Wilhelm Methner

Wilhelm Methner (1871–1951)

Wilhelm Methner (Wilhelm Friedrich Karl Methner, born January 14, 1871 in Proskau , Opole district ; † January 30, 1951 in Magdeburg ) was a German lawyer and colonial official

Life

The son of a pastor from Silesia passed his legal exam in 1901. After attending a course at the Seminar for Oriental Languages in Berlin, he got a job as an assessor at the Foreign Office . From 1902 he worked as a civil servant in the colony of German East Africa , first as a court assessor and district judge in Tanga , then from 1903 as land commissioner in the district of Tanga, Wilhelmstal and Pangani , from 1905 as an advisor to the governorate in Dar es Salaam , from 1906 as a district official in Moschi and from 1909 as first advisor to the governor in Dar es Salaam. At the beginning of the First World War he joined the Schutztruppe and was wounded several times. In 1918 he finally went into British captivity. His last military rank was Major in the Landwehr. Back in Germany, he headed the Reichsausgleichsamt in Berlin from 1920 to 1924 . Around 1929 he worked as a lawyer and notary in Stollberg in the Harz region.

Works

• From the German colonies , Stuttgart 1927. ·              
• The ports of German East Africa, Berlin 1927.
• Outline of the history of the German colonies , Berlin a. Munich 1930.
• Under three governors - 16 years of service in the German tropics , Breslau 1938.

literature

• Wolfgang-Eisenhardt Maillard u. Jürgen Schröder: The officer corps of the protection force for German East Africa in World War 1914–1918. A list of all officers who took part in the campaign (= contributions to German colonial history, vol. 10), Walsrode 2003, p. 78.
• Werner von Langsdorff (ed.): German flag over sand and palm trees , 5th edition, Gütersloh 1942 [1. Ed .: 1936], p. 374.
• German Gender Book (Genealogisches Handbuch Bürgerlicher Familien) , Vol. 153, Limburg ad L. 1970, p. 188.