Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Dept. Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart, Q 2/48 Bequests Rudolf von Gansser sen. and Rudolf Gansser jun.

Contains: Witzenhausen (colonial school), 12 May 1924 (a letter, a postcard with a view of the wine and liqueur shop Artur Schulz in Witzenhausen); 19 May 1924; 22 May 1924; 24 May 1924; n/a 1924; 23 May 1924; 23 May 1924; 23 May 1924; 24 May 1924; 24 May 1924; 23 May 1924; 24 May 1924; 23 May 1924; 23 May 1924; 24 May 1924; 23 May 1924; 23 May 1924. June 1924; 9 August 1924; 6 August 1924; 14 August 1924; 18 October 1924; 8 November 1924; 16 November 1924; 1 December 1924; 7 December 1924; 17 December 1924 (15 letters, one postcard) Contains: Witzenhausen (Colonial School), 4 February 1925; 26 April 1925; 13 May 1925 (three letters) Contains: Nordhausen, 29 May 1925 (postcard with view of Nordhausen main station) Includes: Witzenhausen (colonial school), 9 June 1925; 7 July 1925; 24 July 1925; 13 August 1925; 23 August 1925; 14 October 1925 (postcard); 31 October 1925; 7 November 1925; 23 November 1925; 6 December 1925 (nine letters) Contains: Witzenhausen (colonial school), 19 January 1926; 14 February 1926; 9 March 1926 (telegram) (two letters, one telegram) Contains: Hohenebra, 6 September 1926; 28 September 1926; 20 September 1926 (three letters) Contains: Nordhausen, 30 October 1926 - with: Letter from V. Küdrich, Deutsche Kolonialschule Witzenhausen: Wilhelmsdorf, 29 October 1926 (two letters) Contains: Hohenebra, 6 November 1926; 27 December 1926 (contains two letters): Hamburg, 1 May 1927; 30 May 1927 (two letters) Contains: Lauenburg (Elbe), 6 June 1927 (postcard with panorama of Lauenburg from Hohnstorf) Includes: Hamburg, 25 June 1927; 5 July 1927; 11 July 1927; 6 August 1927; 24 September 1927; 17 October 1927; 5 November 1927 (for Dr W Johannes Wentzel); 11 November 1927; 13 December 1927 (nine letters) Contains: Hamburg, 10 January 1928; 12 February 1928; 16 March 1928; 22 April 1928; 14 May 1928; 18 June 1928 (postcard, postmark); 12 July 1928 (with Dr W Johannes Wentzel); 28 July 1928 (postcard); 3 September 1928; 6 September 1928; 25 September 1928; 26 September 1928; 14 November 1928 (eleven letters, two postcards) Contains: Ramelsloh (Lüneburger Heide), December 16, 1928 (postcard with view of the church of Ramelsloh) Contains: Hamburg, January 26, 1929 (with drawing); February 1, 1929 (with Dr. W. Johannes Wentzel); February 13, 1929; March 2, 1929 - with: Letter from Wilhelm Wilbrand to girlfriend Anni; March 10, 1929; June 8, 1929; August 12, 1929; September 7, 1929; September 16, 1929; September 30, 1929; October 18, 1929; November 14, 1929; December 20, 1929 (14 letters) Contains: Hamburg, January 21, 1930 (by Dr. W. Johannes Wentzel) - with: Letter from Wolfgang Wentzel, uncle of Wilhelm, to Kurt Woermann, Hamburg: Hamburg, January 20, 1930: Future Possibilities in Africa (two letters) Contains: Genoa, 31. May 1931 (postcard with view of the war memorial in Genoa); 1. June 1931 (postcard with view of the ship Ussukuma) Contains: on the Ussukuma, 5. June 1931 - with: postcard with text and notes of the song 'Weckruf' (a letter) Contains: Bregenz, 4 June 1940 (Picture postcard with Bregenz old town) Includes: Friedrichshafen am Bodensee, 20 May 1940 (postcard with castle church and marina) Includes: Berlin-Dahlem, 24 September 1941 (one letter)

Contains among other things: Statutes of the church community on Kleinschmalkalden; book of the Pfennig Association for the Protestant Mission in German East Africa; membership cards of the Protestant Federation for the protection of German Protestant interests and the Federation of German Men and Women for the protection of personal freedom and life of Wilhelm II; field postcard "Conquered Warsaw

Essay "Die Werbearbeit der Bethel-Mission, (presumably 1920-er Jahre), 16 p., N. N.; advertising material of other mission societies; member card Bethel-Mission e. V.

