'The North German Missionary Society in Bremen avoids the mission territory in Togo. - Report by the Grade Secretary for the attention of the Foreign Office - Including: - Presentation of the situation by the German Missionary Society in West Africa by the Foreign Office according to information from Mission Inspector Zahn

'Exploratory Expedition to the North-East of the Togo Hinterland (1889 Staff Doctor Dr. Wolf). Report from Imperial Commissioner von Puttkamer to von Bismarck

'Mutation des Soldats Haoussa du Togo à Yaoundé afin d'y établir un contact avec les caravanes de marchands Haoussa de l'Adamaoua et leur redirection vers la côte du Protectorat du Cameroun. - Arrêté du Ministère des Affaires étrangères

History of the inventory creator

The North German Mission was founded in Hamburg in 1836 by six missionary associations as one of the oldest German missionary societies. It has been based in Bremen since 1851 and today is a joint work of four German and two African churches. After initial activities in New Zealand and the East Indies, the North German Mission also sent missionaries to West Africa from 1847. The missionary work in West Africa, which has been carried out continuously since then, has resulted in two independent churches: the Evangelical Churches of Togo and the Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Ghana. In these two countries, the North German Mission still focuses on its missionary and, today, development policy activities. In over 150 years of presence in Africa, the North German Mission has experienced all the ups and downs of German-African relations in its West African mission centers. This includes the pre-colonial presence, the colonial period following the founding of the colony of German Togoland in 1884 and the difficult post-colonial development from the First World War to the present day. Recruited throughout Germany and sent out from the headquarters in Bremen, generations of missionary workers were active in Africa in mission, school and development service and recorded their work in letters, reports, minutes and also photographic documentation. Conversely, African mission workers found their way to Germany early on for training. Over the course of more than 150 years, a unique archive collection has thus been created at the mission headquarters, which has hardly suffered any significant loss of material, even through the numerous political upheavals and military events. It is supplemented by a collection of pictorial documents which, like the written records, date back to the 1840s. A special library was also set up at the Bremen mission headquarters, which was primarily used for internal training purposes of the mission and contains numerous manuscripts and early prints in West African languages - in particular the Ewe language spoken in present-day Togo.
Transfer of the collection to the Bremen State Archives
On November 18, 2005, the archives, image collection and library of the North German Missionary Society were handed over to the Bremen State Archives. The documents, image collection and mission library are now available for research in one place. The archive of the North German Mission is one of the most important archive holdings in the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen. Its value and importance for research was recognized early on. Even during the Second World War, the State Archives took over numerous archival records in order to bring them to safety together with the state archives. In 1968, a contract was concluded under which the collection was transferred to the Bremen State Archives as a deposit (StAB 7,1025). Since then, it has been listed as no. 0503 in the general list of nationally valuable archives in accordance with § 13 para. 2 of the law on the protection of German cultural assets against emigration.

