BIOGRAPHIES OF NAMIBIAN PERSONALITIES
in alphabetical order

KLAUS DIERKS
Copyright © 2003-2004 Dr. Klaus Dierks

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000974
Faber, John
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John Faber was a Boer who bought the farm Seskameelboom (later called Rosenhof) from Hendrik Witbooi on 11 October 1896. Apparently he was illiterate and signed with xxx. Faber narrowly escaped with his life when the Witbooi Nama rose in October 1904, while his partner Riethmann was killed.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: AGR
Profession: Farmer

RAW DATA: Zondagh 1991:97f.;

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000535
Faber, Q.
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Q. Faber was of English or French nationality. He was accused of and punished for gun-running for Hendrik Witbooi in October 1892 by German colonial officials. Faber was clearly a friend of Hendrik Witbooi who later acquired some wealth and lived at Rietmond. When the Nama-German war broke out in October 1904, Faber apparently helped a German soldier to a horse and was instructed by Hendrik Witbooi to leave Rietmond for the Botswana border. His family reached Rietfontein but his own fate is unclear.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: BUS

RAW DATA: v.Francois 1899:161; Quellen 23:10.10.1904;

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000147
Fabri, Friedrich Gotthard Karl Ernst
* 12.06.1824 at Schweinfurt, Germany
+ 17.07.1891 at Barmen, Germany
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Friedrich Gotthard Karl Ernst Fabri was born on 12.06.1824 at Schweinfurt in Germany. He studied theology at Erlangen and Berlin and receive his doctorate at Munich University in 1847. After some years of working as a minister in his native Bavaria and publishing various theological writings, he was appointed the third inspector of the Rheinische Missionsgesellschaft at Barmen in 1857. This post he held until 1884, when he retired and accepted a honourary professorship at the University of Bonn. He developed a particular brand of mission theology that allowed him both to agitate for German participation in the quest for colonies, and to continue as a leader in one of the most prominent German missionary societies. His pamphlet "Bedarf Deutschland der Kolonien?" (Gotha, 1879; 3rd ed. 1884) was most influential in the developing German colonial movement, and the Rhenish Mission involvement in Namibia played a role in Namibia becoming a German colony. Fabri also published about Namibia, although he never travelled to Africa and relied mainly on the missionary correspondence for his information. He died on 17.07.1891 at Barmen.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: REL
Profession: Theologian
Functions: Missionsinspektor - Rheinische Mission - 1857-1884

RAW DATA: Dt.Koloniallexikon; Drechsler 1966:26-30, 313, 319, 327-328, 331;

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001987
Fanem
* in Germany
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Trader, settler, farmer. One of Hahn's mission colonists who later farmed at the Waterberg, where he died.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: BUS
Profession: Trader

RAW DATA: Tabler 1973:41;

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001458
Federau, Bernt
* .1930 at Danzig, Freistaat Danzig (now Poland)
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German photographer and film camera man. Lived for four years in Namibia (ca.1970).
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Gender: m
Field of activity: JOU

Namibia National Archives Database

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000149
Felling, Heinrich
* 03.07.1836 at Hemmerde, Germany
+ 20.03.1887 at Kliprivier, Transvaal, South Africa
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Heinrich Felling was born on 03.07.1836 at Hemmerde in Germany. He was a wagon-maker and one of Carl Hugo Hahn's mission colonists. He emigrated to the Transvaal in 1873. He was married to Marie Cornelissen from Stellenbosch on 12 October 1869. They had seven children. He died on 20.03.1887 at Kliprivier in Transvaal, South Africa.
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Gender: m
Profession: Mission colonist

Married to: Marie Felling, née Cornelissen, married 1869-


RAW DATA: Vergissmeinnicht 1893:48; Tabler 1972:41; Faulenbach; v.Schumann;

