Colonial scandal
Colonial scandal generally describes events in colonial history in which attacks and crimes by colonial officials were initially covered up and finally uncovered.
In German colonial history , the term refers to:
- the judicial murder of his concubine Jogodia and her lover and its legal and parliamentary consequences in 1891 by Carl Peters , then Reich Commissioner for the Kilimanjaro region
- the assaults by the Deputy Governor of Cameroon Heinrich Leist , which triggered the Dahomey mutiny in 1893
- the rape of several African underage women by Georg Schmidt , a German colonial official in Togo in 1905, as well as their exposure by the center delegates Matthias Erzberger and Hermann Roeren
- the autocracy under Governor Jesko von Puttkamer in the colony of Cameroon and his recall on the occasion of a forgery of documents
- suspect Governor Albrecht von Rechenberg care homosexual contacts with African subordinates and the charges against the newspaper editor Willy Roy for libel
The scandal surrounding the Mission Voulet-Chanoine is well known in French colonial history. This expedition was supposed to secure the area around Lake Chad for France in 1898 , but on the way there committed such a high level of violence and looting against the indigenous population that Colonial Minister Florent Guillain removed the two leading officers from their posts. They refused to give orders and were eventually killed by their own soldiers.
Individual evidence
- ^ Winfried Speitkamp : German Colonial History . Reclam, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 978-3-15-017047-2 , p. 138.
- ^ Rebekka Habermas : Scandal in Togo - A Chapter of German Colonial Rule. S. Fischer, Frankfurt a. M. 2016, ISBN 978-3-10-397229-0 .
- ↑ Heike I. Schmidt: Colonial Intimacy - The Rechenberg Scandal and Homosexuality in German East Africa, in: Journal of the History of Sexuality , Vol. 17, No. 1, January 2008, pp. 25-59.
- ↑ Bertrand Taithe: The Killer Trail. A Colonial Scandal in the Heart of Africa . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2009.