Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen district
The Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen district was an administrative unit of the German colonial empire on Kaiser-Wilhelms-Land from 1904 to 1918, with its seat on Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen (today: Madang ).
District
In 1891 the Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen station was created on the Schering peninsula and a post office was set up in the same year. In 1892 the central administration of the New Guinea company was relocated here and the governor took his seat in the station. When the Reich took over, the Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen District Court was set up here. However, no professional judge was stationed in Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen. The district official performed the task of the district judge in personal union. The court was subordinate to the Rabaul High Court . It was only responsible for the whites, not for the natives. The district administrator was responsible for the natives as judge, unless native courts were used. In 1904 the Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen district was created.
In 1914 there were 243 whites in the district. There was a maritime office and a registry office on site, whose business was also taken care of by the district administrator. Around 1906, the Ramu tour boat was stationed by district officials in Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen for trips.
The station manager was Viktor Graf von Zech until 1892 and Albert Fröhlich from 1892 to 1893. Hugo Rüdiger from 1893 to 1895, Albert Fademrecht from 1895 to 1896, Oskar Baumüller from 1897 to 1898 (also station manager in Stephansort) and Joseph Loag from 1898 to 1899.
Hugo Rüdiger was the first governor from 1895 to 1896. From 1902 to 1906 Wilhelm Stuckhardt was district administrator. He was followed from 1906 to 1908 by Rudolf Karlowa , from 1903 to 1913 by Dr. Benno Schulz (-Madang) and from 1913 to 1914 Erich Berghausen.
Station districts
The Eitapé, Morobe and Angorum stations were subordinate to the district office.
Angorum government station
In 1913, the Angorum government station was established on the middle Kaiserin Augusta River . The station, under the direction of a police master, had the character of a police station.
Eitapé station district
The Eitapé station in Berlin Harbor was established in 1906 and was responsible for the western part of Kaiser Wilhelm country and for the islands. The border to the eastern part was formed by the 144th degree of longitude and the Kaiserin Augusta River. In 1914, 51 white people lived in the district. A post office was set up next to the station office. The international port of the station was called regularly every ten weeks by the ships of the New Guinea-Singapore Line ( Norddeutscher Lloyd ). The St. Anna mission station was adjacent . From 1903 Arbinger was station manager, from 1906 to 1910 Rodatz, 1911 Pieper, 1912 Schober, 1913 Arbinger and 1914 Werner. The station manager exercised native jurisdiction and civil affairs, while foreign jurisdiction was the responsibility of the Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen District Court and the High Court in Rabaul.
Morobe station district
In 1910 the Morobe station was established. This was preceded by the establishment of a police post in 1908. 20 native police officers, a police master and a station manager were supposed to monitor border traffic in the south of Kaiser-Wilhelmsland. The station was based in Adolfhafen.
The station manager was Hans Klink from 1909 to 1914. A postal agency and mission stations of the Neuendettelsau Mission Society were located at the headquarters of the station.
literature
- Walther Hubatsch (Ed.): Outline of German administrative history: 1815-1945 , vol. 22. Federal and Reich authorities, 1983, ISBN 3-87969-156-8 , pp. 514-519
Individual evidence
- ↑ Keyword: Eitapé. In: Heinrich Schnee (Ed.): German Colonial Lexicon. Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1920, Volume I, p. 553 ( online ).