August 1900, the former chief of the Great General Staff, Field Marshal Alfred Graf von Waldersee, was appointed commander-in-chief of the international armed force, which finally comprised 64,000 troops. Waldersee used the "Army Command East Asia" as a staff. The East Asian Expeditionary Corps set sail with its first parts on 27 July in Bremerhaven, when Emperor Wilhelm II gave the famous "Hun speech" at their farewell. With the 19,093 men of its East Asian Expeditionary Corps under Lieutenant General von Lessel, the German Reich provided almost a third of the international armed forces. Structure of the East Asian Expeditionary Corps: 3 infantry brigades to 2 infantry regiments with 9 companies each 1 fighter company 1 cavalry regiment to 4 escadrons 1 field artillery regiment to 3 divisions with a total of 8 batteries 2 light ammunition columns 1 battalion heavy field howitzers with 2 batteries 1 pioneer regiment with 9 companies each 1 hunter company 1 cavalry regiment to 4 escadrons 1 field artillery regiment to 3 divisions with a total of 8 batteries 2 light ammunition columns 1 battalion heavy field howitzers with 2 batteries 1 pioneerBattalion of 3 Companies 1 Railway Battalion of 3 Companies 1 Corps Telegraph Department 1 Medical Company 1 Munitions Column Department with 7 Munitions Columns 1 Train Command with 3 Supply Columns, 1 field bakery company, 6 field hospitals 1 stage command with 1 horse depot, 1 military hospital depot, 1 stage ammunition column, personnel for 3 war hospitals and one hospital ship, several supply stations Already on the 4th day of operations, the first day of operations was at the hospital. On August 1, the Allied troops (about 20,000 men) gathered in Tientsin had once again set out and this time were able to fight their way through to Beijing. On August 14, Beijing was taken and then plundered for three days. The Chinese government fled to the south. When the international troops under Waldersee arrived in China, the situation was essentially settled, Beijing and Tientsin were horrified. Numerous "punitive expeditions" for the final destruction of the Boxers followed, in which the East Asian Expeditionary Corps was also intensively involved. The Allied approach was characterized by excessive brutality and numerous riots against the civilian population. On January 10, 1901, the Regent accepted the conditions of the Allies as laid down in the "Boxer Protocol" signed on September 7, 1901. The East Asian Expeditionary Corps was disbanded on 17 May 1901 and transformed into the East Asian Occupation Brigade stationed at Beijing, Tientsin, Langfang, Yangtsun, Tangku and Shanghaikwan. Structure of the East Asian Occupation Brigade: 1 command staff with administrative authorities 2 infantry regiments with 6 companies each, of which 1 company mounted 1 escadron hunter on horseback 1 field battery 1 pioneer company with telegraph detachment 1 field hospital The East Asian Occupation Brigade was further reduced in size and restructured on 1 May and 11 December 1902. On 6 March 1906, the East Asian Occupation Brigade was also dissolved and replaced by a battalion-strength detachment. This was replaced on 5 April 1909 by a naval infantry unit, which was wound up in 1910. The East Asian Department in the Prussian Ministry of War (inventory PH 2) was organizationally responsible. Processing note: The holdings initially comprised only three AE, which together with the few files of the Schutztruppen formed the holdings of RW 51 Kaiserliche Schutztruppen and other armed forces overseas. In 2008, nine further AE of different origins were added and a separate portfolio RW 61 was now formed. The inventory was developed in February 2010. Description of the holdings: The holdings contain the documents of the East Asian Expeditionary Corps and the East Asian Occupation Brigade, as far as they are available in the military archives. Characterization of content: The inventory contains hardly any real material files. It consists mainly of several German-Chinese place name glossaries. Worth mentioning is a publication about the locations Langfang, Yangtsun, Tangku and Schanghaikwan with numerous illustrations. State of development: The inventory initially comprised only three AE, which together with the few files of the Schutztruppen formed the inventory RW 51 Kaiserliche Schutztruppen and other armed forces overseas. In 2008, nine further AE of different origins were added and a separate portfolio RW 61 was now formed. The inventory was developed in February 2010. Pre-archival order: The documents of the East Asian Expeditionary Corps and the East Asian Occupation Brigade must essentially be regarded as lost in the fire of the Army Archives in 1945. Only pieces that have survived by chance have been preserved. These were supplemented by documents from the environment of the two associations, the branches in Tientsin, Hankou and Beijing. Citation style: BArch, RW 61/...

