Residency Bukoba
The Residentur Bukoba was an administrative unit of the German colony German East Africa . The resident's seat was Bukoba .
prehistory
The German doctor and former governor of Equatoria , Emin Pascha , in the service of the German Empire in 1889 selected the fishing village of Bukoba on the western shore of Lake Victoria to build a station for the administration of the area on Lake Victoria. Construction of the station began in 1891. In 1900, Bukoba was separated from the Muansa military district as a separate military district .
history
In 1906 the Bukoba Military District was converted into the Bukoba Residency . In contrast to a military district or district of the German administration, a residency granted the local rulers extensive rights of self-administration.
In 1913, an estimated 270,500 inhabitants, 229 non-native colored people and 109 Europeans lived in the 32,200 square kilometers area of the residence.
In 1913 there were about 50 trading companies and 7 farmers in the residence who were almost exclusively involved in coffee cultivation. In 1913 the Europeans owned 4,151 cattle and the natives 66,590 cattle and 55,700 head of small livestock.
In the residence the 7th Company of the Protection Force for German East Africa was in Bukoba and the military post Kifumbiro on the river Kagera and Biaramulo for the Ussuwi area. The White Fathers Mission had six residencies.
In 1914, work on the route for the Rwanda Railway is in progress in the south of the Residences , as the Rwanda Railway runs through the Residences in this area.
During the First World War , the Residentur Bukoba was conquered from British East Africa by British colonial forces in 1916 . With the loss of the German colonies by the Treaty of Versailles of 1919, the Bukoba residency finally passed into British administration.
literature
- Publisher Walther Hubatsch: The Protected Areas of the German Empire 1884-1920 - Excerpt from: Outline of German Administrative History 1915-1945 Volume 22: Federal and Reich Authorities, JG Herder-Institut publishing house, Marburg / Lahn 1984, page 385.
Individual evidence
- ^ RK Lochner: Kampf im Rufiji Delta , Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 1990, page 265