Catholic Mission Church in Vuna-Pope near Herbertshöhe in New Britain (Bismarck Archipelago) / Photographer: Scherl

Contains among other things: Ordinance on the Reception of Children and Natives and their Education in Christian Mission Societies, 1888

Includes: Katsumi Takizawa (1ff); Dr. Eduard Thurneysen (12ff); Prof. Dr. Viktor Warnach (47ff); Mission Director Dr. Johannes Warneck (52ff); Werner Andreas Wienecke, Southwest Africa (103ff); Dr. Adolf Wischmann (129ff); Prof. Dr. Ernst Wolf (143ff); Rev. G. F. Woods (237ff); Siegfried Zöllner, Dutch New Guinea/ Indonesia (248ff)

Letters and reports from New Guinea; land purchase contract (copy) with the New Guinea Company in Finschhafen, 1888; house construction bill Bogadjim, 1888; annual report on Bogadjim, 1889

Vol. 1 Curriculum vitae (3 versions) and certificates, 1898-1901; letters to Inspector Spiecker concerning application and admission to the mission seminar, 1897-1901; health certificate, also for Bride Emma Klingelhöller, 1907 and 1913; letters and reports from New Guinea, 1907-1926; conference sermon on John 8:12, 1911; model of a school contract for registered missionaries, 1897-1901; letter of recommendation to Inspector Spiecker. Pupil, Dr., 1914; "Kali ra!" (For All!), No. 1, 1 sheet, Dr., 1914; Referat "Neuregelung in Bezug auf Wiederbesetzung der Astrolabe-Bai", 1922; Correspondence with Georg Eiffert in der Heimat, 1926-1929; Letters and Reports, as well as Circulars from New Guinea, 1929-1934; Correspondence with Emma Eiffert, 1930-1931; "Faita-Chronik", 1930-1934; Vol. 2; Correspondence with Georg Eiffert in Heimatarbeit, 1935-1953; Versorgungsangelegenheiten, 1935-1953; Obituary for daughter Maria Eiffert, 1946; Obituary and death certificate for Georg Eiffert, 1953

Excerpts on the psychology of peoples, especially on primitive peoples in Brazil and the Pacific Ocean, including excerpted publications in detail:1.) Kauffmann: Altdeutsche Genossenschaften, in: Words and Things 2 (1910), p. 99ˉ42 [p. 1-4];2.) Treatise by Paul on Methodology, i.e. vmtl. Paul (ed.): Grundriss der deutschenischen Philologie. Vol. 1: Concept and history of Germanic philology, - Methodology, - Writing, - History of language, - Mythology. 2. verb. and verm. Aufl. Strasbourg: Trübner, 1901 [p. 6-7];3.) Meinhof: Modern language research in Africa: Hamburg lectures. Berlin: Bookshop of the Berlin Evangelical Mission Society, 1910 [p. 8-9];4.) Schultze: From Namaland and Kalahari [...]. Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1907 [p. 10-14];5.) Meinhof: Results of African linguistic research, in: Archive for Anthropology 9 (1910), p. 179-201 [p. 15-20];6.) Bachofen: Das Mutterrecht: an investigation into the gynaicocracy of the old world according to its religious and legal nature. Stuttgart: Krais

Protocols and correspondence on issues such as:; customs privileges; education; arbitrariness of colonial officials; whereabouts of mission property after World War I; internment and exchange of prisoners of war; overview of activities, assets and members of the mission in Southwest Africa and New Guinea, 1904; official stenographer. Report on speeches on the dissolution of the Reichstag and colonial politics, 47 p., Dr., 1907; Die deutsche Flagge im Stille Ozean, 25 p. m. Map, Dr., 1915

Contains among other things: Disarmament of the local population Establishment of a station in Ruk-Attoll Born, Some remarks about music, poetry and dance of the Yaplente, 1903 Born, Some observations of ethnological nature about the Oleai Islands (o.D.) Map of Palau, m.: 1:300 000 with registered shipping lines, trade and mission stations (o.D.)