Inventory history

As the North German Mission was forced to part with its collection and library items in 2005 when it moved into a new but smaller mission house in Bremen and was no longer able to provide reading rooms for academic use in the mission house, it felt compelled to take the step of transferring ownership of the entire collection to the Bremen State Archives at the same time as transferring the remaining archive, collection and library items to the State Archives. This was initially done in the certainty that freer access would bring considerable advantages for academic and research use and against the background that archival indexing, especially of the collection and image material as well as the library, could no longer be adequately carried out in the Mission House itself. It was also not possible to ensure optimal long-term storage of the documents in the Mission House. It was agreed at the time of the handover that the collection should continue to receive a steady increase in written and collection material from the North German Mission, which is primarily active in West Africa.
Since 1968, Depositum 7,1025 Norddeutsche Mission has been one of the most frequently requested holdings in the Bremen State Archives for academic - and international - use. Since 2003, it has been used intensively for a research project of the University of Bremen funded by the VW Foundation, in which researchers and doctoral students from Togo and Ghana were also involved under the direction of Dr. Rainer Alsheimer, and the files had already been formed and recorded by an employee of the North German Missionary Society when they were delivered to the archive: In the 1970s and 1980s, Paul Wiegräber had compiled a file index and labeled the file folders with shelfmarks. During this time, larger and smaller amounts of written material were added to the collection several times - materials from older times, but also collection items that had accumulated in cooperation with the churches in Ghana and Togo at the time.
With the takeover of the archive material, the State Archives undertook to restore, pack and index the existing and especially the newly acquired image and library holdings. To this end, after returning from loan to the Transkulturation project in 2004, the archive holdings were systematically reviewed, the existing packaging materials were supplemented and the labeling was renewed. The documents in the collection are often loose; in particular, the sometimes extensive units in which the semi-official correspondence with the mission staff is filed are still very much at risk in terms of their preservation and internal organization.
The archive holdings had already been microfilmed in the 1970s as part of the federal government's back-up filming work; these films were returned to the State Archives after copies had been made and could be used. The subsequent deliveries to the collection will be filmed in 2007 so that user films can be made available for the entire collection. In future, copies will only be made of the films in order to avoid having to make copies of the documents themselves. To this end, the structure was greatly expanded in order to appropriately organize the previously little-noticed documents that were not directly related to the activities of the missionary staff in Africa and Australia. Where available, surviving titles were included in the index. The documents relating to missionary activities in the narrower sense, to which the older indexes were limited, had already been extensively indexed. In addition, the evaluations compiled by various members of the Transkulturation project were available, which were based on the older lists, but also contained descriptive texts, including transcriptions and translations. This information was evaluated for the file index, so that information on the scope and the languages used in the written material is available for this area of the inventory.
The image collection, its acquisition and processing
The North German Missionary Society has used the medium of photography since the 19th century to document its work internally and to present it to the public. The photographs, mostly taken by missionaries as part of their work in the African mission field, were not only kept as memorabilia, but were also used in slide shows for the public and at internal training events, and were often printed in the missionary society's publications.
An extensive stock of photo prints, systematically filed, forms the core of the archive. These photos were indexed in various lists and were often labeled and dated on the back. Another focus of the collection is on the portraits of the mission staff, which were apparently systematically collected and stored from the beginning of the mission's activities and the spread of photography, and the mission staff and various people associated with the mission also created their own collections and added them to the missionary society's photo collection. The collection contains several albums of individual missionaries and the German-Togo Society, as well as slide series from the lecture activities. Only a single album of photo negatives has been preserved. The existing slides are likely to be copies that were made from the recording media or prints. The collection comprises 5,316 individually listed photos, many of which have been handed down several times. They are all black and white photos, a few pieces are colored, two drawings are in color.
