Fritz Rose (Colonial Officer)

Fritz Rose (born February 2, 1855 in Höxter ; † 1922 ) was a German colonial official and Imperial Commissioner in German New Guinea .

Life

Born in Höxter as the son of a judge, he became a court assessor in 1881 . During his studies in 1873 he became a member of the Arminia Marburg fraternity . After various positions in the administration he was from November 1, 1889 to August 31, 1892 Imperial Commissioner of German New Guinea. Because of a cholera illness he returned to Germany and worked in the colonial department of the Foreign Office until 1896 . From 1896 to 1899 he worked again in the South Seas, as consul general in Apia . Then back at the Foreign Office in Berlin, he took temporary retirement in 1907. In 1909 he was appointed President of the Sea Fisheries Association.

Honors

Secret Legation Council (1903)

Fonts

Inana Yoga Vivekānanda <Svāmī> . W. Seifert, Heilbronn 1923.
How I succeeded , 2nd edition. Dresden Minden 1920.

Individual evidence

^ German New Guinea
^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , p. 113.
^ Deutsches Kolonial-Lexikon (1920), Volume III, p. 182

personal data
SURNAME	Rose, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German colonial official
DATE OF BIRTH	February 2, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH	Höxter
DATE OF DEATH	1922

[1] German New Guinea

[2] Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , p. 113.

[3] Deutsches Kolonial-Lexikon (1920), Volume III, p. 182