Rudolf Plehn
Rudolf Plehn (born February 23, 1868 in Lubochin , Schwetz district , West Prussia; † November 24, 1899 in the Duma district , Cameroon ) was a German forest scientist and government official in the German colony of Cameroon.
Life
Rudolf Plehn was assigned to the Foreign Office in 1895 and sent to the German colony of Togo to take over the Misahöhe station , where he worked until 1897. In 1898 he came to Cameroon, where he was given responsibility for the Ssanga - Ngoko area in the south-eastern part of the colony. There he founded the Ngokostation on the river of the same name. In 1899 he was killed in a fight with natives in the Dume district (see list of uprisings in the German colonies ).
family
His parents were Anton Plehn (1834–1887), landowner and farmer in Lubochin, and Johanna Maercker (1838–1888). His siblings were Albert Plehn (1861–1935) and Friedrich Plehn (1862–1904), both tropical medicine specialists ; Marianne Plehn (1865–1946), zoologist and Rose Plehn (1865–1945), painter.
publication
- Contributions to ethnology in the Togo region , 1898
literature
- Rudolf Plehn. In: Heinrich Schnee (Ed.): German Colonial Lexicon. Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1920, Volume III, p. 68 ( online ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Plehn, Rudolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German forest scientist and government official in German Cameroon |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 23, 1868 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lubochin , Schwetz district, West Prussia |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 24, 1899 |
| Place of death | Dumebezirk , German Cameroon |