Scheme for Polynesian grammars, handwritten in pencil 30 pages; grammar examples from the Bible for Tahiti, Samoa handwritten in pencil ca 100 pages

Bde 1-3 destroyed.

Die Museumsstiftung Post und Telekommunikation besitzt eine umfangreiche Sammlung von Kommunikationsobjekten mit deutschem Kolonialbezug. Die 1995 gegründete, von der Deutschen Post und der Deutschen Telekom getragene Stiftung, zu der die Museen für Kommunikation Berlin, Frankfurt am Main und Nürnberg sowie das Archiv für Philatelie in Bonn gehören, geht zurück auf das 1872 in Berlin gegründete Reichspostmuseum. Der Staatssekretär des Reichspostamts Heinrich von Stephan hat der deutschen Kolonisierung tatkräftig die Wege ebnen helfen. Den Ausbau der Postdampfschifflinien begleitete die Schaffung von Kolonialpostämtern in allen deutschen Kolonien. Daher nimmt es nicht Wunder, dass das Lieblingskind von Stephan, das von ihm 1872 in Berlin zur Dokumentation und Veranschaulichung des Nachrichtenwesens und der Beförderungseinrichtungen „aller Zeiten und Völker“ zur Belehrung der Beamtenschaft und des Publikums gegründete Museum sich engagiert in den Dienst der Kolonialidee stellte. Das erste Postmuseum der Welt entwickelte sich durch eifrige Sammlung und repräsentative Ausstellung aussagekräftiger Objekte der Kolonialpostgeschichte zu einem vielbesuchten Ort kolonialherrschaftlicher Identitätsstiftung und nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg bis 1939 zu einer Stätte kolonialer Erinnerung und des Kolonialrevisionismus. Die vom Reichspostmuseum von 1886 bis 1939 gesammelten und ausgestellten Objekte aus kolonialen Kontexten lassen sich in sechs Kategorien gliedern: 1. Objekte mit Kolonialbezug, die nicht in den Kolonien waren wie zum Beispiel die Briefmarkendruckstöcke der Kolonialmarken oder in Deutschland für die Ausstellung angefertigte Modelle. 2. Objekte der Reichspost, die in die Kolonien gebracht oder dort angefertigt wurden, um die postalischen Verbindungen aufzubauen und zu unterhalten wie Poststempel und Dienstsiegel, Uniformen und Beschilderungen. 3. Objekte aus den Kolonien, die die Kommunikations- und Verkehrsbedingungen der einheimischen Bevölkerung thematisieren wie Originalboote, Verkehrsmodelle und Nachrichtentrommeln, darunter auch Erinnerungsstücke als „Mitbringsel“ zurückgekehrter Deutscher. 4. Objekte aus den Kolonien, die von der einheimischen Bevölkerung bezüglich der Kolonialpost geschaffen wurden wie Fetische und Darstellungen der Kolonialpost. 5. Objekte, die mit der Institution Kolonialpost verschickt wurden wie Briefe, Post- und Ansichtskarten. 6. Fotografien von Kolonialposteinrichtungen und landestypischen Verkehrseinrichtungen. Das Gros der Sammlung gelangte meist als kostenfreie Übernahme von der Reichspost oder der Reichsdruckerei in den Bestand der nachgeordneten Museumsbehörde. Darüber hinaus erhielt das Museum hinsichtlich der Kategorien 1, 2, 5 und 6 sehr viele Geschenke, vor allem von Kolonialpostbeamten. Der Ankauf stellt eher die Ausnahme dar. Bezüglich der Objekte aus den Kategorien 3 und 4, deren Anzahl viel geringer ist, bedarf es weiterer Forschungen zu den Erwerbungszusammenhängen vor Ort. Von den im Reichspostmuseum gesammelten Objekten mit deutschem Kolonialbezug hat das Gros den Krieg und die Nachkriegswirren wenigstens leidlich überstanden. Abgesehen von den Kolonialpostwertzeichen umfasste der ursprüngliche Bestand wenigstens 450 Druckstöcke der Kolonialmarken, ungefähr 600 Fotografien und 500 Objekte anderer Kategorien, darunter Gemälde, Grafiken, Dokumente und Kartenmaterial, Poststempel und Dienstsiegel, Feldpostbriefe und Feldpostausrüstung, Uniformen und Textilien, Verkehrsmodelle sowie ethnologische Objekte. Die durch den Krieg geteilte Kolonialsammlung des Reichspostmuseums gelangte nach 1945 in die Obhut der Nachfolgeinstitutionen Bundespostmuseum Frankfurt am Main und Postmuseum der DDR sowie die allermeisten Kolonialpostwertzeichen 1955 in das Postwertzeichenarchiv des Bundespostministeriums in Bonn.