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001459
Fenchel, Tobias
* 30.05.1849 at Gambach/Wetterau, Germany
First entry to Namibia: 1876
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Tobias Fenchel was born on 30.05.1849 at Gambach/Wetterau in Germany. He was a missionary of the Rheinische Missionsgesellschaft. He came to Namibia in 1876. He was stationed at Keetmanshoop.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: REL
Profession: Missionary

Married to: Anna Fenchel, née Bröder, married 1877-
RAW DATA: Drechsler 1966:85;

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001460
Fenn, Captain
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Captain Fenn represented the German Consulate-General during the negotiations with Abraham Morris and Johannes Christian from the community of the !Gami-#nun (Bondelswarts) during the German-Nama War (1903-1913) in 1907.
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Gender: m

RAW DATA: Drechsler 1966:230-231, 361;

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001988
Ferry
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+ 10.1875 at Otjikoko
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Ferry was a trader. He was an American who traded for Eriksson and was robbed by the Gobabis Kai|khauan (Khauas Nama). He died of heart trouble ca. October 1875 at Otjikoko, east of Omaruru.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: BUS
Profession: Trader

RAW DATA: Tabler 1973:41;

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001724
Feuerstein, Karl Alfred
[Feuerstein, Fred - short name]
* .1884 at Thangelstedt, Germany
+ .1949 at Erfurt, Germany
First entry to Namibia: 1907
Last departure from Namibia: 1919
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Karl Alfred Feuerstein was born in 1884 at Thangelstedt in Germany. He joined the Prussian military 1905. He came to Namibia 1907 as non-commissioned officer. In 1914 he was a postal officer. He fought in World War I, was then farmer. In 1917 he was convicted of the murder of a Bushman. He escaped from Windhoek prison in December 1918 together with Georg Voswinckel, and joined Mattenklodt in his flight to Angola. He returned to Germany in 1920, where he worked for the postal service in Erfurt, where he died 1949. His life story was used by Hans Grimm in "Volk ohne Raum". He also published a brief account of his flight to Angola in the late 1930s. He died in 1949 at Erfurt in Germany.
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Gender: m

RAW DATA: AHK 1975:109-111;

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001462
Fielding
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Obtained a mining concession from Bethany in 1854 and from the Bondelswarts in 1855.
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Gender: m

RAW DATA: Esterhuyse 1966:10; Tabler 1973:41;

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001463
Fielding
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A Nama commander under Bethany Chief Cornelius during the German-Nama War, 1903-1913.
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Gender: m

RAW DATA: Drechsler 1966:223;

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001448
Filemon yElifas, Filemon lyaShindondola, Ovamboland (Ondonga) King

[Shuumbwa]
* in Namibia
+ 16.08.1975 at
Onamagongwa
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Filemon yElifas lyaShindondola (Shuumbwa) was the 16th Ondonga King and "Chief Minister" of the Ovambo "homeland government" since 1970. On 16.08.1975 he was killed in Onamagongwa in the Ondangwa area. SWAPO National Chairman David Meroro denied that SWAPO was responsible for his death. Many SWAPO supporters, inter alia the leader of SWAPO in Ovamboland, Skinny Hilundwa, were arrested after the killing of Elifas. Many of SA’s subsequent suppression measures were carried out in terms of legislation which had now been made applicable to Namibia, namely the Riotous Assemblies Act of 1956 and the Suppression of Communism Act of 1950, which was later renamed the State Security Act of 1950. Aaron Mushimba, Axel Johannes, Hendrik Shikongo and Victor Nkandi were all arrested together and sentenced to death in the Swakopmund trial. After hearing argument on appeal, the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of South Africa in Bloemfontein set aside the conviction and sentences on the ground of irregularities in the court proceedings (March 1977 and 24.10.1977 in the case of Nkandi). All the accused were released and went into exile. Consequently thousands of SWAPO-members, mainly young people, fled to Zambia. Filemon yElifas was followed by Immanuel Elifas (Kauluma)(1975-).
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Gender: m

RAW DATA: Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);

Namibia.Owambo.Oshikoto.Olukonda_8.jpg (70519 bytes)
Copyright of Photo: Dr. Klaus Dierks

