Explanation: Documents from the possession of the leader of the indigenous movement against the German colonial rule in today's Namibia, at that time German South West Africa, Hendrik Witbooi (ca. 1830-1905) had fallen into the hands of the Bremen merchant August Engelbert Wulff in 1895 in the course of military conflicts in Gibeon, Namibia. In 1935 he sold it to the then German Colonial and Overseas Museum. The documents were handed over to the National Archives of Windhoek in 1995 after reproductions had been made for the State Archives of Bremen and the Übersee-Museum. Content: Correspondence

Contents: An overview of the contents can be found in the classification. History of origins: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Theodor Christoph Heinrich Rehbock (*12.04.1864 in Amsterdam, 17.08.1950 in Baden-Baden) studied civil engineering in Munich and Berlin from 1884 to 1890. After the diploma examination and the government building leader examination he worked from 1890 to 1892 in Berlin at the Reichstag building administration, then from 1893 to 1894 in the Bremen building administration. After passing the government building master examination in 1894, he worked in Berlin as a consulting engineer for hydraulic engineering and undertook journeys through Europe, to Canada and the USA as well as to South America and 1896/97 to southern Africa. In 1899 he was appointed full professor at the Technical University of Karlsruhe, where he established the river engineering laboratory and served as rector in the academic years 1907/08, 1917/18 and 1925/26. In 1934 Rehbock was emeritus. Pre-archival inventory history: Foreword by Klaus-Peters Hoepke in the provisional find book: "The inventory changed location several times between its creation and its transfer to the university archive. In 1943 Rehbock obtained permission from the rector to bring his papers from the river engineering laboratory to his house in Baden-Baden to arrange them. When Baden-Baden became a military restricted area in the autumn of 1944, Rehbock moved it to his alternative quarters in Ried b. Benediktbeuren/Obb. At the end of the war he took her back to Baden-Baden. Since his house was confiscated by the French military administration, he had to move again - taking his papers with him. During Rehbock's lifetime, but at the latest after his death, individual pieces of furniture, parts of his library, these papers - probably supplemented by parts of the written private estate - reached the Technical University of Karlsruhe. In September 1992 Prof. Dr. techn. Peter Larsen and PD Dr.-Ing. Hans Helmut Bernhart of the Theodor Rebock Institute arranged for the fundus to be transferred to the university archive. Furthermore Dr.-Ing. Andreas Richter from the Institute of Hydromechanics handed over a bundle of Rehbock manuscripts of the lecture on weirs to the archive in January 1995; it was added to the collection under the serial number 63a. The inventory listed below is made up of parts of the service room estate and private papers. In view of the distances travelled, experience has shown that it is hardly probable that the fundus that existed around 1943 is still completely preserved. After the war, for example, there must have been two folders with the correspondence that Rehbock had kept with the nestor of German hydraulic engineering, Hubert Engels from Dresden, a colleague he held in high esteem. In any case, the effects of war had destroyed not only countless measurement records, plans, etc. but also the historically valuable and extensive collection of site plans of the Rhine models: According to Rehbock, the already print-ready collection documented "the best I could achieve in the experimental world". (So to Anton Grzywienski, 15.12.1946, no. 162) [...] In Baden-Baden Rehbock actually dealt with arranging his papers. He probably used the registration plan as a basis, according to which he had correspondence, sketches, plans, etc. filed during his active time in the river engineering laboratory. (This registry plan no longer exists, so that the presumed losses can no longer be determined). Above all, Rehbock added explanatory remarks for posterity to individual folders or documents. Many documents then contain underscores, paint strokes or margin notes made with coloured pencils (red, purple or green). Unfortunately, it is not always clear whether these are traces of processing from the course of business or later highlights, which it seemed advisable to place roebuck in view of posterity." Archive history: Most of the documents were transferred from the Theodor Rehbock Institute to the university archive in September 1992. A small levy was made in January 1995 from the Institute of Hydromechanics (No 63a). The Institute for Hydraulic Engineering and Cultural Engineering, which emerged from the Theodor Rehbock Institute, submitted further documents in 1996, which Hoepke classified partly in "Signatures" he had created and partly under No. 351-381. Numbers 370-381 included 1,345 photographic glass plates. These were included in a provisional list in late 2003 and filmed and digitised at the turn of the year 2003/04. On 02.06.2008 the addition 29/? was added to the inventory as signature number 406. Explanation of the order: The order of the inventory was established in its basic features according to the order carried out by Theodor Rehbock. Changes took place in the initial stock formation in the university archive (see Archivische Bestandgeschichte) and in the digitisation of the finding aid in 2005. Indexing information: In the second quarter of 2005, the finding aid available in electronic form was easily edited and imported into the finding aid database. The existing classification was adopted largely unchanged. During the digitization of the finding aid, signatures with alphanumeric additions were changed to purely numeric signatures. Classification overview: 1. personalia 2. colonial matters 3. university matters 4. memberships 5. manuscripts 6. divining rod 7. structural engineering 8. technical contacts in the USA 9. tooth sleeper patent and its exploitation 9.0 general 9.1 German projects 9.2 Company Dyckerhoff 9.3 Company Philips

