Contains among other things: Reinforcement work, strength indication, location assessment, list of names of land front batteries and floodlights, 09 Sept. 1914 Also contains: Map of Kiautschou Protectorate (scale 1 : 50 000), 01 May 1914

Also includes: Kiautschou Bay (map)

Contains also: Relief map of the Kiautschou protectorate (scale 1 : 50 000) from 01 May 1914

Contains among other things: Truppel hands over the business of the commander of the land forces to captain to the sea Rosendahl, 15.04.1898 report about the Kiautschou bay (copy) with a map Rear Admiral of Diedrichs, boss of the Kreuzergeschwader, to the commanding Admiral in Berlin betr. Land acquisition at the entrance to Kiautschou Bay, 10.01.1898 Remarks on the question of the demarcation and organisation of German territory at Kiautschou Bay, economic report on trade and mining 'Ostasiatischer Lloyd' No 47 of 19.09.1898: Orders concerning land acquisition in the German Kiautschou areas

Contains also: Planning pauses Position of the mine and trenches (scale 1 : 6 250) and position of the 6 companies at Tshan shan (scale 1 : 2 000), 27 Sept. - 29 Sept. 1914

Contains also: Map Railway in China (scale 1 : 4 000 000), May 29, 1914

Contains: Plan view and side view, rooms with designations, dimensions and scale in feet and inches

Contains among other things: Location of the Blockade Forces (scale 1 : 100 000), 30 Aug. - 31 Aug. 1914

Contains among other things: General information about the defense and measures for the case of war for the protectorate Kiautschou, no. Landfront Orders Contains also: Map of the siege of Tsingtau by the Japanese with drawings of the warships and the mines, 1914 Sketch about the reinforcement (for square map of the protectorate Kiautschou) Approximate mine plan (map), 1914

Contains among other things: Preparation and conclusion of a mining regulation between the German Society for Mining and Industry Abroad and the Governor of the Province of Schantung in Chifu, July 9, 1901, 1900 - 1901 Statutes, administrative and supervisory board members, shareholders of the German Society for Mining and Industry Abroad, 1901 Map of the Province of Shantung with the German lease area of Kiautschou, by Bruno Hassenstein (1 : 650,000), with drawings

Contains among other things: Founding of the Deutsch-Chinesische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft mbH, Berlin (Chairman: v. Hansemann), with articles of association (print), 1903 Opening of the Yuen Han railway near Kanton, financed by the USA, France and Belgium (Report of the German Consul in Kanton), Nov. 1903 Economic efficiency of the railway construction project Kowloon - Kanton (report of the German consul in Hong Kong), 1903 criticism of the behaviour of employees of the SEG towards Chinese (introduction of investigations), 1904 "Baugeschichte der Schantung-Eisenbahn", ed. by the SEG on the occasion of the completion of the railway line leading from Tsingtou to Tsinanfu (print, with map and plans of the buildings), 1904 criticism of the personnel of the SEG in China (talks of the governor in Kiautschou, troops, with the Chinese governor of Schantung, Choufu, in Weihsien (transcript), Apr. 1904 "Building and Operating Concession for the SEG" and "Statute of the SEG" (prints), [1899], [1899], (in German)

Contains: Space Tschau tsun - Peninsula Nan yau - Tai tung tschen entries: Roads and ways, German-Chinese border back side contains stamp: Command of the 3rd Sea Battalion

Contains among other things: "Characteristics of the Chinese and Japanese, the Current Political Situation in East Asia and Consequences for German Politics", May 27, 1896 Also Includes: Panorama Photo (Panorama) of Kiautschou Bay Kiautschou Bay (Map)

Contains among other things: Memorandum of the consul in Nagasaki about acquisition of a base in China, Oct. 1896 Telegram to the commanding admiral Eduard von Knorr about murder of two German missionaries in Süd-Shantung, Nov. 5, 1897 Report by S.M.S. "Cormoran" to the chief of the cruising division Otto von Diederichs about unrest by landing of German officers in Wuhan on Nov. 30, 1897 Oct. 1897, Nov. 8, 1897 "Announcement of the Deputy Magistrate of Chianghsia Hsien (Wuchang), Subprefects Wang" (copy), Jan. 6, 1898 Report of the German Consulate Manila on the situation in the Philippines, April 20, 1898 Contains also: Kiautschou Bay (map)

Contains among other things: Telegram from the commanding Admiral Eduard von Knorr on the attitude of the German Reich in Liautung-Frage (transcript), 26 April 1895 Report from S.M.S. "Irene" on the suitability of Kiautschou Bay as a base of a foreign fleet (transcript), 15 Oct. 1895 "Denkschrift betreffend den Stützpunkt in Ostasien" (transcript), 8 Nov. 1895 Also contains: Schitai Peninsula (81:27500), (map), (Nov. 8, 1895) Also contains: Schitai Peninsula (81:27500), (map).

