Bunge Family Collection , Reinhold Hofmann ( cropped )
Klinkmüller Family Collection
H . F . Wilhelm Osbahr ( shown at left ) was the German district administrator (‘ amtmann ’) for South Upolu in 1914 , based at Poutasi . For many years before that he had been a teacher at the government school in Apia . He was interned in Auckland from late 1915 until his repatriation to Germany on board the “ Willochra ” in May 1919 with his wife and children . A part-Samoan son , William , remained in Apia and grew up there before emigrating to New Zealand in 1927 .
The Osbahrs returned to Lübeck where Wilhelm took up supervision of a borstal and then later directed a remedial education and life-skills centre for wayward youth at an agricultural campus he set up at Heilegenstedten . This innovative institution was in the style of a benevolent boot camp that reportedly proved highly effective , and attracted many international visitors , though it apparently fell foul of the Nazi Party who deemed it too socialistic . In 1935 , Gustav and Else Klinkmüller , from Samoa , visited the Osbahrs on a trip to Germany , where the photo above was taken . The people appear to be as follows ( left-to-right ): Daughter Ada Ingeborg ‘ Palolo ’ Osbahr , Mrs Osbhar , young man unknown , Mrs Klinkmüller , Wilhelm Osbahr , Mr Klinkmüller .
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