Trade; Host location: Komuli / Manus (Admiralty Islands)

• description: The station officer Julius Winter with local workers of the colonial station Finschhafen (Kaiser-Wilhelms-Land, New Guinea) * Photography

Baron von Spiegel and other officers of the landing corps of S.M.S. Cormoran with local police soldiers during an action during the prostration of the so-called Ponape uprising in the German colony / Photographer: Scherl

The DKG collection was organized according to a uniform concept. It initially provided very differentiated information about the sponsors and activities of the German colonial movement and then mainly documented the general and especially the German colonial history. The more extensive regional section deals with all areas in which the German Reich pursued colonial interests, i.e. 1. Togo 2. Cameroon 3. Namibia / German South-West Africa 4. Tanzania / German East Africa 5. Rwanda / German East Africa 6. Burundi / German East Africa 7. People's Republic of China / Kiautschou (Tsingtau) 8. Papua New Guinea / Kaiser-Wilhelmsland 9. Palau / Caroline Islands 10. Federation of Micronesia / Caroline Islands 11. Northern Mariana Islands (USA) / Mariana Islands 12. Marshall Islands 13. Nauru 14. Western Samoa / German Samoa. The settlement areas of Germans in Latin America (e.g. Blumenau) or Australia should also be mentioned. The main subject areas here are voyages of discovery and exploration, geology and mining, vegetation and native agriculture, landscapes and animal studies, the settlement activities of natives and whites, schools and missions, traditional trade and transportation, the introduction of modern means of transport (port facilities, railroads, roads), economic development by Europeans, protection forces and uprisings, voyages of discovery and exploration. In addition, the same topics are presented as examples for colonies of other states in Africa, Asia, Australia and Oceania. Towards the end of the Second World War, the Society's picture collection was moved to mining tunnels in Thuringia, where it was seized by American troops and finally, together with the German Colonial Society's library of around 15,000 volumes, transferred to the Frankfurt am Main City and University Library under its then director Hanns Wilhelm Eppelsheimer. According to preliminary estimates, the total number of images is at least 55,000, with the few old large glass plate negatives, the hand-colored large slides and the earliest color slides from the overseas territories being particularly valuable."

Location: German New Guinea

Documents from the time of the Mission from 1846 to 1972 and about the Mission and Diaspora Seminar, which was closed in 1985. Documents about the mission in New Guinea since 1886 with station reports and correspondence of the missionaries. Personnel files and missionary bequests. Dictionaries, grammars and translations of native languages of New Guinea and East Africa as well as maps are also available. Documents on the history of the Mission in Tanzania are only available to a limited extent due to the competence of the Leipzig Mission until 1961. Historical images and audiovisual media. An extensive ethnographic collection that is currently being developed by the Verein für Kultur Neuguinea e.V. (Association for Culture New Guinea). The focus is on cult and everyday objects that the missionaries brought back from their working and living environment on the Huon Peninsula and the Sepik region in New Guinea. Historical journals, including those of the Missionsanstalt from 1843, are a good supplement to the existing original documents.

Architecture; Location: German New Guinea

Architecture; location: Gazelle Peninsula (New Britain)

New Guinea: Member of the Schutztruppe of the German colony of New Guinea, made up of natives / Photographer: Scherl

Location: German New Guinea

Location: German New Guinea

Local police under the command of a German officer with the murderer of the governor / Photographer: Scherl

Work reports and correspondence; correspondence with the London Mission Society

Architecture; Location: German New Guinea

Architecture; location: German New Guinea

Contains among other things: Death of chiefs Mataafa and Tamasese attacks of young Samoans on Europeans behavior of Samoans after outbreak of war O le Sulu Samsa. Printed aand published by the London missionary society. Vol. 14. N.S. Samoa, 1914 Scandal about the mixed marriages of the planter Michaeli

Contains among other things: First census in Samoa from 15 Aug - 30 Sep 1900 Map of Upolu and Savaii (o.M.) with registered itineraries, (o.D.) Leo Woerl, Samoa. Country and people. Leipzig 1901

Enthält u.a.: Erwerbung Samoas als Kolonie Abkommen der Kolonialmächte über eine Aufteilung der Inselgruppen Convention and declaration between Great Britain and Germany of november 14, 1899, for the settlement of the Samoan and other questions. Presented both Houses of Parliament by Command of her Majesty. London 1899

Contains among other things: Proposals on the division of Samoa among the colonial powers Affairs of Samoa. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty. London, Oct. 1899 Josefa Mataafa, The Cry of Mataafa for his People to the Three Great Powers. (Translation into English with comments by W. Cooper). Auckland, 1899

Contains among other things: W. Cooper, The Samoan Question. Auckland 1899 Election of a new chief

Contains among other things: Tumna Party conspiracy against Malietoa Intended constitutional amendment outbreak of new riots

Contains among other things: Uprising of the Mataafa group Rejection of the uprising, capture and banishment of Mataafas and other chieftains

Contains among other things: Contrasts between the indigenous chieftains Mataafa and Malietoa

Enthält u.a.: Auffassung über die Samoa-Angelegenheit in Wirtschaftskreisen Nordamerikas und Australiens Message from the President of the United States. To affairs in the Samoan Islands. House of Representatives, 50th Congress, 2nd Session. Ex. Doc. Nr. 118, 30. Jan. 1889, Nr. 119, 1. Febr. 1889 und Nr. 120, 8. Febr. 1889 Message from the President of the United States, transmitting information relative to affairs in Samoa. Senate, 50th Congress, 2nd Session. Ex. Doc. 102 , 8. Febr. 1889 Correspondence respecting the affairs of Samoa 1885 - 1889. Command of Her Majesty. London 1889