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001064
Finckenstein, Wolf Friedrich, Graf
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From 1971-1980, Wolf Friedrich Graf Finckenstein was Director of the hostels of the Deutsche Höhere Privatschule Windhoek. In 1974, he established the Johanniter Hilfswerk Namibia.
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Gender: m

Namibia National Archives Database

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000799
Filitz, Friedrich Karl
[Filitz, Fred]
* 30.04.1925 at Berlin, Germany
First entry to Namibia: December 1956
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Friedrich Karl Filitz was born on 30.04.1925 at Berlin in Germany. He was educated at the Askanisches Gymnasium Berlin and the University Berlin in Germany. He came to Namibia in 1956. He was the Manager of Rembrandt (Pty) Ltd.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: BUS

Married to: Lydia Filitz, née Botha
Father: Carl Filitz
RAW DATA: WWSA 1974;

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001405
Fingerhuth, Arthur
* 22.09.1869
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Schutztruppe officer.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: MIL
Profession: Military officer

RAW DATA: Fischer 1935:247;

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000081
Finkeldey, Helmut
* 18.02.1922 at Frankenberg/Eder, Germany
First entry to Namibia: 1950
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Helmut Finkeldey was born on 18.02.1922 in Frankenberg/Eder in Germany. He received his schooling in Friedberg. After his military service in World War II, he studied electrical engineering at the Polytechnikum Friedberg. He came to Namibia in 1950 to work in the firm of Gustav Rosenthal in Outjo (until 1952), then at the Windhoek power station, then at Metje and Ziegler, and finally until his retirement he led the solar technology department at South West Engineering (SWE). He is one of the founders of the Windhoek Carneval (1953). He was a board member of the Deutsch-Namibische Entwicklungsgesellschaft and (since 1961) of the SWA Scientific Society. He was President of the SWA Scientific Society from 1981 to 1983. His particular professional expertise is in solar technology, and his hobby is herpetology (reptiles), in particular snakes.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: ENG NAT
Profession: Civil engineer
Functions: President - SWA Scientific Society - 1981-1983

Married to: Annerose Finkeldey, née Rahnfeld, married 1954

Namibia National Archives Database

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000469
First, Ruth
* .1925
+ .1982 at Maputo, Mozambique
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Ruth First, born in 1925 at Johannesburg in South Africa as child of Jewish immigrants from Russia, was an activist of the South African Communist Party since her youth. She worked with Reverend Michael Scott and wrote the first Namibian history from the standpoint of the oppressed (South West Africa, published by Penguin Books in 1963). Constantly harassed by the police, she went into exile in 1964, as her husband Joe Slovo has done earlier, and lived first in London and later in newly independent Mozambique. She was killed in Maputo by a parcel bomb sent by the South African secret police.
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Gender: f
Field of activity: POL
Profession: Journalist

Married to: Joe Slovo ( -1995), married 1949-
Father:
Children: Gillian Slovo
Shawn Slovo
Robyn Slovo


Collections/Papers:
1). Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London: Personal papers

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000337
Fisch, Maria
* 24.12.1924 at Menzel (Westfalen), Germany
First entry to Namibia: 1957
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Maria Fisch was born on 24.12.1924 at Menzel (Westfalen) in Germany. She studied theology, philosophy and medicine in Göttingen and Münster. Her doctoral dissertation in medicine dealt with the effect of war and postwar conditions on tuberculosis. She was sent to Namibia in 1957 by the "Missionsärztliches Institut" Würzburg. She was the head of the mission hospitals in Nyangana (1957-1967) and Andara (1967-1977). From 1977-19?? she was employed as ethnologist by the Kavango homeland government. She retired in 19?? to Windhoek. She is Active in the Namibia Scientific Society (board member, 19??-; President, 1992-1993). She authored several books and many articles on the linguistics, ethnology and history of peoples in the Kavango Region.
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Gender: f
Field of activity: SOC MED
Profession: Medical doctor Ethnologist
Functions: President - Namibia Scientific Society - 1992-1993

