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Hermann von Wissmann
4th Reichskommissar of German East Africa
In office 25 April 1895 – 4 December 1896
Preceded by
Friedrich von Schele
Succeeded by
Eduard von Liebert
Personal details
Born
4 September 1853 Frankfurt an der Oder, Kingdom of Prussia
Died
15 June 1905 (1905-06-16) (aged 51) Weißenbach, Austria-Hungary
Children
Hermann von Wissmann
Signature
Nickname
Deutschlands größter Afrikaner
Military service
Allegiance
German Empire
Branch/service
Prussian Army
Years of service
1870–1896
Rank
Major
Hermann Wilhelm Leopold Ludwig Wissmann, after 1890 Hermann von Wissmann (4 September 1853 – 15 June 1905), was a German explorer and administrator in Africa.
Hermann Wilhelm Leopold Ludwig Wissmann, after 1890 Hermann von Wissmann (4 September 1853 – 15 June 1905), was a German explorer and administrator in...
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eventually suppressed by a German expeditionary force commanded by HermannWissmann. In late 1884, an expedition of the Society for German Colonization...
Wissmann is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: HermannWissmann (1853–1905), German explorer and administrator in Africa, who...
government in Berlin had to send mercenary troops under Reichskommissar HermannWissmann to subdue the uprising. Upon the establishment of German East Africa...
von Bismarck dispatched 34-year-old Lieutenant HermannWissmann as Reichskommissar to the colony. Wissmann along with a combination of German, Sudanese...
(German: Kaiserlicher Gouverneur) of German East Africa: 1888–1891: HermannWissmann Carl Peters, as sometimes claimed, was never Reichskommissar for German...
Erforschung Aequatorial-Afrikas. On his second journey he was accompanied by HermannWissmann, a trip in which the two explorers reached the site of Nyangwe on the...
German government had to intervene by sending troops commanded by HermannWissmann, who ended the insurrection. The German government took over the administration...
goats", a settler told the missionary Samuel Lapsley. In March 1883 HermannWissmann, the first European traveller in the region, gave the name "Zappo Zap"...
by HermannWissmann which was sent in 1888 by the German Imperial government to its colonies in East Africa to suppress the Abushiri Revolt. Wissmann was...
army major HermannWissmann, governor of German East Africa in the late 19th century. This former statue, unveiled in 1911, represented Wissmann standing...
European visitors to the town were Verney Lovett Cameron in 1874 and HermannWissmann in 1883. Cannibalism in Africa § Congo Basin Stanley, Henry Morton...
Deputy Lothar von Trotha Preceded by Julius von Soden Succeeded by HermannWissmann Personal details Born 15 September 1847 Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia...
remains lying around abandoned fires." Soldiers of the German explorer HermannWissmann saw how people captured and wounded in a slave raid were shot by a...
German explorer HermannWissmann established a station in the area around present-day Kananga, on the left bank of the Lulua. Wissmann named the station...
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...
from ships of the Imperial German Navy in the Indian Ocean and sent HermannWissmann as Reichskommissar of German East Africa, who was to put down the insurrection...
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...
Matthias Wissmann (born 15 April 1949) is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He served as the president of the German...
district, which had been founded a year earlier by the German explorer HermannWissmann. Wissman went on an expedition to the Lubi, leaving Le Marinel in command...
As a doctor and anthropologist, he joined the Congo expedition of HermannWissmann for the International African Association. He left Europe of 16 November...
defeating Kibosho in February 1891, according to official German accounts, HermannWissmann stayed behind to oversee the construction of a new German headquarters...