Inventory history: With the relocation of the seat of the district administrator from Butzbach to Friedberg in 1829, the previous district was renamed, and from 1832 it became the district of Friedberg (1848-1852 briefly administrative district of Friedberg). 1848/52 parts of the dissolved circle Hungen were integrated, from 1874 on the circle Vilbel, which was last newly formed in 1852, was integrated. From 1866, also places of the Nassau district office Reichelsheim in the Wetterau existing between 1849 and 1854 were added. Between 1961 and 1966, the files of the district authority were transferred to the State Archives in their entirety; they form the most comprehensive district office holdings for the period up to 1945. 1995/96 still saw various takeovers, including the invoices of the district treasuries of Vilbel (1870-1874) and Friedberg (1870-1934), which were considered destroyed during the war, in the Büdingen branch of the Wetterau district. Finding aids: (1) Online database (HADIS) finding aids: (2) DV-Findbuch (http://digitalisate-he.arcinsys.de/pdf/hstad/vorworte/g15) (2000) with index, edited by Christine Goßfelder, Armin Hildebrandt, Eva Haberkorn, Marion Coccejus, Klaus-Dieter Rack und Hans Dieter Ebert Findmittel: Unverzeichnet: 2 m Speaker: Klaus-Dieter Rack

By decree of 9 September 1818, a district court was formed in each of the four newly created districts of the Kingdom of Württemberg, which initially consisted of three senates - the criminal, civil and pupil senates. In Ellwangen he replaced the Criminal Court, which had only been established in 1817 as a special court, which had replaced the old Bailiff's Court. The jurisdiction of the District Court extended to the entire Jagst Circle and the higher administrative courts within it, for which it formed the next higher instance, as well as to the court and official notariates created in 1819 and 1826, respectively. All District Courts, at which in 1822 married senates and 1843 public prosecutor's offices were still established, underwent a fundamental reorganisation in the years before the foundation of the Reich: through the creation of four further District Courts in 1868, the court districts were reduced in size, two of which now existed in each of the four districts. The initiation, continuation and termination of the investigation procedures have now been decided by newly formed Council and College Chambers. The senates were renamed chambers, the pupil senates responsible for guardianship were merged into the respective civil chambers. The public prosecutor's offices at the courts were no longer subject to them, but became independent authorities subordinate to the public prosecutor's office at the upper tribunal. In 1879 the Württemberg court constitution was fully incorporated into the Reichsjustizverwaltung. Like all the others, the Ellwang District Court has now become a regional court, presided over by a president, with the necessary number of judicial and administrative officials. The Ministry of Justice itself became the superior of the public prosecutor's offices. This court constitution essentially lasted until 1935, when all state courts - including the Ellwangen Regional Court - became imperial authorities. After the creation of the state of Baden-Württemberg, the court organisation was largely restored in the Württemberg part of the state. The Ellwangen Regional Court, which is subordinate to the Stuttgart Higher Regional Court, now comprises the 8 districts of Aalen, Bad Mergentheim, Crailsheim, Ellwangen (Jagst), Heidenheim