RAW DATA: Namibiana 10; Mitt.SWAWG 43,4-6;

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000403
Fischer, Adolf
* .1877 at Gross-Biesnitz, Germany
+ .1946
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Biographical information about Adolf Fischer is scarce. He participated in the German-Namibian war as a military officer during 1904-1906, then served as district officer and commander of Fort Namutoni, and later at the station Koës. In 1912 he returned to Germany, but later moved to Denmark. He wrote two books about Namibia ("Menschen und Tiere in Südwestafrika", 1914, and "Südwester Offiziere", 1935), which differ from the bulk of German colonial literature by a remarkable lack of racism and considerable sympathy for the anticolonial struggle of Namibians. Fischer allegedly died in 1946.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: MIL WRI
Profession: Military officer

Namibia National Archives Database

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000417
Fischer, Eugen, Prof. Dr.
* 05.06.1874 in Karlsruhe/Germany
+ 09.07.1967 in Freiburg/Germany

First entry to Namibia: 1905
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Eugen Fischer was born on 05.06.1874 at Karlsruhe in Germany. He was a physical anthropologist and race biologist and one of the Nazi racial theorists, responsible for the pseudoscientific theories that led to the German Holocaust of millions of innocent people in the 1940s.
During the German Namibian War 1903-1908, Fischer was invited to German SWA as an anthropologist and geneticist of the University in Freiburg (Germany) to study the Ovaherero. He co-authored (together with Erwin Baur and Fritz Lentz) the book "Menschliche Erblehre und Rassenhygiene (Human Hereditary Teaching and Racial Hygiene)(1921)" in which he claimed that the Ovaherero were "animals", that the German race was superior and he supported the idea of establishing concentration camps in SWA, where every second of the thousands of Namibian inmates had died. In 1905 he issued warnings about the "dangers of race-mixing" between German colonists and African women. Such thinking underpinned the inhuman treatment of Africans in a foretaste of things to come for Jews, Blacks, Gypsies and other minority groups in Germany during the 1930s and 1940s. In February 1907 the Nama leader Cornelius Frederiks died in the concentration camp on Shark Island near Lüderitz. His decapitated body was used by Fischer to prove his racial theories of the superiority of the German race. He used German South West Africa as a field site for the development of later notorious theories on European racial superiority. Fischer studied the bodies of 17 Nama prisoners of war who have perished on Shark Island near Lüderitz. The deceased bodies of these Nama fighters who had surrendered to the Germans in March 1906, were decapitated. A published photograph of two heads supposedly provided visual evidence to support the "scientific" arguments for German racial superiority over the Africans (See: Fetzer, Christian: Rassenanatomische Untersuchungen an 17 Hottentottenköpfen, Zeitschrift für Morphologie und Anthropologie, Bd. XVI). For the year 1906 it was reported that altogether 778 post-mortem tests were conducted. Consequently also skulls were collected, which Ovaherero female prisoners-of-war were forced to scrape clean with the aid of glass shards.

Fischer_Namaheads1.jpg (100327 bytes)Fischer_Namaheads2.jpg (143304 bytes)
Copyright of Photos: Chr. Fetzer: Rassenanatom. Untersuchungen an 17 Hottentottenköpfen: Lichtdruck der Hofkunstanstalt, Stuttgart (left picture): Right photo from a post card from German Southwest Africa: Loading of Herero skulls for German universities and museums

