Residency Ngaundere
The Residentur Ngaundere was an administrative district of the German colony of Cameroon created in 1913 .
History and politics
After taking the Fulani - Residence Ngaundere by the German colonial forces under the command of Cramer of Clausbruch (1901), the previous Lamidat initially remained under military administration under direct supervision and the area of the station Joko. In 1903 it was affiliated to the newly established Adamaua residence , but was temporarily retained as a military base, which was mainly due to the French infiltration of the border region. Already in 1903/04 the formation of a separate residential district was considered, but postponed due to a lack of experienced administrative staff. Instead, the city of Ngaundere was occupied with a technician belonging to the Adamaua residence as the head of a subsidiary post.
Relations with the indigenous elites were influenced by the increasing decline of the indigenous dynasty. Ardo May, deployed by the Schutztruppe in 1901, probably died in the summer of 1903 as a result of a poison attack. He was followed by his eldest son Dalil, who was overthrown by local notables a year later.
At the instigation of the military commander Ussumaana Nakni, Laamiido Maygara Iisa, a son of Ardo Muhammado Abbo, who was killed during the occupation of the city, was enthroned. Ussumaana exerted a considerable influence on politics in the following years, but was sentenced to death by a Fulbe court on June 5, 1908 for his involvement in the Mahdist resistance movement of the Maalum Muhammado al-Wadawiiyu (Goni Wadai).
In 1909 Kurt Strümpell, as the responsible resident of Adamaua, again pushed through the establishment of a military post under the direction of a German officer. It was only in the course of the reorganization of the administration of North Cameroon under Karl Ebermaier that the Lamidat of Ngaundere was separated from Adamaua by government decree of January 26, 1913 and made independent residency . The military occupation was carried out by the 8th Company of the Schutztruppe, which became vacant in Dschang and which was transferred to Ngaundere in several squadrons until March 1913. Hauptmann von Stephani took over the resident's business on February 1st . When the First World War broke out, the residence was under the direction of the captain and company commander Willy Thiel .
In 1913 Otto von Proeck in Kongola (N 6 ° 5 '22.6 "E 14 ° 22' 34.8") on the upper Sanaga ( Lom ), which was on an important trade route in the southeastern part of the district, became a resident secondary post set up.
literature
- Florian Hoffmann: Occupation and military administration in Cameroon. Establishment and institutionalization of the colonial monopoly of force , Part I, Göttingen 2007, pp. 305–308