As part of the Transculturation project, which was funded by the Volkswagen Foundation and carried out under the direction of Dr. Rainer Alsheimer at the University of Bremen between 2003 and 2005, the religious studies scholar Sonja Sawitzki worked intensively with the image collection. She recorded the titles and dates of the photographs, signed and packaged the items and prepared them for reproduction. In particular, notes on duplicate image content were incorporated. The physical condition of the pieces was also described, with the size and state of preservation and any existing defects listed. With regard to the type of image, the editor distinguishes between prints, drawings, prints, postcards and the various film and glass materials, and there are also references to mounts on cardboard or in albums. Many photo prints are not in good condition, heavily faded, soiled or incomplete. The albums and portfolios often contain prints from which no high-quality originals can be obtained. As a rule, however, it was possible to find the originals for the prints elsewhere in the collection.
All existing images are now listed in the index to fonds 7,1025 Fotos. The existing prints and their signature, the repro or surviving negative or slide are listed and the identifier of the corresponding image file is given. As part of the content indexing, the image title and date are given, as well as additional information that Sonja Sawitzki noticed or found useful, that has been handed down with the items or that was filed in connection with indexing approaches by other processors in the past. Particularly important are the references to duplicates that were found in different contexts and identified together. Different titles for such duplicates have been regularly included, as some unlabeled photos could be assigned in this way. Missing titles have been added, preferably on the basis of labeled duplicates; added titles are indicated in square brackets. Images unsuitable for reproduction and items that were already recognized as duplicates during the first round of work have not been reproduced. In these cases, the image content of the duplicate is shown in the index and the image file of the reproduced duplicate is indicated. This applies above all to the photographic prints, which have already been filed systematically by the North German Missionary Society. Other classification features found were derived from the context of the photo albums and slide boxes. Only the items that had not been filed in any particular order were arranged according to a rough chronology, while the undated and unmarked items were grouped according to motifs. There are a large number of duplicates, particularly among the undocumented image originals, which could not be easily assigned to the better documented items due to the large size of the inventory. No evaluation of the file inventory was carried out in the production of the image annotations - numerous photos, especially portraits, could certainly be labeled more precisely on the basis of the file inventory.
The images can be viewed in an online presentation. The image descriptions and formal data are reproduced there, and a preview is intended to give an impression of the image content. The images will only be shown in specially justified cases. All images are available as black and white reproductions on film, unless negatives or slides have survived. Image files are also available for the images, which were created using the existing repros with a resolution of 400 ppi. Reproductions and image data are available from the Bremen State Archives.
The Bremen State Archives also took over the extensive special library of the North German Missionary Society along with the files and photographs. The books in the library are kept in a special section of the State Archives and are indexed as individual works according to standard library procedures. This index lists all titles published by the North German Missionary Society itself or by individual members of its staff. For the other works, the systematic classification is given; the titles can be searched in the library's online reference systems.
Bremen, May 2007
B. VeilContains Mission in New Zealand and the East Indies, especially letters and reports - Mission in West Africa, especially letters and reports from the main stations, service of African workers, school system and seminary, travel reports and maps, Bible translation, church ordinances, building matters and land acquisition, accounting, slavery, liquor trade, individual missionaries - institutions in Germany, in particular educational establishments and seminaries, management and administration of the missionary society, aid societies, international cooperationBlack-and-white negatives in ideal format were made from the surviving paper images, whereby the images already recognized as duplicates and most of the prints were not taken into account. During the reproduction process, signature labels were added to the photographs, which can now be seen in the image field of the online presentation. The surviving paper images were arranged in folders of approx. 50 pieces, the signature of the folder was noted, as well as the signature of the folder in which the created reproduction is stored. Some pieces or groups of objects - the existing stereo recordings, two daguerreotypes, the glass slides etc. - have been packed separately and are stored in separate folders. - have been packed separately and are stored in specially created units so that they can be better preserved. The existing repros and surviving film negatives were scanned by a service company and the data generated in this way was stored on CD in accordance with the standard used in the Bremen State Archives - 400 ppi, 256 gray scales, TIFF format. The items on glass were scanned at the Bremen State Archives. Preview images with a smaller data content were created from the image data in archive format.

