Jesko von Puttkamer

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Jesko Albert Eugen von Puttkamer (2 July 1855 in Berlin; 23 January 1917 in Berlin) was a German colonial military chief, and nine times governor of Kamerun:

• 13 May 1887 - 4 October 1887
• 14 August 1890 - 2 December 1890
• 31 December 1894 - 27 March 1895
• 5 May 1895 - 26 October 1895
• 11 September 1897 - 12 January 1898
• 14 October 1898 - 17 January 1900
• 16 November 1900 - 3 February 1902
• 2 October 1902 - 9 May 1904
• 31 January 1905 - January 1906.

He has left a splendid residential manor in Buea, Cameroon.

[edit] See also

• Colonial heads of German Cameroon

v • d • e Governors of the German Colony of Kamerun (1885–1919) Freiherr von Soden • Eugen von Zimmerer • Jesko von Puttkamer • Theodor Seitz • Otto Gleim • Karl Ebermaier

v • d • e Governors of the German colony of Togoland (1884–1914) Gustav Nachtigal (Reichskommissar) • Freiherr von Soden (Reichskommisar) • Ernst Falkenthal (Reichskommissar) • Jesko von Puttkamer • Eugen von Zimmerer • Jesko von Puttkamer (Reichskommisar) • August Köhler • Waldemar Horn • Freiherr von Zech auf Neuhofen • Edmund Brückner • Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg • Hans-Georg von Doering