Hugo Zöller

Hugo Zöller (born January 12, 1852 in Oberhausen near Schleiden / Eifel , † January 9, 1933 in Munich ) was a German explorer and journalist .

Life

Zöller's brother Egon was a friend of Karl Pearson and at the same time an author. Zöller studied law and traveled to the Mediterranean countries between 1872 and 1874 . During the civil war in southern Spain he began to draw attention to himself with newspaper articles, so that in 1874 he was included in the editorial team of the Kölnische Zeitung .

In 1879 he began a trip around the world to learn about the possibilities of acquiring land for a German colonial empire. The result was a two-volume work Rund um die Erde (Cologne 1881). In 1881 and 1882 Zöller roamed all of South America and the West Indies , he then published The Germans in the Brazilian Primeval Forest (2 vols. Stuttgart 1883) and Pampas and Andes (Stuttgart 1884).

Sketch of the map of Zöllers with the Mahin area (right)

At the end of 1882, Zöller was a war correspondent for the Kölnische Zeitung during the British campaign in Egypt . After accompanying the German Crown Prince through Spain and to Rome in 1883 , he was commissioned in 1884 to research the German colonies in West Africa that Gustav Nachtigal had acquired . Zöller first went through Togo , then went to Cameroon , where he explored the Kamerungebirge with Stefan Szolc-Rogoziński in 1884 . On behalf of Nachtigal, he concluded preparatory protection treaties with eight smaller kingdoms in January 1885 on the eastern edge of the Kamerungebirge . The Reich Commissioner declared Zöller to be the authorized representative for these areas. Zöller traveled with Nachtigal on January 20, 1885 to the Niger estuary region to take possession of a small stretch of coast - the so-called Mahinland - for Germany, which was awarded to Great Britain before the end of the year.

On January 10, 1885, a telegram from Zöller was published in the Kölnische Zeitung and then discussed by Bismarck in the Reichstag, which reported on the Duala riots in Cameroon: “It brought the world the first news of the first battles linked to German colonial acquisition . "

During his stay in Cameroon discovered incher the Batanga -flow he sailed up until he got to the falls, which he - "Making of the rights of the discoverer use" - in honor of the owner of the Cologne newspaper as Neven-Dumont -cases named. He then had to return to Germany from the Congo, suffering from fever .

In 1888 Zöller toured German New Guinea and, accompanied by Wissmann, in 1889 German East Africa . During this trip, Zöller was the first European to penetrate the interior of New Guinea and climb the peaks of the Finisterre Mountains . He discovered the Ottoberg within the Bismarck Mountains and the Kraetkegebirge with the Zöllerberg .

Hugo Zöller died in Munich in 1933 shortly before the age of 81.

Honors

After him the plant genus is Zoelleria Warb. from the family of Boraginaceae named (Boraginaceae).

Works (selection)

"The Germans in the Brazilian Jungle - With illustrations and one by Dr. Long drawn map ”. I. Volume. Publishing house by W. Spemann. Berlin and Stuttgart. 1883.

The Germans in the Brazilian Jungle - With illustrations and one by Dr. Long drawn map . I band. Publishing house by W. Spemann. Berlin and Stuttgart. 1883.
The German possessions on the West African coast . 4 vols. Spemann, Berlin a. a. 1885.
German New Guinea and my ascent of the Finisterre Mountains . Union Dt. Verl.-Ges., Stuttgart a. a. 1891.
As a journalist [sic] and researcher in Germany's great colonial times . Koehler & Amelang, Leipzig 1930.

literature

Ursula Krieger: Hugo Zöller. A German journalist as a colonial pioneer . Triltsch, Würzburg 1940.

Web links

Literature by and about Hugo Zöller in the catalog of the German National Library
Newspaper article about Hugo Zöller in the press kit of the 20th century of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .

Individual evidence

^ Heinrich Schnee (ed.): German Colonial Lexicon. Volume III. Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1920, p. 763
↑ Max Buchner: Aurora Colonialis - fragments of a diary from the first beginning of our colonial policy 1884/1885. Piloty & Loehle, Munich 1914, p. 214 f. (unchanged facsimile reprint, Fines Mundi, Saarbrücken 2016).
↑ Hugo Zöller: As a legalist and researcher in Germany's great colonial era , Köhler & Amelang, Leipzig 1930, p. 176 f.
↑ Deutsche Geographische Blätter , Vol. 7–8 (1884), p. 215. (Quoted from Google Books. )
^ Neven DuMont, August Libert (until 1864/65 Du Mont, 1882 Prussian name extension to Neven DuMont)
↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .

personal data
SURNAME	Zöller, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German explorer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH	January 12, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH	Oberhausen
DATE OF DEATH	January 9, 1933
Place of death	Munich

[1] Heinrich Schnee (ed.): German Colonial Lexicon. Volume III. Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1920, p. 763

[2] Max Buchner: Aurora Colonialis - fragments of a diary from the first beginning of our colonial policy 1884/1885. Piloty & Loehle, Munich 1914, p. 214 f. (unchanged facsimile reprint, Fines Mundi, Saarbrücken 2016).

[3] Hugo Zöller: As a legalist and researcher in Germany's great colonial era , Köhler & Amelang, Leipzig 1930, p. 176 f.

[4] Deutsche Geographische Blätter , Vol. 7–8 (1884), p. 215. (Quoted from Google Books. )

[5] Neven DuMont, August Libert (until 1864/65 Du Mont, 1882 Prussian name extension to Neven DuMont)

[Burkhardt_2018-6] Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .