History of the inventor: In 1884 the German Reich took over the protection of the Bremen merchant Franz Adolf Eduard Lüderitz by acquiring land; in 1885 the German administration was established; the German colonial society, founded in 1895, expanded the German sphere of influence; in 1915 the Schutztruppe surrendered to the armed forces of the South African Union and the German administration ended. Inventory description: Inventory history At the end of the 1930s, the Reichsarchiv took over the files of the Colonial Administration of D e u t s c h - S ü d w e s t a f r i k a, in some cases with considerable gaps in their transmission. After the relocation caused by the war, they were transferred to the Central State Archive in Potsdam in 1945. Here, the classification of the holdings into the central administration of Windhoek, the local administrations and the special administrations (justice, police, mining, railways) with their substructures, which had already been carried out in the Reich Archives, was preserved. The few volumes of files kept in the Federal Archives in Koblenz were assigned to the holdings after the reunification of Germany. Archive evaluation and processing In addition to the factual files of the most varied areas and administrative levels, the personnel files of the inspection of the state police as well as the railway administration and railway construction authorities form the most extensive groups of files with about 80 per cent of the transmission. The classification of the stock was carried out largely in accordance with the classification shown in the provisional finding aid, which was based on the registry scheme valid at the time. Only in a few individual cases were volumes assigned to a different classification. The order and titles of the volumes remained essentially unchanged. An index of persons, objects and places has been omitted, so that searches are only possible via the online version of this finding aid book. Content characterisation: Central administration; governorate in Windhoek; commissioner of the former governorate in Windhoek; local administration; district offices; district offices; administration of justice; high court in Windhoek; district courts; mountain authorities; registration aids. State of development: Findbuch 1942; Online-Findbuch 2002 Citation method: BArch, R 1002/...

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Contains among other things: Assumption of civil servants, clergy and teachers from the Alsace-Lorraine Imperial and State Service, from the Imperial Colonial Service as well as from the Consular Service and the Foreign Service into the Württemberg State Service, 1919; Draft of a law concerning the the transfer of the powers of the Alsace-Lorraine Provincial Administration to the Reich Ministry of the Interior, 1919; announcement of the Ministry of Church and School Affairs of 6 October 1911 concerning the salary regulations for teachers at secondary schools, at trade and business schools and at women's work schools; law concerning the income situation of primary school teachers of 14 August 19191911; Resolution of the 7th extraordinary German Rectors' Conference in favour of the lecturers and students expelled from Strasbourg, June 1919; Draft of a law and principles on the accommodation of civil servants from the areas to be ceded and the administrations to be reduced in size, 1920; Proposal on the distribution of surplus civil servants among the Reich and the Länder, 1920; Guidelines for the Recruitment of Employees, 1920; Submission of the German East Mark Association e.V. concerning applications for reinstatement in the Reichsdienst by former Reich-German Reich civil servants in the Polish civil service, 4.1.1921. see also No. 726 and 727