AWM33 is an artificial series of records relating to the military occupation of German New Guinea by the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force during 1914-1921 and to the writing of The Official History of Australian during the War of 1914-18: Volume X, The Australians at Rabaul: the capture and administration of German possessions in the southern Pacific by Seaforth Simpson McKenzie (published 1927).While it is a composite of private donations and officially transferred records accessioned by the Memorial between 1928 and 1965, the bulk of the series consists of Department of Defence records transferred through the Official Historian between 1928 and 1940. The series date range 1914-1926 reflects the administrative context in which the records were created, rather than the subsequent composite accumulation of the records themselves.The records were initially housed together as "New Guinea campaign records" (also known as the "Holmes Collection") in a filing cabinet, and were arranged into sub-groups based on type of record and the provenance of the accessions. Divider cards separated records under the following headings:HOLMES COLLECTION(Items [1]-[8])This group seems to have been so named because of the important acquisition of Colonel Holmes' diary from the Department of Defence in 1928, and the later donation of records from Holmes' family in 1963.REPORTS AND DESPATCHES - HOLMES AND PETHEBRIDGE(Items [9]-[12/19])As with "Reports miscellaneous 1914-1918" and "Reports miscellaneous 1919-1922" below, this group contains reports and memoranda from the various Administrators of German New Guinea to the Department of Defence. All three groups of records were transferred through the Official Historian, and the separation of the Holmes and Pethebridge material is probably a reflection of S S Mackenzie's distinction between the earlier and later stages of the Administration in the Official History.REPORTS ETC. MISCELLANEOUS(Items [13]-[40])Most of the items in this group are "miscellaneous" in nature, and were donated between 1956 and 1964 by individuals who served in the AN

Also contains: Memorandum on the negotiations of the Reichstag on the treaty concluded with the German Reich on the assumption of sovereignty, 1896 Statute

Contains:Business overviews of the courts

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/...

Article in "Altenburger Zeitung"

New Guinea, New Mecklenburg, Bismarck Archipelago, Colonies: a.o., Germany, German Empire / Photographer: Scherl

New Guinea, New Mecklenburg, Bismarck Archipelago, Colonies: a.o., Germany, German Reich / Photographer: Scherl

Hamburg South Sea expedition, 1908; excavation law of 26.3.1914; murder of German missionaries on the Gazelles peninsula (German New Guinea, New Vorpommern), 1904; inclusion of ethnology in the curriculum of the Cologne School of Economics, 1910; visiting hours of the municipal museums in the winter half-year 1929/30 1.10.1929-31.3.1930.Old signatures: 26.

Contains:B. Ankermann, Berlin. The natives of the grassland of Northwest Cameroon; 11.03.1910 W. Volz, Wroclaw. The Bataker North Sumatra; 18.11.1910 Alfred Zintgraff. Abyssinian Emperor and People; 17.01.1911 A. Kraemer, Bannow (Stuttgart). Neu-Mecklenburg after own studies; 03.04.1911 R. Neuhaus, Berlin. German New Guinea; 27.10.1911 J. Elbert, Frankfurt. Research in the eastern Malay archipelago; 10.01.1912 Erland Freiherr von Nordenskiöld. My journey among the Indians of Bolivia; 19.04.1912 Duke Adolf Friedrich von Mecklenburg-Schwerin. The German Inner Africa Expedition 1910/11; 29.04.1912 Felix Speiser, Basel. Research trips in the New Hebrides; 05.12.1913 O.D. Tauern. Land and people of a Moluccan island; 18.02.1913 Leo Frobenius, Berlin. From Ethiopia to Atlantis; 10.01.1913 L. Schermann, Munich. Ethnological observations in Hinterindien; 09.01.1914 by Le Coq., Berlin. Cultural currents in Central Asia; 27.11.1925 Old signatures: 256.

Contains above all: Construction of the government station Manus on 25 Oct. 1911, led by the station manager Georg Zwanziger until July 1914.

Contains among other things: Riots in Chile and Panama Uprising on the Caroline Islands Occurrences at the East Asian Station in Jan. 1896 The Military Political Situation of England on the Sudan Question versus Armed Intervention of the United States in Mexico in June 1914

Contains among other things: Construction of a European hospital in Japan

Letter from A. Allenstein, a collection of weapons and jewellery as well as everyday objects from New Guinea and Cairo for sale