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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 ...
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.
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.
Frederiks was party to a land sale deal between the Bethanie Orlam and German merchant Adolf Lüderitz that would eventually establish Imperial Germany 's colony of German South-West Africa. Lüderitz in May 1883 obtained the area of Angra Pequena (today the town of Lüderitz) from Frederiks for 100£ in gold and 200 rifles.
In 1938 the Navy ordered two more, but considerably larger and faster S-boat escort ships, the Carl Peters and her sister ship Adolf Lüderitz. The ship was 114 meters long (103.6 m in the waterline) and 14.5 m wide, had a draft of 4.34 m and displaced 2900 tons (standard) and 3600 tons (maximum).
Heinrich Vogelsang acquired the bay of Angra Pequena and five miles of hinterland for the Bremen tobacconist Adolf Lüderitz on 1 May 1883 from the Nama people in Bethanie.On April 24, 1884 Bismarck telegraphed the German consul in Cape Town that "Lüderitzland [] is under the protection of the German Empire".
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]
He gave valuable information on SWA's commercial potential to the young Heinrich Vogelsang, who was securing the first land concessions in SWA for the firm of Adolf Lüderitz, helping Vogelsang buy the Angra Pequena (now Lüderitz Bay) by recommending his bona fides to Josef Frederiks II, owner of that area and chief of the ǃAman Nama based in ...