Paul Pogge

Paul Pogge (* December 27, 1838 to Zierstorf, † March 17, 1884 in St. Paul de Luanda; Complete name: Paul Friedrich Johann Moritz Pogge ) was an African traveler.

Life

Paul Pogge came from the old established family Pogge, farmers in Mecklenburg, which had produced several significant agrarian reformers since his grandfather Carl Pogge. Pogge was born as a younger son, and one of ten children of the bourgeois landowner Friedrich Pogge in his second marriage with Auguste Bresien (1806-1865), daughter of the domain farmer Christian Friedrich Bresien on Sponholz.

Pogge was trained on the Mecklenburg Country Estate the family and studied from 1858 law in Berlin, Heidelberg ( member of the Corps Guestphalia ) and Munich. In 1860, he became the Dr. jur. doctorate. He then took over the care of his father's Guts.

1865/66 undertook Pogge for hunting purposes, a first trip to South Africa ( Cape Colony and Natal), Mauritius and Réunion. After his return, he leased the estate Sarov, he gave up after a few years.

In 1874, he joined the Cassange expedition under the ornithologist Alexander von Homeyer and went with this from Luanda to Cuanza up to Pungo Adongo, then with Anton Lux on Malanje to Kimbundo and finally without Anton Lux after Mussumba, the residence of Muata Iamvo, which he reached on December 9, 1875. He was advanced farther inland than any traveler of the German African Society of him. Since the Muata Iamvo Pogge would not allow the continuation of the journey, Pogge returned in April 1876 to Angola and from there to Germany. In the autumn of 1880 Pogge came accompanied by Hermann von Wissmann and supported by the Reich Chancellery on a second trip, reached on January 25, 1881 Malanje and on 22 October the Kasai. Pogge confirmed as Wissmann, the observations there three years earlier made ​​by Otto H. bulk of the people Baschilenge the hemp cult of Bena Riamba.

Here parted travelers. Pogge crossed the residence Mukenge on Lulua and united it with Wissmann again on Munkambasee. Both arrived on January 14, 1882 Mona Katschitsch, the residence of the chief Katschitsch Koto, on Lubilasch, reached on 16 April and on 17 April the Lualaba Nyangwe. From there moved Wissmann on June 1 to the east coast, which he reached on 16 November, while Pogge already early May returned to the residence of the Mukenge forced marches to build the planned scientific research station there. After this happened, Pogge returned on February 28, 1884 back to Luanda, in order to embark for Europe. He died there, however, already on March 16, 1884 as a result of the hardships endured.

In Rostock him March 19, 1885 was a monument with a bronze bust by sculptor Ludwig Brunow. It was dismantled and destroyed in 1945, later replaced by a Pogge bust by Jo Jastram.

In the former manor house of the Grand Roger hamlet Zierstorf the local heritage association exhibitions to Paul Pogge and the agricultural pioneers Carl and Johann Pogge performs.

Works

Besides many articles in journals published Pogge:

  • In the realm of Muata Jamwo. My diary on behalf of the German Society for the Study of equatorial Africa 's undertaken in the Lunda states travel. ( Contributions to the history of discovery of Africa, 3), Berlin 1880 ( digitized )
  • Under German flag transversely running through Africa from West to East, 1880-83 by Paul Pogge and Hermann von Wissmann. Berlin 1889
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