Karl Ebermaier

Karl Ebermaier (Elberfeld, 2 October 1862 – Bernried am Starnberger See, 21 August 1943) was between 1912 and 1916 the last governor of German Kamerun.

On 29 March 1912, he replaced Otto Gleim as Governor of Kamerun.

[1][2] It was in that function that he was confronted with a Franco-British-Belgian invasion after the outbreak of the First World War on 4 August 1914.

Formally commander-in-chief of the armed forces, Ebermaier left Major Carl Heinrich Zimmermann direct the military operations.

By 1916, the situation was so desperate that Ebermaier, with the majority of the Colonial administration, fled to neutral Spanish Guinea.