Theodor Weber (Consul)

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Employees of the Godeffroy agency, the man in the sailor suit on the box is Weber

Theodor August Ludwig Weber (born June 22, 1844 in Hamburg ; † July 7, 1889 there ) headed the main agency of the Hamburg trading house Joh. Ces. Godeffroy & Son in the Samoan capital Apia .

Weber came to Samoa in 1862 . On April 28, 1864 , he was appointed consul in Apia by the Hamburg Senate to succeed August Unshelm . In 1868 he became consul of the North German Confederation and in 1872 consul of the German Empire for Samoa and Tonga . He was a co-signer of the friendship treaty concluded in 1876 between Germany and Tonga .

Weber, who over the years acquired considerable private fortune, made the trading house the largest landowner in Samoa by purchasing 30,000 hectares of fertile land on Upolu. He is considered to be the first merchant in the South Pacific to introduce drying of the coconut kernel instead of oil pressing on site , which enabled easier transport and greater recycling.

According to Harry J. Moors, Weber had a Samoan wife and two daughters who were sent to Germany to be raised before they were eight.

"Weber Harbor" on the Gazelle Peninsula (map from 1879)

A bay on the Gazelle Peninsula in New Britain was also named Weber Harbor by Georg Christoph Levison in honor of Theodor Weber .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Treatises of the Natural Science Association in Hamburg , Volume 40, P. Parey, 2005, p. 253.
  2. ↑ Death Register Hamburg 01, 1889, Volume 4, Entry No. 1801
  3. ↑ http://www.houseofpereira.com/?page_id=74
  4. ^ Christian Buhlmann, Antje Märke: A German "model colony" - Samoa under the cosmopolitan Wilhelm Solf. ( Memento of the original from November 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Federal Archives , From the Archives, Prehistory (I) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bundesarchiv.de
  5. ^ Rosemarie Schyma: South Seas. , DuMont, Cologne 2009, ISBN 3-7701-2709-9
  6. ↑ http://agora.sub.uni-hamburg.de/subhh/cntmng?type=pdf&did=c1:3467
  7. ↑ Bartholomäus von Werner: A German warship in the South Seas. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1889.
  8. ↑ http://germansinsamoa.net/20-2/
personal data
SURNAME Weber, Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weber, Theodor August Ludwig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hamburg, North German and German consul in Apia
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 1889
Place of death Hamburg