Carl Peters
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Carl Peters (September 27th 1856 - September 10th 1918) is a German explorer.
After studies with Göttingen, Tübingen and Berlin, it creates in 1884 the Company for German colonization ( Gesellschaft für Deutsche Kolonisation ). To the autumn of the same year, it leaves for the Eastern Africa, and concludes from many treaties with the tribal chiefs in the name of his company. Of return in Germany at the beginning of 1885, it creates the German Company of East Africa ( Deutsch-Ostafrikanische Gesellschaft ), which obtains an imperial charter.
It turns over to Africa in 1888 to help Emin Pasha on a purely private basis. With the beginning of the year 1890, it signs a treaty with the king of Uganda in favor of Germany. However, it must flee in front of the projection of imperial Company British of East Africa ( Imperial British East Africa Company ), before learning that following the agreements between Germany and Great Britain, Uganda returns in the British sphere of influence and the treaty which it made sign becomes null and void. Of return in Germany, it is filled of honor, makes appear the account of its voyages, before being appointed High-Commissioner for the district of the Kilimandjaro. It is in particular charged to take part in the operations of Anglo-German delimitation of the borders in the area.
The charges of ill treatments of the local populations accumulate, and in 1897, it is constrained to return to Germany, where it works in the colonial administration in Berlin. It settles then with London, where it creates a company for the account of which it explores the area of the Zambezi, discovering archeological sites and gold mines.
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