Gerhard Rohlfs memorial
The Gerhard Rohlfs memorial is in Bremen - Vegesack am Fährgrund on Schulkenstrasse. It is included in the list of monuments and statues of the city of Bremen .
The bronze sculpture from 1961 was made by the sculptor Paul Halbhuber . From him still come in Bremen u. a. the bronze works such as fountain sculpture (1958) in Hemelingen , youth with topping-out wreath (1958) in Walle , Neptun (1958) in the Neustadt , wind rose (1966) at the Wilhelm-Kaisen-Brücke , sun (1970) in Kattenturm and the cornucopia (1983 ) in front of the Focke Museum .
The first plans for a memorial were made in 1911 (Rohlfs as a camel rider) and then again in 1929 and 1938. Today's abstract, 4.5 m high bronze column commemorating Rohlfs looks like a stylized signpost that points in different directions with six reliefs with his African travel experiences.
Gerhard Rohlfs
The Africa explorer and writer Gerhard Rohlfs (1831-1896) from Vegesack served from 1856 to 1860 as a foreign legionnaire and field trooper in Algeria and was a doctor in Fès in Morocco . He traveled to North Africa, returned briefly to Germany in 1865 and then explored North Africa to Lagos on the Gulf of Guinea . In 1867/68 he was in Abyssinia and Cyrenaica and in 1870/71 in Tunisia . In 1873/74 he carried out his most important expedition on behalf of the Egyptian khedive Ismail Pascha in Egypt to the Kufra oases in Sudan . In 1880 he was the ambassador of the Prussian king in Abyssinia and in 1884/85 he was consul general in Zanzibar . In many works he described his travels and research results.
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Coordinates: 53 ° 10 ′ 29.5 ″ N , 8 ° 36 ′ 42.7 ″ E