Reichspost building in the German colony of Samoa / Photographer: Scherl

Contains among other things: "Carola" - Zanzibar "Seagull", "Swallow" - Zanzibar. Apia, Tanga, Dar es Salaam Reports on the events at the East African Station

Contains among other things: "Buzzard", "Falcon" - Apia reports about political conditions on Samoa 1893

Contains among other things: "Buzzard", "Falcon" - Apia, Sydney, Marshall Area Reports on the conditions in Samoa, Ponape, Marshall Islands, New Guinea Protectorate 1895 to 1896

Contains among other things: "Bussard" - Auckland, Sydney, Apia "Arcona", "Alexandrine", "Marie" - Valparaiso report on political conditions in Samoa in May 1895 arms trade to Samoa by German company Frings

Contains among other things: Brochure and publications of the German Togo Society, the German Rubber Plantation Society, the German Samoa Society

contains among other things: Staff of the "Rhine" group for the repatriation of German prisoners of war; repatriation questions from Argentina; appeals and communications from naval officer associations; list of the crew of the "Emden" small cruiser detained in Malta; monetary compensation after return from captivity; list of warships of which crew members are in captivity or internment; prevention and prosecution of attempts to defraud transit camps, district commandos and other military personnel. A.; List of Samoa Germans returning home on steamship "Wilhelm"; Fees of navy members captured in war after re-arrival in their homeland

Contains among other things: Instruction for the substitute authorities Involvement of residents of Samoa and Haiti for service in the Navy Replacement of technical personnel for the shipyard divisions and torpedo divisions

