Station Chief

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A Station Chief is a term for certain officials 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 it accurs 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.

[edit] Sources and References

• WorldStatesmen- see each present country