Station Chief

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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 British 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 (colonial possessions):

  • on the Marianen Inseln (Mariana Islands, formerly under a district officer styled Bezirksamtmann), four incumbents since they were made part of German New Guinea :
    • April 1907 - 1910 Karl Kirn (acting to 1908)
    • 1910 - May 1911 Otto Paulisch (acting)
    • May 1911 - May 1914 Georg von Heynitz
    • May 1914 - 14 October 1914 Walter Boehme (acting), then occupied by Japan and lost to the U.S.
  • 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 -i.e. district- of Jaluit), subordinated to a Bezirksamtmann in Micronesia; until 3 October 1914 under Japanese occupation; the only incumbent, Georg Merz, was formerly the last of the previous district officers in Jaluit.

Finally it occurs 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.

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