Length: 207 sheets.Reference number:HI XIII 3c 3IIA11 I 7 347-52,245.Damage: cat. B (can only be used as a digital copy) Contains: Gift from various groups of fish, including migratory fish of the Rhine from E. vom Rath, wildlife in the Gulf of Naples from Louis Hagen, wildlife of East Africa from the Africa traveller B. Kreuser by the board of the Verein zur Förderung des Museums für Naturkunde (Eduard Lent), approval of funds for the establishment of the animal groups (1907, with cost estimate of the taxidermist Heinrich Sander, Cologne, and plan for the establishment of the East African animal groups, provision of funds by the association); willingness of the Museum für Handel und Industrie, Wiedenfeld, to provide limited rooms in the Severinstorburg for the preparation (July 1907); contract between the city, Laué, and Sander regarding the preparation of the East African animals (31. July 1907); reports of the director Janson about the progress of the preparation work, inspection with Lent (1907/1908); acceptance of the work, listing of the animal groups, payment of the installments to Sander by the association (1908/1909); collection of association contributions for the museum promotion (1910/1923); donation of a collection of bird skins and other animals by the district judge Dr. Steinkopf, now Mülheim, which he captured in Cameroon, granted funds for preparation (1910); donation of a gorilla by the association, Lent (1910); correspondence with Hansen concerning payment of the tax on a donation by Franz Clouth for purchase of the Jakob Scheiner collection, Torburgen and street pictures (March 1911); complaint by Janson concerning donation of a butterfly collection by Miss F. Voelkers, Rodenkirchen, suggestion for the donation for drawing lessons in schools and sale of surplus pieces (February-March 1910, with statement of the heads of the secondary schools); report of Willi Foy concerning the use of the granted funds for the acquisition of objects of South East European gypsies, arrows from southwest New Guinea, cult figures of the Pueblo Indians, a collection of the Caroline Islands (September 1911); donation of animals by the physician Dr. Bermbach (November 1911); purchase from the Zoological Station in Naples (1911); application Jason for the processing of the butterfly collection of Eduard Lent by the head teacher Dr. Rupp (1912); purchase of a collection of Dr. Steimann, Bonn, concerning petrefacts from the Eifel from the Middle Devonian with the support of the association, especially from Theodor von Guilleaume and Richard Grüneberg (1912); determination of the invoice for von B. Wiemeyer, Warburg, sold rocks (August 1912); donation of a bust of Lent by the heirs, installation in the museum, procurement of a granite plinth (1911-1912); cost estimate of the carpenter C. Stratmann concerning two exhibition tables (1912); transfer of funds from the association, Heidmann, Louis Hagen, concerning an elephant group (1912); reorganization of the beetle collection of Lamers, Düsseldorf, by the rector W. Geilenkeuser, Elberfeld, grant of funds (1910-1911, with claim of Geilenkeuser); sale of duplicates from collections, permission, booking of income; regulation concerning the purchase of objects from collections of foreign mission stations by the Museum für Volkshygiene, the Natural History Museum and the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum (1912); consultation of the constitutional commission concerning the acquisition of collections, butterfly collection of Philipps (1913); Acceptance of Becker's donation to the Museum of Natural History (1913); submission by Major Scheunemann concerning the purchase of two monkeys from Cameroon belonging to him and exhibited in the museum, a gorilla and a great ape (1913); offer by the carpenter Caspar Stratmann concerning three viewing tables (1913); offer by the taxidermist concerning a bison bull received at the zoo (July 1914); letter by Dr. Wildschrey concerning a rock loop in the Devonian slate of the Siebengebirge, work on the geology of the Siebengebirge, acquisition of the rock collection of the main teacher Schonauer in Cuxenberg near Oberdollendorf concerning the Siebengebirge (1913); order of a collection of the deceased taxidermist Jehn in Rheinbreitbach donated by the association by Prof. Dr. Dr. Wildschrey, a professor of geology of the Siebengebirge and a professor of geology of the Siebengebirge. Rupp, remuneration (1914); Janson's submission concerning the takeover of the colour show from the Werkbund exhibition, considerations on the construction of a sample show concerning natural colours (July 1914); Heinrich Sander (July 1914) rejects the offer of a collection by the taxidermist; correspondence with Jason and Czaplewski concerning the selection, purchase of objects from collections of foreign mission stations (1914); Verein zur Förderung des Museums für Naturkunde, Gustav v. Mallinckrodt concerning Dr. Janson from his activity as a senior teacher at the Gymnasium in the Kreuzgasse, rejection because of the wartime ((1915); remarks by Heinrich Sander "Die Tierwelt in moderne volkstümlichen Museum für Naturkunde (1914, machine writing, 6 pages, written for the Kölner Zeitung); offer Sander concerning his exhibition in the Werkbund exhibition "Farbenquellen aus der Tierwelt, Verkaufsangebot, abgelehnt (1915); Inheritance Carl Bodewig, correspondence with the executor Alfred Schmidt, inheritance tax (1915, excerpt from will); donation of a collection of small butterflies by consul Hans Leiden (1917); inheritance of a butterfly collection of the pensioner Gustav Stroemer, correspondence with the executor Ludwig van Rossum (1918/1919); order of butterflies from collections of different mission stations by Prof. Dr. Peter H. H. Schmidt; order of butterflies from collections of different mission stations by Prof. Dr. H. H. H. H. H. Rupp (February 1916); donation of a collection by Minister-Resident Max Freiherr von Oppenheim, consisting of minerals, bird eggs and nests, conchylias and corals (May/June 1919); cash affairs, double payment of an invoice amount to the company A. Zausmer, Gdansk (1914); donation of a collection of fossils by Prof. F. Winterfeld, Mülheim, by the association (April 1920); proposal of the consul Heinrich Maus concerning the exchange between the Cologne Museum and the Museo Nacional de Historia Natural in Mexico (1920); donation of a sum of money by Paul Franke for the purpose of preserving the collection objects by the taxidermist Sander (July 1920); correspondence with Dr. Walter Voigt on the collections and library of the Naturhistorischen Verein der prussischen Rheinlande und Westfalens und Übernahmeangebot von Köln und Düsseldorf (1912-1920); donation of a group of kingfishers by Max Kunkel, Cologne, gift tax (1922); gift tax on the donation of the physician Dr. Frey, Wesdorf, bird group Haubentaucher am Nest (1921/1922); Please W. Voigt concerning meeting date because of emergency of the association by the money devaluation (1922, with report Janson about the inspection and the collections of the natural historical association, 14. November 1922, with the note Adenauer concerning advice in the administrative conference, investigation of storage rooms, withdrawal of an offer of surrender by the association due to support from the University of Bonn (1922-1923); circular letter of the association for the promotion of the Museum für Naturkunde (Richard v. Schnitzler and Gustav v. Mallinckrodt, concerning increase of the membership fee due to the devaluation of money) (1923); donation of the Karl Grube over 4 billion Marks (1923).

