Life

Schnitzer, son of a Jewish buyer, pulled after its death with its nut/mother after Neisse. After the attendance of the there High School it studied medicine in Breslau, Berlin and king mountain. During its Breslauer study time it closed the Breslauer Burschenschaft Arminia (today: Old Breslauer Burschenschaft of the Raczeks to Bonn) on. Schnitzer was twice married.

Osmani realm

After the study it went into Turkey. In Antivari (today bar in Albania), it became port and district physician and took part as an army surgeon in an expedition to Syria and Arabia.

1871 it followed a call of the governor Ismail pasha, who later it followed first after Trapezunt and Erzurum and in the exile. After Ismail pashas re-instatement into its office it accompanied it after Janina and remained there up to its death in the year 1873.

Schnitzer married on it the widow Ismail pashas, a Greek. In the meantime it not only the French, English, Italian, different slawischer Idiome, the Turkish one, Arab ones and Persian ones completely powerfully, had become it also the eastern habits and habits in such a way had acquired themselves that nobody marked the Western European origin at it.

Africa

After short attendance of the homeland 1875 Schnitzer went to Egypt, followed 1876 the again appointed governor Gordon pasha into the Sudan and as Emin Efendi the Chefarzt was appointed. It went with Gordon to the Ukerewesee and examined the Somerset (Victoria Nile), drove to 1877 from Lado over Dusile again the Nile up to Magungo at the Mwutansee and went then over Masindi after Mruli and between the river Kafur and the Ibrahim pasha lake by Unyoro southward up to Mtesas residence Rubagha nearby the Ukerewesee.

Whereupon to with and 1878 appointed the governor in the equatorial provinces, went he carries from Rubagha to the Ukerewesee and over Mruli and Fauvera again to Magungo. In Unyoro it experienced that the Beatricegolf discovered by Henry Morton Stanley not, as that one believed to the Mwutan belonged, but to a more southern sea-basin.

1879 it undertook a journey to the western bank country of the Mwutan not visited before ever; 1880 it visited the Makrakaland. 1881 was added the areas by Rohl and Amadi, parts of the Niam Niam countries and completely Monbuttu to its province.

Schnitzer was untiringly active to organize these areas and to investigate the adjacent still unknown landscapes, when the rebellion of the Mahdi and the destruction of the Egyptian rule in the districts lain north of its province cut it off suddenly completely from each connection with its government and into an extremely endangered situation brought it.

Unnecessary rescue by Henry Morton Stanley

Since at the same time William Junker and Casati were with Schnitzer, on Veranlassung in pc. Petersburg resident of brother by Casati by mediating Bastians 1886 that was mailed Massaifor Fischer at the point of an expedition, in order to release her.

But it was impossible to attain from the ruler of Uganda permission for the passage and Fischer had to turn around. Junker arrived at the coast, Schnitzer however remained nevertheless lucky on its post in Wadelai.

Now one organized an expedition in England on suggestion Felkins, at whose point Stanley was placed. This had to ask king Leopold of Belgium to relieve it of the obligations opposite it. That did to this on the condition did that Stanley did not take the shortest way, but by a still unknown part the Congo to travel had. The expedition, those after Sansibar was broken open already for the delta the Congo was therefore rerouted. Probably never a in such a way meaning and so carefully equipped expedition was taken off. Stanley had under itself 9 Europeans, 61 Sudanesen, 13 Somali and 620 Sansibariten, led 50 donkeys and except splendid rifles also a Maximkanone with itself. Also Stanley knew to win the Arab dealer Tippu tip, which accepted the post of a governor at the upper Congo.

In the meantime Schnitzer had been supplied by Junker from Uganda plentifully with supplies.

Stanley drove the Congo with steamers of the Congo state upward up to the Aruwimi, at which he began now the land journey. Schnitzer continued in the meantime its Forschungsreisen and undertook an expedition for the investigation of the Kakibbi, the southern supply Albert Nyanza; he explained also, when the message of a relief expedition concerned envoys at him, completely decided, not to want to leave its post in Wadelai and hoped to be able to keep the order in its province upright.

Since however from Stanley to end of 1888 no messages arrived to Europe, also reports of a conquest of the province Schnitzers, which had been appointed in the meantime from the Egyptian government to pasha (1885), and its capture by the Mahdi to Europe arrived, then one began to equip auxiliary expeditions from different pages. From America fallow second lieutenant Shufeldt up, from England should proceed an expedition under second lieutenant Swaine, from Germany wanted one a Vorhut under Hermann of Wissmann to mail, while the line of the main expedition the German researcher and colonial politician Carl Peter should take over. For this purpose everywhere in Germany collections were accomplished.

In the meantime fallow in by the German East Africa niches society coastal line for a long time more prepared, by the there Arab slave traders an organized rebellion taken in administration out, which led to evacuation nearly all stations. One decided nevertheless deutscherseits to be away from the sending off of an auxiliary expedition not and there Wissmann the position of a realm commissioner for East Africa accepted, Peter with the exclusive line of the expedition one entrusted.

However Schnitzer never was in serious danger and saved in the long run even to Stanley the life, by he to German East Africa the led gotten sick in the meantime. There in December 1889 arrived, he could be enlisted now by the German Reich, in order to be able to continue its Africa research.

Death by slave traders

On 26 April 1890 Schnitzer starts realm commissioner on behalf the Hermann of Wissmann, responsibly for German East Africa, an expedition, in order to secure areas around the Viktoria lake for the German Reich. It is murdered on 23 October 1892, in Kinena, an Arab commercial post, by slave traders.

Daughter Ferida

From the second marriage it had a daughter named Ferida, born around 1885. In the year 1890 it left the then six-year daughter around its last expedition to accomplish. After his death the daughter in East Africa was enslaved. The daughter is since then verschollen.

Literature

• Schweinfurth and Ratzel (Hrsg.): Emin pasha. A collection of travel letters and reports, Leipzig 1888
• Withered, Ehm: The black sun - lives, work and dying of German colonial heroes (biography Emin pashas), publishing house Ullstein, Berlin 1933
• Meissner, Hans Otto: At the sources of the Nile - the adventures of the Emin pasha, Ernst Klett publishing house, Stuttgart 1986

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