Contains among other things: Destruction of Saadani and Ivingi by landing departments of German warships (reports, transcripts), July 1889 capture of Pangani on July 8, 1889 (report SMS "Leipzig", transcript), July 1889 capture of Tanga on July 10, 1889. July 1889 (report SMS "Carola", transcript), July 1889 Conquest of the south of the East African coastal region (reports SMS "Schwalbe" and East African station with map sketch, transcripts), May 1890 Political situation in Samoa (report Australian station, transcript), 11. Sept. 1894 Intervention of SMS "Iltis" for the protection of a German steamer in Tamsui/Formosa (report of the imperial consul in Tamsui, transcript), June 7, 1895 Conclusions from the Japanese-Chinese naval battles for warship construction and armoring (duplication), o. D. Conditions in the North Chinese fleet and its activity during the first half of the Japanese-Chinese war (report, reprint), Oct. 14, 1897

Tsingtau (China). Shipyards with dock for 16000 t ships. View from a deep-sea passenger steamer (?), Weltreisen Tsingtau* subtitle: Lübeck, Oswald (photographer), 1911

Contains: Military medical statistics; medical reports

Photographer: Schanz?. Photo type: photo. Format: 10,5 X 7,5. Description: taken from the ship.

Phototype: Photo. Format: 10,9 X 7,2. Description: Landscape photograph from the ship. Remark: on reverse side: Carl Thomas, Steglitz, Düppelstraße 40, film negative is enclosed.

Description of series: Documents relating to the certificates and survey reports for all equipment and functioning of a vessel. History Prior/Subsequent to Transfer: "Prior to transfer-" The "Prinz Sigismund" a merchant vessel of 3302 tons gross and 1844 tons net register, arrived in Brisbane from Japan on 4/8/1914. The vessel was detained as an enemy (German) vessel on 5/8/1914 and seized 'in prize 'on 6/8/1914. After, she was brought before the Prize Court for adjudication; she was taken over from the Commonwealth Government by the Western Australian Government for trading on the coast of that state. She was renamed the 'BAMBRA'. In 1927 the "BAMBRA" was handed over to the United Kingdom Government and was subsequently sold to a Dutch firm of shipbreakers. Ordinarily the ship's papers would have been passed on to the Western Australian Government with the ship, but at the particular time this was overlooked and they remained in the custody of the Collector of Customs, Qld, until transfer to Archives. Subsequent to transfer - The documents are written in German, however it was ascertained that, in the main, the documents relate to: - Certificate of Seaworthiness, Docking Freeboard Certificate, Machine Certificate, Lloyds Test Certificate (Anchors), Government Surveyors Certificate of Measurements and Seaworthiness, General Licence for the Conveyance of Chinese Emigrants, Survey Certificate.

Contains among other things: 7524: Cathrina (motor sailer) - 7525: Arnold Koepke (steamer) - 7525: Eberhard (steamer) - 7526: Julius Pickenpack (fishing steamer) - 7527: Meta Osterwisch (motor ship) - 7527: Welf Heinrich (motor ship) - 7528: Return home (motor sailer).- 7529: Anita (fishing vessel).- 7530: Franziska (motor sailer).- 7531: Herta (motor sailer).- 7532: Swanhild (motor sailer).- 7532: Wilfriede Klünder (motor sailer).- 7533: Maja (motor vessel).- 7533: Marotte (motor vessel).- 7534: Water lily (fishing vessel) - 7535: Matador (motor sailer) - 7536: Hoi Fook (motor lighter) - 7537: Hoi Kong (motor lighter) - 7538: Helene (fishing cutter) - 7539: Olga (fishing cutter) - 7539: Samoa (fishing cutter).- 7540: Hein Herbert (motor glider) - 7541: Achim Griese (motor glider) - 7541: Conrad Lühring (motor glider) - 7542: Gerda II (motor glider) - 7543: Ingrid (motor ship) - 7544: Hartwig (motor glider) - 7544: Irma (motor glider).- 7545: Ernst (motor vessel).- 7546: Amazon (motor vessel).- 7547: Traute (fishing vessel).- 7548: Hertha (fishing vessel).- 7549: Elsa Köppen (steamer).- 7549: Luvsee (steamer).- 7550: Auguste (motor sailer).- 7550: Emmi (motor sailer).- 7550: Fekawa (motor sailer).- 7551: Anna (fishing vessel).- 7552: Pierre Loti (motor vessel).- 7553: Gertrud (motor vessel).- 7553: Lat di man Tied (motor vessel).- 7554: Günther (motor sailer).- 7555: Aar (motor sailer) - 7556: Celle (fishing vessel) - 7557: Regenpfeifer (fishing cutter) - 7558: Marie (fishing vessel) - 7559: Willkomm (fishing cutter) - 7560: Belt (tank steamer) - 7561: Henry (motor sailer) - 7562: Antje (motor schooner).- 7563: Anni (motor sailer).- 7563: Caecilie (motor sailer).- 7565: Marieanne (motor sailer).- 7566: H.C. Horn (motor ship).- 7566: Heinrich (motor ship).- 7567: Welf (motor ship).- 7568: Jadran (motor sailer).- 7569: Maria. 7570: Irene Schöning (motor glider) - 7571: Elisabeth (motor glider) - 7572: Heinz Brey (motor sailer).- 7573: Fairplay XVII (tug).- 7574: Bilbao (steamer).- 7574: Cameroon (steamer).- 7574: Plus (steamer).- 7575: Thalatta (motor sailer).- 7576: Eleonore (motor sailer).- 7577: Diver O. Wulf (motor ship).- 7578: Anna Elfriede (motor sailer).- 7578: Dolphin (motor sailer) - 7579: Marion Traber (steamer) - 7580: Grete (motor sailer) - 7580: Irma (motor sailer) - 7581: Erni (motor sailer) - 7581: Gertrud (motor sailer) - 7582: Caribia (motor ship) - 7583: Margarita (steamer) - 7584: Wilhelm A. Riedemann (motor ship) - 7585: Wilhelmina (motor ship) - 7586: Mönchgut (motor ship) - 7587: Anne (steamer) - 7587: Sailing house (steamer) - 7588: Gedania (tank steamer) - 7589: Glücksburg (steamer) - 7590: Duburg (steamer) - 7591: Albert Janus (steamer).- 7591: Heinrich Schuldt (steamer) - 7592: Hein Godenwind (motor sailer) - 7593: China Exporter (steamer) - 7594: Helios (tank lighter) - 7595: Seagull (fishing vessel) - 7596: Edith (fishing cutter) - 7597: Mien Bertha (motor sailer) - 7598: Pollux (motor glider)

