Georg Hartmann (geographer)

Georg Hartmann ( * August 4, 1865 in Dresden, † July 12, 1946 in Grammersdorf ) a German major was the Landwehr, geographer and explorer and colonial politicians in Africa.

Hartmann discovered another previously unknown subspecies of mountain zebra, which was named after his wife Anna " Hartmann's Mountain Zebra " (Equus zebra hartmannae ).

Life

He was married in 1898 to Anna Woermann, daughter of Adolph Woermann shipping company owner, Hamburg. The marriage produced four children have emerged: Noble, Ilse, Harald and Gudrun. Hartmann attended the grammar school in Dresden and then the Technical University Dresden and studied at the University of Leipzig in mathematics, physics and geography. The state examination and PhD. followed in 1889.

Hartmann was an active officer in the Infantry Regiment "König Ludwig III. of Bavaria " (3rd Royal Saxon ) No. 102 in Zittau and was assigned to the then Foreign Office of the German Reich. From 1893 to 1908 in the former German colony of German South West Africa, now Namibia, worked as General Manager of South West Africa Company, as director of the Otavi Mining and Railway Company and the Gibeon - mining company. Further explorations in the service of the South West Africa Company and the Otavi Mining and Railway Company in German South West Africa, in Ovamboland and southern Angola followed.

1908 bought Hartmann, a part of the aristocratic good of the family Sametzki in the Oder village Rathstock. He was scientifically active, lectured and published many writings in the fields of government, sociology and history.

Hartmann supported the local church and the local sports club. At the First World War, he took part as an officer in Bessarabia, Poland and on the Western Front.

1939 sold Hartmann possession and moved with his wife to Frankfurt ( Oder), where his wife died in 1941 after a long illness. The extensive collection of African trophies he deposited in the mansion of the family of Wittich in neighboring riding of wine. You are missing since the Second World War.

Hartmann died as a refugee on 12 July 1946 at the age of 80 years in Grammersdorf (Schleswig -Holstein).

Research trips

Works

  • Negotiations of the Geographical Society of Berlin, 1897
  • My Expedition 1900 in the northern Kaokofeld, Berlin 1903
  • Cartographic recording the northern territories of the former German South West Africa (1893-1900) in scale 1: 300,000, Hamburg 1904
  • Colonial political, geographical and sociological treatises and pamphlets about Africa

Honors

In Kaokoland (today's northeastern Namibia) landscapes ( Hartmann, Hartmann mountain ) named after him.

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