Political situation in the Dagomba Empire (capital Yendi) and the neighbouring areas: Possibility of establishing a station for the final subjugation of the Dagomba - Report Commissioner Falkenthal, 1900 [fol. 13] Personnel matters. - Individual cases. - Dr Heim, payment of remuneration for October and November 1900 to the former Deputy Governor of Togo, Chancellor Assessor Dr Heim. - Request from the Deputy Governor of Togo, Horn, to the Governor of Cameroon, 1900 [fol. 24] Condition of the road network, in particular the connection from the coast to the hinterland of the Togo protectorate. - Report by Prof. Dr Wohltmann on his trip to Togo to clarify transport issues in December 1899 (extracts), 1900 [fol. 34] Police force. - Return of surplus uniforms from the time of the Ashanti Uprising to the Governorate of Cameroon, 1900 [fol. 43] Personnel matters. - Individual cases. - Warnecke, gardener. - Training at the Botanical Gardens in Victoria, 1900 [fol. 46 - 51] Administration of justice. - Banishment of prisoners from Cameroon to Togo to reduce the risk of escape. - Members of the police force in Cameroon. - Individual cases (Jo, Johnson, Mbia, Mokoko, Nginda), 1901, 1906, 1907 [fol. 47, 52-55, 59, 68, 143, 181-182] Cocoa cultivation in the Atakpame district. - Request for fruit from Cameroon for seed production, 1888 [fol. 74 - 79] Concreting work for the piles in the construction of the landing stage in Lome. - Request for an expert opinion from Building Secretary Seiffert, Douala, 1904 [fol. 84] Personnel matters. - Individual cases. - von Rotberg, District Judge of Togo (from 1 February 1902) and District Officer of Klein-Popo (from 20 February 1903). Dismissal in connection with the complaint of insult by the station chief Geo. A. Schmidt / P. Müller and Schnitz, Steyler Mission, 1903 [fol. 96 - 105] Personnel matters. - Individual cases. - Zech auf Neuhofen, Governor. - Home leave, 1905 - 1908 [fol. 106-107, 147-158, 187-191] Lome customs office. - Exemption from export duty on large and small livestock exports from Togo to Cameroon. - Request from the Governor of Cameroon to the Foreign Office and its decision on the duty-free export of large livestock from the landing stage in Lome, 1905 [fol. 109 - 114] Shortcomings in co-operation and disputes between the Governor of Cameroon and the Governors of Togo. - Intervention of the Foreign Office, 1901 - 1905 [fol. 109 - 114] Administration of justice. - Legal proceedings against Father Schmitz, Steyler Mission, for insulting the head of the station Geo A. Schmidt, Atakpame, - Determination of the place of trial Lome or, for reasons of public safety, Duala, 1905 [fol. 117 - 125] Consul General for the Gulf of Guinea. - Authorisation of the Imperial Commissioner and Governor of Togo as Consul in the Republic of Liberia (1889) and the British and French possessions in his jurisdiction (Gold Coast and Niger Coast, Dahomey), 1889, 1905, 1910 [fol. 126, 133, 198] Personnel matters. - Individual cases. - Gaber, James, clerk of the Lomé district office. - Wanted for removal from duty to take up employment in Cameroon, 1905 [fol. 128, 176] Police force. - Settlement of the bounty for recruitment of the Pik in 1900, 1906 [fol. 151 - 156] Police force in Cameroon. - Recruitment for the police force in Cameroon in Togo in 1900 - Settlement of the bounty, 1906 [fol. 151 - 156] Landing bridge in Lome. - Collapse of the middle section on the night of 18-19 May 1911, 1911 [fol. 202]

