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Title
Date(s)
- 1884-1936 (Creation)
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3 Aufbewahrungseinheiten
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Neu-Guinea - Kompagnie, Berlin, 1884-1936
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History of the Inventory Designer: In 1885, the New Guinea Company was formed in Berlin from the consortium that had undertaken numerous voyages of discovery in New Guinea between 1884 and 1885 under the direction of Adolph von Hansemann. The aim was to establish a state in the South Seas with its own sovereign rights under the protection of the German Reich; in May 1889, the German Reich temporarily took over bisSept. In 1892 the administration of the protectorate, the costs continued to be borne by the company; when the investments in 1893 increased to 7 million. In April 1895 the administration was transferred to the German Reich; the company thus became a purely private acquisition company, which in 1900 was transformed into a German colonial company; its headquarters became Rabaul; after the ownership of the New Guinea company had been confiscated by Australia in 1920, it sought a new field of activity in Venetzuela and Cameroon. Characterization of the content: Takeover of New Guinea and the Solomon Islands by the German Reich with the help of the New Guinea Company (Imperial Protection Letters); annual reports of the management and business correspondence. State of development: Publication Findbuch and Online Findbuch 2003 Citation method: BArch, R 8133/...
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System of arrangement
Federal Archives (Archivtektonik) >> North German Confederation and German Reich (1867/1871-1945) >> Foreign Affairs, Colonial and Occupation Administration
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Rechteinformation beim Datenlieferanten zu klären.
Language of material
- German
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Schriftgut
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Original description: Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek
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Place access points
- German Empire » Berlin
- German colonial empire » German New Guinea
- German Empire
- German colonial empire » Deutsch-Westafrika » Kamerun
- German colonial empire » German New Guinea » Bismarck Archipelago » Gazelle Peninsula » Rabaul
- Asien und Ozeanien » übriges Asien » Pacific Ocean » Australien
- Africa » West Africa » Guinea
Name access points
- Hansemann, Adolph von (Subject)
- German Colonial Society (Subject)
- German New Guinea Company (Subject)