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History of the inventor: Born 21 September 1865 in Baldenburg, district of Schlochau, died 31 December 1924 in Dresden. 1874 Admission to the Kulmer Kadettenkorps, then Prussian Hauptkadettenanstalt and in April 1885 entry as lieutenant second in the infantry regiment "von borcke" (4th Pommersches) No. 21 in Thorn. 1887 Transfer to the 2nd Lower Alsatian Infantry Regiment No. 137 in September 1888, one year's leave of absence to go to Africa. After a short time working for the D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i kanische Gesellschaft as an officer in the Schutztruppe für Deutsch-Ostafrika. On 18 May 1889 he took part in a battle at Dar-es-Salam as part of the suppression of the so-called Arab uprising. 1890 He rejoins the army. 1891-1904 Education at the Prussian Academy of War; 1895 transfer to the Grand General Staff. In the same year wedding with Luise Lindner. In 1898 he was promoted to captain during his command at the Reichsmarineamt, which from 1898 to 1899 included surveying work in the Kiautschou leasehold. 1900 Return to Germany and activity in the general staff. From 1902 company commander in infantry regiment 41. In 1904 promotion to major and transfer to the general staff of the stage command of the Schutztruppe für Deutsch-Südwestafrika. There he participated in the so-called Herero and Hottentot campaigns. During the Nama Uprising, Maercker led the Schutztruppen units in the Battle of Nubib and was wounded. 1910 Farewell to the Schutztruppe and appointment as battalion commander in the infantry regiment "König Ludwig III. von Bayern" (2nd Lower Silesian) No. 47. 1912 promotion lieutenant colonel; 1913 appointment as commander of the North Sea island Borkum. 1914 Promotion to colonel. 1915 and 1916 as regiment commander participation in the position fights at the Kormyn and at the Styr, afterwards at the western front, among others Yser, in the Wyschaete arch as well as at St. Eloi. Wounded in the Battle of the Somme in 1916, then in positional battles on the Aisne. At the end of 1916 he took part in the battles on the Narajowka and Zlota Lipa; from 1917 he was deployed on the western front: Somme, Wytschaete Arc, Yser, Arras, Champagne and Flanders with renewed wounding. Awarded the Pour le Mérite Order on 1 October 1917 and the Pour le Mérite Oak Leaf Order on 3 May 1918. On 18 August 1917 promotion to Major General and appointment as Commander of the 214th Division. In December 1918 Maercker formed the Freikorps "Landesjäger" from parts of his division; deployment of the Freikorps during the suppression of the Spartakus uprising in January 1919 in Berlin, followed by deployments in Weimar, Gotha, Erfurt, Halle, Magdeburg, Braunschweig and Helmstedt. On 2 May the Freikorps was integrated into the Reichswehr as Reichswehrbrigade 16. On 28 April 1920 Maercker was released from active military service. In 1922 he founded the Deutscher Kolonialkriegerbund. Processing note: General Wehrkreis IV (Saxony)? Description of the holdings: Major General, documents, personal letters, training documents, portrait photos, colonial history: General der Schutztruppe für Deutsch-Südwestafrika. R e i c h s k o l o n i a l a m t , surveying Tsingtau, commander of the infantry in the First World War in France and Belgium, Wehrkreiskommando IV, Freikorpsführer Geb. 21. September 1865 in Baldenburg, Kreis Schlochau, died 31. December 1924 in Dresden. 1874 Admission to the Kulmer Kadettenkorps, then Prussian Hauptkadettenanstalt and in April 1885 entry as lieutenant second in the infantry regiment "von borcke" (4th Pommersches) No. 21 in Thorn. 1887 Transfer to the 2nd Lower Alsatian Infantry Regiment No. 137 in September 1888, one year's leave of absence to go to Africa. After a short time working for the D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i kanische Gesellschaft as an officer in the Schutztruppe für Deutsch-Ostafrika. On 18 May 1889 he took part in a battle at Dar-es-Salam as part of the suppression of the so-called Arab uprising. 1890 He rejoins the army. 1891-1904 Education at the Prussian Academy of War; 1895 transfer to the Grand General Staff. In the same year wedding with Luise Lindner. In 1898 he was promoted to captain during his command at the Reichsmarineamt, which from 1898 to 1899 included surveying work in the Kiautschou leasehold. 1900 Return to Germany and activity in the general staff. From 1902 company commander in infantry regiment 41. In 1904 promotion to major and transfer to the general staff of the stage command of the Schutztruppe für Deutsch-Südwestafrika. There he participated in the so-called Herero and Hottentot campaigns. During the Nama Uprising, Maercker led the Schutztruppen units in the Battle of Nubib and was wounded. 1910 Farewell to the Schutztruppe and appointment as battalion commander in the infantry regiment "König Ludwig III. von Bayern" (2nd Lower Silesian) No. 47. 1912 promotion lieutenant colonel; 1913 appointment as commander of the North Sea island Borkum. 1914 Promotion to colonel. 1915 and 1916 as regiment commander participation in the position fights at the Kormyn and at the Styr, afterwards at the western front, among others Yser, in the Wyschaete arch as well as at St. Eloi. Wounded in the Battle of the Somme in 1916, then in positional battles on the Aisne. At the end of 1916 he took part in the battles on the Narajowka and Zlota Lipa; from 1917 he was deployed on the western front: Somme, Wytschaete Arc, Yser, Arras, Champagne and Flanders with renewed wounding. Awarded the Pour le Mérite Order on 1 October 1917 and the Pour le Mérite Oak Leaf Order on 3 May 1918. On 18 August 1917 promotion to Major General and appointment as Commander of the 214th Division. In December 1918 Maercker formed the Freikorps "Landesjäger" from parts of his division; deployment of the Freikorps during the suppression of the Spartakus uprising in January 1919 in Berlin, followed by deployments in Weimar, Gotha, Erfurt, Halle, Magdeburg, Braunschweig and Helmstedt. On 2 May the Freikorps was integrated into the Reichswehr as Reichswehrbrigade 16. On 28 April 1920 Maercker was released from active military service. In 1922 he founded the Deutscher Kolonialkriegerbund. Citation style: BArch, N 786/...