a.d. Brenz, Langenburg, Neresheim and Schwäbisch Gmünd. Contents and Evaluation The collection of older administrative files of the District Court or Regional Court Ellwangen, which is present here and reshaped at the time of the indexing, is only a small remnant of a once quite extensive administrative archive, as can be seen from older lists of files (cf. Bü 10, 11 and 12). If, for example, one extrapolates the data of the alphabetical index of facts and persons established around 1875, an alpha-numerical file plan that was not consistently handled, a total volume in the range of 350 - 450 tufts emerges (!). Probably in the course of 1884, older administrative and procedural files (before about 1835) of the predecessor authorities were retired (cf. Bü 13). A second wave of cassations apparently took place in the course of the introduction of a new, detailed file plan soon after 1900. Of those files that were still in the cassation until about 1900, a second wave was not yet available. 1900 (Bü 12), only minor remains remained (generalia of the chancellery as well as "normals" of the presidential registry), which apparently escaped their fate only because they reached the general registry of the civil chamber early - until 1868 partly via the pupil senate - and were mixed there with older procedural files at a much later point in time; a fact which is substantiated by the fact that 12 tufts had to be removed from the previously unrecorded collection, since these are lists of the Generalia in pupil and matrimonial matters, but predominantly procedural files in family foundation and Fidei compromise matters. Of the remaining archival records of the older registry, the files relating to the Reichskammergerichtliche Akten zu Wetzlar of 1824 (Bü 6) as well as those relating to official dealings with foreign authorities of 1856/57 (Bü 3) deserve special attention; the latter in so far as the interesting overviews contained therein still reflect the status of the authorities before the assignment of Lombardy (1859) and Veneto (1866). The files here for the period after 1900 are essentially personal files which - as the file numbers indicate - were not kept centrally but within the new registration scheme according to local pertinences - in this case (official) court districts. Strangely enough, individual disciplinary files for the period 1823-1876 (Bü 23) escaped subsequent cassation. However, after a chronological list of disciplinary penalties (Bü 24) had been drawn up in 1876, this seemed to be sufficient to safeguard the tradition. The fact that an individual case (in parts) remained handed down is only due to the fact that the corresponding document (Bü 25) was inserted in front of the back cover of the so-called "Penalty Book" (Bü 24). The files probably arrived at the Ludwigsburg State Archives shortly before or soon after the war. At any rate, approaches to provisional indexing and separation of provenances during this period are discernible. From the stock - so far not counted tufts in three file bundles - 12 tufts were extracted, which are to be integrated into the stock E 338 (district court / regional court Ellwangen, pupillary senate or non-contentious cases). From the remaining larger part, 25 tufts (partly new) were formed, arranged and recorded in February/March 1995. Personnel files of referees, magistrates and judicial officials in the district court district that have not yet been indexed were removed from inventory E 337 III in autumn 2015 and allocated to this inventory (Bü 26-37).

