The partial estate includes diaries, notebooks and sketchbooks of Adolph Schenck's journey to South West Africa as well as a manuscript on South Africa.

A few documents of the missionary clergyman Karl von Schwartz (1845-1923), who was active in D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a from 1893.Notes on and manuscripts of sermons and lectures, also for the Leipzig MissionConsists mainly of: handwritten and typewritten manuscripts, also prints, of lectures, mission lectures, sermons, mission sermons - broken down with the help of an attached table of contents -Darin: Abschiedsbrief an die Frauenhilfe der alten Domgemeinde, Konzept [1933]; Schriftwechsel zur Dank für ein held Missionsvortrag und über zukünftige Missionsarbeit, 1903

Letters to Mogk, manuscripts, copies of various manuscripts, material on his activities in various organisations, lecture transcripts, autograph collection, postcard collection

Manuscripts of works and lectures, newspaper cuttings, notes, correspondence

Letters to Zarncke, his son Eduard, the "Literarische Centralblatt"; manuscripts; preparatory work for his publications on university history; research on Chr. Reuter, Sebastian Brant and others; material on administrative activities at Leipzig University (particularly from the time of his rectorates)

Photo documents, manuscripts, working material, diaries, observations, sketches, lecture transcripts, especially about Africa, Asia Minor; dissertation, correspondence

The written estate (9 boxes, 1 large-format folder) contains working materials, travel and excursion diaries, manuscripts, publications, bibliographic index, correspondence with family, friends, acquaintances, colleagues, publishers and other institutions, personal and professional documents, a small proportion of the collection and partial estates of the wife Eva Schmieder (née Pelet), the daughter Elma Schmieder (later: Behrens) and the mother-in-law Maria Pelet. - The extensive photographic estate (10 boxes) contains mostly photographs by Oskar Schmieder, but also partly by other photographers. The photographs were taken in connection with publications, excursions, professional and private journeys, as well as in a family context. The photographic legacy is merely pre-arranged, roughly indexed and contains numerous duplicates.

Letters from and to Glauning, manuscripts, collection of material especially on library studies and English studies, various material on activities in Munich and Leipzig, reports, brochures, collection of material on book covers, 1 box of literature indexes, excerpts, varia, books from the possession of Glauning etc. Correspondence from the registry of the Leipzig University Library until 1941 between the unbound correspondence of Glauning.

Letters, manuscripts of published and unpublished works, material collection; notes, especially on economic, scientific and university history, on the history of the Baltic States; personal documents, photos, Leipzig seminar files. Partial discount Nikolaus von Fuß

Manuscripts, archives, printed matter and letters from various institutions, including various provenances.

The partial estate of the geologist Karl von Fritsch contains manuscripts, notebooks, working material and maps from Central Germany, documents and correspondence.

[see also Transcription in I. Ludewig, Leipzig 2001 = Library 2-05437]

Letters, manuscripts to publications, lecture manuscripts, material collection to publications, lecture transcripts, photos

Work material; manuscripts on Saxony and the Bohemian Forest; correspondence with colleagues in the field

The Estate Splitter contains manuscripts, including the unpublished autobiography as well as newspaper clippings and reprints. The second part of the estate was taken over by the Federal Archive Koblenz in summer 2007 (Altsign.: Zsg. 155/39-42). In November 2013, a third batch of manuscript prints from the old holdings of the Geographical Institute of the University of Leipzig was added.