Eugen von Zimmerer

Eugen Ritter von Zimmerer (* November 24, 1843 in Germersheim, † March 10, 1918 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German governor of Cameroon.

Life

Carpenter, the son of a Bavarian officer studied, after attending high school in Bayreuth from 1861 law at the universities of Würzburg and Heidelberg. In Würzburg he became in 1862 a member of the Corps Bavaria. His professional career began as Bezirksgerichtsakzessist in Bayreuth. In 1874, he was public prosecutor at the District Court Straubing, 1876 District Court Assessor in Starnberg, 1878 Second Public Prosecutor at the Regional Court in Bayreuth, 1879 Second Public Prosecutor at the Regional Court Munich I and 1886 there Magistrate.

1887 moved carpenters in colonial career and was initially sent Acting Registrar and Deputy Governor of Cameroon and as such, 1887 by the Governor of his time Julius von Soden to the relief of a research expedition of Captain Richard Kund in the Bakokogebiet. In October 1888 he was imperial commissioner for Togo. In 1890, he became the representative of the governor of Cameroon again and was appointed themselves to the Governor in April 1891. Carpenters put more on fiscal consolidation of the colony and a moderate development of the already occupied territories as an expansion of the colonial territory. This led in particular to a long -lasting conflict with the researcher Eugen Zintgraff, which had begun in consultation with the Foreign Office since 1890 with the establishment of a base system in the grasslands of western Cameroon. Following a mutiny of the military police (known as Dahomey uprising ), which he had not directly caused, but for the one made ​​him responsible as senior officials of the colony, carpenters was dismissed in 1893 from Cameroon and July 20, 1895 because of health considerations in temporary retirement offset.

In 1898, carpenters consul in Florianópolis ( Brazil), 1902 Consul General in Valparaíso ( Chile ), 1906 Minister Resident in Port -au -Prince, since 1907 with the title and rank of Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary. Under the December 24, 1910, he was transferred at his own request in the final retirement and moved to Frankfurt on Main, where he died eight years later. His body was cremated and the ashes buried in Main.