studied 1884 and 1887 in Paris, Berlin and Kiel on the right of and political sciences between. It stepped then into the army and became 1887 second lieutenant in 2. Guard Ulanenregiment. It was attachiert then from 1890 to 1891 in Rome and undertook from there out a hunt trip to the Kilimandscharo.

1892 made after he had been kommandiert as an officer to the war academy, with major von Diest a journey to small Asia.

Expedition of 1893/94

After 1885 Carl Peter had begun with the appropriation of the area of the tanganjikanischen coast for Germany, the task placed itself to explore also the hinterland up to the Congo territory. For this organized from 1894 an expedition, which led today's Rwanda, which it entered as first Germans into the area; on this journey he discovered also the Kiwusee. With the intention of investigating Central Africa fallow also of Prittwitz and Kersting on 21 December 1893 of Pangani at the German East Africa niches coast up, marched by the areas of the Massai, north Uniamwesi and Usuwi.

To 2. The expedition participants the Kagera exceeded and went in May 1894 to Rwanda, which had been affected up to then only by Baumann 1892 at the east edge. They mounted one of the highest summits of the Kirungaberge, the Msumbiro and the still active volcano Kirunga tscha gongo. On 29 June decided to penetrate west by the jungle of Uregga. After large strains they reached the Congo on 21 September with Kirundu and on 29 November Matadi close of the delta of the large river into the Atlantic. In January 1895 returned to Germany.

Civil servant

Between 1896 and 1898 was then in Washington and came into the general staff of the army to Berlin, where he was promoted 1900 to captain.

Governor Deutsch-Ostafrikas

Due to his knowledge of the local conditions of in March 1901 under transport the major as a governor Deutsch-Ostafrikas one appointed. After it had already given to the 1880er years rebellions to the native population against the colonial regime, it had to argue from 1905 with the outbreak of the Maji Maji rebellion which seized soon about half of the colony, with which this rebellion hardly stood back behind the Hererokrieg in German southwest Africa, even if it were noticed less in the public. By saw itself forced to request reinforcement from Germany with whose assistance it suppressed the rebellion bloodily. Estimations of the victim numbers on sides of the insurgent ones go up to 200.000 or 300,000, while the "“colonial force"” lost 15 Europeans and 389 African soldiers under according to data official of

1906 delivered the governor post from because of its attacked health at baron von Rechenberg. In addition, it cooperated further energetically in the German colonial policy, in particular as a member de German colonization and administration company for colonies.

1908 became from of Prussian envoys in Hamburg.

Gustav Adolf of died on 2 December 1910 in Hamburg at internal suffering.

Writings

• By Africa from east to west. Berlin (1895)
• German East Africa in the rebellion 1905/06. Berlin (1909)

Literature

• Pure-hard binding rope: Rwanda in the life picture of the officer, Africa researcher and imperial governor Gustav Adolf count von (1866-1910). With an outline over the contemporary explorers Franz chair man, OSCAR Baumann, Richard Kandt, Adolf Friedrich duke to Mecklenburg and Hans Meyer. Berlin 1992. ISBN 3-496-00427-4

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