Correspondence, diaries and photos from the mission time in Togo 1890-1897, furthermore the main work of the friendly missionary and linguist Jakob Spieth.

description: Includes:Acquisition: I/41/1897: III C 6626-6649, III F 1762, Ethnogr. (Togo; Tuareg) Donation Catholic. Mission, Steyl -- Content/Includes: Mission Procurator H. Auf der Heide, offer from Ethnographica, which were exhibited at the colonial exhibition [Treptow] by the Catholic Steyler Mission - reference to publication in Ewe language - note of Luschan (1897.04.01.) about importance of missionaries as collectors and researchers for ethnology. Draws attention to the fact that the MA may at any time make financial resources available to Slgen. Thanks for the provision of the objects exhibited in Treptow. letters: 2

description: Contains:Content: Missionary C[arl] Spiess, Grambke b. Bremen requests that the "Instructions" be sent and that it be pointed out that he has been working for the North German Mission in Togo for 13 years - Luschan's reply.letters: 1

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 584/1894; EndVNr: E 1318/1894; and others: Cooperation with dMV Botanical Museum, pp. 35, 141 f., 196, dMV NaturkundMVuseum, pp. 19, 35, 144, 186, 188, 215, and the Postmuseum, Berlin, (1894), pp. 150 - Exchange of duplicates with the Ethnological Museum, St. Gallen, pp. 216, the Reichsmuseum, Leiden, (1894), pp. 1, the Städtisches Museum, Bremen, pp. 34, 225, and the Ethnographisches Museum, Bergen, (1894, 1902), pp. 134, 225 - Cooperation with the German Cameroon Committee, pp. 49, 73 et seq, the German Togo Committee, p. 82, the Ethnological Aid Committee, p. 231 et seq, the editorial office of the Mitteilungen aus den deutschen Schutzgebieten, Berlin, p. 12, and the German Antisklavereikomitee, Koblenz, (1894), p. 4 - S.D.S. 64., 66. - 72., 75.- Weule: Request for plaster casts for the exhibition, (1894), p. 50 - Wangemann: Pipes in Nord-Transvaal, (1894), p. 55 - Bastian: Purchase of collections of state-supported expeditions, (1894), p. 87 et seq. Stuhlmann: Report from the mission Tununguo, (1894), pp. 152, business trip of Luschans to the world exhibition in Antwerp, (1894), pp. 178 ff. - by Dohna: "Lebens-Notizen des Siegmar Staesser", (1894), pp. 199, by Luschan: Hoffnung auf Enricherung der Slg. nach dem Erfolg über die Wahehe, (1894), pp. 212 f.- Däubler: Request for endorsement of the title Sanitätsrat, (1894), pp. 236 ff. - Actien-Bauverein "Passage": Transmission of hair of Africans, (1894), pp. 251 f. - Büchle: Donation of skulls, (1894), pp. 256 f. - Klingholz: Transmission of plaster casts of grave ornaments from the vicinity of Daresalaam, (1894), pp. 259.

description: Contains:StartVNr: E 732/1898; EndVNr: E 221/1899; and others: Cooperation with the Botanical Museum, (1899), p. 289, and the Museum of Natural History, Berlin, (1898), pp. 140, 150, 160 - Exchange of doublets with private persons, (1898), pp. 242 f.- Cooperation with the governors of DOA, pp. 119, 147, 219, Cameroon, pp. 1, 273, and Togo, (1898), pp. 231 - Basler Mission: Notwendigkeit der öffentlichen Vernichtung von Götzen, Sammelverbot für Missionare, (1899), pp. 326 f.- Jacobi: Proposals for Cooperation with Mission Societies, (1899), pp. 327 - Plehn: Sanga-Ngoko-Expedition, (1899), pp. 269 - Ollwig: Mission of Skulls, (1898), pp. 10 - von Stein: Report on Pygmies and the Food of Earth, (1898), pp. 21 f. - Fülleborn: Mission of Skeletons, pp. 28 ff., Report on the Station and Cooperation with Missionaries, pp. 120 ff.., Fever treatment, (1898), pp. 253 f.- Staudinger: Report on an iron apron, (1898), pp. 49 - Rigler: Shipment of skulls, pp. 84 f., Report about von Massow and his misunderstanding regarding von Luschans, (1899), p. 264 - Dominik: Report about a punitive expedition because of cannibalism', attack on a raging city, slave and man hunts, (1898), p. 91 ff. Kersting: Report on stone tools, fetish service and metalworking, (1898), pp. 234 ff., "Orientation sketch of Kabure", (o.D.), pp. 104 - by Luschan: Comment on Benin bronzes, pp. 149, Occurrence of composite sheets in Central Africa, (1898), pp. 205 - Habenicht: Offer of Bushman skeletons, (1898), pp. 161 f. - Perbandt: Skull Shipment, (1899), p. 211 - Rautanen: "Erläuterungen zu dem 'Grundriss einer grossen ondonga Werft'", (1895), p. 217 - Shipment of Captured Weapons, (1898), p. 226 - Glauning: Report on wire drawing, description of a loom and request for doublet delivery to Dresden, (1898), p. 244 - Rautanen: "Explanations for the 'ground plan of a large ondonga shipyard'", (1895), p. 217 - Shipment of captured weapons, (1898), p. 226 - Glauning: Report on wire drawing, description of a loom and request for doublet delivery to Dresden, (1898), p. 244 - Rautanen: "Explanations for the 'ground plan of a large ondonga shipyard'. Doublets from the collection of Stein for the Museum für Völkerkunde Stuttgart, (1899), pp. 294 ff. - Wegner: Sendung von Skeletten, (1899), pp. 333.

