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A plaque commemorating Adolf Lüderitz is situated on Shark Island in the bay of Lüderitz. [13] In Germany, several streets are named after Adolf Lüderitz, although repeated calls to rename them have been made, for instance in Bremen, [14] Cologne, Munich, [6] and Berlin. [15] In April 2018, Berlin decided to change the name of the street in ...
Heinrich Vogelsang (Bremen, 17 March 1862 – Bremen, 25 May 1914) [1] was a German merchant and explorer, who led the first expedition of Adolf Lüderitz to Angra Pequena, German South West Africa (today Lüderitz Bay, Namibia) in 1883.
The Adolf Lüderitz was a fleet tender of the Kriegsmarine, sometimes also known as an aviso.She was named after the Bremen businessman Adolf Lüderitz (1834–1886), whose land acquisition in 1883 in what is now Namibia led to the establishment of the German protected area German South West Africa the following year.
Lüderitz is twinned with Lüderitz in Germany, part of the town of Tangerhütte since 2010. [20] Lüderitz is governed by a town council that has seven seats. [21] [22] The 2015 local authority election was won by SWAPO which gained six seats (2,679 votes). The remaining seat went to the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (DTA) with 265 votes. [23]
German family in Keetmanshoop, 1926. Today, English is the country's sole official language, but about 30,000 Namibians of German descent (around 2% of the country's overall population) and possibly 15,000 black Namibians (many of whom returned from East Germany after Namibian independence) still speak German or Namibian Black German, respectively. [1]
German fleet tender Adolf Lüderitz, a fleet tender of the Kriegsmarine; Lüderitz Reformed Church, a congregation of the Reformed Churches in South Africa (GKSA) in southern Namibia; Lüderitz Speed Challenge, an annual speed sailing event; Monelytrum luederitzianum, a grass endemic to Namibia, commonly known in English as Lüderitz grass
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Berlin — Hauptstadt der DDR (412): Koni-class coastal protection vessel, launched 1979; Berlin (A1411): Berlin-class (Type 702) replenishment and combat support ship^ Bernau (343): Kondor-class minesweeper; Bernd von Arnim (Z11), Type 1934A destroyer, launched 1936; Bernhard Bästlein (827): P-6-class torpedo boat