Contains among other things: "Attempts to Cultivate Cigarette Tobacco in the German Protectorates", 1922; "The Colonial Problem"; "The German Schools in Southwest Africa", Kastl paper, 1921; newspaper article on colonial policy (1914) and Hindenburg's death (1934); Report of the Deutsche Afrika-Bank Aktiengesellschaft, 1908; Report of the Deutsche Kolonial-Eisenbahn-Bau- und Betriebs-Gesellschfat, 1908; Outline of the Terms and Conditions for the Mortgage Loans of the Southwest African Soil Credit Society

Contains among other things: 1912, General and compensation; rules for the control of individual epidemics. inter alia anthrax, intoxication blight, wild and bovine diseases, rabies, glanders, foot-and-mouth disease, contagious bovine pleuropneumonia, smallpox of sheep and goats, dourine of horses, rash of horses and cattle, mange of equidae and small animals, swine fever and rubella, poultry cholera, tuberculosis, East Coast fever, rinderpest

1898-1906 in Berseba, Rietmond, Ghochas, Gibeon, Haruchas bei Ghochas, from 1905 Farmer, cf. RMG 1.341 for estate; curriculum vitae and application documents, 1892; letters and reports, 1898-1905; copy of e. letter from Hendrik Witbooi to the captains of Berseba and Bethanien, 1904; Report on the rescue of his wife and children, who had been abducted to Gramus, 8 p..., hs., Oct. 1904; Report by Mrs. Ida Berger, née Bergmann, related Albath about her experiences during the outbreak of the Hottentot uprising in Gochas and on the trip to Gramus, 32 p., hs., 1904; Proclamation of the Lieutenants General von Trotha an d. Hottentotten, in German, Dutch and Nama, Apr. 1905; Memorandum: "Entwicklung d. Unruhen im Gochaser Gebiet", 1904; Detailed report on Carl Berger's experiences during the 1904 uprising in the Gochaser Gebiet, 15 p., hs, June 1905; Nachtragsbericht über d. Folgen d. Aufstandes, Aug. 1905; Ehrenerklärung d. Oberleutnants Stuhlmann für Carl Berger, Nov. 1905; declaration of resignation and justification for this by Carl Berger, June 1906; correspondence with Carl Berger, 1912-1961; correspondence with Mrs. Margarete Berger, née Ruymann, widow Carl Bergers

