Friedrich Karl Dühring

Friedrich Karl Dühring (born June 20, 1880 in Breslau ; † after 1925) was a German colonial officer and imperial resident in Adamaua .

Life

Dühring, son of a Prussian officer, attended the community school and the Am Thie grammar school in Blankenburg , then joined the cadet corps and in 1899 became a lieutenant in the 3rd Lower Silesian Infantry Regiment No. 50 . In March 1906 he left the army and joined the Imperial Protection Force for Cameroon , where he was promoted to lieutenant in 1909 and captain in 1913 .

In January 1907 Dühring took over the management of the Ngaundere post . In 1910 he was stationed in Garua . As resident of Adamaua (1912/13) he undertook a military expedition against the Fali of Kangu in July 1912. During the First World War he was used in the defense of Garua from October 1914 and was captured by the French when the city was surrendered on June 11, 1915. He returned to Germany via France and Switzerland in July 1918 as an exchange prisoner. Dühring received on 9 August 1919 by awarding the character as Major leave of statutory pension and the permission to wear the existing uniform.

Dühring shows a keen interest in the ethnology of the area he administers, which was also reflected in articles in specialist journals.

Publications

• An expedition against the kangu pagans . In: Deutsches Kolonialblatt 24 (1913), p. 101.105
• Southern Bana Land (Logone District) . In: Deutsches Kolonialblatt 25 (1914)
• Ethnological from Adamaua . In: Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 49 (1917), pp. 131–135
• The population of the Logone district in the former German protected area of ​​Cameroon . In: Communications from the German Protected Areas 33 (1925), pp. 64–77

literature

• Florian Hoffmann: Occupation and military administration in Cameroon. Establishment and institutionalization of the colonial monopoly of violence 1891–1914 , Part 2, Göttingen 2007, pp. 87f.