Carl Christian Giegler
Carl Christian Giegler , also Giegler Pascha , (born January 4, 1844 in Schweinfurt ; † August 31, 1921 ) was the managing governor general of the Egyptian province of Sudan from February to May 1882 .
Life
Giegler was born the son of a bookbinder on January 4th, 1844 in Schweinfurt. After finishing school he learned the watchmaking trade. After changing positions as a watchmaker in Germany and then in England, he worked as a worker at Siemens in Woolwich in the telegraph production and also acquired knowledge of electrical engineering. There he was offered the post of setting up a telegraph system in Sudan, which he accepted immediately. From 1873 Giegler was responsible for post and telecommunications in the Egyptian Sudan.
In 1881 the Mahdi uprising broke out in Sudan . The Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad had won his second victory on December 9, 1881 in the Nuba Mountains . Thereupon the Governor General of Sudan Muhammad Rauf Pasha was recalled by the Khedive . He was accused of underestimating the danger of the Mahdi uprising. Giegler took over this office in February 1882 until the arrival of the new Governor General Abd al Qadir Pascha Hilmi in May of the same year. He was able to defeat the pro-Mahdist rebels on May 6 at Abu Haraz and on May 24, 1882 at Abu Shukah (see: Sennar Expedition ).
On January 26, 1884, Giegler, Gordon Pascha , Evelyn Baring and Evelyn Wood met the former slave trader Al-Zubayr Rahma to urge him to cooperate against the Mahdi and to offer him the position of governor. The establishment of Zubayr was rejected by the government in London, which did not want to see a former slave trader at the head of Sudan.
literature
- Richard Hill (ed.): The Sudan Memoirs of Carl Christian Giegler Pasha 1873-1883 . London 1984.
- Katharina Winterhalter: How a journeyman watchmaker became a pasha .
- Martina Häring: Art is alien: The Pascha from Schweinfurt .
- H. Pleticha: The Mahdi uprising in eyewitness accounts . Düsseldorf 1981.
- Wilfried Westphal: Storm over the Nile. The Mahdi uprising. From the beginnings of Islamic fundamentalism . Sigmaringen 1998, ISBN 3-89340-025-7 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Mahdi uprising in eyewitness accounts , p. 120.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Giegler, Carl Christian |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Giegler Pascha |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Governor General of Sudan |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 4, 1844 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schweinfurt |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 31, 1921 |