Franz Boluminski

Franz Boluminski ( born November 12, 1863 in Lessen, West Prussia, † April 28, 1913 on the island of New Ireland, Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea today ) was a German colonial civil servant.

Life

Franz Boluminski initially served as a soldier in the Imperial Army in German East Africa. After his military service Boluminski worked from 1894 for Guinea 's Company at the Astrolabebai ( German New Guinea) in the vicinity of Friedrich-Wilhelm - port.

On June 30, 1900 Boluminski was commissioned by the German colonial administration with the management of the new station on the island of New Ireland in Käwieng. In May 1900 Robert Koch was a guest of Franz Boluminski Käwieng in New Guinea during his expedition to the study of malaria. Koch undertook with the help Boluminskis and his wife Frida, an attempt to combat malaria by quinine. 1907 was Boluminski his ethnological Neumecklenburgsammlung the Berlin Museum of Ethnology and received the Red Eagle. Since 1910 he was district administrator of the district office Käwieng.

His greatest achievement was the construction of a coastal road that would connect the towns on the north coast of the island. He instructed each village on the coast with the construction of a section and with the subsequent maintenance. The street was named Kaiser- Wilhelm -Chaussee and today is officially Boluminski Highway.

Founded by Boluminski plantations of coconut palms for copra production and were connected by this road and made Neumecklenburg one of the few areas in German New Guinea, the profits generated.

The western foothills of the named after the German Vice Admiral George of Schleinitz Schleinitz Mountains on New Ireland were given the name Boluminski Mountains.

On April 28, 1913 Franz Boluminski died of a stroke. His grave is located on the Bagail Cemetery in Kavieng.