Station Chief
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A Station Chief is a term for certain official who are appointed as chief of a 'station', i.e. a stationary post, of various natures.
[edit] Colonial
In English, a description for the factor (agent) of a colonial 'factory' (i.e settlement and/or garrison), while a formal station can already have a factor in charge (as in the East India Company's 1603 established English station Bantam which in March 1609 formally became a Factory but remained under a Chief factor until its promotion in 1617 to Presidency of Bantam)
Furthermore as close rendering of the German equivalent Stationsleiter ('station leader'), notably in the following minor, South Sea Schutzgebiete:
- on Nauru island, since 1 April 1906 part of German New Guinea (from 1911, subordinated to the administrators of Ponape district) till the Australian occupation:
- 1906 - 1908 Konrad Geppert (d. 1908)
- 1908 - 1911 Joseph Siegwanz
- 1911 - 1912 Warnecke
- 1912 - 6 November 1914 Wilhelm Wostrack
- since 1911, the Jaluit Station, i.e. the Marshall islands (since 1 April 1906 also part of German New Guinea, first as Bezirk=district of Jaluit), subordinated to a district officer (styled Bezirksamtmann) in Micronesia; till the 3 October 1914 Japanese occupation; the only incumbent, Georg Merz, was formerly the last of the previous district officers in Jaluit.
Finally as loose rendering of the Dutch and Danish equivalents Opperhoofd viz. Opperhoved.
[edit] Other
- Manager of a scientific (research) station, e.g. for the International Geophysical Year (IGY) on Jarvis Island, an uninhabited minor U.S. Pacific island possession
- A CIA official, also called Chief of Station, equivalent to a KGB Resident.
