Talk:German New Guinea

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• German (North East) New Guinea (Kaiser-Wilhelmsland, over which Germany proclaimed a protectorate on 3 November 1884) during two periods of indirect rule by a chartered company, the Deutsche Neu-Guinea Compagnie ('German New Guinea Company'), preceded by a Commissioner (1885 - January 1887 Gustav von Oertzen) and interrupted by another Commissioner (21 August 1889 - 31 August 1892 Fritz Rose; acting to 30 September 1890) :
  • 10 June 1886 - 1 March 1888 Georg Freiherr von Schleinitz (b. 1834 - d. 1910)
  • 1 March 1888 - 31 October 1889 Reinhold Kraetke (b. 1845 - d. 1934)
  • 1 September 1892 - 3 March 1895 Georg Schmiele (b. 1855 - d. 1895)
  • 3 March 1895 - 17 August 1896 Hugo Rüdiger
  • 22 September 1896 - 13 August 1897 Kurt von Hagen (b. 1859 - d. 1897)
  • 15 August 1897 - 11 September 1897 Albert Hahl (acting) (b. 1868 - d. 1945)
  • 11 September 1897 - 31 March 1899 Hugo Skopnik; after him the colony was under Governors
• Jaluit (Marshall Islands), since 13 September 1886 a German protectorate, after several Kaiserliche Kommissare :
  • 11 May 1894 - March 1898 Georg Irmer (b. 1853 - d. 1931)
  • 24 March 1898 - 18 January 1906 Eugen Brandeis (b. 1846 - d. 1919) (acting to 22 February 1900)
  • 18 January 1906 - May 1906 Ludwig Kaiser (acting) (b. 1862 - d. 1906)
  • 1 April 1906 - 3 October 1914 the governors of German New Guinea; afterwards the jurisdiction was downgraded to district, under a Bezirksamtmann

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German New Guinea was a German colonial protectorate established in 1884 in the northeastern part of the island of New Guinea and several nearby island groups. The German New Guinea Company was founded in Berlin by Adolph von Hansemann and a syndicate of German bankers for the purpose of colonizing and exploiting the protectorate's resources. This gold coin, worth 20 New Guinean marks, was issued by the German New Guinea Company in 1895, and is now part of the National Numismatic Collection at the Smithsonian Institution.

Design credit: German New Guinea Company; photographed by the National Numismatic Collection

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