Hugo Voss

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Hugo Voss (born June 14, 1875 in Lübz , † August 24, 1968 in Bad Doberan ) was a German land surveyor .

Life

Hugo Voss completed an apprenticeship as a land surveyor in Wismar and then did voluntary military service in Schwerin . In 1899 he graduated from the Technical University of Dresden with a degree in surveying engineering . From 1901 to 1906 Voss managed a private surveying office in Friedland . A survey expedition took him to Canada for a year from 1906 .

After the suppressed uprisings of the Hereros and the Nama in German South West Africa , the German colonial rulers wanted to have their lands surveyed and published an appeal. Hugo Voss volunteered and in 1912 became an imperial land surveyor in German South West Africa. Voss accompanied his family on trips from Gibeon to Gobabis through rough terrain. During this activity he also photographed and collected numerous zoological, ethnological and archaeological specimens and finds. In 1919, after the end of the First World War , Voss was forced to leave Africa as an imperial official. In the mid-1920s he published his hunting memories in the book "Halt Fährte!"

In 1925 he had to give up his professional settlement projects in Brazil and Uruguay due to illness . After that he gave mainly public lectures about his experiences in Africa, after the founding of the GDR this only happened in private circles.

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The extensive collection he has compiled is owned by his four children and museums in Hamburg , Dresden and Leipzig .

Parts of his collection were shown in exhibitions, for example in the special exhibitions

  • The surveyor Hugo Voss and Mecklenburg's share in German colonial history in Bad Doberan,
  • Hugo Voss, a Lübz surveyor in German South West Africa in Lübz (September 2007).

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SURNAME Voss, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German land surveyor
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Luebz
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1968
Place of death Bad Doberan