Gonçalo Pereira Pimenta de Castro

Gonçalo Pereira Pimenta de Castro (* 1868 ; † 1952 ) was a Portuguese officer and colonial administrator.

family

Gonçalo is the son of General Joaquim Pereira Pimenta de Castro .

Life

After the fatal assassination attempt on King Carlos I of Portugal , Castro was appointed director general for overseas in the cabinet. He therefore accompanied the new governor of the Portuguese Timor colony, Captain Eduardo Augusto Marques, to his new post. It was feared that the old governor José Celestino da Silva would not give up his office voluntarily and that Castro should arrest him if necessary. Castro had concerns because he was a captain of the rank under Colonel Silva. For health reasons, he had in the meantime installed Captain Jaime Viera da Rocha as acting governor and had traveled to Australia with his wife . When Silva returned to Dili , he even offered to help Castro, since his father, General Joaquim Pimenta de Castro, was a friend of Silva.

Between August 1909 and February 1910 Castro himself was governor of Portuguese Timor. On behalf of Filomeno da Câmara de Melo Cabral , he led the office again between 1913 and 1914. During this time after the Manufahi rebellion, he restructured the colonial armed forces. Castro dismissed the commanders of the Moradores and disbanded their companies. The Moradores were placed under the direct command of European officers.

Publications

• As Minhas memórias na metrópole e nas colónias . Expansão, Lisboa 1949.
• Timor: Subsídios para a sua história . Agência Geral das Colónias, Lisboa 1944.
• A Revolta de Monsanto de 1920 . Postage 1920.
• Topicos de Colonização . In: Vida Contemporânea . Volume I, Lisboa 1934, pp. 74-76.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Worldstatesmen: Timor-Leste (East Timor)
2. ↑ ^{a b} Monika Schlicher: Portugal in East Timor. A critical examination of the Portuguese colonial history in East Timor from 1850 to 1912 . Abera, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-931567-08-7 . ( Abera Network Asia-Pacific 4), (Simultaneously: Univ., Diss., Heidelberg 1994)
3. ↑ World Statesmen
4. ↑ History of Timor - Technical University of Lisbon ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 824 kB) 

predecessor	Office	successor
Eduardo Augusto Marques	Governor of Portuguese Timor 1909–1910	Alfredo Cardoso de Soveral Martins
Filomeno da Câmara de Melo Cabral	Governor of Portuguese Timor 1913–1914 (in office)	Filomeno da Cámara de Melo Cabral