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

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

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

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: 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).

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 (?)

Contains: 1st incoming letter, from Weisner, Strausberg, 03.06.1933 (2 sheets, hsl.); sheets 1r-2v 2nd outgoing letter, to C. Weiss, Berlin, 09.06.1933 (2 sheets, mschr.); sheets 3r-4r 3rd incoming letter, from Brecht´s Press

Contains: - Chapter 1: The Departure; Chapter 1 - 2: The First Impressions; Chapter 23 - Chapter 3: Soldiers' Life; Chapter 49 - Chapter 4: The Rainy Season; Chapter 82 - Chapter 5: The Expedition Makes the South; Chapter 103 - Chapter 6: The Old Song; Chapter 140 - Chapter 7: The Paresis Mountains; Chapter 159 - Chapter 8: The Old Song. Chapter: Patrol Rides; p. 196 - Chapter 9: Steppe Fire; p. 220 - Chapter 10: The Natives; p. 240 - Chapter 11: Cultural Work; p. 255 - Chapter 12: Days of Freedom; p. 280 - Chapter 13: Sea Ice; p. 295 - Chapter 14: Expedition to the East; p. 310 - Chapter 15: Windhoek; p. 339 - 16 Chapter: Farmwirtschaften; p. 361 - 17 Chapter: Die Heimreise; p. 382 Contains also: numerous photos and maps

Reports on sales forces and Windhoek, speeches and conference reports;[also letters by Friedrich and Martha P., not yet listed in the estate of daughter Ursula P.];

Contains: Hirsch, Lina: "Prologue to the seventieth anniversary of the Württemberg Women's Association for Needy Children", [Poem], Druck, 1904, 10 p.; "Wirtschaftliche Aufgaben. Blätter zur Förderung berufsständischer Tätigkeit" of 5 August 1908; programme of the colonial festival in favour of the Elisabeth House (maternity home) in Windhoek (Namibia) on 1 March 1913 in the Königsbau in Stuttgart; invitation to the general meeting of the Schulbauverein Stuttgart on 29 March 1915

Contains among other things: Draft budget for the financial year 1914; budget of the city of Windhoek for the financial year 1914; budget estimate for the financial year 1915; emergency budget of the city of Windhoek for the year 1915.