Sylvester Stieber

Sylvester Stieber (born June 12, 1867 in Berlin , † November 12, 1914 in Wiskitno ) was a German officer and first resident of the German Tschadseeländer .

In April 1888 Stieber became an ensign in Jäger Battalion No. 4, in November 1888 ensign, 1889 lieutenant, 1897 first lieutenant in Rhenish Jäger battalion No. 8. In July 1900 he resigned from the Prussian army and joined the Imperial Protection Force for Cameroon about where he was initially appointed head of the Yaoundé Station . In November 1901 he took part as a company commander in the 2nd Ngwe expedition under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Curt von Pavel and in December 1901 in the expedition against Bafut and Mankon .

Stieber as a participant in the expedition of the commandant of the protection forces of Cameroon on Lake Chad , 1902 (back row, third from left).

With Pavel, Stieber came to the far north of Cameroon for the first time in 1901/02. In October and November 1903 he traveled there again to accompany the governor Jesko von Puttkamer and on this occasion was appointed the first resident of the German Chadseelands in Kusseri . Stieber, who represented the rule of the Schutztruppe from the beginning, left a lasting mark on his administrative district through restrictive measures and interventions in the indigenous structures. In February 1904 he undertook an expedition to the area of ​​the Musgu on the eastern bank of the Logone and incorporated it into the sphere of control of the resident.

In November 1904 Stieber was appointed captain and company commander. After temporary use elsewhere, he returned to Kusseri as a resident in August 1908. On June 30, 1910, he resigned from the Schutztruppe and was employed in the Grand Ducal Mecklenburg Jäger Battalion No. 14 . Most recently he was a major in the Guard Fusilier Regiment .

Publications

• Report by the captain and resident of Kusseri Stieber about his trip to the Musgus region . In: Deutsches Kolonialblatt , vol. 16 (1905), pp. 81–88

literature

• Florian Hoffmann: Occupation and military administration in Cameroon. Establishment and institutionalization of the colonial monopoly of violence 1891-1914 . Cuvillier Verlag, Göttingen 2007 (also dissertation, University of Münster 2006)
  • Vol. 1st main volume . 2007, ISBN 978-3-86727-472-2
  • Vol. 2. The imperial protection force and its officer corps . 2007, ISBN 978-3-86727-473-9 .