List governors of the Danish Western Indies

List governors of the the Danish Western Indies.

Governors of Saint-Thomas

Saint-Thomas passed under the control of the Danish Compagnie of the Western Indies and Guinea in 1672.

Jørgen Iversen Dyppel, (May 25th, 1672 - July 4th, 1680)
Nicolai Esmit, (July 4th, 1680 - November 1682)
Adolph Esmit, (November 1682 - May 7th, 1684)

Governors of Saint-Thomas and Saint-John

Saint-John passed under the control of the Danish Company of the Western Indies and Guinea in 1683, but was disputed by the British until in 1718.

Gabriel Milan, (May 7th, 1684 - February 27th, 1686)
Mikkel Mikkelsen, interim (February 27th, 1686 - June 29th, 1686)
Christopher Heins, (June 29th, 1686 - March 1687)
Adolph Esmit, second mandate, interim (March 1687 - October 1688)
Christopher Heins, second mandate (October 1688 - 1690)
Frans of the Vine, (1690 -)
Johan Lorensen, (- February 19th, 1702)
Claus Hansen, (February 19th, 1702 - February 8th, 1706)
Joachim Nickel silver von Holten, (February 8th, 1706 - December 21st, 1708)
Diderich Mogensen, interim (December 21st, 1708 - 1710)
Mikkel Knudsen Crone, (1710 - August 8th, 1716)
Erich Bredal, (August 8th, 1716 - April 1724)
Friderich Moth, (April 1724 - May 1727)
Hendrich von Suhm, (May 1727 - February 21st, 1733)
Phillip Gardelin, (February 21st, 1733 - February 21st, 1736)
Friderich Moth, second mandate (February 21st, 1736 - April 13rd, 1744) - also governor of the island of Holy-Cross (see below)
Jacob Schönemann, (1740 - 1744)
Christian von Schweder, (April 13rd, 1744 - April 25th, 1747)
Christian Suhm, (April 25th, 1747 - 1758)

Governors of the island of Holy-Cross

The island of Holy-Cross was bought with the French Compagnie of the Western Indies in 1733.

Friderich Moth, (January 8th, 1735 - May 15th, 1747)
Gregers Høg Nissen, interim (February 24th, 1736 - April 16th, 1744)
Paul Lindemark, interim (April 16th, 1744 - May 15th, 1747)
Jens Hansen, (May 15th, 1747 - December 1751)
Peter Clausen, (December 1751 - 1758)

In 1754, the Danish Western Indies had come to the King from Denmark Frederic V and became royal colonies. The three islands were then controlled by the Governor general of the Danish Western Indies.

Governors of the royal colonies

Christian Leberecht von Prøck, (1756 - 1766)
Peter Clausen, (1766 - 1771)
Frederik Moth, (1770 - 1772)
Ulrich Wilhelm von Roepstorff, (1772 - 1773)
Henrik Ludvig Ernst von Schimmelmann, (July 1773 - October 1773)
Peter Clausen, (October 1773 - 1784)
Henrik Ludvig Ernst von Schimmelmann, (1784 - 1787)
Ernst Frederik von Walterstorff, (1787 - 1794)
Wilhelm Anton Lindemann, (1794 - 1796)
Thomas de Malleville, (1796 - 1799)
Wilhelm Anton Lindemann, second mandate, (1799 - March 31st, 1801)
Ernst Frederik von Walterstorff, second mandate (February 16th, 1802 - October 27th, 1802)
Baltharzar Frederik Mühlenfels, (October 27th, 1802 - 1807)
Hans Christopher Lillienskjøld, (March 1807 - December 1807)
Henry Bowyer, (December, 1807 - 1808)
Peter Lotharius von Oxholm, (1815 - 1816)
Johan Henrik von Stabel, (May 1816 - July 1816)
Adrian Benjamin Bentzon, (1816 - 1820)
Carl Adolph Rothe, (1820 - 1822)
Johan Frederik Bardenfleth, (1822 - 1827)
Peter Carl Frederik von Scholten, (1827 - July 1848)
Frederik von Oxholm (acting), (July 1848 - November 1848)
Peder Hansen, (November 1848 - 1851)
Hans Ditmar Frederik Feddersen, (1851 - 1855)
Johan Frederik Schlegel, (1855 - 1861)
Vilhelm Ludvig Birch, (1861 - 1871)
John Christmas, (February 1871 - June 1871)
Frantz Ernst Ball, (June 1871 - July 1872)
Johan August Stakeman, (July 1872 - September 1872)
Janus August Keeps, (September, 1872 - 1881)
Christian Henrik Arendrup, (1881 - 1893)
Carl Emil Hedemann, (1893 - 1903)
Hermann August Jürs, (1903 - 1904)
Frederik Theodor Martin Mortensen Nordlien, (1904 -1905)
Christian Magdalus Thestrup Gold, (1905 - 1908)
Peter Carl Limpricht , (1908 - 1911)
Lars Christian Helweg-Larsen, (1911 - October 3rd, 1916)
Henri Konow, (October 3rd, 1916 - March 31st, 1917)

The Danish Western Indies were sold in the United States on December 12th, 1916. The islands became officially American on March 31st, 1917.

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