Adolf von Tiedemann
Adolf von Tiedemann (born January 24, 1865 in Süderstapel , Holstein , Austro-Prussian condominium ; † April 7, 1915 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German officer, colonialist and publicist.
Life
origin
Tiedemann was born as the son of the real secret council Christoph von Tiedemann in Süderstapel. He was a lecturer in the Reich Chancellery for several years , then President of the District in Bromberg .
He summarized his memories of Bismarck in a book that was considered worth reading at the time. Originally, “Personal memories of Prince Bismarck” was just a lecture given on November 18, 1897 in the Historical Society for the Netze District in Bromberg.
Military career
Tiedemann spent his youth in Flensburg , Berlin and the Rhine Province . From 1875 and 1877 he attended the French grammar school in Berlin and subsequently the cadet schools in Potsdam and Lichterfelde . In 1883 Tiedemann transferred the ensign and the 11th Pomeranian Dragoon Regiment stationed in Belgard ( Pomerania ) . Here he became a dragoon lieutenant and developed into a "dashing" rider.
Tiedemann traveled to Aden ( Africa ) on February 20, 1889 and joined the expedition led by Carl Peters to liberate Emin Pasha ( German Emin Pasha Expedition ). He then traveled on to the East African island of Lamu to finally hike with Carl Peters from Witu up the Tana over the Nile to Lake Victoria . There were fights with warriors from the Maasai people . The official goal of the trip was to find Eduard Schnitzer (also Emin Pascha ), who was believed to be lost . Essentially, Peters and von Tiedemann wanted to achieve an enlargement of the German colonial area in East Africa through so-called " protection treaties " . Both goals were missed: Emin Pasha had already met Henry Morton Stanley , who had also set out to rescue him , and King Mwanga II of Buganda did not allow himself to be carried away to relinquish his sovereignty. Attempted landings on the Tanaufer and Baringo lakes were overtaken by the British-German agreement of 1890 . However, the expedition then met Emin Pascha, who later put himself into German service. On July 16, 1890, Peters and von Tiedemann reached the Indian Ocean again near Bagamoyo . On August 4, 1890 von Tiedemann traveled back to Europe via Zanzibar . He gave lectures for the German Colonial Society and, based on his diary notes, published the book Tana, Baringo, Nil in 1892 , which appeared in several editions until 1915. He initially returned to his regiment, but in October 1892 he went to the Prussian War Academy .
As a major of the Prussian General Staff he took part as a military attaché on Herbert Kitchener's campaign to Omdurman and Chartum against the Mahdi in Sudan and Kitchener awarded him the "Egyptian Campaign Medal". He later published a book on this too.
A colonial patriotic lexicon of people, published in 1894 by Conrad Weidmann , describes von Tiedemann as an energetic, energetic expedition participant and his travelogue as "captivating". Carl Peters, who lost his post in German East Africa for serious offenses against Africans, praised von Tiedemann in his memoirs as a loyal companion.
On Count Waldersee's campaign in China , he was a member of his staff. In China, Tiedemann contracted his illness, which began with the hardships and hardships of the Emin Pascha expedition. At home he worked most of the time in the Great General Staff of Berlin . After he retired from active service due to illness, he moved to Lübeck with his family . He would live there for several years. At the beginning of the First World War , he returned his medal to Lord Kitchener, who was now in the position of British Field Marshal. During his final years, Tiedemann was bedridden.
Tiedemann died while searching for a cure in a Frankfurt sanatorium . The burial of the cremated in an external crematorium took place on the Lübeck General Gottesacker in the presence of members of the Lübeck Senate, numerous officers and a delegation of the "Association of Former China and Africa Warriors".
family
He married Emma Adolfine Christine Moller from New York on July 20, 1892 (born October 23, 1870). The couple had several children:
- Frances Mathilde Luise (born August 11, 1893) ⚭ 1916 Richard Witting, farmer
- Elsie Adelheid Frieda Gerda (born January 4, 1895)
- Emily Mathilde Marie (born February 13, 1896)
- Alexander Matthias Maximilian Christoph Kenneth (* July 21, 1897)
Works (selection)
- Tana, Baringo, Nil - With Karl Peters to Emin Pascha . Walter & Apolants, Berlin 1892.
- From bush and steppe - African expedition stories. Winckelmann & Sons, Berlin 1905.
- With Lord Kitchener against the Mahdi - memories of a Prussian general staff officer of the British Sudan campaign. Rüsch, Hamburg 1915.
literature
- Conrad Weidmann: German men in Africa - Lexicon of the most outstanding German Africa researchers, missionaries, etc. Bernhard Nöhring, Lübeck 1894, p. 174 f. ( Online version )
- Major a. D. von Tiedemann †. In: Vaterstädtische Blätter , year 1914/15, No. 30, edition of April 25, 1915.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Bismarck's “right hand” , in: Schleswiger Nachrichten, article from March 28, 2012.
- ↑ Major a. D. von Tiedemann †. In: Vaterstädtische Blätter , year 1914/15, No. 30, edition of April 25, 1915.
- ↑ Wilfried Westphal: Storm over the Nile - The Mahdi uprising. Parkland, Cologne 2002, ISBN 3-89340-025-7 , p. 344.
- ^ Conrad Weidmann: German men in Africa. P. 175.
- ↑ Carl Peters: Memoirs . Rüsch'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Hamburg 1918. ( online version )
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Tiedemann, Adolf von |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German officer, colonialist and publicist |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 24, 1865 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Süderstapel , Holstein , Prussian - Austrian condominium |
DATE OF DEATH | April 7, 1915 |
Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |