{{Short description|German administrative title}} '''Bezirksamtmann''' (plural ''Bezirksamtleute'') is a German administrative title of gubernatorial or lower rank, roughly translating as equivalent to the British District Officer. It is derived from ''Bezirk'' ("district") + ''Amtmann'' ("official").
==Colonial use== The title was used for colonial officials in the following minor German ''Schutzgebiete'' (i.e. colonial possessions of various status) in the Pacific: ''(probably incomplete list)'' *Jaluit (Marshall Islands), subordinate of the colonial governor of German New Guinea **1906 - 30 April 1907 Victor Berg (b. 1861 - d. 1907) **1907 Joseph Siegwantz (acting) **1908 - November 1909 Wilhelm Stuckhardt (d. 1909) **November 1909 - 1910 Berghausen (interim) **1910 - 1911 Georg Merz; he stayed on as only Stationsleiter ('Station chief') (1911 - 3 October 1914), subordinate to the Eastern Caroline islands district, see below * Nauru, until 1888 a tribal protectorate, till 1889 under a Reichskommissar **2 October 1888 - May 1889 Robert Rasch (acting) **May 1889 - 1895 Christian Johannson **1895 - 1898 Fritz Jung **1899 - 1906 Ludwig Kaiser (b. 1862 - d. 1906); afterwards the jurisdiction was downgraded and administered by Station Chiefs (''Stationsleiter''), from 1911 subordinated to the administrators of Ponape district (in the Eastern Carolinas, cfr. infra) *Marianen Inseln (German for 'Marianas Islands', i.e. the Northern Marianas, sold by Spain), as subordinate of the colonial governor of German New Guinea : **November 1899 - April 1907 Georg Fritz (on Saipan) **1904 - 1907 Volker Reichel (on Rota island); afterwards administered by a Stationsleiter ('Station chief') who was subordinated to a district officer in Micronesia and thus to his superiors *in Micronesia, which was 18 July 1899 - 7 October 1914 under the authority of the governors of German New Guinea (and their Vice-governors of German New Guinea, which had the general supervision over the island districts), there were two island districts, under District officers which from 1889 were styled Bezirksamtmann: ** Western Caroline Islands (Yap and Palau [and from 1907 Saipan) ***29 June 1886 - 18.. Manuel de Elisa ***.... - .... .... ***before November 1897 - after November 1898 S. Cortes ***1899 - 1909 Arno Senfft (b. 1864 - d. 1909) ***1909 Rudolf Karlowa ***1909 - 1910 Georg Fritz ***1910 - 1911 Hermann Kersting ***1911 - 1914 Baumert ** Eastern Caroline islands (Ponape [and from 1911 the Marshall Islands, cfr. supra]) ***June 1886 - 1887 Capriles ***14 March 1887 - 1887 Isidro Posadillo (d. 1887) ***October 1887 - January 1891 Luis Cadarso y Rey (d. 1898) ***c.1894 Concha ***before November 1897 - after November 1898 J. Fernandez de Cordoba ***12 October 1899 - August? 1901 Albert Hahl (b. 1868 - d. 1945) ***1 September 1901 - 30 April 1907 Victor Berg (b. 1861 - d. 1907) ***1907 - 1908? Girschner (acting) ***1908 - 1909 Georg Fritz ***1909 - 18 October 1910 Gustav Boeder (d. 1910) ***1910 - 7 October 1914 August Überhorst ...
==German speaking countries== ===Germany=== The ''Bezirksamtmann'' used to be the head officer of the ''Bezirksamt'' (district) in Bavaria and the Palatinate between 1862 and 1920.
===Switzerland=== Several cantons in Switzerland have a ''Bezirksamtmann'' or ''Bezirksammann'' as head officer of the ''Bezirksamt'' (district).
==Sources and references== * [http://www.worldstatesmen.org/COLONIES.html#German WorldStatesmen- links to each nation]
Category:Gubernatorial titles