German soldiers of the imperial navy in the main street in Tsingtau / Photographer: Scherl

Contains among other things: The evidence for the 1870/71 campaign comes exclusively from the military hospitals of the Württemberg army in France. The lists of casualties of all naval personnel from 1849-1911 who died in German war operations refer to the following events: Battle with Danish brig 1849, battle with natives on the Moroccan coast 1856, battle with Danish ships 1864, battle with French ship at Havana (Cuba) 1870, defeat of a natives uprising in Cameroon 1884, battle with natives on Apia (Westsamoa) 1888, Blockade of the East African coast 1888-1890, Boxer uprising in China 1900-1901, campaign in South West Africa 1904-1905, defeat of a native uprising in East Africa 1905-1906, defeat of a native uprising in Ponape and Dschogadsch (Caroline Islands, Melanesia) Darin: Issues Report of the Board of Directors of the Württembergischer Landesverein der Kaiser-Wilhelms-Stiftung für deutsche Invaliden, Stuttgart 1908 - 1918, Buchdruckerei der Paulinenpflege;

Contains: Atlantic Ocean, Guinea, Cameroon, Plymouth, Wilhelmshaven

Contains: Lome, Togo, Duala, North Atlantic

Contains: Duala, Cameroon, Atlantic Ocean, Guinea, Freetown, Bay of Monrovia, Grand Bassa, Benin, Victoria, Cameroon, Rio del Rey, Kribi, Bibundi, Guinea

Contains: Cameroon, Joßtown, Bagida, Accra, Lome, Lagos, Cameroon, North Atlantic

Contains: Boma, Duala, Cameroon

Contains: Kiel, Plymouth, Madeira, Freetown, Cameroon

Contains: Cape Town, Duala, São Tomé, South Atlantic, Cameroon, Duala

Contains: Victoria, Cameroon, Kribi, Lome, Monrovia, Freetown, Las Palmas

Contains: Cameroon, Gulf of Guinea, Victoria

Contains: Cape Town, Walvis Bay, Mossamedes, Luanda, Cap Lopez, São Tomé, Cameroon

Contains: Cameroon, Victoria, Kribi, Guinea, Cape Town

Contains: Cameroon, Luanda, São Tomé, Lagos

Contains: Yellow Sea, Kiautschou, Nagasaki, Manila

Contains: Cameroon

Contains: Cape Town, Whale Bay, Swakopmund, Mossamedes, Luanda, Cameroon

Contains: Apia, South Pacific, Sydney, Bismarck Archipelago

Contains: Tsingtau, Kiautschou

Contains: Cameroon, Biafra, Luanda

Contains: Zanzibar, Indian Ocean, Mozambique, Atlantic Ocean, Cameroon, Sierra Leone, Grande Porto, Wilhelmshaven

Contains: Gulf of Guinea, Kribi, Cameroon, São Tomé

Contains: Cape Town, Angra Pequena, Libreville, Cameroon

Contains: South Pacific, Samoa, Yokohama

Contains: Tsingtau, Chifu, Chemulpo, Kiautschou, Wusung, Chingkiang

Contains: Amoy, Shanghai, Tsingtau, Kiautschou

Bd. 1: Themse, Wilhelmshaven Bd. 2: La Valetta, Alexandrien, Port Said, Mytilene, Smyrna, Korfu Bd. 3: Korfu, Smyrna, Syrakus, Neapel, Gibraltar, Lissabon, Plymouth, Kattegat, Kiel Bd. 4: Kiautschou, Tsingtau Bd. 5: Kiautschou, Tsingtau, Nagasaki Bd. 6: Nagasaki, Formosa, Manila Bd. 7: Hongkong, Amoy, Kowloon

Contains: South Japan, Kobe, Hiroshima, Kiautschou, Tsingtau

Contains among other things: "The Indo-European Telegraph Line", in: Archive for Post and Telegraphy 1889 No. 19 "Radio Station in Baghdad", by: Dipl. Ing. E. Liesching, in: F-Flag 1933/9 "Funker in Deutsch-Südwestafrika 1904-1097", by: Headmistress. H. Neumann (F flag 1934/11) "The Exploitation of Technical Intelligence for Leadership (1914-1918)", by: H. Pleger, (in: F-Flagge 1935/1) "Use of means of communication in the 1st year of war and lessons from it for today", by: Colonel Fellgiebel, in: F-Flagge 1935/5 "Der missverstandene Schlieffen", by: Colonel Guderian (F-Flagge 1935/7) "The telephone and telegraph system during the Russian invasions 1914 in East Prussia", by: Oberlt. a.D. Kleindienst (F-Flagge 1935/4) "News media and their use in the service of national defence", by Oberlt. a.D. Kleindienst (F-Flagge 1934/1) "Die Geschichte von Telephonfräulein in Memel", by: Dr. Martin Lezius (F flag 1932/3) "50 years of German radio history", by: H. Rukop, o. Dat. (transcript) "Defence of the West", by: Liddell Hart, 1951 "Rückblicke auf die Feld-Telegraphie", (excerpt from: "Der Deutsch-Französische Krieg 1870/71), o. Verf., o. Dat. "Feldtelegraphie", excerpts from 50 Jahre elektrischer Telegraphie 1849-1899, o. Verf., o. Dat. "50 Jahre Telegraphenkabelnetz", by: Müggenburg, in: Archiv für Post und Telegraphie 1927/4 "Etappe und Generalgouvernements", o. Verf., o. Dat. "Direct activity of Reichstelegraphie for army and navy. Cooperation with the field telegraphy (intelligence troop)", o. Verf., o. Dat. "On the 60th anniversary of the existence of the telecommunications troop on 1.10.1959" ed. by: Bundeswehr Telecommunications Service, 1.10.1959 "Memoirs", by: W. Groener, in: German Historical Sources of the 19th and 20th Centuries, Volume 41, 1957

