Otto Gleim

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Otto Gleim (1910)

Otto Gleim (born April 22, 1866 in Kassel , † August 17, 1929 in Planegg ) was a German ministerial official. He was governor of Cameroon and undersecretary of state in the Imperial Colonial Office.

Life

Gleim came from an old family of lawyers from the Electorate of Hesse and was the son of the Real and Secret Upper Government Councilor Wilhelm Gleim and his wife Antonie nee. Lambert. He attended high schools in Glogau , Breslau and Berlin . From 1885 he studied medicine, from 1886 law at the Philipps University of Marburg and the University of Leipzig . In 1886 he was reciprocated both in the Corps Teutonia Marburg and in the Corps Lusatia Leipzig . As an inactive he moved to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin . The sons Wilhelm and Erwin Gleim come from the marriage with Adelheid Krause. Otto Gleim was a cousin of the surgeon Fritz König .

He spent his legal traineeship in Lübben (Spreewald), among other places . After graduating as Dr. iur. and the assessor examination, he joined the colonial department of the Foreign Office in 1895 and was sent to Cameroon in early 1896 to represent the colony chancellor . From November 1896 to 1898 he was Chancellor and Deputy Governor of the German Colony of Togo . He then resigned in the colonial department. In 1899 Gleim was sent to São Paulo de Loanda as the first professional consul for Angola and French Congo . He was also consul for French Equatorial Africa and the sovereign Congo state . In 1901 he returned to Germany as a permanent laborer in the colonial department of the Foreign Office. In December of the same year he was appointed Legation Councilor, in 1904 the Real Legation Councilor and Lecturing Council, in 1908 the Secret Higher Government Council in the Reich Colonial Office. In 1904/05 and 1906/07 he worked temporarily as the governor's representative in Cameroon. In August 1910, Gleim himself became governor of Cameroon; but he resigned as early as 1911 because of the Morocco-Congo treaty that he had rejected . In May 1912 he was recalled by State Secretary Wilhelm Solf as Director of the Department for General Administration in the Reich Colonial Office and in 1916 promoted to Undersecretary of State. In 1918 he received the character (title) Real Privy Council . The time of his work as governor of Cameroon was too short for him to be able to set important accents. His term of office, together with that of Theodor Seitz (1907-1910) and Karl Ebermaier, was assigned to the phase of colonial reforms by Bernhard Dernburg , which focused on the peaceful economic exploitation of the German colonies designated as protected areas .

See also

literature

  • Heinrich Schnee (Ed.): German Colonial Lexicon . Volume 1, Leipzig 1920, p. 740. ( online )
  • The members of the Corps Teutonia zu Marburg from 1825–2000. o. O. o. J., No. 645, p. 151.
  • Deutsches Biographisches Jahrbuch , Vol. 11 (1929), pp. 113-117.
  • Wilhelm Schulz: Otto Gleim. A picture of life . Deutsche Corpszeitung 2/1961, p. 45.
  • Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945, Vol. 2, p. 46 f.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 102/662; 3/636.
personal data
SURNAME Gleim, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Governor of Cameroon, Undersecretary of State in the Reich Colonial Office
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH August 17, 1929
Place of death Planegg