Nachlaß:; Portfolio 1: 1 notebook with diary records from the time of the Herero Uprising, also contains sermon preparations partly for fallen German protection troops and other notes, 1904-1906; Portfolio 2: Report by E. Stumpfe about the Herero Uprising and others; Various notes and eyewitness reports about the Herero Uprising and others. Herero Uprising 1904, list of the dead, name of the presumed murderer etc.; copy from the parish chronicle of Lüderitzbucht about the events in the years 1904 to 1905, as recorded by missionary Karl Emil Laaf, sent to Carl Berger by missionary Friedrich Hermann Rust, 1950; 2 eyewitness reports to the. Events in October 1904 in the area around Ghochas, N. N.; Folder 3: 1 red notebook with Carl Berger's newspaper articles, d. published under the headline "Vom Auob" in Windhoeker Zeitungen. Includes also "Die Orgel von Taurow", Fronterlebnis, by Dr. H. Reimer, Tailfingen, 5 p., ms.; Folder 4: "Die weiße Frau von Haruchas", memoirs of Mrs. Ida Berger, née Bergmann, verw. Albath, from the years 1897-1920, 2 exercise books, 35 p..., folder 5: Various Manu and type scripts by Carl Berger:; Christmas with the shepherd on the field, 8 p., hs., 1951; The history of the altar cloth of Mariental, 3 p., hs., o. J.; mineral deposits in the area of Auob, 3 1/2 p.., ms., no year; The camel stud of the German protection troops in Hofmeyr (formerly Kalkfontein-Nord), 6 p., ms., no year; Memories of the fallen German protection troops and their grave monuments in the area of Ghochas (with 2 photos), 8 p..., 1958; Folder 6: Notes on Hendrik Witbooi, collected from various sources, 1 booklet, 15 p., hs., o. J.; Folder 7: Das Leben Hendrik Witboois, Manuskript, 105 p., ms., o. J.; also contains: 1 original signature Witboois

Contains among other things: "The most common abbreviations in England", 1908; Treaty on Landing in Swakopmund, o.Dat.

Contains: Budget for the financial year 1905; longitudinal profile of the Lüderitzbucht-Kubub line, scale 1:200000

Contains: Budget for the financial year 1906; overview plan of the Windhik-Rehoboth line, 1905

Contains: - Censur book of the Gymnasium Nordhausen for the pupil H. Schnee; - letter of the boy H. to an uncle about his Christmas presents; - matriculation certificate; - certificate of studies and customs of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg; - certificate of qualification after completion of the one-year voluntary service obligation; - certificate of leadership of the Inf.-Rgts. No 85; - leaving certificate of the Christian-Albrecht-Universität Kiel; - leaving certificate of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin; - legal examination task of the Oberlandesgericht Naumburg; - examination certificate of the OLG Naumburg; - appointment as trainee lawyer at the OLG; - transfer from Naumburg to the Landgericht Nordhausen; - doctor's diploma; - appointment as Reg.Ref. at RP Erfurt; - Patent as Secondlieutenant; - Appointment as Reg. Assessor; - Appointment to the Foreign Office, Colonial Department; - Certificate of the AA for a monthly renumeration of M 180,--; - Certificate of the AA for an increase of the renumeration to M 210,--; - Comm. Judge in the Bismarck Archipelago; - Appointed Deputy Governor in Herbertshöhe; - Appointed Speaker and Judge in Apia; - AA passport to travel to Apia; - Appointed Deputy Governor Dr Solf; - Invited to return to Germany; - Awarded Landwehr Service Badge to Lieutenant Schnee; - Stayed in Apia because of introduction of German real estate law for Samoa; - Awarded Red Eagle Order 4. Kl.; employment in the Colonial Department of the Foreign Office, Berlin; - appointment to the Legation Council; - appointment to the Advisory Board for Colonial Affairs at the Embassy in London; - travel passport of the AA for relocation to London; - appointment to the Personnel Department of the Colonial Department, Berlin, Berlin; - Lecturer at the Seminar for Oriental Languages, Berlin; - Appointed to the Effective Legation Council and Lecturer Council; - Transfer to the R e i c h s c h - K o l o n i a l a m t; - Directorial business at the R e i c h s k o l o n i a l a m t; - Award of the commemorative coin on the occasion of the uprising in Southwest Africa, 1907; - Award of the 3rd Crown Order Kl.; - Appointment as Commissioner of the R e i c h s k o l o n i a l a m t for the Colonial Institute in Hamburg; - Certificate of Appointment to the Privy Upper Government Council; - Award of the Red Eagle Order 3. Kl.; - approval of the farewell for Lieutenant Schnee; - appointment as director with the rank of a council 1st Kl.; - appointment as deputy authorized representative at the Federal Council; - appointment as governor of D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a; - travel passport of the expatriate; - appointment as deputy authorized representative at the Federal Council; - appointment as deputy authorized representative at the Federal Council; - appointment as deputy authorized representative at the Federal Council; - appointment as deputy deputy authorized representative; - appointment as deputy deputy deputy deputy deputy deputy deputy deputy deputy deputy deputy deputy deputy deputy deputy. The colonial commemorative coin was awarded to the colonial minister Dr. Bell on Schnee: Mrs. Ada Schnee was not allowed to travel with her to Paris for the peace negotiations; - Certificate of possession for the colonial badge.

