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Adolf Lüderitz

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Franz Adolf Eduard Lüderitz (16 July 1834 – end of October 1886) was a German merchant and the founder of German South West Africa, Imperial Germany's first colony. [1]

54 relations: Angola, Atlantic Ocean, Aus, Namibia, Berlin, Bethanie, Namibia, Bremen, British West Africa, Cape Colony, Chancellor of Germany, City-state, Cologne, ǁKaras Region, ǃNamiǂNûs Constituency, Der Spiegel, Der Tagesspiegel, Destroyer tender, Die Tageszeitung, Edward Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby, Exchange (organized market), Fish River (Namibia), Geographical mile, German Colonial Society, German Empire, German federal election, 1884, German gold mark, German South West Africa, Gustav Nachtigal, Hifikepunye Pohamba, Josef Frederiks II, Kriegsmarine, Lagos, Lüderitz, Lüderitz Bay, Mexico, Mile, Minute and second of arc, Munich, Namibia, Namibian Sun, New Era (Namibia), Orange River, Otto von Bismarck, Pound sterling, Reform War, Reichspost, Rhenish Missionary Society, Secretary of State for the Colonies, Shark Island, Namibia, South Africa, Sperrgebiet, ..., Tribal chief, Walvis Bay, Wedding (Berlin), Windhoek. Expand index (4 more) »

Angola

Angola, officially the Republic of Angola (República de Angola; Kikongo, Kimbundu and Repubilika ya Ngola), is a country in Southern Africa.

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans with a total area of about.

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Aus, Namibia

Aus is a settlement in the ǁKaras Region of southern Namibia.

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Berlin

Berlin is the capital and the largest city of Germany, as well as one of its 16 constituent states.

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Bethanie, Namibia

Bethanie (often in German: Bethanien, and in English: Bethany, previously Klipfontein, Khoekhoegowab: ǀUiǂgandes) is a village in the ǁKaras Region of southern Namibia.

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Bremen

The City Municipality of Bremen (Stadtgemeinde Bremen) is a Hanseatic city in northwestern Germany, which belongs to the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (also called just "Bremen" for short), a federal state of Germany.

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British West Africa

British West Africa was the collective name for British colonies in West Africa during the colonial period, either in the general geographical sense or the formal colonial administrative entity.

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Cape Colony

The Cape of Good Hope, also known as the Cape Colony (Kaapkolonie), was a British colony in present-day South Africa, named after the Cape of Good Hope.

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Chancellor of Germany

The title Chancellor has designated different offices in the history of Germany.

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City-state

A city-state is a sovereign state, also described as a type of small independent country, that usually consists of a single city and its dependent territories.

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Cologne

Cologne (Köln,, Kölle) is the largest city in the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth most populated city in Germany (after Berlin, Hamburg, and Munich).

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ǁKaras Region

The ǁKaras Region, also spelled !Karas Region, is the southernmost and least densely populated of the 14 regions of Namibia; its capital is Keetmanshoop.

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ǃNamiǂNûs Constituency

ǃNamiǂNûs, until 2013 Lüderitz, is a constituency in the ǁKaras Region of Namibia.

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Der Spiegel

Der Spiegel (lit. "The Mirror") is a German weekly news magazine published in Hamburg.

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Der Tagesspiegel

Der Tagesspiegel (meaning The Daily Mirror; motto: "rerum cognoscere causas", or "to know the causes of things") is a German daily newspaper.

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Destroyer tender

A destroyer tender, or destroyer depot ship in British English, is an auxiliary ship designed to provide maintenance support to a flotilla of destroyers or other small warships.

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Die Tageszeitung

Die Tageszeitung (“The Daily Newspaper”), stylized as die tageszeitung and commonly referred to as taz, is a cooperative-owned German daily newspaper administrated by its employees.

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Edward Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby

Edward Henry Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby, (21 July 1826 – 21 April 1893), known as Lord Stanley from 1851 to 1869, was a British statesman.

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Exchange (organized market)

An exchange, or bourse also known as a trading exchange or trading venue, is an organized market where (especially) tradable securities, commodities, foreign exchange, futures, and options contracts are sold and bought.

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Fish River (Namibia)

The Fish River (Visrivier in Afrikaans, Fischfluss in German) is a river in Namibia.

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Geographical mile

The geographical mile is a unit of length determined by 1 minute of arc along the Earth's equator.

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German Colonial Society

The German Colonial Society (Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft) (DKG) was a German organisation formed on 19 December 1887 to promote German colonialism.

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German Empire

The German Empire (Deutsches Kaiserreich, officially Deutsches Reich),Herbert Tuttle wrote in September 1881 that the term "Reich" does not literally connote an empire as has been commonly assumed by English-speaking people.

