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Carl Hugo Linsingen "Cocky" Hahn (born January 7, 1886 in Paarl , South African Republic ; † September 26, 1948 in Kranzfontein near Grootfontein ) was a South African- British military and from 1921 to 1947 regional commissioner in Ovamboland in South West Africa , now Namibia .

Cocky Hahn was the son of Carl Hugo Hahn junior (1846–1933) and grandson of Carl Hugo Hahn . He served in the First World War as an officer in the British-South African Army . After defeating the Schutztruppe for German South West Africa in 1915, he traveled to South West Africa with Major Pritchard to seal the takeover of the country. From 1916 Hahn was responsible for the espionage of the Uukwanya under Mandume yaNdemufayo as a secret agent .

In 1921 Hahn took over the post of regional commissioner from Major Charles Nicholas Manning , which also gave him the supervision of the Kaokoveld . Together with Manning, who was now a magistrate in the Rehoboth area, he was instrumental in dividing the area into three areas. An area under the leadership of Muhona Katiti (around Epembe and Ehomba ), one under Vita Tom (west of Epembe including, among others, Ombakaha ) and one under Kahewa-Nawa , the successor of Kasupi, around Ombepera .

In 1932 Hahn was involved in the overthrow of the Uukwambi king Iipumbu Ya Tshilongo . He used soldiers for this and drove Tshilongo into exile . From 1929 Hahn supervised the disarming of the Owambo , who received food in return.

Hahn retired in 1946 and was replaced by Harold Eedes (–1958) as regional commissioner.

Hahn was an avid photographer . Some of his recordings can be seen in the Cocky Hahn Collection in the library of the Namibia University of Science and Technology in Windhoek. He was married to Alcye Hahn, with whom he had son Rodney.

literature

  • Wolfram Hartmann, Jeremy Silvester, Patricia Hayes: The Colonising Camera, Photographs in the making of Namibian History. University of Cape Town Press, Windhoek / Cape Town / Athens 1998, ISBN 0-8214-1261-2 .
  • Patricia Hayes: 'Cocky' Hahn and the 'Black Venus': The Making of a Native Commissioner in South West Africa, 1915–46. in: Gender & History , Edition 8, No. 3, November 1996, pp. 364–392.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus Dierks : Biographies of Namibian Personalities, T. Retrieved on August 5, 2020. ( [1] )
  2. ↑ Cocky Hahn Collection. Namibia Online Archive, Namibia University of Science and Technology. Retrieved August 6, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Hahn, Cocky
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hahn, Carl Hugo Linsingen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British military and regional commissioner in South West Africa
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Paarl , South African Republic
DATE OF DEATH September 26, 1948
Place of death Kranzfontein, near Grootfontein