Kurt Strümpell

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This ivory female figure is an amulet mu po from the Cameroon grassland , Bamunkung. The amulet is in the Kurt Strümpell collection in the Braunschweig Municipal Museum .

Kurt Strümpell (born July 16, 1872 in Schöningen ; † October 28, 1947 ) was a German colonial officer, Africa researcher and collector of objects from Cameroon .

Life

Kurt Strümpell served in 1892 as a lieutenant in the foot artillery regiment No. 4, in 1900 in the protection force for Cameroon and was stationed in Tinto and Fontemdorf from 1901 . He was involved in various fights in the Cameroon grasslands , from where he brought numerous objects to Braunschweig . With the German military expedition he reached the north of Cameroon as far as Lake Chad . He became a captain in the command of the protection force (note: not known when the appointment was made). He took part in the fighting against the Bafut in 1901/1902 and was involved in the establishment of the German residence Adamaua in Garua (Cameroon) and in the Lake Chad region from 1903 to 1905 . From 1906 to 1907 and from 1908 to 1909 he was resident of the German residency Adamaua in Garua and subjugated a number of the independent tribes of Adamaoua . In January 1902, in the battle of Miskin-Maroua , Hans Dominik had already defeated the remaining troops of the Emir Djubayru , which meant that most of Adamawa came under German rule. In 1810 the Islamic Empire Adamaua der Fulbe was founded in what is now northern Cameroon, founded by Modibo Adama , a pupil of Usman dan Fodio .

In his role as resident Kurt Strümpell traveled a lot, visited the courts of the local rulers and learned about the languages ​​and history of the population. He undertook geographic, ethnographic and linguistic research in Cameroon and put together collections. In the years 1901 to 1907 the Städtisches Museum Braunschweig received numerous collections from him with around 700 objects from Cameroon. This Kurt Strümpell collection contains objects from the Fulbe , Haussa and Arab populations around Lake Chad as well as objects from the many small non-Islamic peoples in the Adamaua highlands and in the Alantika Mountains. The archive materials, i.e. also the documents on the acquisition history of objects, are in the Braunschweig Palace in the Braunschweig City Archives .

In 1904, the Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin had reminded Kurt Strümpell of the stipulation that Reich officials and members of the protection forces should first send their ethnographic collections to the museum in the Reich capital Berlin for viewing and selection. Since then, the new additions to the Braunschweig Municipal Museum have become rarer; after 1907 they stopped altogether.

Today there are around 950 objects from Kurt Strümpell's collections with his estate in the Ethnological Museum Berlin : manuscript boxes 1–28 (total of 1326 sheets). 677 photos (in the box, not processed) as well as maps, correspondence regarding colonial administration. Object collections acquired from Cameroon, Adamaua 1907/1909 and 1960.

Kurt Strümpell headed the high command of the Imperial Protection Troops in the colonial department of the Foreign Office from August 23, 1917 to October 10, 1919 as a major ( mdWdGb ). Strümpell lived in Berlin-Friedenau and retired from service as a lieutenant colonel .

Fonts

  • Report on a tour of the eastern border area of ​​the Adamaua residence in 1909. In: Mitt. Add Schutzgeb. Volume XXIV 1911.
  • Research on the northern edge of the Cameroon plateau. In: Mitt. Add protection fee. Volume XXV 1912.
  • The story of Adamauas according to oral tradition. In: Reprint from communications from the Geographical Society in Hamburg. Volume 26, Hamburg 1912.

literature

Colonial history
  • Heinrich Schnee (Ed.): German Colonial Lexicon. Volume III, Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1920, p. 430.
  • Ground plan for German administrative history 1815–1945. Volume 22: Federal and Reich authorities. Marburg / Lahn 1983, ISBN 3-87969-156-8 , p. 352 ff.
  • Wolfgang Reith: The command authorities of the Imperial Protection Force at home. In: German Soldier Yearbook. 2000 and 2001 (2 parts) Schild-Verlag, Munich.
Map of Cameroon
Collections by Kurt Strümpell in the Braunschweig Municipal Museum
  • Dorothea Hecht: Catalog of the African collection in the Braunschweig Municipal Museum. (= Braunschweig workpieces. No. 37). Orphanage printing and publishing house, Braunschweig 1968.
  • Evelin Haase: Guide through the ethnology department. Work reports. (= Publications from the Städtisches Museum Braunschweig. Volume 62). Braunschweig 1992, pp. 71ff, in particular pp. 84-91.
Collections by Kurt Strümpell in the Ethnological Museum Berlin
  • Archival material in the Ethnological Museum Berlin: Address list from Found Events Time: 1936–1943 - 951 b

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gundolf Krüger, Ulrich Menter, Jutta Steffen-Schrade (eds.): TABU ?! Hidden Powers - Secret Knowledge. Imhof Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-86568-864-4 .
  2. ↑ Kurt Strümpell's period of service in the Reich Colonial Ministry, Reich Colonial Department , see Arne Schöfert: Colonial Department , Reich Colonial Office, Reich Colonial Ministry 1890–1920 , 2004
personal data
SURNAME Stockings, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German colonial officer, Africa researcher and collector
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Schöningen
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1947