Index to brief Biographies of Internees

This page provides links to short biographies of or incidents involving various WW1 Internees - a list of wives + other "Alien Enemies" living in Douglas in September 1918 is also given

• Josef Antonovich
• Baron Moritz Freiherr von Türckheim-Baden
• E Ludvig Baur
• Ludvig Baur (died in Douglas Camp 'riot' 19 Nov 1914)
• Crew of S.S. Belgia -
• Herman Blass
• Frederick Charles Brandauer - Steel-pen-nib millionaire
• Gustav Adolf Bredow - German Sculptor taken off a Neutral Ship
• Theodor Borodowsky-Jahlik and his transfer to Dartford War Hospital and back - list of those transferred
• August Herman Diittmar - organ builder
• Frederick Dunbar - father + son
• Account of treatment of those Internees transported on S.S. Akassa from East Africa
• Johannes Hubert Fette consular official
• Otto and Hugo Friedberger
• Herman Giebler - proGerman youth
• Fritz Gliebenberg - brother wrote to General Smuts
• Karl Gonser + Hermann Bense - German traders in Portuguese West Africa
• Edward Goth and Crew of S.S. Izrada
• Peter Grünwald - Master Baker repatriated December 1915
• Pastor Rudolf Hartmann
• Heinrich (Henry) Henkel
• Baron Louis von Horst
• Roman Kasperski
• Erhard C A Kny
• Ernst Koehler - Consular Clerk
• John + Jacob Lahmers
• Rudolf Lechner - lost an eye
• Benno Lippchutz - had a 3 week 'holiday' in Douglas
• Carl Frederick Luft
• Franz - the flaxen-haired chef
• Carl Martini + sons conscripted against his and their will
• Fritz Millar (or Miller)
• Kurt Müller
• Fritz Niemann
• Johann Orben
• Stephan Koocsi Prager
• Reading Gaol used to house internees 1914-1917
• Otto Schimming - Basle Missionary left a description of the various internment camps
• Theodor Schmidt - repatriated ship's cook
• August Schmittal - shot by a guard
• W Seebonn
• "SnowBall" - an Egyptian mistaken for a Turk
• George Staller - body exhumed as buried "by mistake" between those of two R.D.C Soldiers
• Paul Stoffa
• Charles Szlavek - taken of a neutral vessel
• Adolf Vielhauer - Basle Missionary wrote a critical description of Knockaloe
• Karl Wehner
• Emil Zaitschek
• Count Stephan Zichy
• The Making of the Tea at Douglas Camp 1916

Any comments, errors or omissions gratefully received The Editor © F.Coakley , 2018