History of the Inventory Designer: 1907 Formation of the R e i c h s k o l o n i a l a m t from the Colonial Department of the A u s w ä r t i g e s A m t ; 1919 Transformation into a R e i c h s k o l o n i a l ministry and assumption of the liquidation business for the former German colonial territories; after its dissolution in 1920, assumption of the tasks by the R e i c h s m a r i n a m i n g for reconstruction (Colonial Central Administration) until its dissolution in 1924; thereafter, processing of colonial affairs again by the A u s w ä r t i g e s A m t . Inventory description: Inventory history The files of the central colonial administration of the German Reich have been subject to organisational changes from the subject area or department at kaiserli‧chen Auswärtiges Amt to the Imperial Reichsamt and Ministry of the Wei‧marer Republic and back to the department or department at the Auswärtiges Amt. Many volumes of files or subject series were easily continued organically beyond the verschie‧denen changes; for the period after 1920 this often means that they slowly ebbed away. Real breaks in the Aktenfüh‧rung can usually not be determined. The registry of Reichskolonialmi‧niste‧riums therefore formed a closed one in 1919 and after the extensive loss of colonial political tasks in the eyes of many even closed Kör‧per. The files were distributed according to the former secret registries of the Reichsko‧lonialamts as follows: Secret registry KA I East Africa Secret registry KA II Southwest Africa Secret registry KA III South Sea Secret registry KA IV Cameroon and Togo Secret registry KA V Legal cases Secret registry KA VI Scientific and medical cases Secret registry KA VII General secret registry KA VIII Agriculture Secret registry KA I-VII Foreign Countries and Possessions Secret Registry KB I Budget and Accounting Secret Registry KB II Technical Matters Secret Registry KB III Railway Matters Already in the Cabinet Meeting on 1. In 1919, the Reich Minister of the Interior, Matthias Erzberger, had spoken about the files of the then still existing Kolonialministeri‧ums and had suggested that "the archives of the Reichs‧kolonialamts and the Reich Marine Office should be merged with the corresponding facilities of the Großer Generalstab and an independent Reich archive should be created in a city yet to be determined, which would be directly subordinated to the Reich Ministry [cabinet]". Ministerialdirigent Meyer-Gerhard had contradicted this in his memorandum of 30 Sept. 1919 and demanded that both the files and the extensive library of the R e i c h s k o l o n i a l ministry be handed over to the A u s w ä r t i g e s A m t , where he also wanted to see the permanently preserved Orga‧nisati‧onseinheiten of the Colonial Ministry located. Only the files that were no longer needed were to be destroyed or handed over to the Reich Archives. In fact, the files were initially handed over to the R e i c h s m i n g e r a m i n g for reconstruction and were inspected in 1924 when the Colonial Department was transferred to the Foreign Office. An inventory shows which files were transferred directly to the Reichsarchiv, transferred to the Auswärtiges Amt, or immediately became ver‧nichtet . While only very few files were immediately destroyed and by far the largest part of the files were immediately handed over to the archive, bean‧spruchte the Federal Foreign Office, in addition to some documents of fundamental Be‧deutung, even from long chronological volume sequences, mostly only those volumes which were important for the ak‧tuellen business and left the older volumes in each case to the archive. However, a large part of the Ak‧ten taken over from the Federal Foreign Office was also handed over to the Reichsarchiv during the course of the continuous reduction process to which the kolonialpoliti‧sche subdivision or the "Colonial Department" was exposed. Remnants of these documents were handed over to the Federal Archives by the Auswärti‧gen Office in February 2000. In 1945 the Reichsarchiv was probably home to a largely complete record of the central colonial administration of the German Reich. The orga‧nische character of the tradition forbid a breakdown of the documents, so that the entire tradition was stored in one inventory at the R e i c h s k o l o n i a l a m t zusammenge‧faßt . The R e i c h s k o l o n i a l a m t's destruction of the R e i c h s c h s a f t on 14 April 1945 severely affected the R e i c h s k o l o n i a l a m t's Ak‧ten . Approximately 30 of the holdings were burnt, including the registries KB I (budget and Rech‧nungswesen), II (technical matters) and III (railway matters). Also the files of the Schutztruppen and the files of the administrations that have reached the Reichsarchiv ein‧zelner Schutzgebiete have completely fallen victim to the flames. Archivische Bewertung und Bearbeitung In the Central State Archives of the GDR in Potsdam, the original registry order was discarded as Klassifika‧tion for the holdings during the processing of the Be‧stands 10.01 R e i c h s k o l o n i a l a m t . The mixed order, which combined registration, systematic and territorial criteria of order, was replaced by a structure, which arranged the files according to territorial aspects as far as possible. In the course of the revision of the finding aids for the present finding aid, which were compiled in the Central State Archives, the original order of the holdings was restored with the help of the registry aids that had been transferred to Bundesar‧chiv in 2000. The