In the next four pages we draw on a number of albums to present photos of some of the people who left on the ‘ main ’ on 15 June , 1920 .
Grapengiesser Family Collection Meyer Family Collection Alfred Schultz Album , Tui Kronfeld-Parr Collection Museum für Völkerkunde , Hamburg ( Adolf Ohle Album )
On left , Mr Richard Marggraff , a plantation manager for the DSG ( Deutsche- Samoa Gesellschaft ) at Tapatapao ; ( second man ) Mr Heinrich Treviranus , manager of the Lesea cocoa plantation at Moamoa ; ( third man ) Mr Ernst G . Studt , an employee of the DH & PG who was allowed to return to Samoa in early 1920 after internment on Motuihe Island but was then included on the repatriation list in June ; ( 4th man ) Mr Max Neufeldt who was also on the clerical staff of the DH & PG prior to ts liquidation in 1916 . He was not interned during the war .
On the passenger manifest for the Main the men ’ s destinations in Germany were listed as Schwiebus , Rinteln , Lubeck and Kiel respectively . ( Mr Marggraff eventually resettled in Indonesia where he had a coffee plantation . He revisited Samoa in 1928 ).
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