Content: Colonial Policy - Colonial Legislation - Protectorate Act - Reichskolonialamt - Colonial Service - Colonial Procurement - Schutztruppe - Togo, Cameroon, D e u t s c h - S ü d w e s t a f r i k a, D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a - Herero Uprising - Railway Construction - Colonial and Settlement Societies - Kiautschou/Tsingtau - Caroline Islands, Palau Islands and Mariana Islands - Colonial Policy and Research under National Socialist Rule - Position of Bremen in the Colonial Movement, especially Institute of Colonial Research

'Akonolinga. - Establishment of the post by Captain Dominik

photography

• 1904 - 1905, Stadtarchiv Nürnberg, E 10/32 NL Friedrich Stahln* Contains:<br />- 179 photos from German South West Africa (Lüderitz Bay, Walvis Bay, Swakopmund, Rietmont), Cape Town, Zanzibar and Dar-es-Salam (pictures of the Schutztruppe and the landscape)<br />- some newspaper articles about the German colonies

Contains: Memorandum on preparatory work for mobilization in the event of a war with a great power for D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a , April 1912; "Schutztruppe für Deutsch-Ostafrika" - Records of the Major General von Lettow-Vorbeck on contrasts between command and governor Schnee, without date; excerpts from letters to General von Lettow, 1914-1916

• Including:<br />- two negatives from a court martial in South West Africa<br />- 183 postcards (partly descriptive) with motifs (incl. Schutztruppen, locals, landscapes, places and buildings) from:<br />- German South West Africa (Namibia): a.o. Walvis Bay, Swakopmund, Windhoek, Abbabis, Otjitundo, Owamboland, Omaruru, Karibib, Kubas and Lüderitz Bay,<br />- German East Africa (Tanzania): including Tanga, Dar-es-Salaam<br />- Cape Colony (South Africa): Cape Town, Aliwal North<br />- Brazil: Guaruja. Brusque<br />- India: e.g. Ahmedabad, Abu<br />- Egypt: Port Said, Suez Canaln* 1904 - 1926, Stadtarchiv Nürnberg, E 10/32 NL Friedrich Stahl

Governor Adolf Graf von Götzen (5th from left) bids farewell to white and colored soldiers of the 5th Company of the German Protection Force in order to take a longer vacation in Germany. Count von Götzen was governor of German East Africa from 1901 to 1906 / Photographer: Scherl

Contains among other things: Testimonial booklets as Kadett 1881-1882 Testimonial booklets as Kadett 1883-1887 Appointment as Portepee Ensign in 4th Guard Regiment on Foot, Feb. 7, 1888 Testimony of Maturity as Officer, Dec. 24, 1888 Appointment as Seconde Lieutenant, Feb. 17, 1888 Granting of Permission to Carry the Name of Lettow-Vorbeck, Feb. 30, 1888 March 1891 appointed Premier-Lieutenant, 30 May 1895 certificate of the Kriegsakademie, 31 Oct. 1898 appointed Captain, 23 Oct. 1901 certificate of employment as Captain of the Schutztruppe, 23 March 1901 transferred from East Asian Expeditionary Corps to Queen Elisabeth Garde-Grenadier-Regiment No. 3, Sept. 9, 1901 Command to the Great General Staff, Sept. 14, 1906 Appointment as Major of the Infantry, March 22, 1907 Appointment as Lieutenant Colonel of the Marine Infantry, Oct. 1, 1913 Command as representative of the Commander of the Schutztruppe für Deutsch-Ostafrika, Oct. 12, 1913 Command as representative of the Commander of the Schutztruppe für Deutsch-Ostafrika, Sept. 12, 1913 Command as representative of the Commander of the Schutztruppe für Deutsch-Ostafrika, Sept. 12, 1913 Command as representative of the Commander of the Schutztruppe für Deutsch-Ostafrika, Sept. 12, 1913 Command as representative of the Commander of the German Army, Sept. 12, 196 Appointment as Major of the Infantry, March 22, 1907 Appointment as Lieutenant Colonel of the Marine Infantry, Oct. 12, 1913 Command as representative of the Schutz. Dec. 1913 promotion to Major General, Oct. 29, 1917 permission to carry on the uniform of the Schutztruppe, March 1, 1919 appointment as leader of a Reichswehr brigade, March 9, 1919 resignation from the Reichswehr, Sept. 30, 1919

description: Contains:Content: Luschan's reference to former pupils Fülleborn, who goes to DOA as a doctor for the Schutztruppe and should pay special attention to the masks, initiations and tattoos of the condoms.

