Molundu (District)
The Molundu district (from 1912: Jukaduma ) was an administrative unit of the German colony of Cameroon . The seat of the administration was the government station of the same name Molundu (French Moloundou ) or from 1912 Jukaduma.
District area
The district area was in the extreme south-east of Old Cameroon and was bounded in the north by the district of Dume and in the west by the district of Lomié . In the south and east, the Dja and Sangha formed the border with French Equatorial Africa .
population
The indigenous population was composed of predominantly segmented Bantu- speaking ethnic groups (Kunabembe, Nzimu , Njem , Mbombo, Bomwali).
history
The German occupation of the district area took place from 1899 onwards by the expedition of Lieutenant Ernst von Carnap-Quernheimb , the appreciation with the establishment of the Sanga-Ngoko station on the lower reaches of the Dja by Councilor Dr. Plehn. By order of January 3, 1911, the district was separated from the Lomië district and made independent due to the increasing commercial activity in the region. Molundu, the end point of the southern main trade route from Kribi and Ebolowa , was designated as the district seat. As a result of unrest in the area of Jukaduma and the gradual relocation of trade, a subsidiary post was initially set up there under the direction of an African NCO and by order of May 18, 1912, the district administration was transferred entirely there. The district was henceforth called Jukaduma . The government doctor and a customs officer remained in Molundu. In addition to the customs business for the settlement areas of the Ndzimu and Missanga, he was given limited administrative powers. The crew consisted of 65 police troops in Jukaduma and 45 soldiers and 30 customs guards in Molundu.
In the course of the integration of New Cameroon , the district in the south was expanded to include the Ngoila (Soufflay) post area, which today belongs to the Republic of the Congo .
During the First World War , heavy fighting broke out from October 26 to 29, 1914 near the village of Putu on the Sangha River (about 100 km east of the Molundu station). The unequal battle between the 9th Company of the Schutztruppe and the attacking Belgian-French units, which had armed river steamers, ended with the retreat of the German company to the west.
Individual evidence
- ^ Hermann Harttmann: Putu, in: Battle for colonies . Vol. 7 of the series “Under fluttering flags”, 3rd edition, Berlin: DW-Verlag, pp. 66–90.
literature
- Florian Hoffmann: Occupation and military administration in Cameroon. Establishment and institutionalization of the colonial monopoly of violence 1891–1914 , Göttingen 2007
Coordinates: 2 ° 3 ′ 0 ″ N , 15 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ E