Ramsay, Hans von, 1862-1938

Ramsay, Hans von, 1862-1938

Ramsay, Hans Gustav Ferdinand von, 1862-1938

Ramsay, Hans Gustav Ferdinand, 1862-1938

Ramsay, Hans, 1862-1938

Ramsay, Hans

Ramsay, Hans von

1862-05-18

1938-01-14

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In 1891 he was assigned to service at the Foreign Office and then assigned to the protection force (Schutztruppe) in German East Africa. From 1889 he was an officer in the so-called Wissmanntruppe. In 1890 he was station chief in Bagamoyo, and from April 1891 district magistrate in Lindi. After his transfer to Cameroon, Ramsay succeeded Karl von Gravenreuth as head of the Cameroon Northern Expedition in 1892. From 1893 back in East Africa and worked as station chief in Kisaki in 1893, in Iringa and Ulanga in 1894, in Lindi in 1895 and from May 1896 as head of the Udjidji station he founded, the first German base on Lake Tanganyika. Numerous cartographic photographs of the lake area were taken here from 1896 to 1898, and in 1898/99 he was called back to work at the Foreign Office in Berlin. After leaving active military service (1900), Ramsay took a position with the Northwest Cameroon Company (GNK), for which he managed business in Cameroon as general representative from 1901 to 1903. To explore and map the concession, he undertook several expeditions through the area between Cross River and Adamawa. After returning to Germany again in 1907, Ramsay became a lecturer in regional studies of Cameroon and Togo at the Seminar for Oriental Languages ​​at the University of Berlin. ---Archive material: Federal Archives R 1001/3284 to R 1001/3286, R 1001/3463 to R 1001/3464

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