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Hermann von Wissmann
Hermann von Wissmann was a German explorer and colonial officer who crossed Central Africa twice in the 1880s. In 1889 he was appointed imperial commissioner to suppress the Abushiri revolt on the East African coast, which he did with a force of African mercenaries. He served as governor of German East Africa in 1895–1896.
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