Karl Ludwig Jühlke

Karl Ludwig Jühlke (around 1880)

Karl Ludwig Jühlke (born September 6, 1856 in Eldena ; † December 1, 1886 in Kismaju , German East Africa ) was a German explorer of Africa .

Life

His father Ferdinand Jühlke was a well-known teacher, author and gardener . Jühlke attended the monastery school in Ilfeld am Harz, where he met Carl Peters . He studied law in Tübingen , Leipzig , Heidelberg and Berlin and from 1881 worked as a trainee lawyer in Werder and Potsdam .

Together with his childhood friend Carl Peters, Jühlke took part in the establishment of the Society for German Colonization (the later German-East African Society ) in 1884 and went to East Africa . On November 4, 1884, he met with Peters, Joachim von Pfeil and August Otto in Zanzibar and on November 9 in Saadani . In Usagara and neighboring regions, Jühlke, Peters and their fellow travelers created the starting point for the later German colonization by “signing contracts”.

From spring 1885 to March 1886 Jühlke stayed for the society in German East Africa and negotiated for the new colony to be founded around Usambara and the Jaggaland on Kilimanjaro . Between March and August 1886 Jühlke was once again in Germany before he returned to East Africa, this time to the Benadir Coast (southern Somalia). He tried to bring the coastal strip north of Witu to the mouth of the Juba under German control . He planned the Hohenzollernhafen station in Wubuschi Bay .

Karl Ludwig Jühlke was murdered by a Somali on December 1, 1886 .

Works (selection)

The acquisition of the Kilima Njaro area . Cologne 1886
My hike to Kilimanjaro . Berlin 1886

literature

Kurt Hassert .: Jühlke, Karl Ludwig . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 50, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1905, pp. 715-717.
Conrad Weidmann : German men in Africa - Lexicon of the most outstanding German Africa researchers, missionaries, etc. Bernhard Nöhring, Lübeck 1894, p. 62 f. ( Online version - excerpts )

Web links

Commons : Karl Ludwig Jühlke - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Jühlke, Karl Ludwig, in: German Colonial Lexicon . Volume II, Leipzig 1920, p. 133.

Individual evidence

↑ Carl Peters: Memoirs. Rüsch'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Hamburg 1918, p. 25 ff. ( Online version )

personal data
SURNAME	Jühlke, Karl Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Africa explorer
DATE OF BIRTH	September 6, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH	Eldena
DATE OF DEATH	December 1, 1886
Place of death	Kismaju , Somalia

[1] Carl Peters: Memoirs. Rüsch'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Hamburg 1918, p. 25 ff. ( Online version )