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Hermann von Wissmann
4th Reichskommissar of German East Africa
In office
25 April 1895 – 4 December 1896
Preceded byFriedrich von Schele
Succeeded byEduard von Liebert
Personal details
Born4 September 1853
Frankfurt an der Oder, Kingdom of Prussia
Died15 June 1905 (1905-06-16) (aged 51)
Weißenbach, Austria-Hungary
ChildrenHermann von Wissmann
SignatureHermann Wissmann
NicknameDeutschlands größter Afrikaner
Military service
AllegianceHermann Wissmann German Empire
Branch/serviceHermann Wissmann Prussian Army
Years of service1870–1896
RankMajor

Hermann Wilhelm Leopold Ludwig Wissmann, after 1890 Hermann von Wissmann (4 September 1853 – 15 June 1905), was a German explorer and administrator in Africa.

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government in Berlin had to send mercenary troops under Reichskommissar Hermann Wissmann to subdue the uprising. Upon the establishment of German East Africa...

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(German: Kaiserlicher Gouverneur) of German East Africa: 1888–1891: Hermann Wissmann Carl Peters, as sometimes claimed, was never Reichskommissar for German...

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Erforschung Aequatorial-Afrikas. On his second journey he was accompanied by Hermann Wissmann, a trip in which the two explorers reached the site of Nyangwe on the...

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goats", a settler told the missionary Samuel Lapsley. In March 1883 Hermann Wissmann, the first European traveller in the region, gave the name "Zappo Zap"...

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by Hermann Wissmann which was sent in 1888 by the German Imperial government to its colonies in East Africa to suppress the Abushiri Revolt. Wissmann was...

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army major Hermann Wissmann, governor of German East Africa in the late 19th century. This former statue, unveiled in 1911, represented Wissmann standing...

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Nyangwe

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European visitors to the town were Verney Lovett Cameron in 1874 and Hermann Wissmann in 1883. Cannibalism in Africa § Congo Basin Stanley, Henry Morton...

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remains lying around abandoned fires." Soldiers of the German explorer Hermann Wissmann saw how people captured and wounded in a slave raid were shot by a...

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German explorer Hermann Wissmann established a station in the area around present-day Kananga, on the left bank of the Lulua. Wissmann named the station...

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am Main 1987, OCLC 17785905, S. 50–56. Walter W. Müller (Hrsg.), Hermann von Wissmann: Die Geschichte von Sabaʾ II. Das Grossreich der Sabäer bis zu seinem...

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Emil von Zelewski

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from ships of the Imperial German Navy in the Indian Ocean and sent Hermann Wissmann as Reichskommissar of German East Africa, who was to put down the insurrection...

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German East Africa Company

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have since been renamed, and he is neglected by most historians. Hermann von Wissmann was born on September 4, 1853, in Frankfurt, Germany. He joined the...

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district, which had been founded a year earlier by the German explorer Hermann Wissmann. Wissman went on an expedition to the Lubi, leaving Le Marinel in command...

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Ludwig Wolf

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As a doctor and anthropologist, he joined the Congo expedition of Hermann Wissmann for the International African Association. He left Europe of 16 November...

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defeating Kibosho in February 1891, according to official German accounts, Hermann Wissmann stayed behind to oversee the construction of a new German headquarters...

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