Contains among other things: Fleet War on Dalan and the Caroline Islands

Contains among other things: Plan for the testing of the surveying ship and final report of the testing from 12 to 26 March 1907 Travel reports Report on the "Seagull Department" on Lake Tanganyika in D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a 1914 to 1916 as well as on the activities during the outbreak of war in D e u t s c h - O s t Asia 1914

Contains among other things: Travel reports on journeys to Sydney, Apia, New Guinea Conservation Area, Bismarck Archipelago, Samoa, Colombo, Malta, Port-Said, Gibraltar, Hamburg and from Kiel to the East African station Training reports Military policy reports on the situation in Samoa in March 1899 and on events in Carupano in June 1902

Contains among other things: Travelogues about journeys from Apia to Sydney, in the protectorates of the Marshall Islands and the New Guinea Company, activity and training reports, etc.

Photographer: Schanz?. Phototype: Photo. Format: 10,5 X 7,5. Description: taken from the ship.

Photographer: Schanz?. Phototype: Photo. Format: 10,5 X 6,7. Description: taken from the ship.

Contains among other things: Mutiny on the German steamer "Lotte Menzell" (report SMS "Hertha", transcript), Oct. 1912 Scientific expedition on the Empress Augusta River in German New Guinea (report SMS "Condor" with 11 photos, transcript), Jan. 1913 Unrest in Liberia - Protection of the German population by SMS "Bremen", "Eber" and "Panther". (Report SMS "Bremen", transcript), Jan. 1913

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: "Buzzard", "Falcon" - Apia reports about political conditions on Samoa 1893

Execution: Photography Persons and institutions involved in the creation: Louis Koch, Bremen, photographer Image carrier: Photo paper glued to cardboard Image and sheet size: 27 x 22 cm; 29 x 23.5 cm Remarks: from Marchtaler's estate, Otto Erhard, Generalobst. and Kriegsm., backs. V.: The steamer Rhine with the 3rd East Asia. Inf.-Rgt. after the departure by Emperor Wilhelm II. on 6. 8.1900 before the start of the journey to China, picture with creased corner

