Gaston Thierry

Gaston Thierry (born July 17, 1866 in Munich , † September 16, 1904 at Mubi ) was a German officer and administrative officer in Togo and Cameroon .

Life

Thierry was the son of a merchant. After attending grammar school in 1886, he joined Infantry Regiment No. 88 , became portepee ensign in the same year and, in 1887, second lieutenant . In 1891 he resigned from the army and joined the 1st Sea Battalion . In 1894, after the suppression of the so-called Dahomey mutiny, he was temporarily assigned to Cameroon in the police force . Promoted to prime lieutenant in 1894 , he resigned from the marine infantry on September 12, 1895 and joined the grenadier regiment "King Friedrich Wilhelm II." (1st Silesian) No. 10 . In June 1896 he was placed à la suite of the regiment and commanded to serve at the Foreign Office . Thierry was initially deployed in Togo, where he was significantly involved in the occupation of the north as station manager of Sansane-Mangu and district manager in Yendi . He even tried to place the Gurma Empire under German administration, which was, however, given to France in 1897. In 1902 he was transferred to Cameroon, first used in Victoria and, after his promotion to captain (September 12, 1902), appointed station manager of Yaounde in 1903 . In 1903 he accompanied Governor Jesko von Puttkamer on his journey to Lake Chad and on this occasion on 20 September 1903 for the first residents of Adamawa appointed.

He died in a battle against Kirdi in September 1904 and was buried in Garua .

literature

• Results of the investigation into the death of Captain Thierry . In: Deutsches Kolonialblatt 16, 1905, p. 161.
• Manfred Maximilian Ulbrich: Officer master list of the Grenadier Regiment King Friedrich Wilhelm II. (1st Silesian) No. 10. 1808–1908 . Mittler, Berlin 1907, pp. 499f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ German Colonial Lexicon, search word Togo (see 18th story)

Web links

• Deutsches Kolonial-Lexikon, search word Thierry