Untold History : Cinta Abadi Datin Seri Gustell Agustes Reis

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Datin Seri Amar Gustel Agustes Reis.  Germanian.. maybe jews. Dia merupakan anak kepada Dato' Hermann Katz, one of 5 foreigners yang di confered "Dato" oleh HH Albert Baker pada tahun 1890..

Dato' Hermann Katz jugak bertanggungjawab membawa HH Albert Baker jumpe Kaiser German pada 1878 dan seterusnya lawatan balas Prince Henry of Prussia pada tahun 1898 (bile pulang ke europe dari Johor inilah Prince Henry dibunuh - lalu mencetuskan Perang Dunia Pertama).

Dato' Hermann Katz jugak pernah menulis buku bertajuk "Hikayat Acara Manusia dan Binatang Dihadapan Majlis Raja Jin" pada tahun 1891..

Dan.. dia merupakan bini kepada :



Datuk Seri Amar DiRaja Rahman Andak

Dorang berkahwin di Istana Ungku Abdul Majid, adik HH Albert Baker.... di Kesington London pada 12 June 1895.. mereka dikurniakan 3 orang anak lelaki.. Walter Abd. Rahman, Henry Abd. Rahman, dan Mansur Abd. Rahman..



They happily live ever after..

EARLY LIFE

Pada awal kehidupannya, Dato' Seri Amar considered lucky..

Semasa kecil, dia merupakan salah seorang saksi mata semasa peristiwa letupan kapal wap "Johore" di Singapore dock.. DAN.. dia jugak lah yang menyelamatkan Dato' Salleh Perang dari mati terbunuh.. yang ketika itu berhenti semasa dalam perjalanan ke Kapal itu untuk bertanya khabar kepada Dato' Seri Amar yang bermain di tepi dock..

Dato' Seri Amar jugak, earliest Malay yang mendapat perlajaran di Europe, semasa menemankan sepupu HH Albert Baker, Ungku Othman belajar di London pada 1871..

TACTICIAN

He's tactical movement over political disputes selalu membuatkan British terkedu..

Over 31 years berkhidmat.. sejak tahun 1878... he managed to keeps British at bay, leaving Johore untouchable for over 31 years of chess games.. sepanjang 31 tahun jugak, he managed to outmanouvering the brilliant british ambition.. over johore state.

Amongst those, dia jugak lah yang bertanggungjawab :

- Single handedly drafted "Undang-Undang Tubuh Negeri Johore".. sebelum di revise oleh Dirk & Davidson pada tahun 1914
- Menubuhkan Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka sekarang
- Anglo Johor Treaty 1885
- Thwarf cubaan British.. merumikan tulisan jawi dalam pentadbiran negeri

TRAGIC LIFE OF DATO' SERI AMAR

Selepas peristiwa FMS Railway, kebrassballan Dato' Seri Amar melawan British tanpa merujuk kepada HH Ibrahim menyebabkan dia dibuang 'negeri' ke London pada tahun 1909 atas saranan Sir John Anderson.. dengan tuduhan 'treason'...



Beliau jugak pernah dipanggil "Anjing yang merbahaya, kerana mampu berbahasa inggeris dan hidup carahidup orang inggeris" oleh Sir Frank Swettenham.. sampai mcm tu skali British benci dia..

Dia diberikan 'tugas' baru dengan menjaga anak2 Sultan Ibrahim - Sultan Ismail, Tunku Abu Bakar, Tunku Ahmad dan.... Dato' Onn Jaafar..yang ketika itu belajar dihantar belajar ke London dengan HC Buckley..

ONCE UPON TIME IN LONDON

Unknown to us... Dato' Seri Amar DiRaja.. disisih sepanjang 30 tahun dalam buangan di London.. Keluarga sebelah isterinya memandang Dato' Seri Amar seperti seekor Alien.. kerana 'kelainan' kulit Dato' Seri Amar dan 'kecatatan' mata Dato' Seri Amar yang sepet itu..

Dia terpaksa mendongak jika berbicara dengan orang..



Dato' Amar 3 dari kanan.. bersama keluarga sebelah British nyerr



Beliau banyak menghabiskan masa di Library of London, mengarang kamus-kamus Bahasa Melayu ; English.. dengan bantuan anak tirinya bernama "Elsa"..

hasil kerja beliau banyak diambil oleh Geographic Society of London sebagai rujukan..

BELIAU JUGAKLAH yang memberi recommendation sehinggakan Peta Negeri Johor yang dilukis oleh Dato' Salleh Perang di iktiraf oleh Geographic Society dan di pamerkan di pameran Natinal Geographic Society di Adeleide pada tahun 1894.

KASIH ABADI

Sepanjang 30 tahun dalam buangan, beliau terus dilupakan... isteri dan anak2 lah peneman bicara dia..

Sepanjang 30 tahun itu jugak... satu-satunya harta berharga yang dibawa hanyalah sekeping gambar HH Albert Baker yang sebesar dinding... tanda pengubat rindu pada tanah Johor..