description: Contains:Content: Ober-Kommando der Schutztruppen, Berlin: Sending a request from the chief physician of the Schutztruppe for DOA, Brünn, whether he could send his collected ethnographica to the Völkerkundemuseum in Stuttgart - Luschans replies, who wishes to see the collection presented with a quotation due to the possible purchase of the Berlin museum.letters: 1

description: Contains:Acquisition: a.) I/73/1898 b.) I/110/1898: a.) III E 6072-6111 u. 6123-6125, VII A 486-490, p. 494-497, p. 490-493, ethnogr. and four skulls. For this three skulls and a skeleton were added later. (Ubena u. Uhehe), donation Dr. Stierling b.) III E 6126, powder box (East Africa, Ubena), donation Dr. Stierling -- content/contains: Chief Physician of the Kaiserl. Protection troop DOA Stierling in Tanga from 18 May 1898: Donation of Ethnographica - object list - would provide Anthropologica from walking Africans on loan. Consignment 1 box with ethical objects 18.5.1898Letters: 3

description: Contains:only: von Stuemer: The Imperial Protection Force for D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a . Potsdam : Schneider, [1937]. 19 S.

description: Contains:StartVNr: E 856/1905; EndVNr: E 1794/1905; and others: Cooperation with the Museum of Natural History, pp. 121, and the Colonial Museum, Berlin, (1905), pp. 32 et seq. Cooperation with the Museum für Völkerkunde, Cologne, pp. 38 et seq., and the South African Museum, Cape Town, (1905), pp. 231 et seq. Distribution of doubles to the antiquity society Prussia, Königsberg, p. 15, and the Landesmuseum, Darmstadt, (1905), p. 80 - Distribution of doubles to private individuals, (1905), p. 9, 70 - Cooperation with the governor of DOA, (1905), p. 15, and the Landesmuseum, Darmstadt, (1905), p. 80 - Distribution of doubles to private individuals, (1905), p. 9, p. 70 - Cooperation with the governor of DOA, (1905), p. 15, and the Landesmuseum, Darmstadt, (1905), p. 16. 12 - Cooperation with the High Command of the Schutztruppe, Berlin, (1905), p. 101 - Cooperation with missionaries, p. 96, 116, and the Basler Mission (1905), p. 23 - Schweinfurth: Report from Cairo, p. 3 f., Sendung von Thurfhölzern, (1905), pp. 6 f.- Albinus: Sendung eines Wangoni-Stuhles, (1905), pp. 18 - Verhandlungen zur Verbleib der Doppeltten der Slg. Thierry, (1905), pp. 38 ff - Schwartz: Bericht über die Aufnahme von Gesänge, (1905), pp. 63 f.- Müller: Report about the colonial exhibition in the Sydenham Crystal Palace, London, (1905), pp. 111 f.- by Luschan: Antiquities in Rhodesia, pp. 125 ff., Identification of a kaffir skeleton, Abschr., pp. 233, Impression of a bushman after life, (1905), Abschr., Bl. 235 f.- [Oldman:] "Price List of a few Miscellaneous Genuine Specimens selected from Stock ...", [1905], duplication, Bl. 100, 129, and "Illustrated Catalogue of ethnographical Specimens ...", printed on paper, May 1905, p. 130 ff., July 1905, p. 136 ff., August 1905, p. 142 ff.- Ankermann: Report on a part of the Slg. Fonck, (1905), p. 169 - Fonck: Report on the circumcision ceremony of the Wagogo boys and a '"telephone" from the Makonde plateau, (1906), p. 197 - Dessauer: Location of a skeleton, p. 238, Report on Young's intention to publish the Bushman drawings, (1905), p. 241 f.

description: Contains:StartVNr: E 2210/1910; EndVNr: E 1670/1911; and others: Cooperation with the Botanical Museum, pp. 387, and the Museum of Natural History, Berlin, (1911), pp. 110, 387 ff. - Sale of doublets to the Anthropological Institute of the University, Wroclaw, (1910), pp. 33 ff., the Museums für Völkerkunde, Leipzig, pp. 78 ff, Hamburg, pp. 280, Munich, (1911), pp. 383, and Stuttgart, (1910, 1913), pp. 14 ff., 148 on loan from the Saalburgmuseum, Homburg v.d.H., (1911, 1959), pp. 360 - Cooperation with the Kolonialinstitut, Hamburg, (1911), pp. 62 f. - Distribution of duplicates to private individuals, (1911), pp. 154 ff, 199, 238, 249, 372 - Cooperation with the editors of the Globus, (1910), p. 56, the Kolonialkriegerdank Association, p. 87, 129, 233, the Command of the Schutztruppen, p. 133, the Ethnological Assistance Committee, p. 220 ff, the German Colonial Society, Berlin, pp. 240 ff., the Kriegsmarine-Ausstellung, Oldenburg, pp. 50, and the Command of the Schutztruppe, Windhoek, (1911), pp. 130 - Cooperation with the White Fathers, (1910, 1911), pp. 58 ff, 251 ff. - Fechtner: Skull Shipment, (1911), p. 75 - Siegmann: Origin of the Skeletons Sent in by Maercker, (1910), p. 121 - von Sick: Corrections and Negotiations for His Work on the Wanyaturu, (1911), p. 138 ff - Lunkenbein: Offer of Skeletons, (1911), p. 160 - "General Adjustment pr. Steamship 'Oron' ...", (1911), duplication, pp. 170 ff.- [Peters:] "Ophir of the ancients. Dr. Carl Peters' theories..." [1911], Ztg.-Article, pp. 202 f.- Braunschweig: Report on planned colonial activities in the southeast of DOA, (1911), pp. 228 f.- His: "Description of the ... Poison arrows and daggers of the Herero..." (1911), Bl. 247.- Minist. the Spiritual Affairs: Report on awards, (1911), p. 283 - van Gennep: Report on his collecting activities and contacts among Mediterranean cultures, (1911), p. 293 ff - "From Grootfontein. In: Südwest-Afrikanische Ztg. : 1911-06-13, p. 326 - Staudinger: Request for support for Crompton, (1911), p. 342 ff.

