History of the Inventory Designer: Association founded in Berlin in 1896 by Karl Supf for the economic development of the German colonies through scientific investigations, publications, research trips and propaganda activities; since 1902 officially "Economic Committee of the German Colonial Society". In 1936 probably merged into the Reichskolonialbund. Inventory description: Inventory history The fact that an archive was set up in the Colonial Economic Committee is regarded as a confirmed finding. The Colonial Economic Archive, which was established at the Berlin Central Office in 1909, already had records of more than 600 colonial enterprises in its founding year. Due to a lack of documents, it is not possible to determine when the documents were transferred from these archives or the registries to the Reichsarchiv. For the period of the Second World War it can be assumed that the holdings, together with other holdings of the Reichsarchiv, were outsourced and taken over after 1945 by the Deutsches Zentralarchiv Potsdam (later Zentrales Staatsarchiv Potsdam). Due to the lack of old finding aids, no information can be given on war-related outsourcing losses. Archive evaluation and processing Together with the documents of the D e u t s c h e K o l o n i a l s c h e G e l l l s c h a f t , the holdings of the Kolonialwirtschaftliches Komitee are among the most comprehensive non-governmental records of the colonial movement in the Federal Archives. The first processing of the holdings has already been carried out at the Central State Archives in Potsdam. Usually a simple distortion occurred. The new revision resulted in minor changes to the share titles and the reclassification of the portfolio. Content characterisation: Trade, industry and economic relations with other countries; colonial policy; colonial societies, colonial associations, colonial banks, colonial enterprises. State of development: Publication Findbuch and Online Findbuch 2003 Citation method: BArch, R 8024/...

Contains among other things: Mitteilungen der Außenstelle des Auswärtigen Amtes "Die weltwirtschaftliche Lage", Berlin 1919; Journal of the German Colonial Association "Die Brücke zur Heimat", Berlin, Vol. 27, No. 7, 20.07.1927

Contains among other things: Report on the work of the Kolonialwirtschaftliche Komitees 1896-1906 and 1896-1914; festive order for the 25th anniversary of the Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft; copy of the Deutsche Kolonialzeitung, Berlin 1907, 1908; directory of the library of the Warmbad station in D e u t s c h - S ü d w e s t a f r i k a; member directory of the Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft, Frankfurt Department, May 1911, 1913, and activity reports 1911/12, 1912/13, 1915; Statutes of the D e u t s c h e K o l o n i a l g e s e l l s c h a f t , Frankfurt Department, 1914; Call for Duke Johann Albrecht Donation for the Colonies, [1917]; War Announcements of the Colonial Economic Committee, 1916, 1918; Brochures "Farbige Hilfsvölker" and "Deutschlands koloniale Not", Colonial Economic Committee, Berlin 1917

Contains among other things: Establishment of the Colonial Economic Archive Forestry in the German Colonies Colonial Mechanical Engineering Mining and Railway Construction in the German Colonies

Series was formed archival

Contains among other things: Goldmark balances. - Annual reports of colonial companies

Contains among other things: Establishment of the Central Information Centre for Emigrants by the Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft; Conference of the Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft in Stuttgart, 1911 Darin: Copies of the Deutsche Kolonialzeitung

Contains among other things: Overview of the Organization of Colonial Jurisdiction in Other Colonial Countries

Also includes: Minutes of proceedings

Contains: 1. reports of the district governor of Usambara, Major Krenzler, 1891; 2. letter of Major H. Wißmann, 1891-1892; 3. letter of J. Rindermann to the secretariat of the German Colonial Society, 1897.

Contains also: Report of the Deutsche Kolonialschule GmbH Witzenhausen-Wilhelmshof 1924/25