pohlman

Updated: June 10, 2025

Pohlman, our Deputy Black Rod, who is a Herald, was the acting person, and did his duty admirably. There was no interruption, no confusion, but everything managed as if we had been drilled and did the same thing every day.

Earl of Edward Law Ellenborough - A Political Diary 1828-1830, Volume II

Pohlman, Doty and Lloyd. Chiang-chiu is a large city of 200,000 inhabitants, situated on a wide river, 30 miles west of Amoy. He writes: "Wherever we went we were accompanied by an immense throng of people. The most of them I suppose had never seen a white face. But few Europeans have visited the city. The city has an extensive wall, wider and I think more cleanly streets, and is larger than Amoy.

John Gerardus Fagg - Forty Years in South China: The Life of Rev. John Van Nest Talmage, D.D.

Doty was on his way to the United States with two of his own and two of Mr. Pohlman's little ones. The other members of their families the mothers and the children, all that was mortal of them were Iying in the Mission cemetery on Kolongsu; and to 'hold the fort, so far as our Mission was concerned, Pohlman was left alone, and well he held it.

John Gerardus Fagg - Forty Years in South China: The Life of Rev. John Van Nest Talmage, D.D.

But a general rush was made for the boat, by which it was overturned, and those who could not swim, Pohlman among the number, perished. The captain attempted to reach the shore by swimming, and would have succeeded, but was met by the natives. They were eager for plunder, and seized the captain to plunder him of his clothes.

John Gerardus Fagg - Forty Years in South China: The Life of Rev. John Van Nest Talmage, D.D.

Her long boat and one quarter boat were carried away, and her cabin filled with water. The men on board clung to the vessel until morning. The remaining boat was then lowered. Those of the crew who were able to swim were directed to swim to the shore. The captain, first and second officers, and Pohlman entered the boat end those of the crew who could not swim also received permission to enter.

John Gerardus Fagg - Forty Years in South China: The Life of Rev. John Van Nest Talmage, D.D.

Again, a few days later about a dozen fellows were watching a party of Germans, under a Feldwebel Pohlman, digging up an old tunnel which had fallen in near the wire. Everything was quiet and Pohlman was even talking naturally with one of our number, when I noticed him turn and speak a few words to the sergeant of the guard, who turned and entered the guardroom, evidently in a hurry.

Gerald Featherstone Knight - 'Brother Bosch', an Airman's Escape from Germany