Paul Pogge
Paul Pogge (born December 27, 1838 in Zierstorf ; † March 17, 1884 in St. Paul de Luanda ; full name: Paul Friedrich Johann Moritz Pogge ) was a traveler to Africa.
Life
Paul Pogge came from the long-established Pogge family , farmers in Mecklenburg , who had produced several important agricultural reformers since his grandfather Carl Pogge . Pogge was born the younger son and one of ten children of the bourgeois landowner Friedrich Pogge in his second marriage to Auguste Bresien (1806–1865), daughter of the domain tenant Christian Friedrich Bresien on Sponholz . At the age of 5 his father Friedrich Pogge died and he inherited the estate in Zierstorf. His uncle Johann Pogge took over the management of the estate.
Pogge trained on the family's Mecklenburg estate and studied law from 1858 in Berlin, Heidelberg (member of the Corps Guestphalia ) and Munich. In 1860 he was promoted to Dr. jur. PhD. He then took over the management of his father's estate.
In 1865/66 Pogge made a first trip to South Africa ( Cape Country and Natal ), Mauritius and Réunion for hunting purposes . On his return he leased the Sarov estate, which he gave up again after a few years.
In 1874 he joined the Cassange expedition under the ornithologist Alexander von Homeyer and went with him from Luanda up the Cuanza to Pungo Adongo , then with Anton Lux via Malanje to Kimbundo and finally without Anton Lux to Mussumba , the residence of the Muata Iamvo , which he reached on December 9, 1875. He had penetrated further inland than any traveler of the German African Society before him. Since the Muata Iamvo Pogge did not want to allow the continuation of the journey, Pogge returned to Angola in April 1876 and from there to Germany. In the autumn of 1880, Pogge, accompanied by Hermann von Wissmann and supported by the Reich Chancellery, began a second trip, reaching Malanje on January 25, 1881 and the Kasai on October 22 . Pogge, like Wissmann, confirmed the observations of the hemp cult of the Bena Riamba made there three years earlier by Otto H. Schütt among the people of the Baschilenge .
Here the travelers parted. Pogge moved over the Mukenges residence on the Lulua and then reunited with Wissmann on the Munkamba lake . Both reached Mona Katschitsch , the residence of Chief Katschitsch von Koto , on January 14, 1882 , on Lubilasch , reached Lualaba on April 16 and Nyangwe on April 17 . From there, Wissmann moved on June 1 to the east coast, which he reached on November 16, while Pogge returned to the Mukenge residence in forced marches at the beginning of May to build the planned scientific station there. After this happened, Pogge returned to Luanda on February 28, 1884 to embark for Europe. However, he died there on March 16, 1884 as a result of the privations he had endured.
In Rostock , on March 19, 1885, he was given a monument with a bronze bust by the sculptor Ludwig Brunow . It was dismantled and destroyed in 1945, later replaced by a Pogge bust by Jo Jastram .
In the former manor house of the Groß Roger district of Zierstorf, the local heritage association holds exhibitions on Paul Pogge and the agricultural pioneers Carl and Johann Pogge.
Works
Besides many articles in magazines, Pogge published:
- In the realm of Muata Jamwo. Diary of my trip to the Lunda states on behalf of the German Society for Research on Equatorial Africa. (Contributions to the history of the discovery of Africa, 3), Berlin 1880 ( digitized version )
- Under the German flag across Africa from west to east, executed by Paul Pogge and Hermann von Wissmann from 1880–83. Berlin 1889
literature
- Uta Lindgren : Pogge, Paul Friedrich Johann Moritz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 578 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann (ed.): Into the deepest Africa. Paul Pogge and his pre-colonial trips to the southern Congo Basin. Trafo, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89626-323-4 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Paul Pogge in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ In the ADB wrongly: 1839; not born: December 24th.
- ^ The Africa explorer Paul Pogge. Poggehaus Zierstorf
- ↑ Johannes Fabian: In tropical fever. Science and madness in the exploration of Central Africa. Verlag CH Beck, Munich 2001, p. 209
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pogge, Paul |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pogge, Paul Friedrich Johann Moritz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Africa traveler |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 27, 1838 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ornamental peat |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 17, 1884 |
| Place of death | St. Paul de Luanda |