Then.. pada satu hari.. tahun 1929.. :



Gambar itu dihadiahkan kepada HH Ibrahim, semasa menginap di Grosvenor House.. dibalas dengan huluran tangan tanda maaf dari HH Ibrahim atas peristiwa lepas..

SAD DEPARTURE

2 tahun selepas 'pengampunan' itu.. pada pagi 10 September 1931, Dato' Seri Amar DiRaja meninggal dunia.. dan dikebumikan di Muslim Cemetary of Brookwood in Surrey.  Pemergian beliau hanya ditemani isteri... dan anak2 nya..



Selama 35 tahun, hidup susah senang bersama Dato' Amar.. semasa dia berpangkat, dan semasa dia dalam buangan..

... lonely, lost and brokenhearted.. Datin Gustel Agustes Reis meninggal dunia pada tahun 1932... dan dikebumikan bersebelahan jasad Dato' Seri Amar di Brookwood.

Mereka meninggal dalam keadaan miskin.



... Ini adalah cerita.. kasih abadi seorang rakyat kepada raja dan tanahair, dan kasih seorag isteri - kepada suaminya..

Khususan Ila Arwahi, Abdul Rahman Andak Dato' Seri Amar DiRaja.. dan Gustel Agustes Reis, Datin Seri Amar DiRaja.. AL-FATIHAH....

unekspekted_III

Kudos to Henry Kirchberger and Adelien Reinhart.. sedara jauh nyerr atas pendedahan ini

oni313

sir john anderson,
nama skolah aku diambil smpena nama dia,
org ni gak la yg b/jawab trhadap kewujudan negeri perlis, dan jugak perjanjian british siam,
btw, anak2 dan jugak sedara mara hasil perkongsian idup arwah datuk seri sraja ni still bragama Islam or dh convert? (sekadar ingin brtanya kpd tuan empunya pengarang)
sal prnah trbaca artikel lam harian metro tu 'cicit abdul rahman andak, kerry michael berger dr amerika....

alphawolf

Datin Seri Amar Gustel Agustes Reis.  Germanian.. maybe jews. Dia merupakan anak kepada Dato' He ...
unekspekted_III Post at 16-2-2011 01:03

Katz mmg nama Jewish...

winamp05

harga yang perlu dibayar akibat menentang british, dibuang negeri oleh sultan sendiri atas arahan dari pihak british juga kepada sultan. Sampai hari ni aku pelik kenapalah sultan Abu Bakar ikut cakap british untuk buang negeri wal hal rakyat dia menentang british.

"he managed to keeps British at bay, leaving Johore untouchable for over 31 years of chess games.. sepanjang 31 tahun jugak, he managed to outmanouvering the brilliant british ambition.. over johore state."

Sultan hanya ikut telunjuk british jugak akhirnya. pada orang yg cuba menghalang tindakan suka hati british. 30 tahun berkhidmad bukan masa yg singkat.

Cara dia bercakap dengan mendongak tu jugaklah yg buat dia nampak lebih "brassball" keh keh keh.

winamp05

http://xmatters.blogspot.com/200 ... r-missing-link.html

yuyin05

Orang Melayu taatkan sultan biarlah berpada-pada...

aireen24

sir john anderson,
nama skolah aku diambil smpena nama dia,
org ni gak la yg b/jawab trhadap kewuj ...
oni313 Post at 15-2-2011 18:17

kan baca..arwah disemadikan di muslim cemetery di surrey...

mungkin cucu cicit dia ade yg dah crossover kot

unekspekted_III

harga yang perlu dibayar akibat menentang british, dibuang negeri oleh sultan sendiri atas arahan da ...
winamp05 Post at 16-2-2011 10:59

Sampai hari ni aku pelik kenapalah sultan Abu Bakar ikut cakap british untuk buang negeri wal hal rakyat dia menentang british.

FIY.. bukan HH Albert Baker yang buang dia.. tapi HH Ibrahim..sebab kes FMS Railways...


Dato' Amar ni pemangkku sultan klu sultan takde.... but somehow, dia suke bertindak sendirian dlm ape2 keputusan... dlm kes FMS Railways ni.. dia tak sokong pembinaan FMS Railways.. tapi, pembesar lain dan Sultan sokong.. so dia override keputusan Johore Councillors..


Thus make dia tak dapat sokongan kebanyakan pembesar sendiri.. and HH Ibrahim pun nak taknak bagi dia bersara awal dengan tugas baru..

changkatlobak

hebat orang ini.

hebat juga kasih isterinya.

no~yean

apa jadi pada keturunan dia dari 3 org anak lelaki?..

xray

Sedih bila masa Datuk Amar dan Datin Amar meninggal dunia maka anak-anak beliau dijaga oleh keluarga inggris Datin Amar,mungkin anak-anak beliau mendapat pampasan seperti mana Datu Amar mendapat wang pampasan Pound 1,000 setahun oleh Sultan Ibrahim selepas penamatan beliau sebagai TMB Johore pada masa itu.

nazurah

from NST

Tracing a special relationship

2009/01/21
My article on Datuk Seri Amar DiRaja Abdul Rahman Andak, Johor’s first state secretary, in November has stirred some interest.


