Hans Glauning (officer)

Members of the Cameroon Protection Force on Lake Chad in May 1902. Bottom row on the right, Captain Hans Glauning (1868–1908)

Hans Glauning (born January 29, 1868 in Berlin , † March 5, 1908 in Atscho , Cameroon) was a German officer.

Life

Glauning attended grammar school in Augsburg and Hof . He joined the Pioneer Battalion No. 12 in Dresden in 1887 as a flag junior , became an ensign in 1888 and a lieutenant in 1889. After attending the seminar for oriental languages ​​at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin (1893) and being promoted to first lieutenant, he left the army on November 13, 1894 and joined the imperial protection force for German East Africa , where he served as Company officer was one of the outstanding personalities. In the autumn of 1895 he took part in an expedition against Hassan b. Omari and Machemba took part under Lieutenant Colonel Trotha , in 1896 in the campaign against the Wahehe and in 1897 in the campaign against the Washemba Massai . For a time he acted as head of the Mpapwa station and from 1898–99 was a member of the commission for surveying the border between Lake Nyasa and Lake Tanganyika .

In November 1900 he was transferred to the protection force for Cameroon and in 1901 promoted to captain and company commander. Here Hans Glauning accompanied Governor Puttkamer on an inspection trip to the Cross River and was appointed head of the administration of the German Cross River area on February 15, 1901. In July 1901 he moved the seat of the district administration from Nssakpe to Ossidinge and started building the station there. 1901-1902 he took part as leader of the 3rd company and as a topographer in the expedition of the commander Curt Pavel against the chief holidays Bafut and Mankon in the grasslands of West Cameroon . In 1902 he temporarily took over the management of the Bamenda station . 1903-04 he led the German-English Yola-Lake Chad border expedition (participation of Arnold Schultze ). In the summer of 1905, as station manager of Bamenda, he undertook an expedition against the Meta ' and an information trip to the south of the Bamenda district and from August to October 1905 a trip to the northern district to Kom and Nso' . At the end of the same year he took over the subordination and administration of the Nso 'chief. Further expeditions in the grasslands followed in 1906/07. During the Alkasom-Munci expedition under Commander Puder in the spring of 1908, he died in the fighting against Munci and was buried in Bamenda.

Glauning was an important connoisseur of ethnography and regional studies of the Cameroon grasslands and, among other things, contributed to the enrichment of the colonial collection of the Royal Prussian State Geological Institute in Berlin.

literature

• Franz Neubert (ed.): German contemporary lexicon . 1905.
• Christraud Geary: We. The genesis of a chieftainship in the grasslands of Cameroon . Wiesbaden 1976.
• Florian Hoffmann: Occupation and military administration in Cameroon. Establishment and institutionalization of the colonial monopoly of violence 1891–1914 , Göttingen 2007.

Web links

Glauning, Hans . In: Heinrich Schnee (Ed.): German Colonial Lexicon . Volume I, Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1920, p. 740.