Contains: Correspondence of Ernst II. with the members of the Committee Ministerialdirigent Prof. Dr. Kirchner and Dr. Katz as well as with the State Secretary of the R e i c h s k o l o n i a l a m t Solf concerning the use of the funds made available by the Committee to the Colonial Office; copy of the correspondence of the State Secretary with the Governor of D e u t s c h - S ü d w e s t a f r i k a and Prof. Kirchner on the same matter; copy of the minutes of a meeting of the Committee.

Contains among other things: Letter from H. Richter to Kastl concerning the uprising of the natives and the construction of a school in Windhoek, 3.5.1921; list of the German private schools in South West Africa, March 1921; minutes of the extraordinary general meeting of the Landesverband der deutschen Schulvereine für Südwestafrika, 1920; overview of the financial situation of the Landesverband der Deutschen Schulvereine, 8.11.1920

Contains among other things: Letter from Hindenburg, 1932; "Die Schöpfungsgeschichte erzählt von einem crooboy"; report on the Landwirtschaftsgesellschaft für Südwest-Afrika; "Siedlungswesen in den ehemaligen deutschen Kolonien" with suggestions for improvement; amendments to the Kolonialschädengesetz by the Reichsverband der Kolonialdeutschen und Kolonialinteressenten E.B. (German Association of Colonial Germans and Colonial Interested Parties)

Contains among other things: Correspondence of Ernst II, Draft of an ordinance and memorandum concerning the R e i c h s k o l o n i a l a m t ; conditions of the German Schutztruppe in South West Africa (including the Herero Uprising, railway construction, port facilities, organisational issues) ; border issues (including correspondence with King Leopold II of Belgium) ; business distribution plans ; budget for 1906 ; newspaper clippings Darin: overview plan of the railway line Windhuk-Rehoboth ; caricature from the "Kladderadatsch" (with illustration of Ernst II).

History of the Inventory Designer: General of the Infantry Berthold von Deimling Life data 21.03.1853 in Karlsruhe 03.02.1944 in Baden-Baden Career 1873 Promotion to Lieutenant Seconde 1875 Change to Infantry Regiment "Duke of Holstein" (Holsteinic) No. 85 (Rendsburg) 1880 promotion to lieutenant 1879 to 1882 Kriegsakademie Berlin 1882 officer in infantry regiment no. 85 1886 transfer to the Großer Generalstab (railway department) 1888 captain 1891 general staff officer in the 1st division in Königsberg 1893 major 1895 in the general staff of the XVI. Army Corps 1898 Battalion Commander in the infantry regiment "Prince Wilhelm" (4th Baden) No. 112 in Mulhouse (Sundgau) 1900 Lieutenant Colonel and transfer to the Great General Staff (Chief of Operations Division II) 1903 Colonel and Commander of the infantry regiment No. 112 in Mulhouse 1904 Commander of the 2nd Army Commandant of the German Army (Battalion) No. 112 in Mulhouse (Sundgau) 1903 Colonel and Commander of the infantry regiment No. 112 in Mulhouse 1904 Commander of the 2nd Army Command No. 112 in Mulhouse (Sundgau) 1904 Commander of the infantry regiment No. 112 in Mulhouse (Sundgau) 1900 Lieutenant Colon and Commander of the infantry regiment No. 112 in Mulhouse 1903 Commander of the infantry Regiment No. 112 in Mulhouse 1904 Field Regiment 1905 deputy of the commander-in-chief for the southern region 1905 elevation to hereditary nobility 1906 commander of the Schutztruppe in southwest Africa 1907 major general 1908 return and commander of the Infanterie-Brigade 58 (Mühlhausen) 1910 lieutenant-general and appointment as commander of the 29. Division in Freiburg i. Br. 1913 General of the Infantry and Commanding General of the XV Army Corps (Strasbourg) 1914 War operation in southern Alsace, on the Aisne, off Ypres in Flanders, off Verdun (XV. Army Corps) 1916 Awarded the Pour le Merite (capture of the Fort Vaux) 1916 Assignment to the Somme 1916 Transfer to the Section Commander of the Army Division B (Vosges) 1917 Farewell with simultaneous appointment as Chief of the 1st Under Alsatian Infantry Regiment No. 132. Description of the stock: The stock contains life memories, anda. on his activities as commander of the Schutztruppe in South West Africa (1906-1907), the 58th Infantry Brigade in Mulhouse/Alsace (1907-1910) and the 29th Division in Freiburg (1910-1913) and as commander general of the XVth Army Corps in the 2nd Infantry Army Corps in the United Kingdom. Feldartillerieregiments in Südwestafrika 1904-1906 (Herero- und Hottentottenaufständen); further documents from the period of service in Südwestafrika as well as from the 1st World War; correspondence with Ludendorf and Hindenburg as well as from the time after retirement; further newspaper articles and pictorial material. References to other holdings R 1001 Reichskolonialamt (Online-Findmittel) R 1002 Authorities of the former protectorate Deutsch-Südwestafrika (Online-Findmittel) N 14 Ludwig Boell estate N 38 Arnold Lequis estate N 103 Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck estate NL 30 Viktor Franke citation: BArch, N 559/...

