Hans Schomburgk
Hans Hermann Schomburgk ( born October 28, 1880 in Hamburg, † July 27, 1967 in Berlin) was a German explorer and pioneer of the German animal film in the first half of the 20th century.
Life
Schomburgk was born as the son of the architect Hermann Eduard Schomburgk ( 1850-1937 ). He attended schools in Hamburg, Lüneburg and Jena. In 1898, he moved at the age of 17 years to South Africa on a farm, joined the English - Natal police and participated in the Boer War. After that, he was a police officer in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia), big-game hunter and explorer.
Schomburgks began his way through Africa with big game hunting, but stopped in 1912 so to instead first, also to be documented together with different camera men, the life of the animals later, the people of the continent.
In 1906 he undertook his first independent expedition. He discovered the Schikande River and the Sengwe Lake in southern Angola. A year later he was able to determine the tsetse fly as a carrier of sleeping sickness. He crossed the African continent several times for hunting and fishing of rare animals. In 1909 he brought the first East African elephant, 1912, the second pygmy hippo to Europe.
Schomburgk was involved in the production of the first map of Western Liberia and was appointed military attaché at the Liberian Embassy in London.
He also directed several documentaries and feature films that contributed to Africa picture of the then German cinema audience. In 1922 he married the author and editor Meg Gehrts ( 1891-1966 ) who had played the lead role in his film An order among cannibals.
After 1933, Schomburgk was origin Disabled more and more because of his " half-Jewish ". In 1940 he received speech ban. His films were converted writes and wiped his name from the fact they were recut as abused propaganda or disappeared in the archive. Only after the war Schomburgk was allowed to hold lectures in both parts of Germany again. In the GDR, his books have been published in millions of copies.
Schomburgk lived mainly as a freelance writer and producer of films, it was used until the 1950s when the German Africa filmmakers and animal expert. At the age of almost 87 years, Hans Schomburgk died in Berlin.
A considerable part of his ethnographic collection Africa, he wrote of the city cross- ford, whose honorary citizen he was since 1959. The exhibits are presented in the local castle museum.
Honors
Works
- The ultimate paradise. Berlin: Hobbing, o.J.
- My experiences and Erlauschtes Africa from the African interior. Berlin, Juncker Verlag, 1928.
- Rides and tracks. Berlin: VdN, 1960.
- My friends in the bush. A film journey through Africa. Berlin: VdN, 1954.
- Cleo, a chimpanzee fate. Hanover: Weichert Verlag, 1955.
- Tents in Africa. Rides - Research - Adventures in six decades. Berlin: VdN, 1957.
- Of humans and animals and some of mine. Wigankow - publishing house Berlin 1947
- Tell ' us what chimpanzee. , Tells the life story of a chimpanzee by itself. Berlin: Wigankow, 1948.
- Pulse of the wilderness. Berlin: VdN, 1952.
- Wild and Wild in the heart of Africa. 12 years hunting and expeditions. Berlin: German Book Association, 1926.
- I search in Africa the last paradise. Berlin: Military Publishing Sigismund, 1940.