Transit camps: The stock contains the release certificates of the German prisoners of war returning home via the transit camps in alphabetical order. Inventory history: From January 1920 onwards, the establishment of an archive of the XIV Army Corps was begun, in which the archives of the settlement agencies were brought together. In autumn 1920 the corps archive moved to the infantry barracks in Heilbronn. From January 1921, the Corps Archives entered the portfolio of the Reich Ministry of the Interior under the name Aktenverwaltung XIV, before being incorporated into the Reichsarchiv in Potsdam as the Heilbronn archive branch on April 1, 1921. As a result of the merger of the Heilbronn and Stuttgart branches of the Reich Archives, the holdings were transferred to Stuttgart in 1924. The Württembergische Archivdirektion, which took over the administration of the holdings of the Army Archives Stuttgart after the end of the Second World War, handed over the XIV Army Corps to the General State Archives Karlsruhe in the years 1947 to 1949. A very detailed history of the holdings is contained in the foreword of the Deputy General Command of the XIV Army Corps (holdings 456 F 8). 18,784 fascicles with a circumference of 9.50 linear metres are included in the holdings.

History of the authorities: The organisational rescript of 26 November 1809 divided the Grand Duchy of Baden into ten districts, named after mountains and rivers, with so-called district directorates as administrative authorities, following the example of France. The following circles emerged in the Sprengel of today's Freiburg State Archives:Directorate of the Lake District based in Constance1809-1832Directorate of the Danube District based in Villingen1819 abolished and assigned to the Lake District; only the offices of Hornberg and Triberg were transferred to the KinzigkreisDirektorium des Wiesenkreises with its seat in Lörrach1815 and completely assigned to the DreisamkreisDirektorium des Dreisamkreis with its seat in Freiburg1809-1832Direktorium des Kinzigkreis with its seat in Offenburg1809-1832A district director stood at the head of each directorate, who was assisted by a district council for the legal and state police as well as for the state economic sphere of responsibility. At the beginning, the business circle of the district directorates included the administration of civil law, supervisory activities in the financial and school administration, police tasks and the cultivation of agriculture.1832 the district directorates, which had meanwhile been reduced to six, were replaced by four district governments based in Constance (Seekreis), Freiburg (Oberrheinkreis), Rastatt (Mittelrheinkreis) and Mannheim (Unterrheinkreis). Inventory history: In the course of the inventory exchange from the General State Archive Karlsruhe in the years 2000 and 2002, the State Archive Freiburg received a total of 75.60 linear metres of files in four deliveries, which had previously been integrated into pertinence inventories there. Since August 1, 2002, Bettina Fürderer, a doctoral student, has been working part-time under the supervision of an archivist and has started to create provenance-compliant holdings for the files of accesses 2000/68, 2002/50 and 2002/57. The files of the first access 2000/40 had already been processed at an earlier point in time. Since the end of 2007 the work begun by Bettina Fürderer has been continued by the undersigned. Order and directory work: The structure of the general records was largely based on the pre-Fackler registry order from the 19th century. In addition to files without a local reference, general files also include files that have been created for a single subject for several municipalities or that concern an entire administrative district. The local files were structured according to the Baden official registration order of 1905 by H. Fackler (see below), but without the Roman and Arabic numerals used there, whereby the subdivision planned for individual main points was almost always dispensed with due to the small number of file books. The municipalities are listed alphabetically. For each municipality the respective district is indicated, namely according to today's state, abbreviated with the code letters of the motor vehicles, and with today no more independent municipalities additionally the name of the new municipality. In the case of files with more than ten sheets of paper, "1 fasc." was initially indicated as the circumference; at a later stage of indexing, this was then indicated in centimetres (cm). Freiburg, December 2009 E. KriegThe holdings have been continuously supplemented since 2009 by files of the Wiesenkreisdirektorium found in the district and district office holdings. It now comprises 132 fascicles and measures 4 lfd.m.Freiburg, March 2015 Dr. Christof Strauß

