Zacharias Zeraeua

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Theodor Leutwein (seated left), Zacharias Zeraeua (2nd from left), Manasse Tyiseseta (4th from left), Samuel Maharero (right), 1895

Zacharias Zeraeua (often also written Zeraua ; * 19th century; † September 3, 1915 in Otjimbingwe , German South West Africa , today Namibia ) was a tribal leader of a group of the Ovaherero with headquarters in Otjimbingwe, in what was formerly German South West Africa, now Namibia.

Life

Zacharias Zeraeua's father was the Ovaherero leader Christian Wilhelm Zeraeua († 1876). On November 26, 1894, Theodor Leutwein brokered a meeting between Samuel Maharero and Zeraeua and Manasse Tyiseseta near Omaruru to unite the Ovaherero leaders.

Kaptein Zeraeua sold land around the “Otjandjomboimwe” waterhole to the Otjimbingwer dealers Gustav Roesemann and Eduard Hälbich. It was here that they established trading establishments in 1898, from which the village of Karibib emerged in 1900 with a connection to the railway network .

Participation in the Herero uprising

When in 1903 the murderer of Zeraeuas' daughter-in-law received only a small sentence of three years in prison, riots broke out in Otjimbingwe. Zeraeua only joined the Herero uprising on January 23, 1904 . Missionary Johannes Olpp managed to keep Zeraeua from participating for several days. The Otjimbingwer Ovaherero under Zeraeua suffered a defeat in the battle near Lievenberg on February 16 by the German landing corps under the command of Kapitänleutnant Hans Gygas, the 1st officer of the SMS Habicht . At the end of March Zeraeua left the area of ​​the oruware and moved to Ongandjira in the upper Swakop Valley to unite with the rebels under Samuel Maharero.

After the Battle of Waterberg in August 1904, the Otjimbingwer Ovaherero and other tribal groups withdrew via Okahandja between the rivers Omatako Omuramba and Eiseb Omuramba. In December 1904, Major Ludwig von Estorff offered the Hereros, who surrendered, to return to their old settlement areas. But Lieutenant General Lothar von Trotha reacted to von Estorff with the words: “You have nothing to promise!”.

Zacharias Zeraua surrenders to Major von Estorff's department on January 9, 1905

When Lothar von Trotha proclaimed the willingness to negotiate with Herero willing to return on December 12, 1904 in Owinaua-Naua as a result of instructions from Berlin, Zeraeua and 470 members of his association surrendered to Major Ludwig von Estorff on January 9, 1905 and reported on this Fate of other Herero divisions.

literature

  • Walter Nuhn: Sturm über Südwest , Chapter 9. Verlag Bernard & Graefe, Bonn 1997. ISBN 3-8289-0530-7

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karibib - Town in Namibia. Namibweb, accessed January 21, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Karibib - A railway line changes a country. Allgemeine Zeitung, March 28, 2013, accessed January 21, 2014 .
  3. ↑ R. Schwabe: The War in German South West Africa 1904-1906, p. 116. Europ. Geschichtsverlag, 2012, accessed January 22, 2014 .
  4. ^ Klaus Dierks: Chronicle of Namibia 1904. Retrieved on January 21, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Information about Owinaua-naua. Namibiana, April 10, 2012, accessed July 7, 2015 .
  6. ^ Walter Nuhn: Storm over Southwest . Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Bonn 1997, page 304
  7. ↑ Klaus Dierks: Chronicle Namibia September 1904. Retrieved on January 21, 2014 .
predecessor Office successor
Christian Wilhelm Zeraeua King of the Zeraeua Royal House
( Traditional Herero Leader ) 		Christian Eerike Zeraeua
personal data
SURNAME Zeraeua, Zacharias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kaptein of the Otjimbingwer Ovaherero
DATE OF BIRTH 19th century
DATE OF DEATH September 3, 1915
Place of death Otjimbingwe