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Re: Pictures of German Cameroun

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Post by Tanzania » 21 Dec 2016, 18:19

Today I like to introduce a rare book and a few of these containing photos. The main orientation, not only in this sub-forum are the
military element, of course. But special the Colonial component here, include also remaining buildings and constructions. In most
cases these buildings, administration buildings (Bomas), but also Churches and schools are still used in these functions up today.
The book portray the mission-work of the Roman Catholic order in Cameroun from 1890 to 1916. Heinrich Vieter was since 1905
the first Bishop in this formally German Colony. In 2005, the beatification process was opened in Yaoundé / Cameroun for Vieter.
»Die Pallottiner in Kamerun«, 25 Jahre Missionsarbeit, Herman Skolaster, Verlag der Kongregation der Pallottiner, Limburg 1924
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Post by Tanzania » 21 Dec 2016, 18:21

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Post by Tanzania » 21 Dec 2016, 18:27

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Post by Tanzania » 21 Dec 2016, 18:28

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Post by Tanzania » 21 Dec 2016, 18:30

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Post by Tanzania » 01 Jan 2017, 12:19

» Kamerun «, Wilhelm Kemner, Herman Hilger Verlag, 1936
The following photos are from pre-and post-war period. The grower Kemner could continue after the Great War with his work in Cameroun.
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Post by Tanzania » 01 Jan 2017, 12:22

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Post by Tanzania » 01 Jan 2017, 12:25

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Post by Tanzania » 01 Jan 2017, 12:26

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Re: Pictures of German Cameroun

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Post by Chris Dale » 12 Feb 2017, 12:43

Thanks again for sharing all these great photos Holger. For me the most interesting was this local Sultan-
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He appears to be wearing the gorget of the 2nd Prussian Curassier Regt, Kürassier-Regiment "Königin" (Pommersches) Nr. 2.
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Post by Tanzania » 13 Feb 2017, 10:43

Interesting,
A `German` Sultan with Ghutra / Keffiyeh and Igal (headgear) and a gorget of the 2nd Prussian Curassier Regt,
Kürassier-Regiment "Königin" (Pommersches) Nr. 2!
This photo of Sultan (Lamido) Schefu Sanda von Dikoa (Bornu) is also shown at the Koloniales Bildarchiv in Frankfurt and it is mentioned that the, later as Captain become known and promoted, Ernst von Raben should have taken this picture.
This photo below pictured also Sultan (Lamido) Schefu Sanda von Dikoa (Bornu)
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Original Source: https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_XYo5AQAAIAAJ» Kamerun und die Deutsche Tsâdsee-Eisenbahn «, Karl René, Berlin 1905, page 111
“Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. . . . All History was a
palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary” – G. ORWELL 1984

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Re: Pictures of German Cameroun

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Post by juergen c. olk » 25 Feb 2017, 01:36

Great collection of pictures.

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