description: Contains:StartVNr: E 6/1897; EndVNr: E 795/1897; and others: Exchange of doublets with the Museum für Völkerkunde, Stuttgart, (1896), pp. 35, 236 ff., and the museums in Philadelphia, (1897), pp. 61 ff.Exchange of duplicates with private persons, (1896, 1897, 1902), p. 5, 193 - Cooperation with the Ethnological Assistance Committee, p. 74, and the German Togo Committee, Berlin, (1897), p. 264 - Cooperation with the Steyler Mission, (1897), p. 31 et seq. Irangi Expedition, (1897), pp. 80 by Luschan: Report on the Unresolved Property Issue of S.D.S. with Regard to the Intended Foundation of a Colonial Museum, (1897), pp. 38 by Ramsey: Report from [Udhidhi], (1896), pp. 44 ff.- Zenker: Acquisition of a fetish, pp. 55 f., Use of forks by the [Ngumba], (1897), pp. 211 f. - Stuhlmann: Report on paintings of the Wahehe and Wabena, the attack on the Zelewski expedition, (1897), pp. 92 f. - Plehn: Sendung von Skeletten, (1897), pp. 104 f. - Conradt: Bericht über Musikinstrumente, (1897), pp. 128 f.- Kollmann: Bericht über die Toteninsel bei [Bakoba], (1897), pp. 156 ff.- [Fülleborn:] Report über Ohrpflöcke und Tatauierungen mit Pflanzensaft, (1897), pp. 244 f.- Exhibits of the Collection of the Togo Expedition for the Trade Exhibition, (1897), pp. 265 ff.

description: Contains:StartVNr: E 1843/1908; EndVNr: E 2775/1908; and others: Cooperation with the Botanical Museum, pp. 2 f., the Botanical Central Office for the Colonies at the Royal Botanical Garden and Museum, pp. 1, and the Museum of Natural History, Berlin, (1908), pp. 58 - Delivery of duplicates to the Hzgl. collections of the Veste Coburg, pp. 175 f., the Museum für Völkerkunde, Leipzig, (1908), pp. 93, 95, 235 ff., 253 ff., and the Wachsenburg Committee, Gotha, (1908, 1909), pp. 12 ff., 151 ff.- Cooperation with the Städtisches Museum für Natur- und Heimatkunde, Magdeburg, pp. 243 f., and the Reichsmuseum, Leiden, (1908), pp. 324 f.- Cooperation with the Royal Institute for Infectious Diseases, Berlin, pp. 130, the Commission for the Study of the Protectorates, Leipzig, (1908), pp. 40, 53, 72 ff., 89, 91 f., 251, and the African Society, London, (1908, 1909), pp. 180 ff. - submission of duplicates to the Colonial Economic Committee, Berlin, pp. 58, and the Handelsschule, Cologne, (1908), pp. 58.- cooperation with the Governor of Togo, (1908), pp. 174.- cooperation with the German Colonial Society, Berlin, pp. 231, and the Gesellschaft Nordwest-Kamerun, Duala, (1908), pp. 6 ff. - cooperation with the German Colonial Society, Berlin, pp. 631, and the Gesellschaft Nordwest-Kamerun, Duala, (1908), pp. 6 ff. Cooperation with missionaries, pp. 15, 141, the Basler Mission, pp. 267 ff., 275, and the White Fathers, (1908), pp. 293 ff.- Kamerun-Expedition, Thorbecke, (1908), pp. 59 ff.- Zimmermann: Report on the Exploitation of Weapons, (1908), p. 16 - Rehse: Suggestions for a Research Trip, p. 23 f., together with Map, (1908), Sketch, p. 25 - "The Origin of the Bushmen, Hottentot and Bantu Negro". In: Windhoek News : 1909-07-10, p. 149 - "Bushman paintings." In: Cape Times : 1908-10-07, p. 173. - Thomas, Struck and others: Creation of a linguistic questionnaire for the colonies, (1908, 1909), pp. 177 ff. - offer of the Grundmann company, [1908], pamphlet, pp. 262 f. - Vöhringer: Description of the programme, (1908), pp. 271 f. - Karasek: Request for support for his research on the Waschambae, (1908), pp. 282 f. - Proposals for honouring Weule and Meyer, (1908), pp. 286 ff. - Scheunemann: Offer of the scepter of Diba von Bertua, (1908), pp. 300 f.