History of the authorities: The organisational rescript of the 26. In November 1809, the Grand Duchy of Baden was divided into ten districts named after mountains and rivers, with so-called district directorates as administrative authorities, following the example of France. The following district directories were located in the area of today's State Archives in Freiburg:Directorate of the Lake District based in Constance1809-1832Directorate of the Danube District based in Villingen1819 abolished and assigned to the Lake District; Only the offices of Hornberg and Triberg were abolished for the KinzigkreisDirektorium des Wiesenkreises with its seat in Lörrach1815 and completely assigned to the DreisamkreisDirektorium des Dreisamkreis with its seat in Freiburg1809-1832Direktorium des Kinzigkreis with its seat in Offenburg1809-1832A district director stood at the head of each directorate, who was assisted by a district council for the legal and state police as well as for the state economic area of responsibility. At the beginning, the business circle of the district directorates included the administration of civil law, supervisory activities in the financial and school administration, police tasks and the cultivation of agriculture.1832 the district directorates, which had meanwhile been reduced to six, were replaced by four district governments based in Constance (Seekreis), Freiburg (Oberrheinkreis), Rastatt (Mittelrheinkreis) and Mannheim (Unterrheinkreis). Inventory history: In the course of the inventory exchange from the General State Archive Karlsruhe in the years 2000 and 2002, the State Archive Freiburg received a total of 75.60 linear metres of files in four deliveries, which had previously been integrated into pertinence inventories there. Since August 1, 2002, Bettina Fürderer, a doctoral student, has been working part-time under the supervision of an archivist and has started to create provenance-compliant holdings for the files of accesses 2000/68, 2002/50 and 2002/57. The files of the first access 2000/40 had already been processed at an earlier point in time. Since the end of 2007 the work begun by Bettina Fürderer has been continued by the undersigned. Order and distortion work: The structure of the general records was largely based on the pre-Fackler registry order from the 19th century. In addition to files without a local reference, general files also include files that have been created for one subject for several municipalities or that concern an entire administrative district (example: district medical office in the administrative district of Lörrach). The local files were structured according to the Baden official registration order of 1905 by H. Fackler (see below), but without the Roman and Arabic numerals used there, whereby the subdivision planned for individual main points was almost always dispensed with due to the small number of file books. The municipalities are listed alphabetically. For each municipality, the respective district is indicated, according to today's status, abbreviated with the identification letters of the motor vehicles, and for municipalities that are no longer independent today, the name of the new municipality is also indicated. The person index contains the names of natural persons as well as the names of professional and lordships, and in the case of files with up to ten sheets of paper, the number of sheets was always mentioned. In the case of files with more than ten sheets of paper, "1 fascicle" (fasc.) was initially indicated as the circumference; in a later phase of distortion, it was then indicated in centimetres (cm). Freiburg, October 2009 Erdmuthe KriegThe holdings have been continuously supplemented since 2009 by files of the Dreisamkreisdirektorium found in the district and district office holdings. It now comprises 743 fascicles and measures 20.2 running metres Freiburg, March 2015 Dr. Christof Strauß Classification for the Grand Duke of Baden official registries: I.Right of residence and poor affairsII.MiningIII.ExpropriationIV.FisheriesV.ForestryVI.Municipal administration1.Municipal organisation (general)2.Municipal services3.Municipal assets4.Citizenship and enjoymentVII.Trade and commerce, tourism1. organisation of trade economy2. structure of trade economy3. promotion of trade education4. catering industry5. markets, livestock trade and itinerant trade6. prices and wages7. energy supply8. trade supervision and care for the unemployedVIII. hunting matters IX. judicial system1. civil law2. voluntary jurisdiction3. criminal lawX. churches and religious communitiesXI.CostsXII.Credit and bankingXIII.County and district associationsXIV.Arts and scienceXV.SurveyingXVI.Agriculture1.Agriculture and national culturea)General cultural care)Viticulture and vine pestsc)General pest control)Business management, cultivation and harvest statistics)Agriculture2.Animal breeding3.Property traffic4.Associations and exhibitionsXVII.Measure and WeightXVIII.Medicine1.Medical Staff2.Healthcare in General3.Food4.Diseases5.Hospitals6.Loonies7.Corpses and FuneralsXIX.Military and WarfareXX.Natural Events and AccidentsXXI.Orders and AwardsXXII.Police1.General Police Administration2.Police Criminal Matters3.Security Policea)Public Order and Security in Generalb)Defense of State Enemy Activity until 1933c)Desgl. after the "seizure of power "d)Passport and legitimation system4.Morality police5.Building industry6.Fire police and fire cases7.Associations and meetings8.Found objects9.Nature conservationXXIII.Post and telegraph systemXXIV.Press and publicationsXXV.Citizenship and emigrationXXVI.State Finance1.State Property and State Accounting2.Tax Matters3.Customs Matters4.Coin MattersXXVII.State Organization1.Reich Constitution and Reich Matters2.Grand Ducal House3.State Constitution4.State Administration5.District Administration6.State Service XXVIII.State Relations with AbroadXXIX.LandlordsXXX.StatisticsXXXI.FoundationsXXXII.PrisonsXXXIII.Roads, roads and railwaysXXXIV.Education and training1.Educational establishments2.Educational establishments3.Compulsory educationXXXV.Insurance1.Workers' insurancega)Generalb)Health insurancec)Accident insurancegd)Invalidity insurance)Unemployment insurance2.Employee insurance3.Fire insurance4.Agricultural insurancega)Hail insurancegb)Livestock insurance5.Other insuranceXXXVI. veterinary insuranceXXXVII.Water and shippingXXXVIII.Welfare facilities

