Harry powder

Harry Puder in the uniform of the Imperial Protection Force

Harry Franz Hugo Puder (born February 24, 1862 in Breslau , † December 18, 1933 in Hamburg ) was a Prussian major general and commander of the Imperial Protection Force for Cameroon .

Life

In April 1879, Puder joined the 1st Sailor Division as a cadet , joined the 3rd Upper Silesian Infantry Regiment No. 62 as a flagjunker in 1880 , became a second lieutenant in 1882 and was promoted to prime lieutenant in the Infantry Regiment "von Winterfeldt" in 1890. (2nd Upper Silesian) No. 23 moved. On May 24, 1895 he became a captain and company commander in the 5th Rhenish Infantry Regiment No. 65 . In June 1897 he resigned from the army and was employed as a captain and company commander in the Imperial Protection Force for German East Africa . In German East Africa, Puder was district chief of Tabora from 1899 to April 1900 .

He then returned to Germany, was employed again in the Prussian Army in November 1900 and was employed as a company commander in the "Freiherr von Sparr" (3rd Westphalian) No. 16 infantry regiment . In 1904 he left the army again and was employed in the protection force for German South West Africa . In 1904/05 he took part in the fighting against the Herero in South West Africa (battles of Klein-Barmen, Onganjika, Oviumbo, Hamakari-Waterberg ). Because of typhoid fever , he returned to Germany early in 1905.

In 1906, Puder was transferred to the command of the protection forces in the Reich Colonial Office and in October of the same year he was appointed to represent the commander of the protection force for Cameroon, Wilhelm Mueller . From 1906, powder found his main field of activity in Cameroon. After his formal appointment as commander on 18 February 1908 he led the military action to subdue the on the western border of the district Bamenda based Tiv providers ( "Alkasom-Muntschi expedition" in the spring of 1908) and the integration of the region Bafia in the German Administrative organization (1911). Tensions existed between him and Governor Karl Ebermaier during this time , which came to bear during the governor's trip to the north of the colony. In this connection, Puder criticized the companies' strong demands on civil administration and advocated a strict separation of military and administrative tasks. Soon after Ebermaier's return to the coast, Puder left the protection force.

After being promoted to lieutenant colonel on July 20, 1912, he resigned from the Schutztruppe on September 30, 1913 and was employed with the staff of the 2nd Nassau Infantry Regiment 88 in Mainz on October 1, 1913 . With the outbreak of the First World War , Puder was appointed commander of this regiment on August 2, 1914, which he commanded during the fighting on the Western Front . In the further course of the war he commanded the 7th Infantry Brigade . His achievements were recognized by the award of both classes of the Iron Cross and the Order of the Crown, Second Class with Swords. After the end of the war, Puder was put up for disposition as major general on September 30, 1919 in approval of his resignation request with the statutory pension .

literature

• Claus Piedmont: Master list of officers and medical officers of the former 5th Rhine. Infantry Regiment No. 65. Hanover, 3rd edition 1937, pp. 143f.
• Florian Hoffmann: Occupation and military administration in Cameroon. Establishment and institutionalization of the colonial monopoly of violence 1891–1914. Göttingen 2007.
• Curt Strümpell: Greetings from General Puder. in: Cameroon Post. 2/1929, p. 2.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Military weekly paper . No. 187 of May 24, 1917, p. 4648.
2. ^ Military weekly paper. No. 45 of October 11, 1919, p. 888.