Contains among other things: Invitation to the Chinese Commander to Evacuate the Kiautschou Area (draft), 22 - 26 July 1897 Order of the Commanding Admiral Eduard von Knorr to Occupy Kiatuschou Bay (telegram), 7 Nov 1897 Command of the Cruiser Division to Manage the Kiautschou Area, 27 Sept 1897 Command of the Cruiser Division to Evacuate the Kiautschou Area (draft), 22 - 26 July 1897 Command of the Commanding Admiral Eduard von Knorr to Occupy Kiatuschou Bay (telegram), 7 Nov 1897 Command of the Cruiser Division to Manage the Kiautschou Area, 27 Sept 1897 Command of the Cruiser Division to Evacuate the Kiautschou Bay (draft), 22 - 26 Sept 1897 Command of the Commander of the Commander Eduard von Knorr to Occupy the Kiatuschou Bay (telegram). 1897 Report to the commanding admiral Eduard von Knorr on the situation in Kiautschou during the transfer of administration to the Imperial Naval Office, Feb. 15, 1897 Geographical location, economic importance and fortifications of the Kiautschou Bay Chiffre Code Also includes: Kiautschou area (1:11000), (map) Port facilities of Kiautschou (1:56000), (map) Wai-hai-wei (map)

Contains also: Map of the Fortified Position of the 6th Company at Chan-Shan (1 : 1560) of 1915 Relief map with the units deployed (scale 1 : 6250) of Sept. 02, 1914 Ground plan of the Shelter of the 6th Company III. Sea Battalion (scales 1 : 50, 1 : 100) Maps of Tsingtau (scale 1 : 1 000 000) Official Gazettes, Announcements and Extra Sheets, July 31 - Aug. 17, 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 among other things: S.M.S. "Cormoran": Sydney (strikes) S.M.S. "Condor": Nagasaki S.M.S. "Loreley": Constantinople, (murder of the Grand Vizier), Constanta, Therapia, Galatia, Bucharest (war preparations), Odessa, Nikolayev S.M.S. "Goeben": Smyrna, Covella, Piraeus, Naples S.M.S. "Breslau": Teodo, Pola S.M.S. 'Dresden': Constantinople (French-Romanian incident), Mersina, Alexandrette, Haifa, Rodosto S.M.S. 'Fatherland': Pojang Lake Cruise Wing: Yangtze River, Japan Mediterranean Division: Adana, Alöexandrette, Syria, Venice, Pola, Skutari, Port Said, Piraeus, Alexandria S.M.S. "Bremen": Philadelphia, Havana, St. Thomas, Trinidad, Vera Cruz S.M.S. "Panther": Cape Palmas, Lome, Lagos, Cameroon, Boma, Loanda, Lüderitz Bay, Swakopmund S.M.S "Tsingtau": North river (with map) S.M.S. "Vultures": Alexandrette, Port Said. S.M.S. "Srasburg": Constantinople. Naples S.M.S. "Hertha": Wiaby, Stockholm, Bergen S.M.S. "Vineta": Gotenburg S.M.S. "Eber": Dartmouth, Lisbon S.M.S. "Nürnberg": Shanghai S.M.S. "Hansa": Karlskrona, Uddewalla S.M.S. "Victoria Luise": Uddewalla S.M.S. "Planet": Australia VI Half Flotilla: Wisby, Kalmar

Contains: cross-section sketch, scale and dimensions in feet and inches, explanations

Contains: 1) Paula v. Weizsäcker (woman) (31) (1901 - 1905) thereby a letter Viktor Weizsäcker from 10 Oct. 1904 2) Ernst Weizsäcker, from Tsingtau and Wilhelmshaven (3) (1904 - 1905) 3) Viktor Weizsäcker, Tübingen, Eastbourne (3) (1904) 4) Sophie v. Weizsäcker, Tübingen (mother) (1) (1903) 5) Viktor v. Meibom (father-in-law), Leipzig (1) (1879) 6) Paul v. Bruns, Professor of Medicine, Tübingen (brother-in-law) (4) (1904 - 1805); map to v. Bruns by Helene v. Soden (1) (1906) 7) Karl Müller, Professor of Theology in Tübingen (cousin) (2) (1903 - 1904) 8) Carl Bilfinger (nephew) (1) (1904) 9) Heinrich Weizsäcker (cousin) Frankfurt, Stuttgart (6) (1903 - 1904) 10) Gottlob Egelhaaf (cousin) (2) (1903 - 1904) 11) Gustav Essig, pastor in Lustnau (cousin) (1) 1906 Darin: 1) Letters to Paula v. Weizsäcker from her husband, son Victor and sister-in-law Sophie Bilfinger (4) (1904 - 1905) 2) Last letters of Weizsäcker to his son Ernst (2) (1926)

