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

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

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

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

Soldiers of the Imperial Marien pose in front of a Buddhist temple in Tsingtau / Photographer: Scherl

Funeral of the fallen German soldiers at the cemetery of Swakopmund in March 1916 / Photographer: Scherl

Contains: 2 notebooks 1819 and 1838 - birthday letter 1848 - photo of the colonial summer festival in the Brauhof (Karlsplatz 4) 1907 - letter and inventory of the Armbrust-Schützengesellschaft 1946 - furniture seizure 1948 - letter to the mayor of Schöndorf 1860 (?). - Letter 1859 - Thanks poem to Grand Duchess Maria Pawlowna (printed matter) 1834 - leaflet Infant Care of the Reichsanstalt zur Bekämpfung der Säuglingssterblichkeit (o.D.) - annual report of the Verein zur Fürsorge für erwachsene Blinde des Großherzogtums Sachsen 1900.- Admission certificate to the Brand-Afssecuration Societät for buildings in Großbrembach 1782 - print "Napoleon` s des mortblichen Feldherr und Gesetzgeber Lebewohl" 1837 - call of the Russian army to the German soldiers (o.D.). - Birthday foundation for state welfare purposes 1898 - newspaper clippings: Weimarisches Wochenblatt, no. 24. u. 26.03.1830.- Allgemeine Zeitung no. 250 dated 7 September 1837, no. 251 dated 8 September 1837, no. 252 dated 9 September 1837.- Copy of the "Historische Nachrichten von der berühmten Residenzstadt Weimar (1737).- Copies of the "Historische Nachrichten von der berühmten Residenzstadt Weimar (1737).

A summary court is controlling the execution of three Africans. Loops are attached to the branch of a mango tree, on which the convicts are hanged. In the background and on the right you can see soldiers of an Askari company, on the left German officials and soldiers of the court of execution / Photographer: Scherl

Without the support of his native troops, the so-called Askaris, the German commander in East Africa, the famous General von Lettow-Vorbeck, could never have endured until the end of the war in 1918. The photo shows one of these soldiers from the German Schutztruppe with the imperial flag in his hand. Undated recording. / Photographer: Scherl

German soldiers in the jungle with a machine gun. The photo was taken by a photographer in captivity. / Photographer: Scherl

German soldiers (from left to right: Senior Physician Dr. Wolf, Lieutenant Baldamus, Lieutenant von Schappuis) in front of the customs house in Bagamojo with bullet hole in the colony of D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a during the First World War / Photographer: Scherl

Documents:20 picture-postcards (1901/1902)picture of Heinrich Prüß in uniform (1901)letter to his brother (1901)estate documents (1904-1911)12 photocopies of the estate documents (1904-1911)manuscript draft due to estate regulation (1905)literature:essay in the yearbook "Geschichte und Gegenwart" of the Verein für Kloster- und Heimatgeschichte Harsefeld e.V.. (Society for Monastery and Local History Harsefeld), Vol. 17 (2004) by Paul Reisener: Heinrich Prüß from Harsefeld fought and died in German-Southwest-Africa

German soldiers of the imperial navy in the main street in Tsingtau / Photographer: Scherl

Soldiers during the issue of orders during a manoeuvre of the German Schutztruppe in Tsingtau / Photographer: Scherl

Blacks from the Ruge-Ruga tribe who were recruited as soldiers in the German colony of East Africa. / Photographer: Scherl

Native soldiers in German protectorate Samoa / Photographer: Scherl

Baron von Spiegel and other officers of the landing corps of S.M.S. Cormoran with local police soldiers during an action during the prostration of the so-called Ponape uprising in the German colony / Photographer: Scherl