Contains: Statutes of the Wakamba Mission (n.d.) Statutes (1904, with amendments from 1907), Divine Service Regulations (1906) and Visitation Regulations (1906, with amendments from 1911) of the Jagga Mission; Community Regulations for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in East Africa (1906).

Correspondence between inspectors Ronicke u. Kittelvitz u. Sister Magdalena Hagena, mostly thank-you letters for donations, often expressed in the form of poems, 1922-1944; membership card of the Sarepta-Afrikabund, 1933; obituary for sister Magdalene Hagena, 1944; estate of sister Magdalena Hagena circulars to the members of the Afrikabund, partly printed with photos of the first baptized Tutsi, 1925-1941; letters of African Christians, u.a. by Hermann Kanafunzi, Jakobo Ngombe, Samuel Stepke, Sospater Boko, Johana Kikkule, Heilgehilfe Paulo, Elisabeth Nyaboro and many more with a photo by Sospater Boko, 1929-1938; letters from missionary sisters and missionaries from Africa, 1925-1937; letters from the Missionaries Gleiß, von der Heyden, Hosbach and Johanssen, 1924-1930

Photographer: Guth?. Phototype: Photo. Format: 8,5 X 11,4 Description: 2 African children on their way to European buildings, holding banana leaves over their heads. Remark: An image section has been selected. Reference: Cf. postcard box, no. P20a (14,0 X 9,0) "Evangelisation (Missionar Guth) East Africa", without series, "echte Photographie, Verlag der Ev.-luth. Mission Leipzig, written to Miss Buschbeck; P20b (14,2 X 9,0).

• Negative *

• Stereoscopic glass slide *

Only correspondence with Helene John in utilities matters

Annual accounts of the Bethel Mission, partly also of the Africa Association, 1927-1947; final sums according to the annual accounts, 1900-1929; grants from Bethel Institute for the Bethel Mission, 1930-1939; annual accounts and budget estimates, 1948-1960

printed annual reports, 1906-1912 and 1939-1965; typewritten annual reports, 1926-1964

Correspondence with consistories; collection lists (Silesia); lists of donations; detailed description of the situation of the Bethel mission in 1940 and 1943

Photographer: Guth?. Phototype: Photo. Format: 11,2 X 8,4. Description: Skull place under rocks, old man sacrificing, man i. Background (Pare). Remark: "Wizard" i. Title crossed out. Reference: 2 flat film negatives and cardboard no. 44 in negative box. Cf. postcard box, No. P15a (14.0 X 9.1) P15b (13.9 X 9.0) "Wizard at the libation before the skulls of the ancestors (East Africa)" Series India II, No. 3; P15a is described.

Photographer: Guth?. Phototype: Photo. Format: 11,3 X 8,8 Description: Room with chairs, altar (without people). Reference: Plate and cardboard no. 17a (11,7 X 8,0) in negative box. Cf. postcard box, no. P8a (14,2 X 9,2), P8b (14,1 X 9,2), P8c (14,2 X 9,2) "First ringing of bells after consecration in Gonja (East Africa)", series Africa II, no. 11; publisher of the Evangelical Lutheran Mission Leipzig.

Correspondence and circulars; "Songs of the Bahaya, by Missionary P. O. Hagena, 10 p., ms.

Phototype: Photo. Format: 6,3 X 9,2 Description: Bell cage on tree trunk, 2 bells, 2 boys ringing. Reference: See large photo glued on cardboard (22.7 X 16.9) m. Title "Standard Clock in Arusha". See Nachlaß Leonhard Blumer, no. 645, record no. 543A (22,4 X 16,6) "Die Trommel (ngoma) von Aruscha (Deutsch-Ostafrika).

Photographer: Mergner?. Type: Photo. Format: 5,8 X 8,8. Description: right margin: Church, people in front of church and around bell cage (from far away). Reference: See postcard box, P 25 a (14.0 X 9.0) and P 25 b (13.9 X 9.0) m. Title "The Kilimanjaro from Madschame (East Africa)".