Contains among other things: Information on the state of health of King Karl (passim), Fetzer's stay in the retinue of King Karl in Nice (10 Nov. 1885 - 13 April 1886): Fetzer's relationship with Count Dillen and characterisation of the Count by Fetzer (15 and 30 Nov. 1885), Fetzer's interview with Grand Duke Friedrich Franz III von Mecklenburg-Schwerin (27 Nov. 1885 - 13 April 1886). 1885), statements of Fetzer about rumours about a possible appointment of Dr. Kriegs as personal physician of King Karl instead of Fetzer, interview of Fetzer with Woodcock about it (2-8., 12. Dec. 1885); findings of microscopic examinations of the urine of King Karl and Queen Olga (with sketches pp. 55 and 56), relationship of King Karl to State Councillor Griesinger (1., 4., 16. Jan., 1885), and of the urine of King Karl and Queen Olga (with sketches pp. 55 and 56), 28. Febr. 1886), communication of the baron von Herman auf Wain concerning the attitude of King Charles to the Catholic denomination (7. Jan. 1886), engagement of Prince Wilhelm with Princess Charlotte von Schaumburg-Lippe (10., 11. Jan. 1886), Woodcock's disease (19. Jan.-Jan. 1886), the death of his son (10., 11. Jan. 1886). 12. Febr. 1886), completion of work on the 7th volume of the Kriegssanitätsbericht by Fetzer (30. Jan. 1886), Fetzer's report on his conversation with Queen Olga about Charles Woodcock (22. Febr. 1886), Fetzer's meeting with the Afrikareisenden and colonial politician Karl Ludwig Jühlke (3. Febr. 1886), the meeting with the Afrikareisenden and colonial politician Karl Ludwig Jühlke (3. Febr. 1886). March 1886), award of the Württemberg Crown Order to Berthold Fetzer (March 5, 1886), dinner with Edward Prince of Wales, Grand Duke Friedrich Franz III of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen on the occasion of the birthday of King Karl (6th birthday of King Karl). March 1886), Lord Charles Hamilton's illness and its treatment by Fetzer (March 26 - April 12, 1886, with Fetzer's enclosed findings on p. 206); notes by Fetzer on his reading (passim, with index p. 239-242) Then: programme sheets on cultural events in Nice, newspaper articles on the health of King Charles (9 Jan 1886), sketches of pneumococci (p. 110); statistics on amputations carried out in the French army during the war of 1870/71 (p. 173-174).

History of the Inventor: Since 1881, the function of deputy Reich Chancellor has always been transferred to the State Secretary of the Interior; in November 1917, under Reich Chancellors Georg von Hertling and Max von Baden, the deputy function was assumed for the first time by a member of the government without departmental responsibility, the first deputy chairman of the Central Committee of the Progressive People's Party Friedrich von Payer; resignation on 10 Nov. 1918. On 30 January 1933, this office was reestablished as an independent office and occupied by Franz von Papen. Inventory description: Inventory history The inventory was transferred to the German Central Archives in Potsdam at the beginning of the 1950s and to the Federal Archives in 1990 together with other holdings of the Reichsarchiv that had been relocated to Saxony-Anhalt. Archive processing The processing took place in the Reichsarchiv. The file titles were transferred to the database without significant editorial revision, while retaining the old classification. The content of the notes that were too extensive had to be shortened. Content: Foreign Affairs; Federal Council - Federal States; Finance; Trade; Court Matters; Internal Administration of the Reich; War; Agriculture; Parties; Press; Prussia; Administration of Justice; Reich; Reich Chancellor; Reichstag; Transport. State of indexing: Findbuch 1958, Online-Findbuch 2005 Parts of the estate of Friedrich von Payer can be found in the Bundesarchiv Koblenz and the Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart: BArch, R 703/...

The German Kreuzer Königsberg supported the troops of General Lettow-Vorbeck until 1915, until a defeat in the Rufiyi Delta. The surviving crew transported their wounded to Dar es Salaam with the help of local porters / Photographer: Scherl

Newspaper clipping of the Swakopmunder Zeitung: Message that Germany has declared war on England. / Photographer: Scherl

Public appeal to war volunteers in German Southwest Africa in the First World War / Photographer: Scherl

In order to be able to record the deaths of the Saxon army by name, death lists were drawn up for the period from 1756 to 1818. In addition, after the First World War, the Saxon war losses for the period of the Thirty Years War 1618 / 1648 up to the colonial campaigns in 1907 in D e u t s c h - S ü d w e s t a f r i k a were recorded statistically. These statistical data were part of the research on German military history.For further information see 2.3.8 Military

Contains among other things: Complaint against AGV-Verlag Dr. Richard Pape, Berlin for retention of documents, 1938 Possibility of publishing a work on export and import transactions during the war, 1941

Contains among other things: Colonial Germans, officials and members of the protection troops in British captivity (index of names), o.Dat.

Information about German hospital in Zanzibar and on the mainland; correspondence with Wichern and Baron von Nettelbladt; reports from Nettelbladts to EMDOA about hospitals in Zanzibar, Dar-es-Salaam, Bagamojo; correspondence with the Foreign Office and field ministers for caretakers