Explanation: The company was run under this name as its own business since 1888 by Johann Karl Vietor, but was able to make use of the branches in Ghana, Togo, Dahomey, Cameroon, Liberia and Guinea, which had been founded by other members of the Vietor family since 1857. After the severe setback in the First World War, the company was rebuilt in Liberia, Ghana and Togo, but this was destroyed by the world economic crisis, so that the company died out in 1932. It was partly in close contact with other companies co-founded by J. K. Vietor. Content: Business papers before the First World War, in particular land purchases, inventories, insurance of factories in Togo (Anedlo, Palime, Lomé), in Ghana (Keta) and in Dahomey (Porto Novo) - Complete company registration after the First World War, in particular Reich compensation for war and colonial damage, correspondence with other companies and own branches - Liquidation

Contains among other things: Request for release of land ownership in Cameroon; Negotiation on the release

The first German airplane and the first German car in the colony Deutsch-Südwestafrika in the First World War / Photographer: Scherl

Announcement by Governor Seitz to the Boers in the colony of German South-West Africa in the First World War / Photographer: Scherl

Artillery department of the Schutztruppe with ox team / Photographer: Scherl

Contains among other things: List of the sale of ex-Enemy properties in the British Sphere of the Cameroons, West Africa in Cameroon; draft contract for Fako-Pflanzungen GmbH concerning the granting of a loan for the repurchase of land; report on the steps taken to reclaim the plantation area on the Great Cameroon Hill; Report on the result of the London auction of Cameroonian plantations; overview of the loans granted by the German government to the German purchasers through the intermediary of Fako-Pflanzungen GmbH on the basis of the auction of German plantations on the Cameroon Mountains in London in November 1924; report on the condition of the repurchased plantations on the Great Cameroon Mountain, May/June 1925; Ekona AG and Kautschuk-Pflanzung "Meanja" AG.- Estimate of the operation, 1925 to 1926; West African Plantation Company "Victoria" - Account of funds received so far

Contains among other things: Summary of the repurchase of the plantation areas on the Great Cameroon Hill; articles of association of the Fako Society; evidence of the compensation paid by the Reich Compensation Office for War Damages to the owners of the Cameroon plantations and of the amounts granted to them from the Fako loans; loan application of the Fako GmbH - expert opinions and operational calculations; overview of the loans granted from the Ten Million Fund

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

Camel rider patrol of the Schutztruppe at the rest / Photographer: Scherl

Captured English march through the streets of Windhoek / Photographer: Scherl

Soldier of the cavalry on a horse in the steppe in German-Southwest-Africa in the First World War / Photographer: Scherl

Contains among other things: Compensation claims of the Catholic Mission in Cameroon for damages caused by violence and liquidation; list of the German mission societies; overview of the German Protestant mission societies; decision on the Reich membership of the Catholic Zambezi Mission

Contains among other things: Criticism of the organization of the Reich Compensation Office by the colonist associations of 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 and Cameroon

Public appeal to war volunteers in German Southwest Africa in the First World War / Photographer: Scherl

Photos from the time of the German colonial rule in Cameroon: Yaoundé and surroundings (buildings, visits, festivals), "natives", travels in Cameroon, transfer of the colonial administration to Rio Muni (Spanish possession)

• 1917, Landeskirchliches Archiv Stuttgartn* Contains, among other things:<br />- Witness statement by Heinrich Stahl (1875-1954) on the capture of the Germans in Duala (appendix 27, pp. 121-124)

Emergency money as a substitute for missing legal tender in the colony of German South-West Africa during the First World War / Photographer: Scherl

Emergency money as replacement for missing legal tender in the colony Deutsch-Südwestafrika in the First World War / Photographer: Scherl

A captive English colonel in the colony German South West Africa in the First World War / Photographer: Scherl

Transport of the English captured in the battle at Sandfontein / Photographer: Scherl

View of a tropical landscape Undescribed

Section of the Mora position in northern Cameroon: Sergeant Weissenberger on a captured English machine gun while firing at the opposite English position / Photographer: Scherl

Colony Deutsch-Südwestafrika in the First World War: A German prison camp in Aus. / Photographer: Scherl

Contains among other things: Acquisition of confiscated real estate by means of advance purchase, inter alia, by the Hamburg Afrika-Gesellschaft; acquisition of confiscated goods by the French administration

Contains among other things: Auction of confiscated goods in Cameroon - List of properties; Tanganyika Territory: "Conditions of Sale of Enemy Properties"; Liquidated German property in East Africa - List

Soldiers of the Schutztruppe load the horses in the colony Deutsch-Südwestafrika during the First World War / Photographer: Scherl

Embarkation of loads for an officer patrol at Spekegolf, a bay at Lake Victoria / Photographer: Scherl

Map of the movements of the German Schutztruppe and the South African armed forces in German Southwest Africa during the First World War / Photographer: Scherl