Contains among other things: Statutes of the church community on Kleinschmalkalden; book of the Pfennig Association for the Protestant Mission in German East Africa; membership cards of the Protestant Federation for the protection of German Protestant interests and the Federation of German Men and Women for the protection of personal freedom and life of Wilhelm II; field postcard "Conquered Warsaw

Essay "Die Werbearbeit der Bethel-Mission, (presumably 1920-er Jahre), 16 p., N. N.; advertising material of other mission societies; member card Bethel-Mission e. V.

Correspondence between inspectors Ronicke u. Kittelvitz u. Sister Magdalena Hagena, mostly thank-you letters for donations, often expressed in the form of poems, 1922-1944; membership card of the Sarepta-Afrikabund, 1933; obituary for sister Magdalene Hagena, 1944; estate of sister Magdalena Hagena circulars to the members of the Afrikabund, partly printed with photos of the first baptized Tutsi, 1925-1941; letters of African Christians, u.a. by Hermann Kanafunzi, Jakobo Ngombe, Samuel Stepke, Sospater Boko, Johana Kikkule, Heilgehilfe Paulo, Elisabeth Nyaboro and many more with a photo by Sospater Boko, 1929-1938; letters from missionary sisters and missionaries from Africa, 1925-1937; letters from the Missionaries Gleiß, von der Heyden, Hosbach and Johanssen, 1924-1930

Only correspondence with Helene John in utilities matters

Annual accounts of the Bethel Mission, partly also of the Africa Association, 1927-1947; final sums according to the annual accounts, 1900-1929; grants from Bethel Institute for the Bethel Mission, 1930-1939; annual accounts and budget estimates, 1948-1960

printed annual reports, 1906-1912 and 1939-1965; typewritten annual reports, 1926-1964

description: Contains:StartVNr: E 814/1899; EndVNr: E 237/1900; and others: Collaboration with the Botanical Museum, pp. 20 ff., and the Museum of Natural History, Berlin, (1899), pp. 4 ff., 20 ff. - Handing over doublets to the museums in Braunschweig, Darmstadt, Detmold, Frankfurt a.M., Freiburg, Hanover, Hildesheim, Karlsruhe, Kiel, Cologne, Leipzig, Munich and Stuttgart, (1900), pp. 138 ff.- Cooperation with the governors of DOA, (1899), pp. 17, and Togo, (1898, 1899), pp. 218 f.- Cooperation with the editors of the Mitteilungen aus den deutschen Schutzgebieten, Berlin, pp. 59, and the Gesellschaft Süd-Kamerun, Brussels, (1899), pp. 56 f.- Cooperation with the Basel Mission, (1899), pp. 167 f.- Consignments of the border regulation expedition Lucas, p. 166, and the pendulum expedition, (1899), p. 176 - "Compilation of the payments made by the main treasury [!] of the Imperial Government of D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a for the Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin until the end of March 1899."Bl. 3 Fülleborn: "Die Stadt Utengule (December 1898)", sketch, Bl. 10, itinerary, (no year), sketch, Bl. 82, explanations of skulls and skeletons, (1899), Bl. 123 ff. Conrau: Acquisition of fetishes, pp. 48 et seq., report on fetishes and slaves, (1899), pp. 50 et seq. "Namen der Salomoni-Speere" (N.O.J.), p. 107 - by Luschan: Request to von Ramsay for influence on Basel missionaries in the sense of the MV, (1899), p. 170, Request to send the columned house from Fontem, (1900), p. 203 - Bessar: Report on the punitive expedition against the village of Fontem, (1900), Abschr.., Bl. 205 - Kersting: Report on cave burial and buildings in Tamberma, consignment of skulls, (1899), Bl. 174 f.- "Liste des photographies de Madagascar et de la Réunion de F. Sikora naturaliste ...", (no year), Druckschr., Bl. 182 ff. - Esch: Donation of skulls, (1900), Bl. 298.

