You are bidding on one document from the “State Committee for Youth Care in the Kingdom of Saxony eV” from 1916.

Signed from Major retired Friedrich Robert von Beringe (1865-1940), Discoverer of mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei). In the Dresden address book from 1916 he is listed as "v. Beringe, F. Robert, Major aD"

Issued for the student and group leader Carl Eibes (1899-1967), later an economist and entrepreneur.

DatedDresden, the 9th October 1916.

Carl Eibes is certified "that he held the [...] "from September 20, 1914 until now Exercises to prepare young people for the service of the Lord participated regularly and with great success over the course of two years."

With stamps from the school authority (Dresden Council) and from the “Dresden Youth Association eV War Preparation Service.”

Next to Friedrich Robert von Beringe ("von Beringe // Major retired") signed by the lawyer Arthur Schmalz.

Rare autograph!

Form filled out by hand (17.3 x 21.2 cm).

Condition: document folded in half; Paper slightly browned, with corner creases. bPlease also note the pictures!

Internal note: Eschweiler

OverFriedrich Robert von Beringe and Carl Eibes (source: wikipedia):

Friedrich Robert von Beringe (* 21. September 1865 in Aschersleben; † 5. July 1940 in Stettin) was a German imperial captain. He is the discoverer of mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei). He was the first to arrive on the 17th. October 1902 at Kirunga ya Sabyingo, one of the six Virunga volcanoes in Rwanda, on the previously unknown gorillas. Today all East African gorillas (Gorilla beringei) are named after him.

Friedrich Robert von Beringe was born on the 21st. Born in September 1865 in Aschersleben on the northeastern edge of the Harz Mountains, he was the eldest son of Captain Karl Robert von Beringe and his wife Mathilde Luise. In the small town in what is now Saxony-Anhalt, which at that time belonged to the Kingdom of Prussia, the father was squadron commander of the Hussar Regiment No. 10 stationed.

Following his father's example, Friedrich Robert von Beringe pursued a career as an officer. From 1894 to 1906 it belonged to the 1. Leib-Hussars-Regiment No. 1 (Skull Hussars). From this time, von Beringe also wore the skull ring and was in deep friendship with August Mackensen, later Field Marshal von Mackensen. At his own request, he joined the Imperial Protection Force for German East Africa, which included today's states of Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi.

Discovery of the mountain gorillas: On the 17th October 1902, Captain von Beringe and Dr. Engeland together with five Askaris and the necessary porters to storm the summit; They carried a tent and eight containers of water with them. At an altitude of 3,100 m, the two Germans pitched their tent after covering the ground as evenly as possible with collected moss. The ridge was so narrow that they had to attach the tent stakes to the slope. The askaris and porters sought shelter in rock caves to protect themselves against the severe cold with fire.

This set the scene for the historic encounter, which von Beringe describes in the German Colonial Journal with the following words: “From our camp we saw a herd of large, black monkeys trying to climb the highest peak of the volcano. Of these monkeys we managed to hunt down two large animals, which fell with a loud crash into a crater gorge that opened to the northeast. After five hours of strenuous work, we managed to rope an animal up." It was a male, large, human-like monkey, 5 feet long and weighing more than 200 pounds. He had no chest hair, but had huge hands and feet. “Unfortunately, I was unable to determine the genus of the monkey,” the captain regretted. Because of the size of the animal, in his opinion, it could not be a chimpanzee, and the presence of gorillas known from the lowlands in the area around the East African lakes had “not been established” until then. Robert von Beringe therefore decided to send his find to the Zoological Museum in Berlin for examination. The monkey's skin and a hand were eaten by a hyena on the return journey to Usumbura. However, based on the skull and part of the skeleton, which arrived in Berlin intact, Professor Paul Matschie (1861–1926), who worked at the museum, classified the animal as a new species of gorilla, which he named Gorilla beringei after its discoverer.

In 1906 Captain von Beringe returned to Germany. He lived with his family in Dresden until the beginning of the Second World War. On the 5th In July 1940, the man, who had been seriously ill with diabetes for years, died in Stettin. He is commemorated by a plaque at the entrance to the 400 square kilometer Virunga National Park.


Carl Heribert Eibes (*5. February 1899 in Dresden; † 3. July 1967 in Schnaittenbach) was a German economist and entrepreneur.

Life:Carl Eibes was born in Dresden as the son of the lawyer Bernhard Eibes. His father, who was a judicial councilor from 1911, was one of the Saxon royal family's closest legal advisors and was involved in drawing up the contracts to clarify the Wettin family's financial situation in 1924. After attending the Vitzthum High School in Dresden, Carl Eibes joined the Saxon Army as a volunteer. During his deployment he was taken prisoner of war by the English and did not return to Dresden until 1919.

He subsequently worked for the Dresden cigarette machine factory “Universelle” and studied social and economic sciences in Gdansk and Dresden. After completing his degree in economics, he received his doctorate in economics. In 1927/28 he took over the company Kerb-Konus-Gesellschaft, founded by his father in 1925, the world's oldest manufacturer of notched fasteners for mechanical engineering. Together with the Dresden University of Technology, Eibes developed modern manufacturing processes on a scientific basis. Among other things, the company played a key role in the development of the rotary piston engine and acquired several patents.

In 1946 the Kerb-Konus company was expropriated and converted into a VEB. Eibes had left Dresden immediately after the end of the Second World War and founded Kerb-Konus-Vertriebs-GmbH in Bielefeld in 1946. Three years later, the company moved its headquarters to Schnaittenbach, where it resumed the production of notched pins and nails. The company, which still exists today, has been based in Amberg since 1970. For his services, Eibes received on the 15th. June 1964 the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class. He became an honorary citizen of Schnaittenbach, which named a street after him.

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Problems and their solutions in organizing the advertising of a large company with the production of a patented small iron mass-produced article, Dresden, 1936

This set the scene for the historic encounter, which von Beringe describes in the German Colonial Journal with the following words: “From our camp we saw a herd of large, black monkeys trying to climb the highest peak of the volcano. Of these monkeys we managed to hunt down two large animals, which fell with a loud crash into a crater gorge that opened to the northeast. After five hours of strenuous work, we managed to rope an animal up." It was a male, large, human-like monkey, 5 feet long and weighing more than 200 pounds. He had no chest hair, but had huge hands and feet. “Unfortunately, I was unable to determine the genus of the monkey,” the captain regretted. Because of the size of the animal, in his opinion, it could not be a chimpanzee, and the presence of gorillas known from the lo