List of governors of Danish West India

This list includes all the governors of Danish West India .

Governors of St. Thomas

The West India Guinea Company bought St. Thomas in 1672.

• Jørgen Iversen Dyppel (May 25, 1672 - July 4, 1680)
• Nicolai Esmit (July 4, 1680 - November 1682)
• Adolph Esmit (November 1682 - May 7, 1684)

Governors of St. Thomas and St. Jan

The West India Guinea Company had been claiming St. Jan since 1683 and colonized the island in 1718.

• Gabriel Milan , (May 7, 1684 - February 27, 1686)
• Mikkel Mikkelsen , interim (February 27, 1686 - June 29, 1686)
• Christopher Heins (June 29, 1686 - March 1687)
• Adolph Esmit, interim (March 1687 - October 1688)
• Christopher Heins (October 1688 - October 1689)
• Johan Lorensen (October 1689 - September 17, 1692)
• Frans de la Vigne (September 17, 1692 - April 7, 1693)
• Johan Lorensen (April 7, 1693 - February 19, 1702)
• Claus Hansen (February 19, 1702 - February 8, 1706)
• Joachim Melchior von Holten (February 8, 1706 - December 21, 1708)
• Diderich Mogensen , interim (December 21, 1708 - 1710)
• Mikkel Knudsen Crone , (1710 - August 8, 1716)
• Erich Bredal , (August 8, 1716 - April 1724)
• Otto Jacob Thambsen , (May 1, 1724 - September 18, 1724)
• Friderich Moth , (September 19, 1724 - May 1727)
• Hendrich von Suhm , (May 1727 - February 21, 1733)
• Philip Gardelin , (February 21, 1733 - February 21, 1736)
• Friderich Moth (February 21, 1736 - April 13, 1744) - also Governor of St. Croix
• Jacob Schönemann , (1740 - 1744)
• Christian von Schweder , (April 13, 1744 - April 25, 1747)
• Christian Suhm , (April 25, 1747 - 1758)

Governors of St. Croix

Saint Croix was bought by the French West India Company in 1733 .

• Friderich Moth , Governor of St. Croix (January 8, 1735 - May 15, 1747)
• Gregers Høg Nissen , interim manager for St. Croix (February 24, 1736 - April 16, 1744)
• Paul Lindemark , interim manager for St. Croix (April 16, 1744 - May 15, 1747)
• Jens Hansen , Governor of St. Croix (May 15, 1747 - December 1751)
• Peter Clausen , Governor of St. Croix (December 1751 - 1758)

In 1755 the Danish West Indies were sold to Frederick V by the West India Guinea Company and thus became a crown colony. St. Croix was then headed by the Governor General of Danish West India.