Sheet 1 reverse: Imperial Customs Office St. Ludwig, o.D. Sheet 2: P. F. Schulze, Ebersdorf/Reuss, 1870. Edmund Abbot, Athens/Greece, 1868. E. Milson, Lyon, 1867. Johann von der Crone, Markkleeberg/Saxony, 1869. F. Lewthwaite, London/England, 1868. Schwarzwälder, Eimeldingen/Baden, 1730. Econome, Saloniki/Turkey, 1868. F. Lawer, Reading/America 1868. Prussian envoy, c. 1865. J. Barker, Whitehaven/England, 1868. J. De Grenier, Paris/France, 1869. A. And L. Von Berg, New York/America, 1867. Behrens, Manchester/England, 1875. F. Von Trapp, Hertwangen, 1700. Directeur Ravenel, Neuchâtel, 1870. Major Specht, Lörrach, 1885. K. Krafft, St. Blasien/Baden, 1870. two English noble coats of arms, 1875/76. R. Reinau, Kalte Herberge/Baden, 1700. Kramer, Kandern/Baden, 1700. forester Kramer, Steinen, 1750. E. Scheffelt, Steinen, 1830. sheet 3: Fred Ward, Warsaw, 1867. Grumkow, Mainz, 1865. count of Inn and Knyphausen, Hannover. 1866. Lord Fr. Ryder, London, 1867. Zant-Strübe, Auggen-Schopfheim/Baden, 1800. Sattler, Binzen/Baden, 1830. K. Von Bültzinsloewen, Wiesbaden, 1902. Scheffelt, Williamsville/America, 1849. F. Grether, Tumringen/Baden, 1850. Graf von Pexberg, Pomerania/Prussia, 1865. Pfarramt Steinen/Baden, 1860. P. J. Schulze, Petersburg. District mortgage bank Lörrach. Sheet 4: Legation of the United States of America in Switzerland, 1838. Generaladjudantur Baden, 1830. Austrian Archbishop's Coat of Arms, 1700. Evangelische Zentralkasse St. Gallen. French legation in Switzerland, 1850. Württemberg Camera Office Reutin, 1870. Württemberg Workers' Company, 1870. Main camp of the Black Forest Army in Rheinweiler, 1870. Württemberg Camera Office Crailsheim, 1870. Field Post Stuttgart. Badische Ökonomieverwaltung Karlsruhe, 1870. G. Zielke Tokarz, Lodsch. Sheet 5: Baurittel, Schopfheim/Baden, 1850. L. Dilzer, Pforzheim/Baden, 1850. Pf. Gutheil, Heidelberg, 1868. E. Grether, Tumringen, 1868. General Uh, Baltimore, 1838. Pf. Leichtlen, Emmendingen, 1869. Ortsschulrat Steinen, 1863. Gustav-Adolph-Verein, 1839. Fürstenberg Law Office, 1862. Federal Postal Administration Basel, 1859. Berlin-Hamburg Railway, 1865. Wiensthalbahn Directorate, Baden, 1864. Blankenhorn, Müllheim/Baden, 1868. Versorgungsanstalt Baden, 1854. Jakob O. Grether, Schopfheim, 1700-1800. Onoph. Grether, Tumringen. Kramer, Steinen, 1810. Ed. Tschiraz, Cincinnati/America, 1849. Sheet 6: Private seal of Manlius?, 1856 preserved. Badisches Ministerium, 1840. Badische Hausmeisterei Badenweiler, 1830. Auguste de la Fontaine, Karlsruhe, 1873. Orléans, France, 1780. Privy Councillor Prof. Dr. Hirsch/Berlin in the Swedish Ministry, Department of Medical Matters. Russian stamp, 1887. community Badenweiler, 1870. king Karl der Kahle (800), 1866 excavated with stones. Main Treasury of the Reichsbank, 1889. Sheet 7: Family Favarger, Neuchâtel/Badenweiler [missing]. Comte et Comtesse de Chambrun, Paris 1889. Von Goerne, Ressburg near Deutschkrone, 1896. Moussin-Puchkin, Petersburg. Seal of a Prussian commission. Jeweller