description: Contains:StartVNr: E 1/1891; EndVNr: E 731/1898; and others: Cooperation with the Botanical Museum, pp. 67 f., and the Museum of Natural History, Berlin, (1898), pp. 65 - Exchange of doublets with the Zeughaus-Verwaltung, Berlin, pp. 3 f., 10 ff., and the museums in Philadelphia, (1898), pp. 15, 101 - Cooperation with the Royal Geological Survey, pp. 95, and the BGAEU, Berlin, (1898), pp. 78 - Cooperation with missionaries, (1898), pp. 134, 297 - by Luschan: Please to Zintgraff for a decision on the estate of his son Eugen Zintgraff, pp. 34 f., Acquisition of Benin bronzes, (1898), pp. 86, 88, 114 - von Zech: Problems in Photography, (1898), pp. 42 - Zenker: Report on War against the Buly and Christmas in the Tropics, (1898), pp. 44 f.- Hintz: Report about living and grave caves on Tenerife, (1898), p. 46 - Donation of a cotton fabric from Lake Rikwa, (1898), p. 51 - Donation of loans from the South African Republic from the Transvaal exhibition, Berlin, (1898), p. 79 f. - Ohnefalsch-Richter: "Führer durch die Ausstellungshalle. Collections from the gold and diamond fields of the two Boer republics Transvaal and Oranjefreistaat", (1897), Druckschr., pp. 81 ff - Cornau: Report on dental deformations in the Bali, (1898), pp. 104 Fies: Report about the hat of a fetish priestess from Togo, (1898), pp. 111 ff. - Hesselbarth: Curriculum Vitae, (1898), pp. 120 - Receipt of the comp. Kersting In: Vossische Ztg. : 1898-06-22, pp. 127 - Fülleborn: Report about his ethnological activity, (1898), pp. 128 ff. - Stierling: Offer of skulls, loan of the skull by Sultan Mpangire, (1898), pp. 158 et seq. Schoeller: Donation of his collection and exhibition in the Lichthof, (1898), pp. 204 ff. - "East Africa", [1898], map, pp. 250 - South West Africa Company: Donation, (1898), pp. 259 ff. - "Ground plan of a large Ondonga shipyard. drawn by M. Rautanen", (1895), sketch, pp. 294.

Askari soldiers at a shooting range in German East Africa / Photographer: Scherl

Coloured soldiers of a company of the German Schutztruppe, so-called Askari, marching out in the first days of the First World War / Photographer: Scherl

Two soldiers, who served under the command of Lettow-Vorbecks, on deck chairs in an improvised camp from the first war time / Photographer: Scherl

Contains among other things: participants in combat operations

Contains: information on participants, losses, ammunition consumption, location and type of combat

Contains above all: Battle of Jassin on 18-25 Jan 1915 under von Lettow-Vorbeck

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

Curriculum Vitae and copies of testimonies, 1913; photo by Elfriede Krieg u. Helene Semrau, 1915; correspondence, 1913-1961; reports and circulars from Java, 1923-1937; Individual copies of "De Groote Kindervriend (in German: Der große Kinderfreund) as print, editor: Elfriede Krieg, 1929; "Jeugdbeweging (in German: Jugendbewegung) as print, editor: Elfriede Krieg, 1929 u. 1930

Contains among other things: Publications on the construction of the railway line Neu Moschi - Aruscha including the conversions into additional buildings on the main line of the Usambara line in D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a and on the construction of the railway from Tabora to Kagera (Rwanda line), 1914

Colonial troops with carrier column on the march in D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a during the First World War / Photographer: Scherl

The surveying ship 'Seagull' was hit in the bay of Dar es Salaam and lies down on its side before sinking. / Photographer: Scherl

Askari and Rugaruga on Kiomboni East (Rufiji Estuary) in the colony of D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a during the First World War / Photographer: Scherl

Celebration at the foot of Kilimanjaro after arrival of the first victory news. / Photographer: Scherl

A gun from the cruiser 'Königsberg' in position at the mouth of the Rufidji in German East Africa in the First World War / Photographer: Scherl

Houses in ruins in Dar es Salaam after the firing of English ship guns / Photographer: Scherl

Preparation and follow-up of the meeting, Johanssen and Warneck newsletter; invitation, programmes, minutes; compilation of the effects of the First World War on the missions; letters from missionaries; Johanssen: "Can mission seminars be maintained in their current form? E. Funke: What experiences did the war make us have?

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Contains among other things: - "The colonial Germans from D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a in Belgian captivity." Published by Reichskolonialamt, Berlin 1918 (printed).

Supporting column of the Schutztruppe on the march through D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a during the First World War / Photographer: Scherl

German soldiers and Askari of the protective group in defensive position in D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a during the First World War / Photographer: Scherl

Askaris and German officers of the German Schutztruppe in a battle position near Kilimanjaro / Photographer: Scherl

German Schutztruppe in the Mahenge combat area resting on a harvested millet field. In the background characteristic formations of the Upogora Mountains / Photographer: Scherl

Colonial troops with carrier column on the march in Deutsch-Ostafrika in the First World War / Photographer: Scherl

Soldiers in front of an armoured car of the Uganda Railway in British East Africa / Photographer: Scherl

German soldiers in the jungle with a machine gun. The photo was taken by a photographer in captivity. / Photographer: Scherl