Crown Colony Governors

• Christian Leberecht von Prock , Governor General for St. Thomas and St. Jan (1756 - 1766), since 1758 also of St. Croix
  • Harrien Felschauer , Governor of St. Thomas and St. Jan (1758 - 1760)
  • Johan Georg von John , Governor on St. Thomas and St. Jan (1760 - April 1764)
  • Ditlev Wilhelm Wildthagen , governor on St. Thomas and St. Jan (April 1764 - November 1764)
  • Peter Gyntelberg , Governor on St. Thomas and St. Jan (November 1764 - 1765)
  • Ulrich Wilhelm von Roepstorff , governor of St. Thomas and St. Jan (1765 - 1766)
• Peter Clausen , Governor General (1766 - 1771)
  • Jens Nielsen Kragh , Governor of St. Thomas and St. Jan (1766 - 1773)
• Frederik Moth , Governor General (1770 - 1772)
• Ulrich Wilhelm von Roepstorff , Governor General (1772 - 1773)
• Heinrich Ludwig Ernst von Schimmelmann , Governor General (July 1773 - October 1773)
  • Thomas de Malleville , Governor of St. Thomas and St. Jan (1773-1796)
• Peter Clausen (Governor General) , Governor General (October 1773 - 1784)
• Heinrich Ludwig Ernst von Schimmelmann , Governor General (1784 - 1787)
• Ernst Frederik von Walterstorff , Governor General (1787 - 1794)
• Wilhelm Anton Lindemann , Governor General (1794 - 1796)
• Thomas de Malleville , Governor General (1796-1799)
  • Balthazar Frederik Mühlenfels , Governor of St. Thomas and St. Jan (1796 - 1800)
• Wilhelm Anton Lindemann , Governor General (1799 - March 31, 1801)
  • Casimir Wilhelm von Scholten , governor on St. Thomas and St. Jan (1800 - March 1801)
  • John Clayton Cowell , Governor of St. Thomas and St. Jan (March 31, 1801 - March 27, 1802) - British occupation
• Ernst Frederik von Walterstorff , Governor General (February 16, 1802 - October 27, 1802)
• Balthazar Frederik Mühlenfels , Governor General (October 27, 1802-1807)
  • Willum von Rømeling , Governor for St. Thomas and St. Jan (March 27, 1802-1803)
  • Casimir Wilhelm von Scholten , governor on St. Thomas and St. Jan (1803 - December 1807)
• Hans Christopher Lillienskjøld , Governor General (March 1807 - December 1807)
• Henry Bowyer , Governor General (December 1807-1808)
  • Guvernør McLean , Governor of St. Thomas and St. Jan (December 1807 - November 20, 1815) - British occupation
• Peter Lotharius of Oxholm , Governor General (1815-1816)
  • Christian Ludvig von Holten , governor of St. Thomas and St. Jan (November 20, 1815 - 1818)
• Johan Henrik von Stabel , Governor General (May 1816 - July 1816)
• Adrian Benjamin Bentzon , Governor General (1816-1820)
  • Peter von Scholten , Governor of St. Thomas and St. Jan (1818-1820)
• Carl Adolph Rothe , Governor General (1820-1822)
  • Christian Ludvig von Holten , governor of St. Thomas and St. Jan (February 1920 - March 1820)
  • Peter von Scholten , Governor on St. Thomas and St. Jan (April 1820 - July 1820)
  • Carl Gottlieb Fleischer , Governor of St. Thomas and St. Jan (1820 - 1822)
• Johan Frederik Bardenfleth , Governor General (1822-1827)
  • Carl Vilhelm Jessen , governor of St. Thomas and St. Jan (1822 - 1823)
  • Peter von Scholten , Governor of St. Thomas and St. Jan (1823 - 1826)
  • Johannes Søbøtker , governor of St. Thomas and St. Jan (1826 - 1829)
• Peter von Scholten , Governor General (1827 - July 1848)
  • Frederik Ludvig Christian Pentz Rosenørn , Governor of St. Thomas and St. Jan (1830-1834)
  • Frederik von Oxholm , Governor on St. Thomas and St. Jan (1834-1836)
  • Johannes Søbøtker , Governor of St. Thomas and St. Jan (1836 - 1848)
• Frederik von Oxholm , Acting Governor General (July 1848 - November 1848)
  • Hans Hendrik Berg , Governor of St. Thomas and St. Jan (1848)
• Peter Hansen , Government Commissioner / Temporary Governor (November 1848-1851)
  • Frederik von Oxholm , Governor on St. Thomas and St. Jan (1848-1852)
• Hans Ditmar Frederik Feddersen , Governor General (1851 - 1855)
  • Hans Hendrik Berg , Governor of St. Thomas and St. Jan (1853 - 1862)
• Johan Frederik Schlegel , Governor General (1855 - 1861)
• Vilhelm Ludvig Birch , Governor General (1861 - 1871)
• John Christmas , Governor General (February 1871 - June 1871)
• Frantz Ernst Bille , Acting Governor General (June 1871 - July 1872)
• Johan August Stakeman , Acting Governor General (July 1872 - September 1872)
• Janus August Garde , Governor General (September 1872-1881)
• Christian Henrik Arendrup , Governor General ( 1881-1893 )
• Carl Emil Hedemann , Governor General (1893 - 1903)
• Herman August Jürs , Governor General (1903-1904)
• Frederik Theodor Martin Mortensen Nordlien , Governor General (1904-1905)
• Christian Magdalus Thestrup Cold , Governor General ( 1905-1908 )
• Peter Carl Limpricht , Governor General (1908-1911)
• Lars Christian Helweg-Larsen , Governor General (1911 - October 3, 1916)
• Henri Konow , Acting Governor General (October 3, 1916 - March 31, 1917)

Danish West Indies was sold to the United States on December 12, 1916 , and transferred to the United States on March 31, 1917. The first governor of the Americans was Edwin Taylor Pollock .

Web links

• worldstatesmen.org: US Virgin Islands .

literature

• Bernhard von Petersen: En historisk Beretning om de dansk-vestindiske Öer St. Croix, St. Thomas og St. Jan , Copenhagen 1855.

Footnotes

1. ↑ Petersen, p. 63