Contains: Battle of the Prussian paddle steamer "Adler" with the Danish brig "St.Croix" at Brüderort 1849 (1 soldier killed); Battle of S.M.S. "Danzig" with natives on the Moroccan coast at Tres Forcas 1856 (7 soldiers killed).); Battle S.M.S. "Arcona" and "Nymphe" with Danish ships at Jasmund 1864 (5 battles); Battle S.M.S. "Meteor" with the French Aviso "Bouvet" at Havana 1870 (2 battles); Battle S.M.S. "Olga" with natives at Kamerun 1884 (1 Gef.); battle S.M.S. "Olga" and "Eber" with natives at Apia 1888 (16 Gef.); battles at the blockade of the East African coast 1888/90 (4 Gef.); expedition to China 1900/01 (165 Gef.); campaign in Southwest Africa 1904/05 (92 Gef.); defeat of the indigenous uprising in East Africa 1905/06 (7 Gef.); defeat of the indigenous uprising in Ponape and Dschokatsch 1911 (3 Gef.); defeat of the indigenous uprising in East Africa 1905/06 (7 Gef.); defeat of the indigenous uprising in Ponape and Dschokatsch 1911 (3 Gef.)

History of the Inventory Designer: General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck Life data 20.03.1870 born in Saarlouis 09.03.1964 died in Hamburg Career 1881 Cadet 1884 Main Cadet Institute Groß-Lichterfelde 07.02.1888 Portepee-Fähnrich at the 4.Garderegiment on foot 1889 Sekondeleutnant 1895 Premierleutnant 1900/01 Participation in the Boxer Movement China; Promotion to Captain 1904-1906 Deutsch-Südwestafrika; First Adjutant in the staff of the commander of the Schutztruppe "Lothar von Trotha" and as Company Chief at the suppression of the uprising of the Herero 1906 Kommandierung to the Großer Generalstab 1907 Promotion to Major; Adjutant of the Generalkommando des 11. Army Corps 1909 Commander II Sea Battalions in Wilhelmshaven 1913 Promotion to Lieutenant Colonel 18.10.1903 Commander of the Imperial Protection Corps for Cameroon 13.04.1914 Commander Protection Corps D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a 1918 Promotion to Major General Apr. 1919 Command of the Guard Cavalry Shooting Corps under the Marine Division Oct. 1919 Leadership of the Reichswehr Brigade 9 of the "Transitional Army" in Schwerin 1920 Characterisation as Lieutenant General and dismissal from the Reichswehr 1923 Wholesale merchant 1928-1930 Member of Parliament of the conservative German National People's Party in the Reichstag 1930 Change to the People's Conservative Union 1933 State Council in Bremen 27.08.1939 (so called Tannenbergtag) Character of a general of the infantry 1956 Honorary citizen of his birth town Saarlouis Awards 04.11.1916 Pour le Merite 10.10.1917 Eichenlaub zum Pour le Merite 30.01.1920 Ritterkreutz der sächsischen Militär-St.-The estate contains personal papers, documents on military and public honours, private and private correspondence, diary notes and memoirs as well as elaborations on various topics and photographs from the life of General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck (20.3.1870-9.3.1964). The collection documents the personal and military career of Lettow-Vorbecks, including his participation in the Boxer War in China (1901-1904) as an adjutant of the 1st East Asian Infantry Brigade, his deployment in the command of the Schutztruppe für Deutsch-Südwestafrika (1905-1906) and as commander of the Schutztruppe Deutsch-Ostafrika (1914-1918). In addition, Lettow-Vorbeck's activities as a war veteran and member of the Reichstag of the DNVP in the Weimar Republic and the reactions to his death in 1964 will be highlighted, as will his work on colonial history and documentations on political topics from the time of the Weimar Republic, in particular the Reichswehr and the Kapp-Lüttwitz Putsch. References to other holdings, in particular RM 5 - Navy Admiral Staff; RW 51 - Imperial Protection Forces and other Overseas Forces; R 1001 - Reichskolonialamt; R 1002 - Authorities of the former protectorate Deutsch-Südwestafrika; digital photos of Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck from the Federal Archives' image holdings can be found in the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia Content Characterization: Because of its great importance and the intensive demand for it from researchers, the estate was processed and recorded in the archives soon after it was handed over to the Federal Archives at the end of the 1960s. In 2008, the indexing of the holdings was fundamentally revised while retaining the older archival order. Pre-archival order: The estate of Paul von Lettow-Vorbecks was transferred to the Federal Archives in August 1964 by the daughter of Countess Heloise von Rantzau-Pronstorf, who died in the same year. It had initially been deposited there as a deposit, on 31 December 1999 the documents became the property of the Federal Archives. The holdings contain self-testimonies and autobiographical records at various stages of their development; the classification features of the archival indexing could not always be clearly assigned due to the specific character of the documents. Citation style: BArch, N 103/...

Contains among other things: Hans von Koster, President of the German Fleet Association, with a letter of thanks from Tirpitz Flottenbund Deutscher Frauen e.V. (Fleet Association of German Women)/Federal Chairman Marie Peters Vereinigung Deutscher Marinevereine/Erster Vorsitzender Adolf Thiele Verein Deutscher Schiffswerften Verein für das Deutschtum im Auslande/Erster Vorsitzender Franz von Reichenau Verein ehemaliger Matrosen der Kaiserlichen Marine, including data on the history of the association Allgemeiner evangelisch-protestantischer Missionsverein e.g. concerning Kiautschou and thank you letter from Tirpitz