Karl Ebermaier (

Elberfeld Elberfeld is a municipal subdivision of the German city of Wuppertal; it was an independent town until 1929. History The first official mentioning of the geographic area on the banks of today's Wupper River as "''elverfelde''" was in a docu ...

, 2 October 1862 –

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, 21 August 1943) was between 1912 and 1916 the last governor of

German Kamerun Kamerun was an African colony of the German Empire from 1884 to 1916 in the region of today's Republic of Cameroon. Kamerun also included northern parts of Gabon and the Congo with western parts of the Central African Republic, southwestern p ...

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He was the son of State Procurator Friedrich Wilhelm Ebermaier. He studied law in Tübingen and was a member of the Corps Rhenania. He worked in Germany until 1898, when he became Supreme Judge of

German East Africa German East Africa (GEA; german: Deutsch-Ostafrika) was a German colony in the African Great Lakes region, which included present-day Burundi, Rwanda, the Tanzania mainland, and the Kionga Triangle, a small region later incorporated into Mozam ...

, but was called back to Germany after a duel-scandal. In 1902 he was sent to Kamerun as first Referent and deputy Governor. On 29 March 1912, he replaced Otto Gleim as Governor of Kamerun. It was in that function that he was confronted with a Franco-British-Belgian invasion after the outbreak of the First World War on 4 August 1914. Formally commander-in-chief of the armed forces, Ebermaier left Major Carl Heinrich Zimmermann direct the military operations. By 1916, the situation was so desperate that Ebermaier, with the majority of the Colonial administration, fled to neutral

Spanish Guinea Spanish Guinea (Spanish: ''Guinea Española'') was a set of insular and continental territories controlled by Spain from 1778 in the Gulf of Guinea and on the Bight of Bonny, in Central Africa. It gained independence in 1968 as Equatorial G ...

. Ebermaier was interned in Madrid and led there until 1919 the Internment Administration.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ebermaier, Karl German colonial people in Kamerun 1862 births 1943 deaths People from Elberfeld

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