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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.
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]
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 ...
Other names: Konzentrationslager auf der Haifischinsel vor Lüderitzbucht: Location: Luderitz, German South West Africa: Operated by: Imperial German Army: Original use: Officially a prisoner of war camp, in reality a civilian internment camp, described by some as a death camp [1] [2] [3] or even extermination camp [4] [5] [6] [7]
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
Faking Hitler is a German television miniseries that was released on RTL+ on 30 November 2021. It is a partial dramatization of the events surrounding the publication of the forged Hitler Diaries in the early 1980s. [1]