Franz Boluminski
Franz Boluminski (born November 12, 1863 in Graudenz , † April 28, 1913 on the island of Neumecklenburg , Bismarck Archipelago , today Papua New Guinea ) was a German colonial official .
Life
Franz Boluminski initially served as a soldier in the Imperial Protection Force in German East Africa . After his military service, Boluminski worked from 1894 for the New Guinea Company on Astrolabebai ( German New Guinea ) near Friedrich-Wilhelm-Hafen .
On June 30, 1900, Boluminski was commissioned by the German colonial administration to manage the new station in Käwieng on the island of Neumecklenburg. In May 1900 Robert Koch was Franz Boluminski's guest in Käwieng during his New Guinea expedition to research malaria . With the help of Boluminski and his wife Frida, Koch attempted to combat malaria with quinine . In 1907, Boluminski left his ethnological Neumecklenburg collection to the Berlin Museum of Ethnology and received the Order of the Red Eagle for it . From 1910 he was the district administrator of the Käwieng district office.
His greatest achievement was the construction of a coastal road that would connect the places on the north coast of the island. He commissioned every village on the coast with the construction of a section and the subsequent maintenance. The street was called Kaiser-Wilhelm-Chaussee and is now officially called the Boluminski Highway .
The plantings of coconut palms founded by Boluminski for copra extraction were connected by this road and made Neumecklenburg one of the few areas in German New Guinea that made a profit.
The western foothills of the Schleinitz Mountains on Neumecklenburg, named after the German Vice Admiral Georg von Schleinitz , were given the name Boluminski Mountains.
On April 28, 1913, Franz Boluminski died of complications from a stroke. His grave is in the Bagail cemetery in Kavieng .
literature
- Johannes W. Grüntzig and Heinz Mehldorn: Expedition into the realm of epidemics, medical ascension orders of the German imperial and colonial times. Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-8274-1622-1 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b no author information (July 1, 2000) A century of life for Kavieng ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) 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. Post-Courier (accessed January 23, 2012)
- ^ Rowan McKinnon, Jean-Bernard Carillet, Dean Starnes: Papua New Guinea & Solomon Islands, New Ireland Province, Kavieng Lonely Planet Travel Guide, Lonely Planet 2008, p. 229, ISBN 1-74104-580-0 (accessed January 23 2012)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Boluminski, Franz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German district administrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 12, 1863 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Graudenz |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 28, 1913 |
| Place of death | Neumecklenburg , Bismarck Archipelago , today: Papua New Guinea |