Kraus, Freiburg. Schwarz, Rheinfelden, 1845 Richards von Taschwitz, London/Dresden, 1878 Count Moussine-Puchkine, Petersburg/Kiev. Prince of Fürstenberg. Dean Brandt, Rheinbischofsheim, 1876. Von Schüyten, Dordrecht, 1876. W. Mezel, Überlingen/Lörrach, 1877. F. Madler, Steinen. Chief Executive Officer P. Thurn, Frankfurt. I. M. Scheffelt, Stones, 1818. Russian stamps, 1887 and 1884. Von Kilch, Brombach, 1860. Sheet 8: Count Moussin-Puchkin, Petersburg/Kiev. Russian coat of arms. Russian legation of Madrid, 1893 Counts Schalsberg-Thannheim family, 1880. Advance bank Lörrach. Stachelin-Burkhard, Basel. Badisches Hauptsteueramt, Basel. Prussian Regional Court Düsseldorf. Alsace-Lorraine. University of Freiburg, 1886 Comtoir of the Reichshauptbank für Wertpapiere, 1888 Black Seal of the Prussian Local Court Wattenscheid, 1888 Wetzhausen. Von Pochhammer, Berlin, 1869. Treasury, 1875. Education Department Whitehall, 1875. Inspector of Factories, 1875. Imperial German Postal Administration Badenweiler, 1877. Sheet 9: Count von Landberg, Lahr/Baden, 1870. Mecklenburg Court Hunting Department, 1893. Grand Duke of Mecklenburg, 1893. Mecklenburg Court Theatre Schwerin, 1893. General von Wolff, Karlsruhe/Badenweiler, 1900. Württemberg Local Court. Württemberg Public Prosecutor's Office. Allcard, Scotland, 1896. Speyr's banking business, Basel. Danish Royal Court, 1895. Count Plessen on Ivenack, 1894. New Guinea Company, 1893. Jeweller Kraus, Freiburg, 1880. Liebrecht-Haniel, Ruhrort-Tervoort on the Rhine, 1878. Russian Authority, 1893. Cologne Real Estate Company, 1894. F. W. Liebrecht, Ruhrort, 1880. Main Cashier of Dresdner Bank, Berlin. Russian official emblem. Sheet 10: Three coat-of-arms drawings (Hueglin, Hassler, Reichenbach). Sparkasse Müllheim. From Schönfeld, Austria. Baron von Krafft-Ebing, Baden. Ministry of Alsace-Lorraine. Board of the Baden State Association of the Red Cross. Badische district forestry Oberweiler. Catholic community Müllheim. Badisches Finanzamt Müllheim. Notary public in the district of Müllheim. Prussian main tax office Cologne. Russian seal. Baden Water and Road Administration. Baden tax collection agency Badenweiler. Badische Badanstaltenkasse Müllheim. Baden Notary Michael Huber. Badische Obereinnehmerei Müllheim. Prussian Railway Directorate Cologne. General Directorate of the Württemberg State Railways. Imperial-royal post and telegraph office Karlovy Vary. Community seal Badenweiler. Sheet 11: Municipality Zunzingen. Old town coat of arms Badenweiler, until 1898. Coat of arms of Lörrach. Municipality of Niederweiler. Badische Obereinnehmerei Müllheim. Jeweller Krauss, Freiburg. Baden State Treasury. Gemeinde Müllheim. Catholic parish Müllheim. Badisches Finanzamt Müllheim. Community Oberweiler. Gemeinde Müllheim. Municipality of Vögisheim. Grand Ducal Bath Doctor in Badenweiler. Community of Badenweiler. Freiburg Mayor's Office. Pfarramt Gersbach, 1824. Main cash desk of the Reichsbank. Braunschweig Police Headquarters. Director of the Schwerin Court Theatre, 1893.

