Kuno Damian von Schütz-Holzhausen

Kuno Damian Freiherr von Schütz-Holzhausen (born February 15, 1825 in Camberg in the Duchy of Nassau , † June 23, 1883 in Bensheim ) was a German colonist in Peru.

Life

Schütz studied forest sciences at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . He had been a member of the Corps Nassovia Heidelberg since 1844 . After visiting Texas in 1846 , he was a member of the estates of the Duchy of Nassau in 1848 . After many walks through California and Mexico , Schütz came to Peru in 1852, where he joined an expedition to explore the upper Marañón . In 1855 the Peruvian government under President Ramón Castilla approached Schütz; 10,000 people of the German emigration flow were to be directed to Peru within the next few years and settled in Pozuzo on the eastern slope of the Andes , in the region of the upper Amazon . In the course of the following year, Schütz recruited around 300 willing immigrants in the Rhineland , the Moselle and Tyrol . They were supposed to help build a railway line from Lima to the Amazon. Peru wanted to create a link between the Atlantic and the Pacific in order to make the capital Lima an economic center. After long delays and many losses, the colony of 170 settlers (around 100 Tyrolean, 50 Rhine and Moselle countries and a few Bavarians ) on the Pozuzo finally came into being in 1859 . After years of traveling through Peru, Schütz visited "his" colony again from November 1864 to February 1865. Then he returned to Germany.

Fonts

The Amazon. Hiking pictures from Peru, Bolivia and Northern Brazil , 2nd revised and significantly expanded edition. Herder, Freiburg 1895 (edited by Adam Klassert)

literature

Friedrich Ratzel : Schütz, Kuno Damian . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 33, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, p. 133.
Wilfried Schabus: Pozuzo. Emigrants from Tyrol and Germany on the edge of the Amazon in Peru . University publishing house Wagner, Innsbruck 2016.

Web links

117 years of loneliness

Individual evidence

↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 117/117.
^ Georg Petersen, Hartmut Fröschle : The Germans in Peru . In: Hartmut Fröschle (ed.): The Germans in Latin America. Fate and achievement . Erdmann, Tübingen 1979, ISBN 3-7711-0293-6 , pp. 696-741, here p. 703.
^ ^A ^b ^c Georg Petersen, Hartmut Fröschle: The Germans in Peru . In: Hartmut Fröschle (ed.): The Germans in Latin America. Fate and achievement . Erdmann, Tübingen 1979, ISBN 3-7711-0293-6 , pp. 696-741, here p. 705.

personal data
SURNAME	Schütz-Holzhausen, Kuno Damian from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schütz-Holzhausen, Kuno Damian Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German colonist
DATE OF BIRTH	February 15, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH	Camberg , Duchy of Nassau
DATE OF DEATH	June 23, 1883
Place of death	Bensheim

[1] Kösener corps lists 1910, 117/117.

[2] Georg Petersen, Hartmut Fröschle : The Germans in Peru . In: Hartmut Fröschle (ed.): The Germans in Latin America. Fate and achievement . Erdmann, Tübingen 1979, ISBN 3-7711-0293-6 , pp. 696-741, here p. 703.

[Petersen_705-3] A ^b ^c Georg Petersen, Hartmut Fröschle: The Germans in Peru . In: Hartmut Fröschle (ed.): The Germans in Latin America. Fate and achievement . Erdmann, Tübingen 1979, ISBN 3-7711-0293-6 , pp. 696-741, here p. 705.