Phototype: Photo. Format: 16,0 X 8,6 Description: 19 men with spears / shields / rifles, partly clothed with patterned cloths and with headgear, standing in a row on a meadow, rectangular house with plant fibre roof.

Phototype: Photo. Format: 15,9 X 10,9 Description: 4 women, with scarves around their hips, arm spirals, mucky ears and throat, standing between banana plants, with clay jugs on fire, back right house (West-Kilimanjaro construction: covered with banana bark).

Over a beer (left). Phototype: Photo. Format: 15,5 X 10,2. description: 2 houses (West-Kilimanjaro construction: covered with banana bark), hedge fence around farmstead, the "beer" group facing the camera's back, sitting on the ground; men: 10 2 somewhat aside, clothed, with plait hairdo (similar to Maasai), spear, dog; behind "dancing negroes" approx. 9 persons, clothed with scarves. Remark: retouched, standing at photo: "Neg. and photo missing"; publication..: Conf.sheet 1909.

Photographer: Mergner?. Type: Photo. Format: 14,0 X 8,7. Description: 3 women, 2 of them in the foreground, packed donkey (e.g. with calabashes). Remark: Photo was inserted into album 12, because probably once photo corners were attached there (corresponding caption and gap in corresponding size).

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Reported from a find [Heinrich] Vedders: quiver, bow and arrow from South Africa.

In front of the picture: Market in Lomé. - Note. Müller: Lomé, market before 1914, contains: Lomé, market, food, containers, children, residents, everyday life, houses

Correspondence with him from you. Berner about all problems in the mission leadership, 1941-1944; Bible study about 2Co 4:7, earthly vessels, c. 1944; My window, essay, c. 1944; obituary from you. Bern, 1944

Photo type: photo. Format: 5,5 X 7,1. Description: with spear and shield, feather collar and headdress. Reference: Cf. print templates sample book, No Xa/490, Diap. 105 aI5 (10.8 X 8.0), faded.

Photographer: Black?. Phototype: Roll film print. Format: 8,3 X 5,3 Description: Canopy of a shop, man to sewing machine, other persons in front of/inside.

