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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.
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]
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.
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 ...
De Toppers (Dutch pronunciation: [də ˈtɔpərs]), also known internationally as The Toppers, is a Dutch supergroup, consisting of René Froger, Gerard Joling, Jeroen van der Boom and Jan Smit. Gordon Heuckeroth , one of the founding members, left the group in 2011.
Hans Schinz, c. 1884. Hans Schinz (6 December 1858 – 30 October 1941) was a Swiss explorer and botanist who was a native of Zürich.. In 1884 he participated in an exploratory expedition to German Southwest Africa that was organized by German merchant Adolf Lüderitz (1834–1886).