Vol. 1; Letters and Reports from New Guinea, 1895-1899; Conference Paper "Our Position on the Roman Mission", 14 p. hs, 1897; Map sketches of Astrolabe-Bai and Pomeranian Bay, as well as of the Kaiser-Wilhelms-Land from Gorinna to Bunsenspitze, scale 1:250.000, drawn by Hanke, 1897-1898; Narrative of the Moon God in the Bongu language, with German translation, 1898; paper "Die Erziehung u. Behandlung unserer Eingeb.n hinsichtlich ihrer sittlichen, geistigen u. materiellen Entwicklung", 19 p., ed. 1899; Private Letters to Inspectors, 1895-1902; Vol. 2; Letters and Reports from New Guinea, 1899-1905; Biblical Stories in the Bongu Language, 16 p.., Dr., 1901; Vol. 3; Letters and Reports from New Guinea, 1906-1912; "Painting the Body with Red Color by the Papuans", IN: Brudergruß, 18th ed, 1906; "Reisebericht über eine Erkundungsreise in das Gebiet der Djeba-Lpete", 1912; Korrespondenz mit August Hanke im Heimaturlaub, 1909; vol. 4; Letters and reports from New Guinea (also family letters), 1913-1918; Nachricht vom Tod von August Hanke, 1918; Correspondenz mit Johanna Hanke, geb. Heider in New Guinea, 1919-1920; correspondence with Johanna Hanke in Germany, 1921-1966; death certificate, obituary and letter of condolence for Johanna Hanke, 1966