Photographer: Nüßler?. Phototype: Photo. Format: 10,9 X 8,3 Description: Steppe landscape, Maasai women sitting in circle, left 1 warrior with spear sitting, 1 wide. Person (African, European class).

Photographer: Mergner?. Type: Photo. Format: 8,6 X 5,7. Description: Interior, (European) man at the window microscopic, right shelf with medicine. Reference: See the estate of Dr. Friedrich Mergner, No. 242 (8.8 X 5.9).

Contains: - Born, geometer in Sonnenburg, deputy of the country Sternberg to the Prussian National Assembly, 1848 - Carl Herrlich (1822 - 1901), rendant of the Ballei Brandenburg of the Johanniterorden - Peter Joseph Lenné (1789 - 1866), designer of the garden at the Johanniterordenskrankenhaus in Sonnenburg 1856 - Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781 - 1841), was involved in the new building of the tower of the Johanniterordenskirche in Sonnenburg 1816 - 1818 - Dr. Wilhelm Heinrich Solf (1862 - 1936), Governor of Deutsch-Samoa since 1900 - Wilhelm Voigt (1849 - 1922), alias "The Captain of Köpenick", convict in the Sonnenburg penitentiary - Heinrich Zille (1858 - 1929), draughtsman - Wilhelm Kube (1887 - 1943), Gauleiter and Commissioner General for White Ruthenia - Erich Schulz: Samoa - Governor with school years in Sonnenburg. In: Die neue Oder-Zeitung, Vol. 8, No. 2, May 1988 (printed) - Erich Schulz: Hauptmann von Köpenick 1867/79 in Sonnenburg. At that time he was young and not famous - Wilhelm Voigt "did many things" and died in 1922. In: Die neue Oder-Zeitung, Vol. 6, No. 4, November 1986 (printed) - Erich Schulz: Dr. Wilhelm Solf, last Imperial State Secretary of the R e i c h s k o l o n i a l a m t and first State Secretary of the Foreign Office of the Weimar Republic. April 1988 (manuscript, 3 p.) - Erich Schulz: Wilhelm Voigt, the "Captain of Köpenick" was also a "guest" at the Sonnenburg penitentiary. October 1986 (manuscript, 5 p.).

Phototype: Photo. Format: 7,5 X 7,6. Description: squatting man with spear.

Note: Picture content identical with 2651 and 3099.

Photographer: Blumer?. Phototype: Photo. Format: 10,7 X 7,9. Description: Group of Arusha warriors on a meadow with spears, signs and flags. Reference: See Album 19, No. 421, 422, 423.

Photographer: Blumer?. Phototype: Photo. Format: 10,5 X 8,0. Description: Group of Arusha warriors running or dancing with spears and signs, spectators and a European house in the background. Reference: Cf. album 19, no. 426.

Photographer: Blumer?. Phototype: Photo. Format: 10,7 X 7,9. Description: A group of Arushak warriors set up in a row on a meadow with spears, signs, flags and headgear, African spectators in the background. Reference: Cf. album 19. No 421, 423, 424.

Photographer: Blumer?. Phototype: Photo. Format: 10,7 X 8,0. Description: 3 Arushakrieger with spear and shield in front of two houses (corrugated iron roof) squatting on a meadow, further house with plant fibre roof in the background. Reference: See Album 19, No. 421, 422, 424.

Photographer: Guth?. Phototype: Photo. Format: 9,7 X 9,6 Description: Girls and boys (European dressed), working with heels on a slope, cultivated country, 1 European? in the background.

Note Müller: Hut before 1914, contains: House, Everyday life, Vessels, Water bearer

Phototype: Postcard (colored). Format: 13,9 X 8,8. Description: 5 African women standing on the riverbank in a forest, dressed with long robes. Remark: Publisher of the ev. luther. Mission Leipzig, Series Africa No 4.

Photographer: Nüßler?. Phototype: Photo. Format: 11,1 X 8,1. Description: above mentioned person ploughing, in front of him Africa m. Hoe going. Reference: Plate and cardboard No. 19 in negative box ( 1 print).