Supplementary papers relating to Dr Wilhelm Heinrich Solf, 1900-1949

PMB 589

fonds

Canbera : Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, [19--]

440754

Microfilm : PMB 589

microfilm reel 35 mm

Solf (1862-1936) became president of the municipality of Apia, Western Samoa, in 1899, after serving as a district judge in German East Africa. In 1900 he became governor of Western Samoa when that country became a German colony. He remained in that post until 1911 when he became Secretary for the Colonies in the German government. After World War I, he served as German ambassador in Japan

The papers are: 1. documents concerning Hanna Solf-Dotti, Solf's widow; 2. a biography of Solf by Maximilien von Hagen, 1937-1939; 3. correspondence re the publication of Solf/Wolff-Metternich correspondence, 1946-1949; 4. a manuscript book entitled Elf jahre in Samoa und andere Aufzeichnungen' (Eleven years in Samoa and other notes'), written in 1895 by one von Wolffersdorff, known as Tulafale Falepoumaa

PMB (Australian National University. Pacific Manuscripts Bureau) ; 589
Available for reference
Microfilm copy of original held by Bundesarchiv, Koblenz, West Germany