Joachim von Pfeil
Joachim Graf von Pfeil and Klein- Ellguth ( born December 30, 1857 in neurodegeneration, neurodegeneration County, Lower Silesia, † March 12, 1924 in Friedersdorf, County Lauban ) was a German explorer of Africa.
Life
Dr. Joachim Friedrich Graf von Pfeil and Klein Ellguth came from a noble family arrow. In 1873 he went traveling, first with the Hermannsburg mission to Natal in South Africa. He then moved to South Africa, settled on the Drakensberg Mountains in the Orange Free State and operating agriculture and livestock there. In 1883 he returned to Germany and supported the idea of a German colonization of East Africa.
He went with Carl Peters and Karl Ludwig Jühlke 1884 to Zanzibar. With the companions he passed Usegua and Usagara on the East African mainland. While Peters and Jühlke returned to the East African coast was first arrow in Usagara to where to put the first German station. In May 1885 he went from Usegua by Kutu, he was able to acquire through contracts for the German East Africa Company. Then he drove the Rufiji down and passed a few months later the Rubehogebirge, penetrated into the land of Wahehe and explored in December 1885 as the first European to run the Ulanga, the headwaters of the Rufiji.
From December 1886 to May 1887, he traveled to the Pangani up and crossed Usegua from north to south. In July he returned and then entered the service of the New Guinea Company. He undertook an expedition into the interior of New Guinea and then took a position in the administration of the Bismarck Archipelago, where he Neu- Mecklenburg crossed among others. An illness forced him to leave the South Seas. After a lengthy stay on Java he met in October 1889 again in Europe.
From June to November 1892 traveled Arrow on behalf of the syndicate for the settlement in German South-West Africa the land from the Orange River to Windhoek and Walvis Bay. 1895-1897 was his brother " Marcus " ( 1859-1916 ), with whom he is often confused, imperial consul in the Portuguese colony of Mozambique, located in the capital Lourenço Marques.
In 1897 and 1899, he participated in several Morocco Travel Theodor Fischer, where in 1901 more trips to Morocco followed in 1901.
Arrow was married since 1895 to his second wife Anna Baroness von Minutoli, the only daughter of Alexander Freiherr von Minutoli - Woldeck. From his first marriage in 1890 with Gertrude Leo came twins 1891 - at whose birth the mother died - the sons also again in 1908 and 1918 died. The second marriage remained childless, so the couple adopted in 1922 the nephew of Count Ortwin arrow to regulate the succession of the goods.
Since 1906 he was a member of the Corps Guestphalia Jena.
Joachim Graf von Pfeil and Klein- Ellguth died on 12 March 1924 in Friedersdorf at Lauban.
Works
- Suggestions for practical colonization in East Africa, Berlin 1890
- Studies and observations from the South Seas, Brunswick 1899
- The establishment of the Boerenstaaten, Berlin 1899
- Geographical observations in Morocco, Mittlg. d Georaph. Gesellsch. Jena, Vol 20 1902
- Accompanying words on the route map of my travels in Morocco, ditto, Vol 21 1903
- Why do we need Morocco?, Munich 1904
- For the acquisition of German East Africa, Berlin 1907
- An eventful life, Jena 1912
- Morocco Economic opportunities and prospects in Oceanography, Issue 2, Berlin 1912