Franz Boluminski (12 November 1863 – 28 April 1913) was a German colonial administrator. Boluminski was born in Graudenz, Province of Prussia. He served in the German Army in German East Africa and in 1894 went to work for the German New Guinea Company at Astrolabe Bay near modern-day Madang in Papua New Guinea. In March 1899 he transferred into the German colonial service and was posted to new station of Kavieng on the island of New Ireland. In 1910 he was promoted to district officer. He died of heat-stroke and is now buried in Bagail Cemetery in Kavieng. * v * t * e