Carl Otto Ferdinand Paul Jaeschke (4 August 1851 – 27 January 1901) was a German naval officer and governor of the German-leased

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from 19 February 1899 to 27 January 1901.

Biography

Jaeschke was born the son of a banker in Breslau. When he passed a one-year exam, he entered on 26 April 1868, as a midshipman in the

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. On 18 November 1875, Jaeschke was promoted to lieutenant and subsequently he went through various land and sea uses, which also included foreign uses e.g. in 1875 with the ''Augusta'' on the foreign station for the east coast of North America and the West Indies area. On 16 April 1881, Jaeschke was promoted to and speaker in the inspection of the torpedo. From 1886 to 1888, he was commander of the gunboat on the East Asian foreign station. On 15 November 1888, he was promoted to corvette captain and in the same year commander of the torpedo department in

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. In 1895, he became

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and assigned to command . In May 1896, Jaeschke was ordered back to

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to take over the Foreign Department in the

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. On 10 October 1898, Jaeschke was appointed by

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as governor of the German-leased

, but only arrived at

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on 18 February 1899. Jaeschke died on 27 January 1901, of

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Big Swords, Jesuits, and Bondelswarts: Wilhelmine Imperialism, Overseas Resistance, and German Political Catholicism, 1897–1906
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