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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 in 1884. In 1883, a German trader, Adolf Lüderitz, bought Angra Pequena from the Nama chief Josef Frederiks II. The price he paid was 10,000 marks (ℳ) and 260 guns. [9] He soon renamed the coastal area after himself, giving it the name Lüderitz.
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]
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).
Adolf Bestelmeyer: experimental craft, launched 1943; Adolf Lüderitz: Fleet tender, launched 20 February 1939, commissioned 11 June 1940; Ägir: 3,700 ton Odin-class coastal defense ship: launched 1895; Ahrenshoop (GS08): Kondor-class minesweeper; Albatros (1926): Type 1923 torpedo boat, launched 15 July 1926, commissioned 5 May 1927, beached ...
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]