Georg Hartmann (researcher)

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Georg Hartmann (born August 4, 1865 in Dresden , † July 12, 1946 in Grammersdorf ) was a German major in the Landwehr , geographer , explorer and colonial politician in Africa.

Hartmann discovered another previously unknown subspecies of the mountain zebra , which was named after his wife Anna " Hartmannzebra " ( Equus zebra hartmannae ).

Life

He was married in 1898 to Anna Woermann, daughter of the shipowner Adolph Woermann , Hamburg. The marriage resulted in four children: Edel, Ilse, Harald and Gudrun. Hartmann attended the Realgymnasium in Dresden and then the Technical University of Dresden and studied mathematics, physics and geography at the University of Leipzig . The state examination and doctorate for Dr. phil. followed in 1889.

Hartmann was an active officer in the infantry regiment “King Ludwig III. von Bayern ”(3rd Royal Saxon) No. 102 in Zittau and was assigned to the then Foreign Office of the German Empire. From 1893 to 1908 in what was then the German colony of Deutsch-Südwestafrika , today's Namibia, active as general representative of the South West Africa Company , as director of the Otavi Mining and Railway Company and the Gibeon Prospecting Company . Further research trips in the service of the South West Africa Company and the Otavi Mining and Railway Company in German South West Africa, in Ovamboland and in South Angola followed.

In 1908 Hartmann bought part of the noble estate from the Sametzki family in the Oderbruch village of Rathstock . He was scientifically active, lectured and published many writings in the fields of state, sociology and history.

Hartmann supported the local church and the local sports club. During the First World War he took part as an officer in Bessarabia , Poland and on the Western Front .

In 1939 Hartmann sold the property and moved with his wife to Frankfurt (Oder) , where his wife died in 1941 after a serious illness. He deposited the extensive collection of African trophies in the manor house of the von Wittich family in the neighboring village of Reitwein . They have been missing since World War II.

Hartmann died as a refugee on July 12, 1946 at the age of 80 in Grammersdorf (Schleswig-Holstein).

Research trips

Equus zebra hartmannae
  • 1893: Journey from Greater Namaland to the Cape Colony
  • 1894: Co-founder of the city of Grootfontein in the northeast of what is now Namibia
  • From 1894 to 1900 three large expeditions to the Kaokoveld for the Kaoko Land and Mining Society to explore the northern regions for agricultural and mining use
  • 1901: Expedition along the Kunene (river) and discovery of the Kunene waterfall
  • 1906 to 1908 expedition to Namaland to explore the so-called blue ground crater on diamonds

Works

  • Negotiations of the Society for Geography in Berlin , 1897
  • My expedition in 1900 to the northern Kaokofeld , Berlin 1903
  • Cartographic recording of the northern areas of what was then German South West Africa (1893–1900) on a scale of 1: 300,000, Hamburg 1904
  • Colonial, geographical and sociological treatises and brochures on Africa

Honors

In the Kaokoveld (today's northeastern Namibia) landscapes ( Hartmanntal , Hartmannberge ) are named after him.

literature

  • Klaus Vetter , Eberhard Ulrich, Heimatverein “Oberes Oderbruch Rathstock” (ed.): 650 years Rathstock 1354–2004. 2004.
  • Johannes Hürter (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871 - 1945. 5. T - Z, supplements. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 5: Bernd Isphording, Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-71844-0 , p. 445 f.

Web links

Commons : Georg Hartmann (geographer)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, Michael Grayson: The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals. JHU Press, 2009, ISBN 9780801893049 , p. 179.
  2. ↑ a b c 650 years of Rathstock 1354–2004 . S.  40 f .
  3. ↑ Märkische Oderzeitung : Riddle about Rathstocker Africa researchers from January 7, 2008.
  4. ↑ a b entry on R. Hartmann . In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon . tape  10 . Leipzig 1907, p. 584 ( zeno.org [accessed April 6, 2013]).


personal data
SURNAME Hartmann, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Africa explorer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH July 12, 1946
Place of death Grammersdorf