Heinrich Gathemann

Heinrich Gathemann (* before 1889 ; † 1936 ) was a German farmer , businessman and mayor of Klein Windhoek , a current district of the capital Windhoek in Namibia .

Life

Gathemann building (left in the picture with red roof)

In 1889 Gathemann landed as a soldier at Sandwich Harbor in German South West Africa , now Namibia . He was present at the laying of the foundation stone of the Alte Feste in Windhoek and was part of the surveying team in Swakopmund .

After he retired from the military and married Luise Nissen-Lass, Gathemann became one of the first European farmers in the country. He also ran a shipping company . Gathemann was a member of the board of directors of the German Southwest African Cooperative Bank . Around 1913, already as mayor of Klein Windhoek, Gathemann added a wing to the Erkrath building on Kaiserstraße in Windhoek, and between 1927 and 1928 he built another building (designed by the architect Wilhelm Sander ). As the Erkrath-Gathemann-Kronprinz building complex, the building complex is now a Namibian national monument .

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Erkrath-Gatheman-Kronprinz Facades. Namibian.org. Retrieved August 14, 2017.
2. ^ Negotiations of the Reichstag, Volume 271 , Printing and Publishing of the Norddeutsche Buchdruckerei und Verlags-Anstalt, Germany 1911, p. 857.
3. ↑ Biographies of Namibian personalities R – Z. Klaus Dierks. Retrieved August 14, 2017.