DATUK SERI AMAR DIRAJA ABDUL RAHMAN ANDAK: Johor’s first state secretary and the man who warned the Sultan of Johor about British intentions in the peninsula.

HONOURING HIS MEMORY: A road was named after Datuk Seri Amar DiRaja Abdul Rahman Andak.


THE BERGER FAMILY: (from left: Kerry, Rie, Leslie, Joyce (passed away in May 2008), Yuuki Jae and Faith Felt (Joyce’s elder sister).
A blood relative of the late Rahman’s wife Gustel Auguste Reis wants to get in touch with his Malaysian cousins.

Kerry Berger, who is the associate director of Synovate Motoreseach, is an American based in Thailand. His great grandfather, Karl Kirchberger had married Gustel’s sister Emma.

“I have been to the Royal Abu Bakar Museum in 2002 and seen the photograph of my great granduncle, Rahman Andak.

“I think it is fascinating to know that I’m related to the man who warned the Sultan of Johor about British intentions in the peninsula and found himself exiled to London on a stipend for the remainder of his life,” Kerry wrote in his email from Thailand last Wednesday.

During that visit, he had the opportunity of meeting his distant Malaysian cousins.

One of the people he met was named Aini Abdulah, who he believed was attached to the then prime minister’s office.

He also remembered meeting one of Aini’s uncles, who was the head of a major construction company in Kuala Lumpur and was formerly the chairman of a major US Fortune 500 firm in Kuala Lumpur.

Kerry and his wife, Rie Ito, who is Japanese, are planning a trip to Kuala Lumpur in March. He plans to take Rie to the Royal Abu Bakar Museum and show her Rahman’s picture which is displayed there.

“I was wondering if it might be possible for you to locate Aini Abdullah or her uncle to see if they would be interested in re-establishing contacts and meeting my wife and me?” he asked, adding that his father, Leslie, may also fly from Honolulu to visit as well if he can re-establish contacts with his cousins.

“I feel it is extremely special that we share in both of our extended families a major Malaysian historical hero.

“As a US citizen, a country that was also a former colony of Great Britain, it means a great deal to me to know more about Rahman and how he tried to warn and prevent the rapid colonisation of Malaya, as well as what precipitated his downfall from power, the exile, and what transpired in his life in London,” he said.

Kerry said his family possessed photographs of both Gustel and Rahman with Karl.

“I will try to locate copies of photographs I have on a portable hard drive as well as photographs of gifts that were bestowed on our family by the Sultan of Johor, since it is my understanding that my great grandfather, Karl, had a business partner in Singapore.

“My grandfather and grandmother, Oscar and Vera Kirchberger, lived in Singapore during the 1920s, and there had been a relationship with the sultan at the time,” he said.

The Berger family, he said, “desires another reunion opportunity to strengthen our family bonds and to share information and photographs we have about our cousin, Rahman Andak”.

I also received a comment on my blog on Rahman from Iza-Zulkifli, who gave added information on this great man whom she had always admired.

According to her, Rahman’s three boys were named Murad, Mansor (who passed away earlier than Rahman) and Maarof.

Rahman was buried at the Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey, about 40km south of London.

On his tombstone was an inscription, “In loving memory of our father Datuk Abdul Rahman Andak, CMG who died on Sept 10, 1930 and our mother Auguste Rahman who died on March 30th, 1933”. His state awards, the “Dato’ Seri Paduka Mahkota Johor” (SPMJ) and “Dato’ Paduka Mahkota Johor” (DPMJ), were not even inscribed on his tombstone.

According to Iza-Zulkifli, Rahman’s house called “Seri Lalang” was given to the then ruler, Sultan Ibrahim, to be turned into Istana Mastika Embun. It was the palace for the sultan’s sister, Tengku Ampuan Besar Mariam.

After that, it was wakaf (the granting or dedication of property in trust for a pious purpose) to Tan Sri Zainun Munshi Sulaiman or Ibu Zain, mother of columnist and novelist Adibah Amin, to be turned into the Kolej Tunku Ampuan Mariam, which still exists until today.

Besides a road, two schools were named after Abdul Rahman namely SM Datuk Sri Amar Diraja, Muar dan SM Datuk Abdul Rahman Andak in Simpang Renggam, Kluang.

unekspekted_III

Keturunan "HEnry Burger"..

bukan direct descendant dari Dato' Amar.. - dorang ni anak2 daripada kakak Datin Gustell... so.. Dato' Amar ni jadi Pakcik Ipar dorang jee..

Henry dan Mansur dikhabarkan menjadi Doktor di London... but, after that.. their record were vanish from history.. SEBAB...

UK x simpan data kelahiran dan kematian secara centralized...... dekat London takde record.. tapi.. dorang simpan data tu kat District tempat orang2 tu bermastautin

- kene cari alamat dorang lahir.. and alamat bermastautin.. pejabat daerah dorang yang simpan record2 ni..