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 3/1908; EndVNr: E 899/1908; and others: Cooperation with the Botanical Museum, page 135, the Botanical Central Office for the Colonies at the Royal Botanical Garden and Museum, page 85 f., and the Museum of Natural History, Berlin, page 257 f., 271.- Sale of doublets to the Hzgl. collections of the Veste Coburg, page 87 ff.., the Upper Silesian Museum, Gleiwitz, pp. 193 ff., the Wachsenburg Committee, Gotha, pp. 208 ff., the Museums of Ethnology, Frankfurt a.M., pp. 130, 204, 206 ff., Cologne, pp. 203, 279 ff., and Leipzig, (1908), pp. 145 ff. - Cooperation with the Imperial and Royal Court of Germany (k.k.) Geologische Reichsanstalt, Vienna, (1908), pp. 116 ff. - Sale of duplicates to private individuals, (1908), pp. 18 - Cooperation with the governors of DOA, pp. 185 ff., Cameroon, pp. 252, and Togo, (1908), among others on the whereabouts of the ethnographica from the colonial exhibition in Friedenau, pp. 67, 200 f., 205, 276 - Cooperation with the Society Northwest Cameroon, Duala, (1907, 1908), p. 1 - Cooperation with missionaries, p. 68, 188 f., 259 ff, and the Basler Mission, (1908), p. 78 - Beunat: "Catalogue d' armes et objets divers prosenant du Congo ...", (1908), Abzug, p. 6 ff - "Litteratur zur Völkerkunde der Watussi, Wasimsa, Wassuttuma, Waschaschi, Wayaia etc. Nach Mittheilung von B. Struck.", (1908), pp. 22 ff. - Catalogue of offers Just, Görlitz, (1908), Printed by Druckschr., pp. 26 f. - Rohrbach: Donation of an autograph by Njoya von Bamum, (1908), pp. 28 f. - "... Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory ..." In: Vossische Ztg. : 1908-01-22, pp. 44 - Adametz: Report on the Use of Juju Heads, (1907), pp. 74 ff., and on Collecting in Connection with Military Actions, (1908), pp. 80 f.- "Lepidopten-List der Naturhistorischen Anstalt von Arnold Voelschow in Schwerin in Mecklenburg", (1907), Druckschr., pp. 95 ff.- Fromms departure for a DOA expedition, In: Geraisches Tagebl. : 1908-03-11, p. 183 - "Report on the activities of the Wachsenburg Committee and the Wachsenburg Association in 1907", p. 211 f., "Report of the 'Verein Wachsenburg' zu Gotha on the year 1907", (1908), print print, page 213 - Dempwolff: Sendung eines Schädels, (1908), page 248 - Struck: "Schutzgebiet Kamerun. Questionnaire for the first recording of the languages of the Adamaua tribes, compiled on behalf of the Royal Museum of Ethnology ...", (1908), Druckschr., pp. 253 ff.- Schmitz: Bericht aus Rhodesien, (1908), pp. 260 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.

