Oltwig von Kamptz
Oltwig Wilhelm Adolf Ernst von Kamptz (born April 21, 1857 in Torgau , † March 17, 1921 in Breslau ) was a Prussian major general and commander of the Imperial Protection Force for Cameroon .
Life
origin
His parents were the Prussian major general Wilhelm von Kamptz (1807-1889) and his second wife Johanne Ernestine, née von Velten (1825-1902). She was the daughter of District Administrator Hans Adolf von Velten.
Military career
After attending grammar school in 1876, Kamptz joined the Queen Augusta Guard Grenadier Regiment No. 4 of the Prussian Army as a flag junior and was promoted to captain here until 1892 . At the end of October 1893 he resigned from the army, joined the marine infantry and was employed as a company commander in the 2nd Sea Battalion . In October 1897 he was appointed commander of the Imperial Protection Force for Cameroon . Promoted to major in 1900 , he resigned from the Schutztruppe in April 1901 and became major and battalion commander in the 1st Hanseatic Infantry Regiment No. 75 . In 1904, during the Herero uprising , he joined the protection force for German South West Africa , from which he resigned in April 1907 (as a lieutenant colonel since 1906 ). The last in the bar Infantry Regiment. 28 is used, it was on 19 January 1909 under presentation of the character as a colonel for disposition made. In the First World War Kamptz was reused as a ZD officer and served u. a. as commander of the 56th Landwehr Infantry Brigade . On October 16, 1918, he was promoted to major general.
Cameroon
Kamptz came to Cameroon for the first time in early 1894 as head of a detachment of the sea battalion to suppress the so-called Dahomey uprising , a mutiny of the police force. In December 1895 he was entrusted with representing the then commanding officer of the protection force, Max von Stetten . At the beginning of the following year he led a military expedition against the Mvog-Betsi ( Ewondo ) and Etun in the district of Yaounde , in March and April 1897 against the Ekoi and Ngolo in the district of Rio del Rey . During a stay at home, Kamptz was finally appointed commander and in 1898 led the operations against the Bulu and Fang in the south of the colony. In 1898/99 he initiated the conquest of the Islamic empires of North Cameroon with the Wute Adamaua campaign against Ndumba and Tibaati .
South West Africa
During the military conflict with the Herero and Nama in German South West Africa, Oltwig von Kamptz was involved, among other things, in the battles against Jakob Morenga in the great Karas Mountains.
Civil life
After retiring from active military service, Kamptz lived in Honnef and after the First World War in Silesia. His extensive collection of ethnographics has been in the Überseemuseum in Bremen since 1902 .
literature
- Hans von Chamier Glisczinski : Living and Dying for Africa. Leipzig 1938, pp. 109-134.
- German Colonial Lexicon. Volume II, Leipzig 1920, p. 222.
- Florian Hoffmann: Occupation and military administration in Cameroon. Establishment and institutionalization of the colonial monopoly of violence 1891–1914. Part II: The Imperial Protection Force and its Officer Corps. Cuvillier Verlag , Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-86727-473-9 .
- Yearbook of the German Nobility . Volume 2, 1898, p. 221.
Individual evidence
- ^ Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldatisches Führertum . Volume 7, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1939], DNB 367632829 , p. 95, no. 2165.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kamptz, Oltwig von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kamptz, Oltwig Wilhelm Adolf Ernst von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prussian major general, commander of the protection force for Cameroon |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 21, 1857 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Torgau |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 17, 1921 |
| Place of death | Wroclaw |