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Carl Heinrich Zimmermann

German officer

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Carl Heinrich Zimmermann

Born	(1864-09-07)September 7, 1864 Frankenau, Kingdom of Prussia
Died	January 13, 1949(1949-01-13) (aged 84) Allied-occupied Germany
Allegiance	German Empire Weimar Republic
Service/branch	Imperial German Army Reichsheer
Years of service	1883–1920
Rank	Oberst char. Generalmajor
Commands held	Schutztruppe of Kamerun
Battles/wars	First World War Kamerun campaign

Carl Heinrich Zimmermann (Frankenau, 7 September 1864 – Hanau, 13 January 1949), was a German military officer and last commander of the Schutztruppe in German Kamerun.

Life

He served as military instructor in the Chilean Army between 1895 and 1897. In 1900 he was sent to serve in the Schutztruppe in Kamerun, of which he became the commander in 1909. It was in this function that he directed the military operations against a Franco-British-Belgian invasion of Kamerun, after the outbreak of the First World War. By 1916, the situation was so desperate that Zimmermann and his troops had to flee to neutral Spanish Río Muni, where they were interned and eventually sent to a detention center near Zaragoza. After his return to Germany he served shortly in the Reichswehr and retired in 1920 as Generalmajor.^[1]

References

^ Hoffmann, Florian (2007). Okkupation und Militärverwaltung in Kamerun: Etablierung und Institutionalisierung des kolonialen Gewaltmonopols 1891-1914 - Teil 2: Die Kaiserliche Schutztruppe und ihr Offizierskorps (in German). Cuvillier Verlag. pp. 201–202. ISBN 9783867274739.