Bruno von Schuckmann

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Privy Legation Councilor Bruno von Schuckmann

Bruno von Schuckmann (born December 3, 1857 in Rohrbeck , Arnswalde district , † June 6, 1919 in Stettin ) was a German lawyer and consular officer . He was imperial governor in German South West Africa and a member of the Prussian House of Representatives .

Life

As the son of a Neumark landowner from the von Schuckmann family, Schuckmann attended school in Landsberg (high school), Putbus ( pedagogy ) and Friedland (Mecklenburg) . He began to study law at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg in Heidelberg and became active in the Corps Saxo-Borussia Heidelberg in 1877 . As an inactive , he moved to the University of Leipzig and the Schlesische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Breslau . After graduation he was court clerk in Arnswalde and Landsberg. In 1885 he passed the assessor examination at the Chamber Court . He initially worked at the public prosecutor's office at Regional Court II in Berlin. In 1886 he moved to the Foreign Office (political department) and was appointed to the Prussian legation in Hamburg . In 1888 he was appointed vice consul in Chicago .

Colonial service and mandate

In April 1890, Schuckmann switched to the colonial department of the Foreign Office as an "unskilled worker" (about: scientific assistant), where he was promoted to legation councilor in May 1891 . In July 1891 he was sent to Cameroon to represent Governor Eugen von Zimmerer , where he took part in Karl von Gravenreuth's expedition to Buea . Returning to Berlin at the end of January 1892, he became a real councilor and lecturer in April 1895 and German consul general in Cape Town in October 1895 . In 1896 he was able to bring Robert Koch to the Cape when a rinderpest fell . Koch found an antidote. Because of the Krüger dispatch , Schuckmann was recalled in April 1899.

Back in Berlin in December 1899, Schuckmann became a secret councilor. On December 17, 1901, he took temporary retirement. From 1904 to 1907 he was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives for the Conservative Party . On May 21, 1907 he was called back to the Reichsdienst and from July 1907 was appointed governor of German South West Africa. He held this position until June 1910, but eventually resigned because of the government's diamond policy. In the northeast of the colony, the place Schuckmannsburg (since 2013 Luhonono ) on the Zambezi ( Caprivi Strip ) was named after him.

Between 1911 and 1918 Schuckmann was again a member of the Prussian House of Representatives. In 1911 he acquired the Fischerheide forest estate in the Arnswalde district . From 1914 to 1919 he was a deputy of the Kur- und Neumärkischen Knighthood Direction.

First World War

At the First World War he took despite his age as a volunteer in the 3rd Guard Lancers of the (German Empire) Guards Cavalry Division in part, as a sergeant and a lieutenant in the reserve. For a time he was chairman of the economic committee of the Ghent stage inspection . From June 1915 he was used again militarily, from March 1916 as a company commander. Schuckmann succumbed to an illness that he contracted in the field in the spring of 1917.

literature

  • Heinrich Schnee (Ed.): German Colonial Lexicon . tape 3 . Leipzig 1920, p. 306 ( digitized version ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 71/808.
  2. ^ Robert von Lucius : Cape Town Experiences of Bruno von Schuckmann. In: Africana Notes and News (Africana Museum Johannesburg). December 1977 (Vol. 22, No. 8), pp. 316-347
  3. ↑ Bernhard Mann : Biographical Handbook for the Prussian House of Representatives 1867-1918 (= Handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 3). Droste, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-7700-5146-7 , pp. 354-355.
  4. ↑ Thomas Kühne: Handbook of the elections to the Prussian House of Representatives 1867-1918. Election results, electoral alliances and election candidates Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1994, p. 212 f
personal data
SURNAME Schuckmann, Bruno von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and consular officer, imperial governor in German South West Africa, member of the Prussian House of Representatives
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Rohrbeck , Arnswalde district
DATE OF DEATH June 6, 1919
Place of death Szczecin