Tenure |
Portrait |
Incumbent |
Notes |
German East Africa |
Protectorate |
27 May 1885 to 8 February 1888 | | Carl Peters, Administrator | |
8 February 1888 to 1 January 1891 | | Hermann von Wissmann, Reichskommissar | Imperial commissioner, 1st time |
Colony |
1 January 1891 to 21 February 1891 | | Hermann von Wissmann, Reichskommissar | Imperial commissioner, 1st time |
21 February 1891 to 15 September 1893 | | Julius von Soden, Governor | |
1891 | | Rüdiger, acting Governor | acting for Soden |
15 September 1893 to 25 April 1895 | | Friedrich von Schele, Governor | |
25 April 1895 to 3 December 1896 | | Hermann von Wissmann, Governor | 2nd time |
3 December 1896 to 12 March 1901 | | Eduard von Liebert, Governor | |
12 March 1901 to 15 April 1906 | | Gustav Adolf von Götzen, Governor | |
15 April 1906 to 22 April 1912 | | Albrecht von Rechenberg, Governor | |
22 April 1912 to 14 November 1918 | | Heinrich Schnee, Governor | From 9 October 1916 on the move in opposition to British forces, together with General d. Inf. Lettow-Vorbeck's colonial troops. Later served as the last President of the DKG, from 1930 to 1936 |
Occupation of German East Africa by United Kingdom |
9 October 1916 to 22 July 1920 | | Horace Archer Byatt, Administrator | From 1918, Sir Horace Archer Byatt |
22 July 1920 to 20 July 1922 | Sir Horace Archer Byatt, Governor | |
Tanganyika |
League of Nations Mandate (administered by United Kingdom) |
20 July 1922 to 5 March 1925 | | Sir Horace Archer Byatt, Governor | |
1924 to 5 March 1925 | | John Scott, acting Governor | acting for Byatt |
5 March 1925 to 1 February 1931[1] | | Donald Charles Cameron, Governor | |
1 February 1931 to 23 May 1931[2] | | Sir Douglas James Jardine, acting Governor | acting for Cameron |
23 May 1931 to February 1934 | | George Stewart Symes, Governor | |
19 February 1934 to 8 July 1938 | | Sir Harold Alfred MacMichael, Governor | |
8 July 1938 to 19 June 1941 | | Sir Mark Aitchinson Young, Governor | |
19 June 1941 to 28 April 1945 | | Sir Wilfrid Edward Francis Jackson, Governor | |
28 April 1945 to 11 December 1946 | | Sir William Denis Battershill, Governor | |
United Nations Trust Territory (administered by United Kingdom) |
11 December 1946 to 18 June 1949 | | Sir William Denis Battershill, Governor | |
18 June 1949 to 16 June 1958 | | Sir Edward Francis Twining, Governor | |
16 June 1958 to 15 July 1958 | | Arthur John Grattan-Bellew, Officer Administering the Government | |
15 July 1958 to 9 December 1961 | | Sir Richard Gordon Turnbull, Governor | |
9 December 1961 | Independence as Tanganyika |