description: Contains:StartVNr: E 711/1904; EndVNr: E 1920/1904; and others: Cooperation with the Museumsverein, Essen, page 2, the Städtisches Museum, Stralsund, page 142, and the Museums für Völkerkunde, Hamburg, page 251 ff., and Stuttgart, (1904), page 39 - Cooperation with the governors of DOA, page 272, DSW, page 36, and Togo, (1904), page 26 f.- Cooperation with the Hydrotherapeutic Institute, p. 230, the Rudolf Virchow Foundation, Berlin, p. 298 f., 306 f., and the Northwest Cameroon Society, Duala, (1904), p. 1 - Cooperation with missionaries, (1904), p. 52, 149 f., 182 ff., the Society for the Advancement of Evangelical Medicine, p. 223 f., and the Northwest Cameroon Society, Duala, (1904), p. 1 - Cooperation with missionaries, (1904), p. 52, 149 f., 182 ff. Mission unter den Heiden, p. 159, der Rheinischen Missionsgesellschaft, p. 186, und der Herrnhuter Mission, (1904), p. 187 f.- Kayser: Report on a gala girl brought up in Berlin, (1904), p. 7 f.- by Smend: Report on stoves and cooking utensils, appearance of villages and stretchers for dignitaries, (1904), p. 12 ff.- Rkwami: "Food of the Eweer", (1904), p. 16 - by Luschan: Restoration order for the throne of Njoya of Bamum, p. 28, request for support of the AA in the preservation of the priority position of the Berlin museums, p. 226, advertisement for funds for the diplomatic mission of the botanist Rosen to Abyssinia, (1904), p. 295 ff - Holtz-Saatel: "Germany and France in Abyssinia. In: Berliner Tagebl.: 1904-07-15, p. 49 - Ankermann: Report on the Collection Frobenius, (1904), p. 54 - Rehse: "Setting up the bird trap 'mutego gu´ ekinyonyi.'", (1904), p. 114 - Method of payment for the Collection Frobenius, (1904), p. 168 ff - "Paul Kibler ... Collector of Natural History Specimens ...", (1904), Folder, p. 190 - Merker: Report on stones with drilling by the Wadschagga, his research on tatoga, p. 231 et seq, Skeleton broadcast, (1904), pp. 258 et seq. by Berger: "Apotheke des Zauberers Msafiri aus der Landschaft des Sultans Kihumbi am oberen Mlagarasi in Uha, Udjidji district", (1904), pp. 244 et seq. by Berger. Schweinfurth: Report about lumber and bows from Egypt, (1904), pp. 277 ff. - Cleve: Report about tooth deformations at the Vaviva and Kinga and their influence on the language, Christian folk song in Kidngala, (1904), pp. 284 ff.

description: Contains:StartVNr: E 856/1905; EndVNr: E 1794/1905; and others: Cooperation with the Museum of Natural History, pp. 121, and the Colonial Museum, Berlin, (1905), pp. 32 et seq. Cooperation with the Museum für Völkerkunde, Cologne, pp. 38 et seq., and the South African Museum, Cape Town, (1905), pp. 231 et seq. Distribution of doubles to the antiquity society Prussia, Königsberg, p. 15, and the Landesmuseum, Darmstadt, (1905), p. 80 - Distribution of doubles to private individuals, (1905), p. 9, 70 - Cooperation with the governor of DOA, (1905), p. 15, and the Landesmuseum, Darmstadt, (1905), p. 80 - Distribution of doubles to private individuals, (1905), p. 9, p. 70 - Cooperation with the governor of DOA, (1905), p. 15, and the Landesmuseum, Darmstadt, (1905), p. 16. 12 - Cooperation with the High Command of the Schutztruppe, Berlin, (1905), p. 101 - Cooperation with missionaries, p. 96, 116, and the Basler Mission (1905), p. 23 - Schweinfurth: Report from Cairo, p. 3 f., Sendung von Thurfhölzern, (1905), pp. 6 f.- Albinus: Sendung eines Wangoni-Stuhles, (1905), pp. 18 - Verhandlungen zur Verbleib der Doppeltten der Slg. Thierry, (1905), pp. 38 ff - Schwartz: Bericht über die Aufnahme von Gesänge, (1905), pp. 63 f.- Müller: Report about the colonial exhibition in the Sydenham Crystal Palace, London, (1905), pp. 111 f.- by Luschan: Antiquities in Rhodesia, pp. 125 ff., Identification of a kaffir skeleton, Abschr., pp. 233, Impression of a bushman after life, (1905), Abschr., Bl. 235 f.- [Oldman:] "Price List of a few Miscellaneous Genuine Specimens selected from Stock ...", [1905], duplication, Bl. 100, 129, and "Illustrated Catalogue of ethnographical Specimens ...", printed on paper, May 1905, p. 130 ff., July 1905, p. 136 ff., August 1905, p. 142 ff.- Ankermann: Report on a part of the Slg. Fonck, (1905), p. 169 - Fonck: Report on the circumcision ceremony of the Wagogo boys and a '"telephone" from the Makonde plateau, (1906), p. 197 - Dessauer: Location of a skeleton, p. 238, Report on Young's intention to publish the Bushman drawings, (1905), p. 241 f.