Contains among other things: KTB of the landing train SMS "Emden" (with route map, copy), 9 Nov. 1914 - 8 Jan. 1915 Siege of Tsingtau (letter of the commander of the fort Huitschen Huk Kp.Lt. Kopp with map, copy), 14 Nov. 1914

Contains among other things: Construction and equipping of the Tsingtau governorate's residence General conditions of contract for the execution of buildings in the area of the Kiautschou Imperial Governorate's residence Construction plans Governor's residence: kitchen equipment, water supply system, section C-D, scale 1 : 50, excl. date of construction (Fol. 51): ground plan of the foundations, scale 1:100, 1905 (Fol. 114); site plan of the area southeast of the Signalberg, scale 1 : 100 (Fol. 122); ground plan of the top floor, scale 1 : 100, sheet no. 12, Nov. 1905 (Fol. 123) Western Front, Eastern Front, scale 1 : 200, July 1905 (Fol. 121); View of the Winter Garden, scale 1 : 50, 1905 (Fol. 120); Floor plan of the 1st floor, scale 1 : 100, Oct. 1905 (fol. 119); cross section, scale 1 : 100, sheet no. 15, Nov. 1905 (fol. 118); ground plan, scale 1 : 200, sheet no. 1, 4 July 1905 (fol. 117); ground floor plan, sheet no. 10, Sept. 1905 (Fol. 116); floor plan of the basement, scale 1 : 100, sheet no. 9, Sept. 1905 (Fol. 115); floor plan of the foundations, sheet no. 8, scale 1 : 100, Aug. 1905 (Fol. 114)

Contains among other things: Complaints by entrepreneurs against the award of construction contracts by the Executive Board of the Building Construction Department in Tsingtau Cost estimates for the construction of various buildings in Tsingtau and Lit sum Construction plans: Colorized site plan southeast of Signalberg, scale 1 : 1000, 14. Apr. 1902 (Fol. 79); sketch of the planned slaughterhouse Tsingtau, longitudinal section, view from northeast, ground plan, scale 1 : 200, Nov. 1901 (Fol. 91); sketch of the planned slaughterhouse and cattle yard for Tsingtau, scale 1 : 6250, Nov. 1901 (Fol. 91); sketch of the planned slaughterhouse and cattle yard for Tsingtau, scale 1 : 6250, Nov. 1901 (Fol. 91) 1901 (fol. 91); site plan of the planned slaughterhouse and cattle yard Tsingtau, scale 1 : 500, Nov. 1901 (fol. 92); garrison laundry Tsingtau, laundry area, ground floor plan, scale 1 : 100, Nov. 1901 (fol. 91); ground floor plan of the planned slaughterhouse and cattle yard Tsingtau, scale 1 : 500, Nov. 1901 (fol. 92); garrison laundry Tsingtau, laundry area, ground floor plan, scale 1 : 100, Nov. 1901 (fol. 91) 97); Garrison washhouse Tsingtau, laundry grounds, front view, scale 1 : 100, Nov. 1901(Fol. 98); Garrison washhouse Tsingtau, residential building for the upper administrative officials, ground plans of the basement, ground floor and attic, rafter location, cross section, front view, side view, scale 1 : 100, Nov. 1901(Fol. 98); Garrison washhouse Tsingtau, residential building for the upper administrative officials, ground plans of the basement, ground floor and attic, cross section, front view, scale 1 : 100, front view, side view, scale 1 : 100, front view, front view, front view, front view, front view, front view, front view, front view, front view, front view, front view, front view, front view, front view, front, front view 1901 (Fol. 99) Garrison washhouse Tsingtau, residential house for the subcontractors, ground plan of the basement, ground floor, attic, rafter position, front and rear view, sections, 1 Dec. 1901 (Fol. 99) 100); officer's residential building for Litsun, ground plan of the foundations and banquets, scale 1 : 100, sheet no. 1, Nov. 6, 1900 (fol. 100); officer's residential building for Litsun, side view, front view, section through the main building and ancillary building, scale 1 : 100, sheet 5, Nov. 6, 1900 (fol. 100); officer's residential building for Litsun, ground plan of the foundations and banquets, scale 1 : 100, sheet no. 1, Nov. 6, 1900 (fol. 100); officer's residential building for Litsun, side view, front view, section through the main building and ancillary building, scale 1 : 100, sheet no. 5, Nov. 6, 1900 (fol. 100) 110) Officer's residential building for Litsun, ground plan of the attic floor beam layer, ground plan of the front rafter layer, truss in the middle building, scale 1 : 100, sheet 4, 11 Dec. 1901; Officer's residential building for Litsun, beam layer above ground floor, ground plan of the 1st floor, scale 1 : 100, sheet 3, 6 Nov. 1901 (fol. 111); officer's residence for Litsun, ground floor plan, scale 1 : 100, sheet 2, Nov. 6, 1900, officer's residence for Litsun, beam position above ground floor, courtyard view, scale 1 : 100, Nov. 6, 1900 (fol. 113); new barracks east camp, crew buildings II. and III, I. OG, scale 1 : 100, sheet no. 3, 1 . Dec. 1901 (Fol. 122); new barracks east camp, crew buildings II. and III. ground floor, scale 1 : 100, sheet no. 2, 1 Dec. 1901(Fol. 121); site plan of the east camp, projected casernement, scale 1 : 1000, sheet no. 1 (Fol. 120); barracks new building east camp, canteen building to crew building IV, scale 1 : 200, sheet no. 4, 1 Dec. 1901 (Fol. 121); cafeteria new building east camp, canteen building to crew building IV, scale 1 : 200, sheet no. 4, 1 Dec. 1901 (Fol. 121); cafeteria new building, canteen building to crew building IV, scale 1 : 200, sheet no. 4, 1 Dec. 1901 (Fol. 121); cafeteria new building, canteen building to crew building IV, scale 1 : 200, sheet no. 4, 1 Dec. 1901 (Fol. 1901) 123); barracks new building east camp Tsingtau, design for a stable building with 32 stands, longitudinal view, gable view, sections, ground plan, scale 1 : 100, Dec. 1, 1900 (fol. 124); survey Kiautschou, map of Litsun with handwritten coloured inscriptions, scale 1 : 25. 000, 1899 (fol. 140)