Black auxiliary troops of the Schutztruppe accompany a carrier troop in the German colony East Africa / Photographer: Scherl

Coloured soldiers of the German Schutztruppe, so-called Askari, at a parade in the station yard in Tanga in front of Governor Hermann von Wissmann. Hermann von Wissmann was governor of D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a in the years 1895-96 / Photographer: Scherl

Coloured soldiers of the German Schutztruppe, so-called Askari, at a parade in Dar es Salaam on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Schutztruppe in D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a / Photographer: Scherl

Coloured soldiers of a company of the German Schutztruppe, so-called Askari, marching out in the first days of the First World War / Photographer: Scherl

Native auxiliary soldiers (so-called Askaris) of the German Schutztruppe in D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a and German soldiers deport prisoners of war / Photographer: Scherl

Native soldiers of the Schutztruppe in D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a practice 'firing in two limbs'. / Photographer: Scherl

Native auxiliary soldiers (so-called Askaris) of the German Schutztruppe in D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a . Scene from the African Anabasis / Photographer: Scherl

Native auxiliary soldiers (so-called Askaris) of the German Schutztruppe in D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a march with a trained rifle / Photographer: Scherl

Two warriors from the Ruga Ruga tribe are employed as local auxiliary soldiers (so-called Askaris) of the German Schutztruppe in D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a . / Photographer: Scherl

Group of local soldiers on the march. The Askaris supported the German Schutztruppe under General Lettow-Vorbeck until the end of the war in 1918. / Photographer: Scherl

Black soldiers of the German Schutztruppe march out in Dar es Salam for an exercise / Photographer: Scherl

Askaris (soldiers from Tanzania) of the Schutztruppe für Deutsch-Ostafrika (Tanzania) during the exercise with the heliograph / Photographer: Scherl

The music band of the Askaris (native soldiers of the Schutztruppe für Deutsch-Ostafrika) plays their wind instruments. / Photographer: Scherl

The music band of the Askaris (native soldiers of the Schutztruppe für Deutsch-Ostafrika) plays their wind instruments. / Photographer: Scherl

History of the Inventory Designer: 1885 Imperial letter of protection issued for the acquisitions of the D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a Gesellschaft, 1885-1890 administration by the D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i kanische Gesellschaft under Carl Peters; 1891 assumption of direct administration by the German Reich; 1916 retreat of the Schutztruppe from the British-Belgian troops and collapse of the German administration; end of the war in D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a in November 1918. Inventory description: Inventory history The original inventory Authorities of the German protectorate Deutsch-Ostafrika is located in the National Archive of Tanzania in Dar es Salaam. The Central State Archives in Potsdam had 33 supplementary films for the period 1900 to 1916 made from this stock, some of which were selected. The 5 archive units described in the online find book presumably came with other colonial traditions to the Reichsarchiv and in 1950 to the Deutsches Zentralarchiv in Potsdam. Archivische Bearbeitung (Archive processing) The remaining files recorded in the Central State Archives in Potsdam have been the subject of a search index, whose information was stored in the database of the Federal Archives in 2002. In 2003, a finding aid book (R 1003 FC) was produced for the supplementary inventory films. Content characterization: Imperial Government of Dar es Salaam; Imperial Residences of Bukoba, Gitega, Rwanda, Urundi; Imperial District Branch Office of Umbulu; Imperial Administrative Branch Office of Usumbura; Personal Files. State of development: Findbuch 2003; Online-Findbuch 2005 Citation method: BArch, R 1003/...

Contains among other things: participants in combat operations