ended 100 years ago on the Caroline Island Ponape the uprising against German colonial rule in the South Seas
Until knew 100 years ago an almost German island Ponape, Pohnpei is called since 1990. Only when the root of the Sokehs 100 years ago, rose against the German colonial administration, the Caroline island moves to the attention of the German public. On 22 February 1911 ended the uprising. It touches on the biggest German Militäraktion was completed in the South Seas. to create
To be a connected German colonial territory in the Pacific, bought the German government of Spain beginning of 1899 following the American-English war in 1998 Mariana Islands and the Caroline Islands, including for 17 million marks from Ponape. Thanks to the prudent policies of the district's Albert Hahl is the usually recalcitrant Pohnpeians behaved peacefully and cooperatively. The German administration avoided in the interests of the indigenous population to intervene so that they initially had little impact on their everyday life had.
This alters in 1907, when the Colonial Office ordered that the German foreign possessions future via their budget should be largely self-generating in order to be independent of imperial grants. The feudal fief system on Pohnpei was the reason for the low productivity of the island.
was therefore arranged a land reform, which went ahead only slowly. In addition, the Pohnpeians exerted against their preoccupation in road construction, with the inhospitable island should be developed, passive resistance.
On 17 October 1910 came to the small, only by a stretch of sea from the main island separate island Dschokadsch A serious incident. After the office since the end of 1909 District Governor Gustav Böder a young Sokehs, who opposes road works at the instructions of the German overseer had, ten lashes did allow the administration, laid the Sokehs down to work. As Boeder heard of the events, he was not Bose's prescient and therefore unarmed row after Dschokadsch. He and his companions were massacred, their bodies geschändet and thrown into the sea.
ranghöchster As representatives of the kingdom of Acceptance shall the government doctor Max Girschner command and was then capital of Kolonia Pohnpei dressing for defense. It is sufficient to him long, by skillful negotiations, the four other tribal Pohnpeians to bring to his side. The Sokehs but subjected to the most hidden ridges, back in the mountains and entrenched themselves. The Colonial Office in Berlin discovered until November of the action in the South Pacific colony, after a mail steamer had run the island. By early January 1911 met five warships for carrying out a punitive expedition.
The German attack started on 13 January with a concentrated fire from the Schiffsgeschützen. Subsequently, the landing troops without loss of some uprising capture, but the majority were able to focus on the Hauptinsel abzusetzen. In den darauffolgenden Wochen verfolgten die Deutschen ihre Gegner, die immer wie- der überraschend aus dem Hinterhalt angriffen, über die ganze Insel. Durch die ständige Hatz und den Hun- ger zermürbt, legten immer mehr Rebellen die Waffen nieder und am 22. Februar ergaben sich die letzten Sokehs.
Obwohl die Gefechte auf bei- den Seiten nur geringe Verluste gefordert hatten, wurde in der deutschen Öffentlichkeit der Ruf nach Vergeltung laut. 36 Sokehs, die an der Tötung Boeders und seiner Begleiter beteiligt gewesen waren, wurden in Kolonia vor Gericht gestellt. Während der Verhandlung wurden auch entlastende Momente gewürdigt und den Angeklagten zugestanden, nicht killed from base motives to.
Nevertheless, the Court of 17 death sentences, which, however, were executed by shooting a 15. Sokehs Twelve were sentenced to imprisonment and forced labor, acquitted seven. To prevent further sat up, the 450 Sokehs were moved to the 2,000 kilometers from Palau Islands.
Banning preserved but only briefly, because in October 1914, Japanese troops occupied the German possessions in the South Seas. The Sokehs, had died in exile of starvation and disease could, in their home Ponape zurückkehren.
During the Second World War the island was frequently bombed by the U.S. Military because of his Japanese positions or fired. After the war, Ponape part of the Trust Territory of Pacific Islands was the United States. In 1986, the island gained after 100 years of foreign domination as the main island of Föderierten States of Micronesia, the independent.
Jan Heitmann
Prussian Allgemeine Zeitung 07/11
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