In particular, the collection includes photographic material from the regions in southern and eastern Africa, Indonesia and China in which the missionaries of the above-mentioned missions were active.

Parts of the image material are available in digital form. In order to guarantee a modern way of working with the holdings in the future, the digitisation of the entire holdings is currently underway. Further access in the form of a representative selection of images available on this page is being planned.

1896-1898 Bongu/New Guinea, then Rietmond until 1904; Letters, also private letters from New Guinea and Siar, 1896-1898; Letters and reports from the Rietmond reserve, 1899-1904; Instruction for Ludwig Holzapfel, 1901; Characteristics of Carl Berger's missionary activity, 1903; Answer by Ludwig Holzapfels to Carl Berger's petition, 1903; Reports on d. Reservat Rietmond, 1902 and 1903; Kriegsbericht u. Profitabilitätsrechnung von Rietmond, 1904; Meta Holzapfel, née Brill about the murder of her husband, 1904; Correspondence with Meta Holzapfel, née Brill (also curriculum vitae 1900), 1904-1963; excerpts from Ludwig Holzapfels Reports, 26 p. ms.., 1900-1904;

Vol. 1; Letters and Reports from New Guinea, 1888-1894; Correspondence between the New Guinea Company and Governor Schmiele and the RMG with detailed description of the beginnings of the New Guinea mission, 1894; Private letters to inspectors of the RMG, 1888-1899; Statements concerning the acquisition of a mission ship, 1895; Vol. 2; "A Greeting from New Guinea", No. 1, 7 and 8, Dr., 1891-1894; Letters and reports from New Guinea, 1898-1899; Conference sermon "Der Menschenfischer u. sein Beruf", 1898; Bericht einer Reise zur Ramu-Mündung, 1898; Statement on the question "Kostschule oder Ortsschule", 1899; Correspondence on the employment of Kunze in church service, 1900-1910; Correspondence with Georg Kunze in the homeland, 1905-1910; Correspondence with Mrs. Johanne Kunze, née. Schmitz, for moving from Pomerania to Honnef, 1945-1947; obituary, obituary and letter of condolence for Johanne Kunze, 1956

Beisenherz: The Gospel a Godpower, ca. 1912; Beisenherz: The enemies in the Batakmission, 1913; Siegner: Mission Sermon, Acts 10:42-48, no year; Hippenstiel: How does the missionary find entrance among primitive Gentiles? ca. 1912; hipstick: God builds a house on the ruins, n.J.; Becker: Heidenmission is a highly necessary urgent work, after 1923; Schnatbaum: Mission Prayer and Sacrifice Week, 1929; Becker: The Lord gives open doors in the mission, 1936; Borutta: From idolatry to worship, after 1932; Sckär: Die Ältesten in den Ovambogemeinden, o.J.; Sckär: The Poverty of the Gentiles, n.J.; Hippenstiel: The Revival Movement on Nias, and what we can learn from it for our time, c. 1916; Pichler: The Gentiles will walk in your light, n.J.; Siegner: Salvation Desires of the Gentiles, n.J.; Eiffert: What RM achieved in almost 50 years of work in New Guinea, 1927; Schildmann: Bericht über die Arbeit d. RM auf Mentawei, n.J.; Klappert: How does the missionary see the future of the mission and the missionary of the future, 1966

5 vol.; correspondence of the mission leadership with him; from 1944 correspondence with Marianne Schmid, née Cordes

Contains: - o.K, o.J. Letter from an African to Mr Mergner in German translation without sender - Memmingerberg 1948. Albrecht to Mr Mergner - Kumkanas 1946. v. Alvensleben to Mr Mergner - Berlin 1941, 1943/44, 1946. Working group for mission / student federation for mission (Brennecke) to Mrs Mergner or circular letter without recipient (7 letters) - Rummelsberg 1946. Bavarian association for medical mission (Olpp) to Mrs Mergner - Braunschweig, Würzburg, Rummelsberg n.d., 1948 Bavarian Association for Medical Mission (Olpp) to Mr Mergner (3 letters) - Leipzig 1942 Bock to Mr Mergner - Magdeburg, Wernigerode 1946/47 Ground Staff to Mrs Mergner (4 letters) - Braunschweig 1948/49, 1951 Ground Staff (Wollermann)

Contains: List of mussel species, list of materials for colouring the topa, animals from Surinam (Latin and Indian names); collection lists compiled under the heading "Remarks on individual pieces of the museum": Missionary Bergmann (German New Guinea), Baron von Bülow (Herero, Owambo), von Carnap-Quernheimb (Cameroon, Togo, Congo), Capitain Dallmann (Various countries), Eckstein (Boers, Zulu), Dr. Ehser (Bali collection), Dr. O. Finsch, Haas brothers (British New Guinea), Kollmann (Uganda, Ushashi, East Africa), Kromecken (?) (Tokyo, Middle Java, Sikkim), Schmidt (Lagos), I. Schneider (Palestine, Egypt, Omdurman), Von Sieglin, Baron von Soden (Africa), Prof. Soest/Eugen Rautenstrauch (South Sea Collection), Sprochte (?), Ludwig Wießner (Untervolta, Sudan)