- Bezirksamtmann
Bezirksamtmann (plural "Bezirksamtleute") is a German administrative title of gubernatorial or lower rank, roughly translating as and equivalent to
District Officer Colonial use
The title was used for colonial officials in the following minor German "
Schutzgebiet e" (i.e. colonial possessions of various status) in the Pacific:"(probably incomplete list)"
*Jaluit (Marshall Islands), subordinate of the colonial governor ofGerman New Guinea
**1906 -30 April 1907 Victor Berg (b. 1861 - d. 1907)
**1907 Joseph Siegwantz (acting)
**1908 - November 1909 Wilhelm Stuckhardt (d. 1909)
**November 1909 - 1910 Berghausen (interim)
**1910 - 1911 Georg Merz; he stayed on as onlyStationsleiter ('Station chief') (1911 -3 October 1914 ), subordinate to the Eastern Caroline islands district, see below
*Nauru , until 1888 a tribal protectorate, till 1889 under aReichskommissar
**2 October 1888 - May 1889 Robert Rasch (acting)
**May 1889 - 1895 Christian Johannson
**1895 - 1898 Fritz Jung
**1899 - 1906 Ludwig Kaiser (b. 1862 - d. 1906); afterwards the jurisdiction was downgraded and administered by Station Chiefs ("Stationsleiter"), from 1911 subordinated to the administrators of Ponape district (in the Eastern Carolinas, cfr. infra)
*Marianen Inseln (German for 'Marianas Islands', i.e. the Northern Marianas, sold by Spain), as subordinate of the colonial governor ofGerman New Guinea :
**November 1899 - April 1907 Georg Fritz (onSaipan )
**1904 - 1907 Volker Reichel (on Rota island); afterwards administered by aStationsleiter ('Station chief') who was subordinated to a district officer in Micronesia and thus to his superiors
*inMicronesia , which was18 July 1899 -7 October 1914 under the authority of the governors of German New Guinea (and theirVice-governor s of German New Guinea, which had the general supervision over the island districts), the were two island districts, under District officers which from 1889 were styled Bezirksamtmann:
** WesternCaroline islands (Yap andPalau [and from 1907Saipan )
***29 June 1886 - 18.. Manuel de Elisa
***.... - .... ....
***before November 1897 - after November 1898 S. Cortes
***1899 - 1909 Arno Senfft (b. 1864 - d. 1909)
***1909 Rudolf Karlowa
***1909 - 1910 Georg Fritz
***1910 - 1911 Hermann Kersting
***1911 - 1914 Baumert
** Eastern Caroline islands (Ponape [and from 1911 theMarshall Islands , cfr. supra] )
***June 1886 - 1887 Capriles
***14 March 1887 - 1887 Isidro Posadillo (d. 1887)
***October 1887 - January 1891 Luis Cadarso y Rey (d. 1898)
***c.1894 Concha
***before November 1897 - after November 1898 J. Fernandez de Cordoba
***12 October 1899 - August? 1901 Albert Hahl (b. 1868 - d. 1945)
***1 September 1901 -30 April 1907 Victor Berg (b. 1861 - d. 1907)
***1907 - 1908? Girschner (acting)
***1908 - 1909 Georg Fritz
***1909 -18 October 1910 Gustav Boeder (d. 1910)
***1910 -7 October 1914 August Überhorst ...ources and references
* [http://www.worldstatesmen.org/COLONIES.html#German WorldStatesmen- links to each nation]
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