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Lüderitz was born on 16 July 1834 in the German city-state of Bremen to tobacco merchant Adolf Lüderitz and his wife Wilhelmine. He had one younger brother who later became his assistant. After graduating from school, Lüderitz attended the Handelsschule (Merchant's Gymnasium) in Bremen and then worked as an intern in his father's business. [1]
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.
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 ...
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
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).
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.
Franz Adolf Eduard Lüderitz (1834–1886), merchant and colonist in South West Africa. [10] Johann Georg Poppe (1837–1915), prominent architect during the German Gründerzeit and interior designer of ocean liners for Norddeutscher Lloyd; Frederick C. Winkler (1838–1921), American Civil War Union brigadier general
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]