Denhardt brothers

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The brothers Clemens (born August 3, 1852 in Zeitz ; † June 7, 1929 in Bad Sulza ) and Gustav Denhardt (born June 16, 1856 in Zeitz ; † July 17, 1917 in Leipzig ) were German Africa researchers.

Life

In 1878 the brothers went on their first expedition to East Africa . Together with the doctor Gustav Adolf Fischer , they drove up the Pokomo , then the Tana up to Massa. After they had published their research results in 1879 and brought together the necessary capital from interested German trade back in Germany, they formed a so-called Tana Committee in 1882 and, with the support of the Academy of Sciences, set out on another trip to Zanzibar in 1884 . Clemens Denhardt acquired land from an area of ​​50 km² near Kann am Pokomo and a further 1,300 km² with a coastline of 60 km with all sovereign rights . In addition, the brothers obtained the German protectorate over the sultanate of Witu .

While Clemens traveled back to Berlin, Gustav stayed in Lamu and, in addition to building the plantations, carried out further research into the hinterland that was under German protection in 1887. On July 1, 1890, the treaty between the German Empire and the United Kingdom over the colonies and Heligoland was signed, which also contained the exchange of the Sultanate of Witu for the British island of Heligoland .

Gustav Denhardt's grave is in the Johannes-Friedhof in Zeitz. There is a memorial stone on the Wendish Mountain in his hometown. The " Ernst Ortlepp " museum library located in Zeitz contains literature on the brothers.

literature

  • Reports on the travels of the Denhardt brothers were published in the “Communications of the Geographical Society in Hamburg” (1876–1877 and 1878–1879), “Petermanns Mitteilungen” (1881, with map), the “Journal of the Society for Geography in Berlin” (1884 ) and the "Deutsche Kolonialzeitung" (1886).
  • Under the title Denhardts Griff nach Afrika , the writer, editor and publisher Hermann Schreiber published a colonial revisionist literaryization of the events around "Wituland" in 1938.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Dorrmann: Eduard Arnhold (1849–1925): a biographical study on entrepreneurship and patronage in the German Empire , Akademie Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3-05-003748-2 , p. 81; ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ^ Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon: Volume 4, page 638 . 6th edition, Leipzig 1905-09
  3. ^ Meyers Konversationslexikon: Volume 17 (supplementary volume), page 214 . Fourth edition, Leipzig and Vienna 1885–1892
  4. ↑ Hermann Schreiber: Denhardt's grip on Africa. Publishing house Scherl, Berlin 1938.

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