Carl Richard Müller was born on 2 June 1889 in Knauthain near Leipzig. After finishing school, he learned the profession of gardener from 1903-1906 and then worked in several German and Swiss towns. From the beginning of 1908 until October 1909 he had a job as a gardener at the cemetery on Casinostraße in Solingen. In 1910 and 1911 he did his military service as a naval artillerist in the German colony of Tsingtau in China. At the end of his service he concluded a contract of several years with the company Hernsheim, which traded and planted in the German colonial area of New Guinea/Bismarck Archipelago on the equator north of Australia. In 1912 he worked on the Bismarck Archipelago and the Solomon Islands Bougainville. After an eventful year in which he was able to realize his childhood dream as a planter in the South Seas for the first time, but also lost some illusions about life in the colonies, the employment contract was terminated prematurely (apparently after differences with the company) and Müller returned to Germany via Australia. Severe malaria attacks tortured him on his way home and in Germany, but his homeland could not keep him in the long run. From summer 1913 to spring 1914 he sought his fortune in Argentina, but found no satisfactory job and decided to apply for immigration to Australia. At the end of June 1914 he had the necessary entry papers and boarded the German steamer Roon in Antwerp with the destination Freemantle. When the world war broke out in August 1914 and Great Britain took the side of the German opponents, the ship had to break off the voyage to Australia and seek refuge in Dutch India. From 1914 to 1940 he worked at four different stations, from 1927 on Tandjongdjati in southern Sumatra, where he cultivated coffee and rubber, and in 1939 the Belgian owners appointed him manager. The climax of his career was followed by a sudden end. The invasion of the Netherlands by the Wehrmacht on 10 May 1940 turned German citizens into enemies in the Dutch colonial empire. For Müller and many others the period of internment began - until the end of 1941 in the Dutch camp Alasvallei in northern Sumatra, then under British control in the camp Premnagar near Dehra Dun in northern India at the foot of Hima-laya. Only in autumn 1946 the prisoner Carl Richard Müller number 56134 was released and arrived in Solingen in December 1946. Here he found work in the nursery Diederich in Wald, to which he also remained faithful as a pensioner with casual work. In 1966 he had to give up his independent life because of bad health and moved to the Eugen-Maurer-Heim in Gräfrath. There he died on 21 March 1973. The estate has preserved some of Müller's adventurous life. Müller and other prisoners used the enforced inactivity during the long internment years for writing and for lectures in their own circle. Of these works, pieces have been preserved which are of particular interest for research into German colonial rule and European planting in the South Seas. Müller's autobiographical manuscripts about the years 1912-1940, which he thought he could summarize as the "ro-man of a fortune-seeker" (documents 11 and 12 with the addition of the photographs in documents 6 and 7 and cards in documents 17 and 26), are to be mentioned first and foremost. In addition there are numerous essays by Müller on plant cultures, economic and technical problems on the plantations and abstracts on the nature and fauna of Indonesia, mainly Sumatra (documents 13 to 16). Work done by fellow prisoners on their experiences in Indonesia and Australia can be found in file 23, including a report on detention in Sumatra with a shorter annex on time in India. Relatively little is known about camp life in Dehra Dun; Müller, however, kept a booklet titled "Männerworte" (Aktenstück 5), in which 22 fellow prisoners registered themselves with words of remembrance. The photographs of Müller's life in Solingen after 1946 are primarily preserved, of which the works for Diederich may be of local historical interest (file 8). Furthermore, the collection contains a file of the Social Welfare Office of the City of Solingen. The stock was handed over to the City Archive by the Social Welfare Office in a suitcase, which was separated from the above documents at the time of recording. The stock was recorded for the first time in September 1998 by Anika Schulze, developed by Hartmut Roehr in 2007.

Contains among other things: Equipment, costs, transport of coal supplies by steamer "Marie" to China Installation of steamer "Elsa" to transfer workers to Kiautschou

Contains among other things: S. M. S. "Bremen": St. Thomas, Bermuda, Newport, St. John, Bahia, Cape Henry, Hampton Roads, New York, Washington S. M. S. "Panther": Cameroon, Lagos, Forcados, Freetown, Las Palmas, Oro-Mündung, Tenerife, Madeira, Monravia, Lome S. M. S. "Loreley": Constantinople (Turkish-Italian conflict), Galatia, Odessa, Nikolayev, Sevastopol, Novorossisk, Gagri, Batum, Sinope, Therapia, Thessaloniki, Athos, Thasos S. M. S. "Condor": Sydney, Suva, Brisbane (strike), Melbourne, Samoa S. M. S. "Scharnhorst": Nagasaki, Kobe, Yokohama S. M. S. "Eber": Cape Town, Lüderitz Bay, Swakopmund, Lobito, Loanda, Duala, Lome, Axin S. M. S. "Seeadler": Lourenco-Marques, Mozambique S. M. S. "G 175": Malta, Tunis, Southampton S. M. S. "Moltke/Stettin": Ponta Delgada, Cape Henry, Hamton Roads, New York, Washington S. M. S. "Hansa": Karlskrona, St. Petersburg S. M. S. "Tsingtau": Santong S. M. S. "Gdansk": Uddevalla S. M.S. "Vineta": Stockholm, Libau, Falmouth, Madeira S.M.S. "Polecat": Futschau, Swatau, Falmouth, Madeira S.M.S. "Lynx": Futschau S.M.S. "Hertha": Helsingfors (strike) S. M. S. "Vultures": Piraeus, Corfu, Port Said, Jaffa, Haifa, Trieste Cruise Wing: Report on the situation in China, Japan, Korea, North China S. M. S. "Planet": Kelung, Luzon, Cebu, Ternate

Contains among other things: Visit of a Reichstag delegation in Tsingtau Reports on trips to Tsinafu, Shanghai, Hong Kong Governor's trip to Japan and Manchuria Damage to the quay wall at the shipyard area by Japanese steamship "Tateyama-Maru" in March 1907

Photographer: Schanz? Phototype: photograph. Format: 10.5 X 7.5. Description: taken from the ship.

Photographer: Schanz?. Phototype: photograph. Format: 10.5 X 7.5. Description: taken from the ship.

Contains also: Blueprints of the motorboat Ching-Peh (scale 1 : 25 000)

Book page and print photographs