Tenure | Portrait | Incumbent | Notes |
Kommissar (1885–1886) |
1885 to 1886 | | Gustav von Oertzen [de] | |
Kaiserlicher Kommissare (Imperial commissioners, 1886–1894) |
1886 to 5 October 1887 | | Wilhelm Knappe [de] | |
5 October 1887 to 29 March 1889 | | Franz Leopold Sonnenschein | Acting to 14 April 1888 |
29 March 1889 to 14 April 1890 | | Eugen Brandeis | First time, acting |
14 April 1890 to February 1892 | | Max Biermann [de] | |
February 1892 to 1893 | | Eugen Brandeis | Second time, acting |
1893 to 1894 | | Ernst Schmidt-Dargitz | |
Landeshauptleute (State captains, 1894–1914) |
11 May 1894 to March 1898 | | Georg Irmer [de] | |
24 March 1898 to 18 January 1906 | | Eugen Brandeis | Acting to 22 February 1900 |
18 March 1902 to 1903 | | Waldemar von Bunsen | Acting for Brandeis |
1903 | | Konrad Geppert | Acting for Brandeis |
18 January 1906 to May 1906 | | Ludwig Kaiser | Acting |
1 April 1906 to 3 October 1914 | | the Governors of German New Guinea | |
Bezirksamtleute (District magistrates, 1906–1911) |
1906 to 30 April 1907 | | Victor Berg | |
1907 | | Joseph Siegwanz | Acting |
1908 to November 1909 | | Wilhelm Stuckhardt | |
November 1909 to 1910 | | Erich Berghausen | Interim |
1910 to 1911 | | Georg Merz | |
Stationsleiter (Station chief, 1911–1914) |
1911 to 3 October 1914 | | Georg Merz | Deported by the Japanese on 31 May 1915 |
Commanders of IJN South Seas Squadrons (1914) |
3 October 1914 to 28 December 1914 | | Yamaya Tanin | In occupation of central and eastern Caroline Islands (from 3 October 1914) and Marshall Islands |
7 October 1914 to 28 December 1914 | | Matsumura Tatsuo | In occupation of Palau island (from 8 October 1914), western Caroline Islands and northern Mariana Islands (from 14 October 1914) |
Governors (1914–1944) |
28 December 1914 to 2 February 1944 | | the Governors of the South Seas Mandate | |
Commanders of the IJN 6th Fleet Forces Service (1941–1944) (on Kwajalein Atoll) |
15 January 1941 to 1 February 1942 | | Sukeyoshi Yatsushirō | |
5 February 1942 to 29 November 1943 | | Kōsō Abe | |
29 November 1943 to 25 January 1944 | | Monzo Akiyama | Killed in the Battle of Kwajalein |
USN Military Governors (1944–1947) |
February 1944 to 18 July 1947 | | the Commanders Naval Forces Marianas | |
Marshall Islands District Administrators (Distad, 1947–1979) |
September 1947 to September 1948 | | Chester E. Herrick | |
December 1948 to December 1949 | | Edward F. Ferguson | |
March 1950 to September 1950 | | Roland W. Kenney | |
December 1950 to June 1951 | | Frank W. Avila | |
1951 to 1954 | | Donald W. Gilfillan | |
1954 to 1960 | | Maynard Neas | |
1960 to 1961 | | William E. Finale | |
27 May 1961 to 1965 | | Peter Tali Coleman | |
15 October 1965 to 1969 | | Dwight Heine | The first Micronesian to hold the office[4] |
1969 to 1970 | | Robert D. Law | |
1970 to 1979 | | Oscar DeBrum | |