page_title: Caroline Islands
section_title: Colonial governors or officers
hierarchical_section_title: Caroline Islands / History / Colonial governors or officers
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Übergabe der Westkarolinen und Palauinseln von Spanien an das Deutsche Reich am 3. November 1899 auf der Insel Yap.
context_page_description: The Caroline Islands are a widely scattered archipelago of tiny islands in the western Pacific Ocean, to the north of New Guinea. Politically they are divided between the Federated States of Micronesia in the eastern part of the group, and Palau at the extreme western end. Historically, this area was also called Nuevas Filipinas or New Philippines as they were part of the Spanish East Indies and governed from Manila in the Philippines.
  The Carolines span a distance of approximately 3540 kilometers, from Tobi, Palau at the westernmost point to Kosrae at the easternmost.
context_section_description: District officers (from 1889, styled Bezirksamtmann):
  In the 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)
  1909–19??, Rudolf Karlowa
  1909–1910, Georg Fritz
  1910–1911, Hermann Kersting
  1911–1914, Baumert
  In the Eastern Caroline islands (Ponape, and including the Marshall Islands from 1911)
  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. Fernández de Córdoba
  12 October 1899 – August 1901, Albert Hahl (b. 1868 – d. 1945)
  1 September 1901 – 30 April 1907, Victor Berg (b. 1861 – d. 1907)
  1907–198?, Max Girschner (acting)
  1908–1909, Georg Fritz
  1909 – 18 October 1910, Gustav Boeder (d. 1910)
  1910 – 7 October 1914, August Überhorst
caption: Transfer of sovereignty at Yap in the Western Caroline Islands (1899)
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