contexts of the original Regi‧straturordnung, according to An‧sicht, provide the author with a better and more systematic overview of the overall tradition than the systematic aspects of ver‧schleiernde "regionalisation" of the holdings. The former "Koblenz" inventory R 101 Reichskolonialamt consisted mainly of copies which the colonial writer Georg Thielmann-Groeg made, mainly in Reichsar‧chiv, from the files of the Reichskolonialamt. The indexing of this collection die‧sem Findbuch, which goes down to the individual file piece, is attached in an appendix because it compiles important documents on German colonial history in compressed form - with a focus on GermanSüd‧west‧afrika. For reasons of conservation, the oversized investment cards were taken from the volumes in inventory R 1001 and replaced by reference sheets. The maps were recorded on color macrofiches and organized in a mapNeben‧bestand under the designation R 1001 Kart. Content characterisation: Colonies and colonial policy, general; military and navy; colonial law, police matters; slaves and slave trade; research, surveying, demarcation; immigration, settlement, support, civil status; economy, trade, customs, taxes; agriculture and forestry; post and transport; missions and schools; health care. Non-German colonies and Liberia: British colonies; French colonies; Portuguese and Spanish colonies; Italian, Dutch, North American colonies. D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a and D e u t s c h - S ü d w e s t a f r i k a: Colonisation, general management and administration, political development; military and police, inspection and information tours; colonial law, criminal cases, inheritance and real estate; slavery and slave trade; research, surveying, demarcation; immigration, settlement, support, civil status; economy, trade, customs, taxes; agriculture, forestry, fishing; postal services and transport; missions and schools; health care. Cameroon: German-West African Trading Company, South and North-West Cameroon Society; colonisation, central and regional administration; political development; military and police, inspection and information tours; colonial law; research, surveying, demarcation; immigration, settlement, support, civil status; economy, trade, customs, taxes, banks, agriculture and forestry, fisheries; postal and transport services; health care; missions and schools. Togo: central and regional administration, political development; military and police, inspection and information missions; colonial law; research, surveying, demarcation; immigration, settlement, support, civil status; economy, trade, customs, taxes, banks; agriculture, forestry, fisheries; postal services and transport; missions, schools, health care. Congo: General; Berlin Conference. New Guinea: New Guinea company; colonization, central and regional administration, political development; military and police; colonial law; research, surveying, demarcation; immigration, settlement, support, civil status; economy, trade, taxes, customs, banks; agriculture, forestry, fishing; post and transport; health care, schools. Caroline, Mariana and Palau Islands: colonisation, general, management and administration, political development; colonial law; research, surveying, demarcation; immigration, settlement, support, civil status; economy, trade, customs, taxes; post and transport; missions, schools, health care. Samoa: colonisation, central and regional administration, political development; military; colonial law, police matters; research, surveying, demarcation; immigration, resettlement, civil status; economy, trade, customs, taxes, banks; agriculture and forestry; post, transport, shipping; missions, schools, health care. Marshall Islands: colonization, general management and administration, political development; research, surveying, settlement, employment; trade, customs, taxes, post, transport; missions, school, health care. Solomon Islands: Kiautschou/China R 1001 Annex: photocopies of documents on the acquisition of German colonial territories; photocopies of documents on Deutsch-Südwestafrika; copies of files of the Reichskolonialamt on Deutsch-Südwestafrika; diary of the Hottentot leader Hendrik Witbooi in Deutsch-Südwestafrika; horse breeding in North Cameroon. Erinnerungen von Kurt Freiherr von Crailsheim; "Kriegsnachrichten" newspaper from Deutsch-Südwestafrika, vol. 1915 no. 3; reproductions of portraits of various persons in Deutsch-Südwestafrika; curriculum vitae of Reichskommissar Dr. jur. Heinrich Goering. State of development: Publication Findbuch (2002); Online Findbuch (2003) Citation method: BArch, R 1001/...

Contains: Carton 2: - 1 stone tool with wooden handle - 1 stone tool, longer, damaged handle - 1 stone tool, broken wooden handle - 2 stone tools without wooden handle - 1 stone tool with short broken handle - 1 axe, Stone Age, New Guinea - 1/2 coconut in bast stand (drinking vessel) - 1 wooden vessel, Edge decorated (cup) - 1 animal head-like painted piece of wood, end broken off - 1 brown ribbon with beads - 1 ribbon turquoise/brown - 1 ribbon with light, flat jewellery parts - 1 bast jewellery part with straps and fringes - 1 part of bone/horn? beige with a smaller hole at the end - 1 stick with a fibrous frond - 1 fly swatter from Samoa - 1 fly swatter with feathers - 1 bast mini hat - 1 bone-drawn hard strand (stalk-like) - 2 light-coloured worked stones - 2 light-coloured stones with a hole in the middle

Samoan chieftains stand at the jetty to welcome a new German governor. / Photographer: Scherl