description: Contains:StartVNr: E 1937/1904; EndVNr: E 855/1905; and others: Cooperation with the Museum of Natural History, Berlin, (1905), p. 58 - Cooperation with the Museums of Ethnology, Hamburg, p. 280, Dresden, p. 281, Cologne, (1907), p. 279, Stuttgart, (1904), p. 29, 176 f., the Reichsmuseum, Leiden, p. 146, the Institute of Anthropology, London, p. 174, and the Hungarian National Museum, Budapest, (1905), p. 183 ff - Transfer of duplicates to the antiquity society Prussia, Königsberg, (1905), p. 153 - Transfer of duplicates to private individuals, (1905), p. 196, p. 309 - Cooperation with the governors of DSW, p. 175, Togo, (1905), p. 334, and Cameroon, (1904), p. 64 - Cooperation with Dt. Kolonialgesellschaft, pp. 41, the German Mediterranean Society, Berlin, pp. 167, the Société d' Études coloniales, Brussels, pp. 223, the American Geographical Society, New York, and the University Library, Vienna, (1905), pp. 159 - Cooperation with missionaries, (1904, 1905), pp. 77 f., 151, 222, of the Congregation of Missionaries Oblates of the Immaculate Virgin Mary (1904), pp. 5 ff., of the Mission of hh. Heart of Jesus, (1905), pp. 179 f., and the Basel Mission, (1905, 1906), pp. 288 ff.- Merker: Location of drilled stones, (1905), Abschr., pp. 42 f.- Hofmarschallamt: Loan of a chair by Njoya von Bamum, (1905), p. 67 - Armbandsammlung Döring, (1905), p. 75 f. - Judgment on the outstanding sum insured for ECR Rigler, (1905), p. 81 ff - Rehse: Supplements to his manuscript "Kiziba", p. 93 ff., "Foreword to Chapter 11", p. 96, Request for Command to Bukoba and Biographical Notes, (1905), p. 122 - Laufer: Report on the Sanatorium Alhayat in Egypt, (1905), p. 137 ff. - "The Work of the Diafe by Leo Frobenius.", (1905), Abschr., p. 148 f. - Schweinfurth: Bericht über Bogen aus Ägypten, (1905), p. 154 - by Stefenelli: Bericht über den Gebrauch von Masken beim Fetischdienst, (1905), p. 202 ff - Schloifer: "Einladung zur Beteiligung an der Central-Afrikanischen Bergwerks-Gesellschaft m.b.H.", p. 213, "Entwurf. Gesellschaftsvertrag ...", pp. 215 et seq., "Report to the Central African Lake Society m.b.H.", pp. 218 et seq., "Special report on the goldfields belonging to the Central African Lake Society m.b.H.", Printed by Druckschr., (1905), pp. 219 et seq. - "List of African ethnographic objects brought by Mr Paul Bieger from Lagos", (1905), pp. 239 et seq. "Name and meaning of the stamps (s. 3447) of missionaries Merkel and Sitzler, (1905), pp. 306 ff. - "Verzeichnis der Sammlung Rosen", (1905), pp. 316 ff. - Rosen: Publikationspläne und Abrechnung über seine Gesandtschaftsreise nach Abessinien, (1906), pp. 327 f.

