Arnold Schultze

Arnold Schultze ( born March 24, 1875 in Cologne, † August 22, 1948 in Madeira ) was a German officer, geographer and entomologist.

Military service

Schultze hit the son of a Prussian officer after attending high school in Mainz, Koblenz and Detmold in 1895 also a military career, became a cadet in Field Artillery Regiment General Feldzeugmeister ( 1 Brandenburg ) # 3 in Brandenburg an der Havel and 1896 lieutenant. In 1902 he was made à la suite and ordered to service at the Foreign Office. 1903/ 04, he participated in the demarcation of the border between Cameroon and northern Nigeria ( Yola Lake Chad border expedition ). On 1 October 1904 he was relieved of this command and assigned to the Railway Regiment. In April 1905 he retired from the army and joined the imperial protection force for Cameroon. Under the September 13, 1906 he was promoted to Lieutenant and in November of that year he resigned for health reasons from all over from active military service.

Theses

Even while working as a laborer in the Colonial Department of the Foreign Office ( 1902/ 03) Schultze heard lectures in astronomy and botany at the Georg-August -Universität Göttingen. Before and after its use in the border expedition in Cameroon, he studied at the Department of Oriental Languages ​​at the Friedrich -Wilhelms- University of Berlin. After his retirement from the army he took up the study of geography, natural and political science in Bonn. In 1910 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the kingdom of Bornu Lake Chad to the Dr. phil. In 1910/11 he took as a geographer participates in the central African expedition of Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg and published the geographical part of the scientific results of the expedition.

After the First World War, he conducted research on trips to Central Africa and South America continue on butterflies. His last trip took him for four and a half years after Ecuador. On the return trip his ship on September 5, 1939 as a result of World War II occurred just southwest of the Canaries was applied and sunk by the British cruiser Neptune. This Schultze collections from Ecuador were lost. Only a suitcase with about 18,000 butterflies, which he had abandoned in Colombia by mail, got to the Natural History Museum in Berlin, but there was only rediscovered in 2006 and for the first time evaluated.

Schultze and his wife Herta were handed over in Dakar to the French authorities and interned for several weeks in Sebikotane. Due to his ill health and advanced age of 64 years, the couple Schultze was released on 21 September 1939 and came with a Portuguese ship to Madeira, where he died in 1948.

Works

• The Sultanate of Bornu with special reference German - Bornus, Diss, Essen 1910 Reprint in English: The Sultanate of Bornu. Frank Cass, London 1968

Miscellaneous

Urs Willmann quoted in the German weekly newspaper Die Zeit Arnold Schultze with the remark: " The tango makes the Gaucho hot as any cattle of the pampas white ". However, the quote is a hoax and is derived from the annual competition of the satirical truth clubs in the Berlin daily taz.