 == colonial heads of the danish gold coast settlements == the danish gold coast was established on the eastern gold coast (present-day ghana): *fort friedensborg (ningo) * fort christiansborg * fort augustaborg (tshi) * fort prinzenstein (keta) * fort konigenstein (ada). (dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office) {| border=1 style="border-collapse: collapse" |- align=left ! width="20%"|tenure ! width="30%"|incumbent ! width="30%"|notes |- valign=top |colspan="3"|danish suzerainty |- valign=top |1657/8||colspan="2"|danish gold coast settlements established on the eastern gold coast|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1658||heinrich carloff, opperhoved (danish: means factor (agent) |factor, also rendered as station chief) ||&nbsp; |-valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1659||samuel schmidt, opperhoved||&nbsp; |-valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1659 to 1662||jost cramer, opperhoved||&nbsp; |-valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1662 to 1668||henning albrecht, opperhoved || &nbsp; |-valign=top bgcolor="ffffec" |1668 to 1674||bartholomaus von gronstein, governorâ1st to be designated as governor||&nbsp; |-valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1674 to1677||conrad crull, governor ole justesen, ed. danish sources for the history of ghana 1657â1754 vol. 1 (1657â1735). copenhagen: the royal danish academy of sciences and letters, 2005. p. 48 isbn 87-7304-312-5 ;also: "http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/liste_der_gouverneure_von_ghana || &nbsp; |-valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1677 to 1681||peter with, opperhoved|| &nbsp; |-valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |-1679||peter boldt, commander &nbsp; |-valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1681||magnus prang, governor the title of governor was bestowed on three individuals before 1766: von gronstein; crull; and prang. ||&nbsp; |-valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |to 1698||erik tylleman, opperhoved|| &nbsp; |-valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |10 june 1698 to 23 december 1698||erik oehlsen, opperhoved|| &nbsp; |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |23 december 1698 to 31 august 1703||john trawne, opperhoved ||&nbsp; |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |11 september 1703 to 23 april 1704||hartvig meyer, opperhoved||&nbsp; |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |23 april 1704 to 5 may 1705||peter sverdrup, acting opperhoved||&nbsp; |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |5 may 1705 to 25 may 1705||peter petersen, acting opperhoved||&nbsp; |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |25 may 1705 to 17 august 1711||erik olsen lygaard, opperh
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