César Maria de Serpa Rosa
César Maria de Serpa Rosa (born May 31, 1899 in Santo António dos Olivais , Coimbra , Portugal , † February 17, 1968 in Lisbon ) was a Portuguese officer and governor of Portuguese Timor from 1950 to 1958 . A street in East Timor's capital Dili , Avenida Governador Serpa Rosa, was named after him . Today it is called Rua Karketu Mota-ain .
Life
Serpa Rosa attended the Real Colégio Militar from 1909 to 1915. From June 26, 1915, he served in the 2nd Cavalry Regiment and in 1917 he completed an infantry course at the Escola de Guerra. Serpa Rosa was sent to Mozambique for the first time at the end of 1917 . There he took part on June 23, 1918 in the battle of Munhiba ( Quelimane district ) against the Germans . For this Serpa Rosa received the Cruz de Guerra . After the First World War he returned to Lisbon in 1919.
On May 23, 1923, Serpa Rosa married Maria Luísa Martins Pereira de Serpa Rosa .
From May 4, 1943 Serpa Rosa was Portuguese governor of the province of Zambezia (Mozambique).
From December 31, 1950, Serpa Rosa was Governor of Portuguese Timor . At this point he held the military rank of major.
Serpa Rosa's successor, Filipe José Freire Temudo Barata, described him as less geared towards "political subtleties" and more of a typical officer who was more concerned with "circumspection and thrift". During Serpa Rosa’s tenure, neighboring Indonesia began looking for collaborators among the Arab population in East Timor to increase anti-Portuguese sentiment in the colony. In addition, militarily important installations were photographed and there were rumors of landings by Indonesian soldiers in the east of Portuguese Timor .
In 1951 the Portuguese Timor colony was given the status of an overseas province .
The new, future governor Barata reached Dili on June 22, 1958. On July 14, Rosa left the colony for Lisbon. The official business was continued until the handover to Barata in June 1959 by the military commander Lieutenant Colonel Manuel Albuquerque Gonçalves de Aguiar as Encarregado de Governo ( acting governor ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Photo from 1965–1967
- ↑ a b c d Filipe Gastão de Almeida de Eça: O capitão César Maria de Serpa Rosa: inspector-superior chefe da Administração Ultramarina (1899–1968) , accessed on December 8, 2012
- ^ Embassy of East Timor in Washington: Foreign Embassies in Dili , accessed on December 8, 2012
- ↑ a b c d Ernest Chamberlain: Rebellion, Defeat and Exile - The 1959 Uprise in East Timor , 2009, revisid second edition , accessed December 8, 2012
- ^ Geoffrey C. Gunn: Historical Dictionary of East Timor , 2010.
- ↑ a b c Geoffrey C. Gunn: Revisiting the Viqueque Rebellion of 1959 (PDF; 170 kB), accessed on December 8, 2012
See also
literature
- Filipe Gastão de Almeida de Eça: O capitão César Maria de Serpa Rosa: inspector-superior chefe da Administração Ultramarina (1899–1968) (Portuguese)
- João Pinto de Figueiredo: A morte de Mário de Sá-Carneiro , Lisbon 1983. (Portuguese)
- Sarmento Rodrigues ... [et al.]: Círculo Bayette: homenagem à memória do inspector-superior César maria de Serpa Rosa e co Capitão-de-mar-e-guerra Pedro Correia de Barros , Boletim Geral do Ultramar. - ano 44 nº 513 (Mar. 1968), pp. 57-68
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Óscar Freire de Vasconcelos Ruas |
Governor of Portuguese Timor 1950–1958 |
Manuel Albuquerque Gonçalves de Aguiar |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Serpa Rosa, César Maria de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Portuguese governor of Portuguese Timor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 31, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Santo António dos Olivais , Coimbra , Portugal |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th February 1968 |
| Place of death | Lisbon |