Direktionskorrespondenz und weitere Unterlagen 1937-1941: 1 portfolio, loose-leaf collection; copies or handwritten, authors: Diels, Dr. Friedrich Bolle, R. Pilger; Prof. Dr. Hoppe (all Botanischer Garten Berlin), Milos Deyl (botanist, Prague); Wilhelm Engelmann (publishing bookshop Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig), Wimmer (priest, editor of the Lobeliaceae for the plant kingdom). contents: air-raid protection measures in the Botanical Museum (removal of alcohol collection etc.)); financial means of the Englerstiftung; whereabouts of lost herbarium loans (Spanish Civil War); reminder to return herbarium loans; printing of various volumes of the Pflanzenreich (Richtlinien zur Korrektur, Korrespondenz mit der Verlagsbuchhandlung Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig), editing of the Lobeliaceae für Pflanzenreich scientific manuscripts on the flora of SW Africa, individual letters [see FA1/1] diaries 1943-1945 (copy, p.p. in copy); incl. transcript; diaries 1943-1945 (copy, p.p. in copy); incl. transcript

Contains among other things: Disputes about the farm Otjituezu of the deceased farmer Fr. Koppe, 1917; Resolution of the Windhoeker German population on the future of the protectorate Deutsch-Südwestafrika, March 1919; Regulation of the return journey of German civil servants and employees and their families to Germany and the forced return journey of civil servants, Schutztruppe members and ZIvil persons, March 1919-Nov. 1919; "Südwest im Friedenstraktat": Ausführungen zur Übernahme Deutsch-Südwestafrikas durch die Südafrikanische Union, 29.7.1919; Economic and financial negotiations with the South African Union, Jan. 1920; "Die Eingeborenen in Südwestafrika und die britische Verwaltung": Elaboration, author not named, 1920 (?)

