Foreign Land holdings in the German Marshall Islands by Dirk HR Spennemann Property on Bikar

Bikar Atoll

Size of parcel of land: hectares and ar. The property encompassesthe entire atoll.

Original acquisition in: 1880 (12 January) sold by Iroojs Jurtaka and Takular of Maloelap, and on 19 June 1880 sold by Irooj Lajikit and Tannara of Uterik to Adolph Capelle & Co.

Transfers since original acquisition: 1883 (18 December) sold to Deutsche Handels- und Plantagengesellschaft ; 1887 (21 December) property rights transferred to Jaluit Gesellschaft {30}.

Ownership of property in 1913: Jaluit Gesellschaft

Grundbuch Entry No.: 9 (1913);

Traders known: uninhabited

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{1}"Verzeichnis der Grundstücke die im Eigentum von Nichteingeborenen sind." (List of real estate owned by non-natives"). Dated: Jaluit, 24 August 1913. Signed: Scharnbourg (?) for Imperial German Stationchief". German Colonial document contained in Reichskolonialamt Volume 3077, document 5. Ms on file, Australian Archives Canberra, Record Group G-2, Y40.

{30} Grundbuch von den Marshallinseln und Nauru. Artikel 1e. Eigenthümer: Die Jaluit Gesellschaft zu Hamburg.Signed by Landeshauptmann Brandeis, 15 February 1890. Print out of microfilmed document of unknown provenance, possibly from the T.T.P.I. Archives, Kept on file Alele National Archives, Majuro, RMI. Original most likely from German Colonial document contained in Reichskolonialamt Volume 3077, document 5. Ms on file, Australian Archives Canberra, Record Group G-2, Y40.

{35} Die Verhältnisse auf den Marshall Inseln. Grundbuch. Document dated 16 June 1886, signed Knappe, Imperial German Commissioner. Contained in Records of the German Foreign Office, Series IX Reichskolonialamt File No. No. 2296, Land und Grundstückserwerbungen auf den Marschallinseln. Allgemeines 1887-1906. National Library of Australia, Canberra, Australia. Microfilm No. G 8491.