August Leue
August Leue (born October 1, 1854 in Dützen (today in Minden ), † November 24, 1922 in Berlin ) was a German architect, officer (most recently captain ) and colonial officer in German East Africa .
Life
Leue attended the secondary school in Minden ( Westphalia ). From 1873 to 1881 he studied - with interruptions - construction at the Polytechnic School in Hanover (from 1879 Technical University of Hanover ). Leue was a student of the architect Conrad Wilhelm Hase . In the years 1874 and 1875 he did his military service as a one-year volunteer in Pioneer Battalion No. 10 . In 1883 Leue received the lieutenant's license. In the 1880s he became secretary of the Society for German Colonization in Berlin and on May 2, 1885 general secretary of the resulting German-East African Society (DOAG).
In April 1887 he moved to German East Africa with Carl Peters . The DOAG commissioned him to set up a station in Dar es Salaam , the later capital of the colony. As district head Leue introduced the district and customs administration. On July 1, 1889, he became company commander in the so-called Wissmann Troop , the forerunner of the Schutztruppe for German East Africa , to which he was assigned as Vice Sergeant in the Reserve in 1891. In the same year he became a second lieutenant . D. and in 1892 first lieutenant a. D. Until 1896 Leue took part in numerous skirmishes to enforce German colonial rule. These included the battle at Palamkaa in 1890 and the capture of Kilwa and Lindi in 1890 in the uprising of the East African coastal population . This was followed by battles at Maamanda in 1893 and Limuange in 1895. The following year he was promoted to captain.
In the meantime he worked again in the colonial administration. From 1891 to 1899 he was district captain in the places Lindi, Kilwa and Bagamoyo . In 1899 Leue was released from the army due to illness at his own request. He was then a farmer and namesake of Leudorf near Arusha am Meruberg . The East African settlement committee of the German Colonial Society founded a settlement for German-Russians there in 1906 , which Leue took over.
Publications (selection)
- Dar-es-salaam: Pictures from colonial life. Süsserott, Berlin 1903 ( digitized version , State and University Library Bremen, Bremen 2017).
- The settlement ability of German East Africa. Weicher, Leipzig 1904 ( digitized version, Johann Christian Senckenberg University Library, Frankfurt am Main 2017).
literature
- Without author: Leue, August , in: Heinrich Schnee (Ed.): Deutsches Kolonial-Lexikon . Volume 2, Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1920, p. 452.
- Conrad Weidmann : German men in Africa - Lexicon of the most outstanding German Africa researchers, missionaries, etc. Bernhard Nöhring, Lübeck 1894, p. 77 ( online at archive.org ).
Web links
- Leue, August , Archive Guide German Colonial History.
- Reinhard Glaß: Architects and artists with direct reference to Conrad Wilhelm Hase (1818–1902). Retrieved June 14, 2020 .
- Captain Leue's house in Leudorf (Aruscha) , Ethnological Museum of the State Museums in Berlin - Prussian cultural heritage .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Carl Uhlig: Leudorf , in: Heinrich Schnee (Ed.): German Colonial Lexicon. Volume 3, Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1920, p. 568.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Leue, August |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect, officer and colonial administrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 1, 1854 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dützen (today in Minden ) |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 24, 1922 |
| Place of death | Berlin |