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

Brief summaries of the printed "News of the East African Mission and "News of the Bethel Mission, 240 p., ms., with duplicate

(with hoe and bush knives). Photographer: Guth?. Phototype: Photo. Format: 9,0 X 8,5. Description: running in series, church in the background (Gonja). Reference: Neg. and cardboard no. 84a in negative box. Cf. postcard box, no. P35 (14,1 X 9,1) "Nach der Morgenandacht geht es zur Arbeitsstätte (ost-Afrika)", publisher of the Ev.-luth. Mission Leipzig.

Correspondence, circulars, etc.; "Breklumer Sonntagsblatt für´s House from March 1960

Report on the Elderly Order in Bungu, 1936; Thoughts on the Foundation of the Native Church of Buhaya by P. Scholten, 1938; Church Breeding Order and Community Order of Buhaya, 1938

Work and travel reports of the staff; report on the third Lutheran mission conference in Tanganyika-Territory, October

Site plan of the leasehold property from 1908; survey report by Bodelschwingh'. Institutions, 1948

1870-1872 teacher at the Seminar d. RMG, 1873-1880 in Otjimbingue, 1880-1887 pastor in Königsberg, 1887-1889 inspector of the East Africa Mission and lecturer at the Oriental Seminar Berlin III; Letters and Reports, 1872-1880; Protocoll about the abolition of the forging of the Mission Colony Otjimbingue, 1874; Regen im Damralande, 7 p., hs., 1875; Löwengeschichten, 10 p. hs..., 1875; Sociale Verhältnisse im Hereroland, 36 p., hs., 1876; Die Bergdamra, 16 p., 1877; Wege im Damaraland, 16 p., 1877; 2 letters of J. Chr. Goliath from d. Augustineum, 1877; The Augustineum in Otjimbingue, 5 p.., hs., 1877; school visit in Hererolande, 20 p., hs., 1879; church consecration in Scheppmannsdorf, 10 p., 1879; September 1990 preserved: Personal Diarium of Büttner from the years 1867-1871; biographical material on Büttner (copies) by Prof. Ernst Hans Dammann;[Büttner's letters contain interesting information on the Mission Trade Society and on political conditions in Southwest Africa, see also Bethel Mission];

Correspondence of Rorarius, Accounts, etc., 1937-1938; A Few Pen-pictures from the Work of the Bethel-Missionary Society; Mother's Love in the Heart of Africa, 4 p., print, 1938; "The Usambara Association (the Settler) - A Memorandum on the Objectives and Objects of this Association, June 1938

Correspondence from Rorarius, accounts, etc.; "Christmas Greetings from Bethel, 4 p., printed, December 1935; flyer "We have promised our help from Friedrich von Bodelschwingh with an essay "Das rufende Land (Usambara) von Rorarius, September 1935

Correspondence from Rorarius, 1929-1934; Correspondence concerning the return of mission property, 1930; Draft of a Land Order of the Bethel Mission, 1931; So-called "Landsache, July 1934; Draft of an Order for the Usambara Church Treasury, 1934

Inside: On the back of three children's drawings printed and handwritten menu cards of three dinners in Schloss Possenhofen on 6, 9 and 14 August 1907; circular letter of Father Bonifacius Sauer, Prior of the Benedictine College in Dillingen/Donau, asking for financial support for the Benedictine College and for the training of the Benedictines deployed in the mission in D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a (Tanzania), 16 Dec 1908

Author: from a letter from Missionary Will. Scope: pp. 136-137. Includes, among other things: - (SW: Christmas; divine service)

Contains: Case of Pastor Kriebel Criminal proceedings against the editor of the Deutsch-Ostafrikanischen Zeitung von Roy for insulting the governor

Photographer: Guth?. Phototype: Photo. Format: 8,3 X 11,0. Description: Church with double roof of plant fibres, in front crowd of people (children and adults). Reference: Cf. estate Leonhard Blumer, no. 630 and 631 (postcards 9,2 X 14,1). Cf. postcard box, no. P31 (9,0 X 14,2) "Verlag der Ev.-luth. Mission Leipzig, Serie Afrika II, no. 10", "echte Photographie", "Kirche von Wudee (Ostafrika)".