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German federal election, 1884

Federal elections were held in Germany on 28 October 1884.

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German gold mark

The Goldmark (officially just Mark, sign: ℳ) was the currency used in the German Empire from 1873 to 1914.

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German South West Africa

German South West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) was a colony of the German Empire from 1884 until 1919.

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Gustav Nachtigal

Gustav Nachtigal (23 February 1834 – 20 April 1885) was a German explorer of Central and West Africa.

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Hifikepunye Pohamba

Hifikepunye Lucas Pohamba (born 18 August 1936), Klausdierks.com.

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Josef Frederiks II

Joseph Frederiks II, Nama name: ǃKhorebeb-ǁNaixab (died 20 October 1893 in Bethanie) was a Captain of the ǃAman (Bethanie Orlam), a subtribe of the Orlam.

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Kriegsmarine

The Kriegsmarine (literally "War Navy") was the navy of Germany from 1935 to 1945.

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Lagos

Lagos is a city in the Nigerian state of Lagos.

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Lüderitz

Lüderitz is a harbour town in the ǁKaras Region of southern Namibia, lying on one of the least hospitable coasts in Africa.

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Lüderitz Bay

Lüderitz Bay or Lüderitzbaai (Lüderitzbucht), also known as Angra Pequena ("small cove"), is a bay in the coast of Namibia, Africa.

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Mexico

Mexico (México; Mēxihco), officially called the United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) is a federal republic in the southern portion of North America.

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Mile

The mile is an English unit of length of linear measure equal to 5,280 feet, or 1,760 yards, and standardised as exactly 1,609.344 metres by international agreement in 1959.

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Minute and second of arc

A minute of arc, arcminute (arcmin), arc minute, or minute arc is a unit of angular measurement equal to of one degree.

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Munich

Munich (München; Minga) is the capital and the most populated city in the German state of Bavaria, on the banks of the River Isar north of the Bavarian Alps.

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Namibia

Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia (German:; Republiek van Namibië), is a country in southern Africa whose western border is the Atlantic Ocean.

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Namibian Sun

The Namibian Sun is a daily tabloid newspaper in Namibia.

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New Era (Namibia)

The New Era is a daily national newspaper owned by the government of Namibia.

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Orange River

The Orange River (from Afrikaans/Dutch: Oranjerivier) is the longest river in South Africa and the Orange River Basin extends extensively into Namibia and Botswana to the north.

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Otto von Bismarck

Otto Eduard Leopold, Prince of Bismarck, Duke of Lauenburg (1 April 1815 – 30 July 1898), known as Otto von Bismarck, was a conservative Prussian statesman who dominated German and European affairs from the 1860s until 1890 and was the first Chancellor of the German Empire between 1871 and 1890.

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Pound sterling

The pound sterling (symbol: £; ISO code: GBP), commonly known as the pound and less commonly referred to as Sterling, is the official currency of the United Kingdom, Jersey, Guernsey, the Isle of Man, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, the British Antarctic Territory, and Tristan da Cunha.

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Reform War

The War of the Reform (Guerra de Reforma) in Mexico, during the Second Federal Republic of Mexico, was the three-year civil war (1857 - 1860) between liberals who had taken power in 1855 under the Plan of Ayutla, and conservatives resisting the legitimacy of the government and its radical restructuring of Mexican laws, known as La Reforma.

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Reichspost

Reichspost (Imperial Mail) was the name of the postal service of Germany from 1866 to 1945.

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Rhenish Missionary Society

The Rhenish Missionary Society (Rhenish of the river Rhine) was one of the largest missionary societies in Germany.

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Secretary of State for the Colonies

The Secretary of State for the Colonies or Colonial Secretary was the British Cabinet minister in charge of managing the United Kingdom's various colonial dependencies.

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Shark Island, Namibia

Shark Island (Haifischinsel) is a small peninsula adjacent to the coastal city of Lüderitz in Namibia.

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South Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.

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Sperrgebiet

The Sperrgebiet (German, meaning "Prohibited Area") (also known as Diamond Area 1) is a diamond mining area in southwestern Namibia, in the Namib Desert.

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Tribal chief

A tribal chief is the leader of a tribal society or chiefdom.

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Walvis Bay

Walvis Bay (Afrikaans Walvisbaai, German Walfischbucht or Walfischbai, all meaning "Whale Bay") is a city in Namibia and the name of the bay on which it lies.

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Wedding (Berlin)

Wedding (der Wedding) is a locality in the borough of Mitte, Berlin, Germany and was a separate borough in the north-western inner city until it was fused with Tiergarten and Mitte in Berlin's 2001 administrative reform.

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Windhoek

Windhoek (Windhuk; ǀAiǁgams; Otjomuise) is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Namibia.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Lüderitz

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