Rudolf Friedrich Ludloff (farmer)

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Rudolf Friedrich Ludloff (* 29. December 1848 in Obersiemau , † after 1910) was a royal Bavarian Ökonomierat , author and captain of the Landwehr - infantry .

Life

Rudolf Ludloff was the son of the farmer and manor owner Julius Christian Louis Ludloff and the brother of Richard Ludloff . He attended the Ernestinum Coburg (secondary school) under the direction of Ernst Eberhardt. He was a farmer and received his doctorate in 1879 under Friedrich Zarncke at the University of Leipzig on the subject of domain sales. An economics study . From 1884 on, Ludloff was general secretary of the agricultural provincial association for Westphalia and Lippe and from 1890 was a captain of the Landwehr infantry, 1st contingent ( Aschaffenburg ).

Around 1888 he corresponded with Joseph Kürschner , the letters are archived in the Goethe and Schiller Archives .

For study purposes he traveled as an agricultural expert sent by the German Colonial Society to America and in 1890/91 to German South West Africa . In 1891 he wrote the brochure Nach Deutsch- Namaland about this . This work was in Modern Imperialists. The empire picked up in the mirror of its colonies , u. a. his statements were quoted in the introduction. He pessimistically assessed South West Africa as the “desert-rich, rain-poor, drought-prone, poor, z. Part of the world, partially infected with malaria, in the periphery ”, although he had considered settling there.

During his stay in South Africa, he also traveled with Curt von François and got to know Hendrik Witbooi and Hermanus van Wyk .

In 1899, Ludloff was still one of three agricultural experts posted as "settlement supervisor".

In 1910 he published a genealogical overview of the Ludolf-Ludloff family, who were based in Sondershausen and whose origins date back to 1525. Numerous family members can be assigned to the Ludloff family line.

Rudolf Friedrich Ludloff was married to Marie Caroline Julie Pertsch, daughter of Erdmann Pertsch , and had three children. One son was Fritz Ludloff .

Publications

  • About domain sales. An economics study. Dissertation, University of Leipzig 1879 (with curriculum vitae, digitized version ).
  • To Deutsch-Namaland (South West Africa). Travel letters . Publishing house Dietz, Coburg 1891.
  • A sheep farm for Damaraland . In: Deutsche Kolonialzeitung NF Vol. 4, 1891, pp. 115–117 ( digitized version ).
  • Coburg in 1629. Truth and Poetry . Verlag A. Roßteutscher, Coburg 1905.
  • History of the Ludolf-Ludloff family . o. O., o. J. [Coburg 1910.] ( digitized version ). (therein p. 68: autobiographical information.)

literature

  • Ludloff Rudolf. In: Conrad Weidmann : German men in Africa. Lexicon of the most outstanding German Africa researchers, missionaries. Bernhard Nöhring, Lübeck 1894, p. 78 ( digitized version ).
  • Georg Steinmetz: The Devil's Handwriting: Precoloniality and the German Colonial State in Qingdao, Samoa, and Southwest Africa . University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2007, ISBN 0-226-77241-1 , pp. 145.156 (brief mention of Ludloff and his travelogue).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 4th grade pupil. In: Program of the secondary school in Coburg. Coburg 1861, p. 10. ( limited preview in Google book search)
  2. ^ Letter from Rudolf Ludloff to Friedrich Zarncke. Retrieved January 4, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Ludloff. In: Agricultural yearbooks. Vol. 18, 1889, p. 522 and 674.
  4. ↑ Bavarian War Ministry : Ordinance sheet of the Royal Bavarian War Ministry . Printed in the K. Bavarian War Ministry, 1890 ( google.de [accessed on November 17, 2017]).
  5. ↑ a b Birthe Kundrus: Modern Imperialists. The empire in the mirror of its colonies . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne Weimar, 2003, ISBN 978-3-412-18702-6 ( google.de [accessed on November 18, 2017]).
  6. ↑ In the Hamburg State Archives , based on the Hamburg passenger lists 1850–1934, it can be ascertained that Rudolf Ludloff traveled to South Africa via Southampton on September 21, 1890 .
  7. ^ Curt von Francois: German South West Africa. From colonization to the outbreak of war with Witbooi . Reimer, Berlin 1899, p. 81 ( digitized version ).
  8. ^ Curt von Francois: German South West Africa. From colonization to the outbreak of war with Witbooi . Reimer, Berlin 1899, p. 81 ( digitized version ); Deutsche Kolonialzeitung NF 9, 1896, p. 45 ( digitized version ).
  9. ^ Stenographic reports on the negotiations . Preussische Verlagsanstalt, 1899 ( google.de [accessed November 25, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Ludloff, Rudolf Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German farmer, author, captain
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Obersiemau
DATE OF DEATH after 1891