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Richard Wenig
b. 1891
A German naval officer turned memoirist, he wrote vivid first-hand accounts of World War I in East Africa and at sea. His books draw on the harsh, dramatic experience of serving aboard the SMS Königsberg and later fighting on land.
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In Monsun und Pori
by Richard Wenig
About the author
Richard Wenig was a German author born in 1891. The sources found for him are closely tied to his wartime writing rather than to a broad literary career, and they consistently identify him as a naval officer who later wrote about his experiences in German East Africa during World War I.
He served as an officer on the small cruiser SMS Königsberg and took part in the East African campaign under Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck. One source says he lost his left foot in the fighting, made himself a prosthesis, and continued to serve as an artillery leader through the end of the war.
Wenig is known for books including Kriegs-Safari (1920) and In Monsun und Pori (1922). His writing appears to be valued today as direct, on-the-ground testimony from a participant in the campaign, combining military detail with personal experience.