Bunge Family Collection , photographer Reinhold Hofmann ( cropped )
Alfred Schultz Album , photographer Reinhold Hofmann ( cropped )
Alfred Schultz Album , photographer Reinhold Hofmann ( cropped )
Ernst Dorn ( above ) was another German official who had the misfortune to be appointed to Samoa not too long before war ’ s outbreak in 1914 . He served as Chinese Commissioner , controlling all aspects of the hiring and living conditions for the Chinese plantation workers who were brought in to Samoa as a labour source after 1903 .
Mr Dorn was interned in New Zealand during the war and was deported to Germany on board the “ Willochra ” in May 1919 .
Dr George Sessous ( above at top ) was a distinguished botanist who was appointed to Samoa by the German Colonial Office in 1912 as an agricultural advisor . He spent the war years in internment when this photo was taken . One of his children , son Otto , was born in Samoa in 1913 .
After Dr Sessous returned to Germany in 1919 he worked as a seed scientist and was later a professor at the University of Giessen , where he served as chair of the Department of Agronomy and Crop Science .
Mr Gustav Stoeckicht ( above ) was the Chief of Police in Samoa for much of the German Administration . He was born in 1873 and came to Samoa in 1905 when he took up his official position with a staff of one assistant and 18 Samoan constables .
Mr Stoeckicht married a local , Miss Siavalua Tiedemann , and had three children . He was interned on Motuihe during the First World War and returned to Apia where he ran a small business until his passing in 1953 . The family lived on four acres at Lotopa . Two daughters later emigrated to New Zealand and a son , Peter , was sent to Germany where he settled .
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