Carl Schlettwein (Farmer)

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Carl August Christian Ehrenreich Schlettwein (born September 8, 1866 in Teschendorf near Rostock , † 1940 in South West Africa ) was a German farmer and writer .

Life

Carl Schlettwein was the son of the Mecklenburg landowner ( Gutshaus Teschendorf ) Carl Wilhelm Heinrich Schlettwein from Teschendorf. The estate was sold in 1878 after 14 years of ownership. He learned agriculture in Streu on the island of Rügen and then studied agricultural science at the Agricultural University in Halle (Saale) from 1892 .

In 1896 he became chief agricultural inspector of the German Colonial Society in the colony of German South West Africa . In 1907 he was government commissioner in the budget commission of the German Reichstag . Schlettwein was a member of the State Council for South West Africa from 1910 to 1914 and was also a member of the colony's Agriculture Council. In 1923 he was a member of the German delegation in Cape Town , which campaigned for the connection of South West Africa to the South African Union . He was hostile to the National Socialists .

Carl Schlettwein was the owner of the South West African farms Warmbad -Nord, Otjitambi and Teschendorf. He was buried on Otjitambi (located on the main road C40 ).

Awards

Fonts

  • Germany's previous colonial policy and the current situation in German SWA , 1904
  • The Herero uprising, what caused it and what does it teach us? , 1905
  • The farmers in German South West Africa , 1907
  • Milk utilization through cheese production in German Southwest Africa , 1911
  • Livestock in the tropics and subtropics , 1913
  • Farming Problems in South West Africa , 1920

literature

  • Dag Henrichsen, Regula Iselin, Giorgio Miescher: Aspects and Perspectives. Essays in honor of Carl Schlettwein. In: Documenting and Researching Southern Africa, Basel 2001.
  • Fritz Gaerdes: Carl Schlettwein (1866-1940) in: SWA Jahrbuch (1972) digitized version, www.namibiana.de.
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 8731 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manor Teschendorf near Rostock. Manor houses and castles in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Retrieved September 3, 2018
  2. ↑ The farm is still owned by the family today and is run as a guest and hunting farm , see OtjitambiNamibia guest farm , accessed on July 28, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Schlettwein, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schlettwein, Carl August Christian Ehrenreich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German farmer and writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Teschendorf near Rostock
DATE OF DEATH 1940
Place of death South West Africa