description: Contains:StartVNr: E 753/1906; EndVNr: E 1358/1906; and others: Cooperation with the Botanical Central Office for the Colonies at the Royal Botanical Garden and Museum, page 38, and the Museum of Natural History, Berlin, (1906), pages 61, 220 f.- Cooperation with the Museums for Ethnology, Hamburg, pages 122 ff., 133, 136, 202 ff., Stuttgart, p. 27, and the South Africa Museum, Cape Town, (1906), p. 28 - Donation of duplicates to the Museum für Völkerkunde, Vienna, (1906, 1909), p. 245 - Cooperation with the Psychological Institute of the University, p. 245. 201, and the editors of the Mitteilungen aus den deutschen Schutzgebieten, Berlin, (1906), p. 244 - Cooperation with the Governor of Togo, (1906), p. 240, p. 243 - Cooperation with the Wachsenburg Committee, Gotha, (1906), p. 76 et seq. Cooperation with the company for the transportation of possible cargoes Mission unter den Heiden, Berlin, pp. 52 ff., and the [Congregation of the Missionaries Oblates of the Immaculate Virgin Mary], (1906), pp. 119 ff.- Wiese: Sendung von Steinmörsern und Reibsteinen, (1906), pp. 7 ff. - Foerster: Report on the programme and the strength of the enemy French, (1906), pp. 13 ff. - Loezius: Erklärung zu Mashangan-Figuren, (1906), pp. 33 - Meinhof: Ankaufsbedingungen für einen Zimbabwe-Vogel, (1906), pp. 39 f., 43 f. - Koert: Report about stone artefacts from Togo, (1906), pp. 66 f.- by Luschan: "Report about the collection on the Veste Wachsenburg", pp. 72 f., "Report about a business trip to Hamburg, Hadersleben and Kiel. Pentecost 1906", pp. 125 f., exchange acquisition of objects by a pygmy woman from the Passage-Panoptikum, (1906), pp. 161 obituary to Theobald Wolff, (1906), Ztg.-article, pp. 75 - acquisition of the Collection of Puttkamer, (1906), pp. 83 ff - donation of the Collection of Zimmermann, (1906, 1907), pp. 90 f., 103 ff.- Fuchs: Report on the Collection, (1906), pp. 164 f.- Kaschke from Aksum, (1906), pp. 188 ff.- Lindemann: Report on a Juju stick and a head covered with skin, (1906), pp. 231 f.- Lotz: Report on the finds of stone tools in South Africa and geological observations, (1906), pp. 249 ff.-

Contains: - 25th Annual Report of the Association for Protestant Mission in Cameroon and Northern Togo for 1911 (Pages for the Friends of Protestant Mission in Cameroon and Northern Togo)- Fr. Karl Hoffmann, The German Language in the Cameroon Missionary Schools, in: Katholische Missionskorrespondenz, Berlin 1. Sept. 1913- A missionary anniversary in difficult times, in: Germania, Zeitung für das deutsche Volks, 26 Oct. 1915 - Article about the German elementary school and the African teachers in Cameroon, especially about Heinrich Tsala, unlabelled proof

Darin: Pastor Kwami from Togo in Oldenburg (1932)

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

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

Protest of the North German Mission to start a mission in Bremen against plans of EMDOA in Togo; letters from Zahn and Vietor; letters from A. Schreiber, Barmen and Rundbrief der Deputation; letters from L. Dieselkamp, Dr. Latrille, Paul Wohlrab and L. Beyer; contract between the Bielefelder Anstalten and EMDOA for the training of mission personnel; contract between EMDOA and Neuendettelsau for leaving missionaries, 1886