Rudolph Heinrich Ruete
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Rudolph Heinrich Ruete (born March 10, 1839 in Hamburg ; † August 6, 1870 there ) was a German merchant and husband of the Zanzibari princess Salme , who called herself Emily Ruete after her baptism and marriage. She was the daughter of a Circassian slave who had become the concubine of Sultan Said ibn Sultan of Oman and Zanzibar .
Life
Ruete worked as a sales representative for the Hamburg trading company Hansing & Co. from 1855, initially in Aden and then went to Zanzibar, where he founded and managed the companies Koll & Ruete and Ruete & Co.
Ruete's house in Zanzibar City was directly adjacent to the living quarters of the palace, in which Princess Salme was housed. So he got to know and love the princess. After she became pregnant by him, she fled with the help of the British consul to the British Aden, which led to diplomatic entanglements between the Sultanate of Zanzibar , Great Britain and Germany .
After the couple married in Aden, Ruete continued his activity as a merchant in Hamburg, where he was run over while jumping from a horse-drawn tram in 1870 and died a few days later.
Rudolph Heinrich Ruete, like his wife later, was buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg on the family grave site Ruete (pillow stone top left) in grid square U 27, Kapellenstrasse east of Lippertplatz .
Web links
- Christopher Buyers: Zanzibar: The al-Busaid Dynasty: Genealogy. In: The Royal Ark: Royal and Ruling Houses of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas. Archived from the original on August 18, 2003 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Where Hamburg's big names rest. In: friedhof-hamburg.de. Retrieved August 30, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ruete, Rudolph Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German merchant and husband of an Omani princess |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 10, 1839 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 6, 1870 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |