Arno Senfft

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1899, Arno Senfft, Imperial District Administrator

Arno Senfft (born March 28, 1864 in Weimar ; † February 14, 1909 in Hong Kong ) was Imperial District Administrator of the West Carolines , Palau Islands and Mariana Islands at the beginning of the 20th century .

Life

Arno Senfft , Carl Johannes Theodor Hieronymus Senfft, and his wife Julie born as the second son of the community school teacher and chairman of the municipal council in Neustadt an der Orla . Warlitz, cleaner in Neustadt an der Orla, born. Mustard was born with rose Wachtel from Berlin married.

Since 1891 Arno Senfft has been a member of the New Guinea Company , a company founded in Berlin in 1882 with the aim of acquiring colonial property in the South Seas.

From 1895 to 1900, Senfft was a member of the Jaluit Society , a German trading company for the Marshall and Gilbert Islands and for the Carolines .

After the Spanish-American War , the German Empire, by means of the German-Spanish Treaty of 1899, forced , among other things, to receive the Carolines of Spain in return for compensation. Mustard was ordered in 1899 to hoist the imperial flag on the island of Yap , the district office of the West Carolines. On November 3, 1899, Yaps was handed over from Spain to the German Empire, which was also attended by the SMS Jaguar team .

On March 6, 1901, Senfft took possession of the island of Sonsorol together with the governor of German New Guinea , Rudolf von Bennigsen . A day later the islands of Merir and Pulo Anna followed . On April 12th of that year, the islands of Tobi and Helen-Riff were taken over by Senfft for the German Empire.

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Handover of the West Carolina and Palau Islands on November 3, 1899 on the island of Yap
(Arno Senfft is marked with no.2)

In the following, Arno Senfft had his official seat as district administrator on Yap for the German administration of Micronesia from 1901 to 1909 , where he had home leave in 1902. In 1906 Georg Fritz , who had been the district administrator of the Mariana Islands until then, was transferred to the island of Yap as a representative of Arno Senfft, who was temporarily in Germany. In October 1909 Georg Fritz took over the office of district administrator on the island of Yap.

In early 1909, Arno Senfft traveled to Hong Kong on an unknown mission and died there for unknown reasons.

Awards

Literature by Arno Senfft

In 1900 Arno Senfft brought out a dictionary of the languages ​​of the Marshall Islanders . It comprises 183 pages.

On January 8th and 9th, 1903, Arno Senfft gave lectures in Koblenz and Wiesbaden with the title: The Karolineninsel Yap, an idyll in the South Pacific .

Senfft wrote the following ethnographic writings (excerpt):

  • 1900: Notices from the district official Senfft about the residents of Yap. In: Deutsches Kolonialblatt, official gazette for the protected areas of the German Reich. Ed. In the Colonial Department of the Foreign Office, Volume 11, No. 11, pp. 416–418. June 1, 1900
  • 1903: Ethnographic articles on the Caroline island of Yap. In: Petermanns Mitteilungen Vol. 49
  • 1904: A Report of a Visit to Several Island Groups of the Western Caroline Islands. In: Communiques from the German Protectorats Mittler and Son, Vol. 17, pp. 192–197, Berlin
  • 1905: Legend of the formation of the islands of Yap and Rumung and the landscape of Nimigil. In: Globus LXXXVIII, p. 139 Braunschweig
  • 1906: Report by the Imperial District Administrator Senfft on his tour of the West Carolina and Palau Islands. In: Deutsches Kolonialblatt, official gazette for the protected areas of the German Reich. Edited in the colonial department of the Foreign Office. Volume 17, No. 9, pp. 281–284. May 1, 1906
  • 1907: The legal customs of the Yap natives. Globus, Vol. 91, p. 139 ff., P. 149 ff., P. 171 ff., Braunschweig

Literature about Arno Senfft

  • Roy M. MacLeod: Disease, Medicine and Empire: Perspectives on Western Medicine and the Experience of European Expansion , Routledge-Verlag 1989, page 86, ISBN 0415006856

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Roy M. MacLeod, Milton James Lewis: Disease, medicine, and empire: Perspectives on western medicine and the experience of the european expansion, 1988, ISBN 0-415-00685-6
  2. ↑ Obituary, posted by his wife Rose geb. quail
  3. ↑ a b c d e German Administrators in the Marshall Islands 1999–2000. In: Dirk HR Spennemann, Charles Sturt University, Australia. Retrieved April 14, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Deutsches Kolonialblatt 17, No. 11 from 1906, p. 341: "Personalnachrichten"
  5. ↑ Deutsche Kolonialzeitung 26, No. 34, p. 567: "The new district official of the West Carolines."
  6. ^ German Resources on the Mariana Islands. (pdf) (No longer available online.) In: Deutsche Kolonialzeitung 1903, No. 20, p. 27. 1903, archived from the original on September 30, 2010 ; Retrieved February 25, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / marshall.csu.edu.au
personal data
SURNAME Mustard, Arno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Imperial District Administrator
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Weimar
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 1909
Place of death Hong Kong