Estate of Werner GrumpeltIn Altenburg, the colonial goods store C was founded in 1838. (Carl) J. (Julius) Grumpelt founded. It was located at Pauritzer Platz 4. In 1900 Karl Heinrich Grumpelt (1870-1935) took over the business and continued it until 1929. His son Werner Grumpelt (1909-1949, teacher and author), who also lived in Altenburg, was very interested in many things - including (global) history. He wrote two books about colonisation and life in Africa: "Im Herzen von Deutsch-Südwest. Erlebnisse des deutschen Reiters Albin Freier]" as well as "Einer aus Deutschland" (A story about the life of his great uncle Carl Albert Grumpelt). It can be assumed that both books are primarily novels, but also describe actual experiences.Karl Heinrich GrumpeltBirth date: 09.02.1870 in AltenburgSterbedatum: 07.03.1935 in AltenburgFather: Karl Heinrich Grumpelt Grandfather: Carl Julius GrumpeltCarl Albert GrumpeltResidence: Barkly West, Northern Cape, South AfricaBirth date: 24.12.1837 in Altenburg (christening: 07.01.)1938)Marriage: 29.04.1897 in Barkly West Deceased: 1920 Barkley West, South AfricaFather: Carl Julius GrumpeltProfession: Pharmacist Emigration to Africa after 1866 (at this time still employed as a pharmacist in Altenburg), witnessed Boer wars Protagonist in the novel by W. Grumpelt (grandnephew), ca. 1939-41 (unpublished)Werner GrumpeltBirthday: 17.01.1909Father: Karl Heinrich GrumpeltDate of death: 19.06.1949 in Etzelbach

Memoirs; photos from Deutsch-Südwestafrika; newsletters of a circle of friends of former Southwest Africans; maps see fonds D 73.

Notes and excerpts on ethnopsychology, especially on nature myth, religious psychology, ethnology and similar content:1.) short excerpts, notes and literature lists on various topics, including Jesus, the Ancient Orient and religious psychology; especially essays from "Globus", "Anthropos" and "Zeitschrift für Ethnologie" [p. 1-7, 17-22];2.) Excerpts and notes on the representation of gods by Apollodor and Ovid [p. 9-16];3.) Excerpt from Steinmetz: Classification des types sociaux et catalogue des peuples, in: L'année sociologique 3 (1900), p. 43-147 [p. 24-25];4.) Excerpt from Schultze: From Namaland and Kalahari [...]. Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1907 [p. 26-33];5.) Excerpt from Martin: The inland tribes of the Malay Peninsula [...]. Jena: Fischer, 1905 [p. 34-63];6.) Excerpt from Stuhlmann: With Emin Pasha into the heart of Africa. Berlin: Reimer, 1894 [p. 64-73];7.) Excerpt from Sarasin/Sarasin: Results of scientific research on Ceylon in the years 1884-1886. Volume 3: The Weddas of Ceylon and their surrounding peoples. Wiesbaden: Kreidel, 1887-1893: Parts of the records used in later works of Wundts, especially in: Wilhelm Wundt: Völkerpsychologie: eine Untersuchung der Entwicklungsgesetze von Sprache, Mythus und Sitte. Volume 2: Myth and Religion. Leipzig: Engelmann, 1905-1909.

Excerpts on international psychology, in particular on the history of asylum law and Jewish law as well as on various ethnological topics. Excerpted publications in detail:1.) Hellwig: The Right of Asylum of Indigenous Peoples. Berlin: R. v. Decker, 1903 [p. 1-7];2.) Hellwig: The Jewish Free Cities in Ethnological Lighting, in: Globus 87 (1905), p. 213-216 [p. 8];3.) Passarge: The Bushmen of the Kalahari. Berlin: Reimer, 1907 [p. 9-13];4.) Schultze: From Namaland and Kalahari [...]. Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1907 [p. 14-16];5.) Martin: The inland tribes of the Malay Peninsula [...]. Jena: Fischer, 1905 [p. 18-30];6.) Unknown edition of Schweinfurth: In the heart of Africa [p. 31];7.) Meyer: History of antiquity. Vol. 1, half 1: Introduction. Elements of anthropology. [2nd edition Stuttgart: Cotta, 1907] [p. 32-34];8.) Cunow: The Social Constitution of the Inca Empire: an Investigation of Ancient Peruvian Agrarian Communism. Stuttgart: Dietz, 1896 [p. 35-38];9.) Hitzig: Die Bedeutung des altgriechischen Rechts für die vergleichende Rechtswissenschaft, in: Zeitschrift für vergleichende Rechtswissenschaft 19 (1906), p. 1-28 [p. 40-41].parts of the records are used in later works of Wundts, possibly also in:Wilhelm Wundt: Völkerpsychologie. A study of the developmental laws of language, myth and custom. Volume 9: Law. Leipzig: Kröner, 1918.