Contains among other things: Offers for equipping the barracks building in Tsingtau with furnaces Contract between the construction administration of the Imperial Government of Kiautschou and the contractor I. Beermann for the construction of an official residence in the Klarabucht Bay Also includes: Construction plans for the new Tsingtau Government Hospital: single-storey Pavilion No. II, Sheet 1, no. D. (sketch and blueprint Fol. 11-12); single-storey pavilion no. II, ground floor, scale 1 : 100, sheet 2, without date. (sketch and blueprint fol. 13-14); single-storey pavilion no. II, scale 1 : 100,sheet 3, no. date. (sketch and blueprint fol. 15-16); single-storey pavilion no. II, section through a hospital room, section through the central building, scale 1 : 100,sheet 4, no. Dat. (sketch and blueprint fol. 17-18); team room door, door position no. 6, leaf no. 8a, scale 1 : 10, 17 Nov. [18]99 (fol. 19.); team room door, door position no. 7, sheet no. 8b, scale 1 : 10, Nov 21, [18]99 (fol. 20); crew room door, door position no. 9, sheet no. 18c, scale 1 : 10, Nov 21, [18]99 (fol. 20); crew room door, door position no. 9, sheet no. 18c, scale 1 : 10, Nov 21, [18]99 (fol. 20); crew room door, door position no. 9, sheet no. 18c, scale 1 : 10, Nov 21, [18]99 (fol. 20]99). 21); crew room door, door position no. 9, leaf no. 18d, scale 1 : 10, Nov. 19 [18]99 (fol. 22); door lining, leaf 18e, Nov. 29 [18]99 (fol. 23); casernement Tsingtau: canteen building, scale 1 : 200, Jan. 17, 1900 (fol. 35) casernement for the Imperial III Sea Battalion: project for the shower bath, basement, scale 1:100, no date.., (fol. 76) Latrine building for non-commissioned officers and crews, front view, side view, profile ground floor, basement, scale 1:100, 22 March 1900 (fol. 81); Arrest building, ground floor, upper floor, scale 1:10, 28 Apr. 1900 (fol. 116); Cast iron ribbed cell oven by Foerster and Runge, scale 1:10, o. D. (fol. 127); Types of cast-iron Brandenburger Casernen stoves (fol. 128); design for a residential building in the Klarabucht, section, view, upper floor, basement, scale 1:100, 15 Dec. 1899 Development plan for the new town on the Tsingtaubucht, scale 1:6250, no. Dat. (Fol. 161)