Correspondence with consistories; collection lists (Silesia); lists of donations; detailed description of the situation of the Bethel mission in 1940 and 1943

• Author: Letters from Miss. Hofmann and Pfitzinger. Scope: p. 43-47* 60-63. Contains, among other things: - 1. (SW: Miss. Hofmann from Mbungu to Jimba; many attacks by Maasai and Arab chiefs; description of the attack on the neighbouring station Kabai) - 2. (SW: description of the attack on Kabai; Wakamba warrior)

Recordings from the years 1901 to 1903" Contains handwritten names: Dar-es-Salâm (coral reef and harbour), sultan palace in Kilwa-Kisiwani, waterfalls of the Pangani river, coffee plantations, rainforest and mission stations in Usambara, glaciers and landscape formations of Kilima-Ndjaro, African steppe, locals, especially Massai

Correspondence and circulars; "Songs of the Bahaya, by Missionary P. O. Hagena, 10 p., ms.

Correspondence, circulars, etc.; "Die Berliner Mission in Ostafrika 9 S., ms., N. N., ca. 1943; "The German and non-German Evangelical Missions in German East Africa, Rwanda, Burundi, Cameroon, Togo, German Southwest Africa, ca. 1943; "Brief overview of the Bethel Mission, 5 S. by Curt Ronicke, ca. 1944

[Ev. Missionsgesellschaft für Deutsch-Ostafrika/EMDOA - since 1920: Bethel-Mission]; Correspondence and agreements on a planned cooperation between Berlin III and RMG

Brief summaries of the printed "News of the East African Mission and "News of the Bethel Mission, 240 p., ms., with duplicate

Correspondence, circulars, etc.; "Breklumer Sonntagsblatt für´s House from March 1960

Work and travel reports of the staff; report on the third Lutheran mission conference in Tanganyika-Territory, October

Site plan of the leasehold property from 1908; survey report by Bodelschwingh'. Institutions, 1948

Correspondence from Rorarius, 1929-1934; Correspondence concerning the return of mission property, 1930; Draft of a Land Order of the Bethel Mission, 1931; So-called "Landsache, July 1934; Draft of an Order for the Usambara Church Treasury, 1934

photography

Inside: On the back of three children's drawings printed and handwritten menu cards of three dinners in Schloss Possenhofen on 6, 9 and 14 August 1907; circular letter of Father Bonifacius Sauer, Prior of the Benedictine College in Dillingen/Donau, asking for financial support for the Benedictine College and for the training of the Benedictines deployed in the mission in D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a (Tanzania), 16 Dec 1908

photography

Circulars, partly printed to brothers and sisters, missionary brothers and sisters and missionary friends

A booklet with photos, poems, newspaper clippings, etc. about the mission in Africa, especially the Bethel mission, from the possession of Elisabeth Küchler's mother in Detmold.

Contains among other things: "The war losses of the German colonial private sector as a result of the Treaty of Versailles, determined on the basis of the files of the Reichsentschädigungsamt für Kriegsschäden"; memorandum; comments on the liquidation of companies in Togo by the French government as mandatary power; loan control of the main cash office of the Reichsentschädigungsamt für Kriegsschäden; compensation of German assets at the former Bezirks-Sparkasse in Dar es Salaam; settlements in the province of Iringa, Tanzania; report on a business trip

Preparation of the conference, invitations, list of participants, programme; "Structure and task of the indigenous church with theses sheet 28 p., ms. by P. Scholten; "Interrelation between family and community as well as tribal world of K. Wohlrab; "Some information from the mission printing plant in Wuga by O. Joppe; letters to Professor Doktor Ihmels

Minutes of the missionary conference in Wuga, September 1904; Minutes of the missionary conference in Mlalo, January 1905; Minutes of the missionary conference in Hohenfriedeberg, April 1905 with visitation report by W. Trittelvitz, April 1905; Minutes of the missionary conference in Wuga, August 1905; Minutes of the missionary conference in Hohenfriedeberg, August 1906; Minutes of the missionary conference in Hohenfriedeberg, April 1907; Minutes and. Resolutions of the Protestant Mission Conference in Marangu in German and English, September 1928; conference documents, October 1929; minutes of the Conference of German Protestant Missions in Dar-es-Salaam, January 1934

Copies of handwritten letters from Mission Inspector Winkelmann, 1895-1897; copies of handwritten letters from Mission Inspector Trittelvitz, 1899-1909