Fischer's field research in Rehoboth 1908 tried to establish the validity of Mendel's heredity laws on humans. In 1913, Fischer earned a reputation by publishing his field research concerning the questions of race crossbreeding in Namibia "Die Rehobother Bastards und das Bastardisierungsproblem beim Menschen (The Bastards of Rehoboth and the problem of Miscegenation in Man)". There he wrote: "We should provide them with the minimum amount of protection which they require, for survival as a race inferior to ourselves, and we should do this only as long as they are useful to us. After this, free competition should prevail and, in my opinion, this will lead to their decline and destruction".
His work was used to justify Nazi race theories and practices. In 1921 he wrote, as mentioned above, one of the standard works of German racialism "Menschliche Erblehre und Rassenhygiene (Human Hereditary Teaching and Racial Hygiene)". During Adolf Hitler's imprisonment, after his failed "putsch" against the German democratic Government on 09.11.1923, at the fortress of Landsberg in Bavaria/Germany in 1923, he read Fischer's book. Fischer's ideas of a German supreme race and the ideas of concentration camps inspired Hitler to write his book "Mein Kampf (pages 2, 3, 9, 19, 22, 30, 31, 37, 41, 46, 50)". From 1927 (before Hitler came to power in Germany in January 1933) until 1942 Fischer was the Director of the "Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Anthropologie (KWG)" in Berlin-Dahlem, when Hitler made him the Vice Chancellor (Rector) of the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin. One of his students was the "Father of South African Apartheid" and later South African Prime Minister, Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd (1901-1966). In 1934, Hitler began implementing the sterilisation programme against "blacks", Jews and Gypsies using Fischer's studies to justify it. During the same year, Hitler placed Fischer in charge of training SS doctors who later conducted their "medical experiments" on the inmates of German concentration camps during World War II. Since 1937 he was a Member of the Prussian Academy for Science. In 1938 or 1939 Fischer published the study "Racial Origin and Racial History of the Hebrews". Hitler took the book as factual and began sending Jews into the concentration camps. Fischer was also the co-author of a publication (among many others)(together with Gerhard Kittel) in a series "Research on Jewish Issues" ("Forschungen zur Judenfrage"): "Das antike Judentum" (1942). On 23.03.1942, Alfred Rosenberg, Minister of the Occupied Eastern Territories, wrote about the possible employment of staff for his projected Reich Centre for Research on the East: " ... I have thought of Geheimrat Eugen Fischer, a person who represents biological research and is a leading member of the KWG". Fischer retired from the Berlin University in 1942 (his successor was Dr. Otmar Verschuer, who published the book "Racial Biology of the Jews" which also made Hitler's nightstand). On 10.06.1944 Fischer accepted the chairmanship of a workshop at the "Anti-Jewish Congress" to be convened in Krakow. In his opening speech he stated: "Dear Reichsminister! That you intend to create a scientific front line for the defence of European culture against the influence of Jewry, and to call together for that purpose scientists from all the nations fighting Jewry, seems to me a very good idea and absolutely necessary ... ". After World War II, Fischer completed his memoirs "Begegnungen mit Toten (Encounters with the Dead)", which whitewashed his role in the genocidal programme of the Third Reich. The book carefully avoided mention of the millions of innocent people who suffered through the application of the Nazi racial theories he had espoused. Fischer was not punished as one of the instigators of the German Holocaust and a top Nazi and was denazified only as "follower". In spite of his past activities, in 1952 Fischer became the Honourary President of the newly founded German Anthropological Society in the Federal Republic of Germany (Western Germany). It has still to be established whether he ever visited South Africa and Namibia again after the Second World War, when in South Africa Fischer's Apartheid ideas, under the auspices of his former student, Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd, grew into fruition. He died on 09.07.1967 in Freiburg.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: SCI
Profession: Scientist

RAW DATA:
Fetzer, Christian: Rassenanatomische Untersuchungen an 17 Hottentottenköpfen, Zeitschrift für Morphologie und Anthropologie, Bd. XVI; www.bigeye.com/sexeducation/nazivirusprojects.html; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugen_Fischer; Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);

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Copyright of Photo: www.chgs.umn.edu/Histories.../backgrounds.htm

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001464
Fischer, Major
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Major Fischer was an officer who was involved in a corruption scandal, being bribed by the firm Tippelskirch. Probably not identical with Adolf Fischer.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: MIL
Profession: Military officer

RAW DATA: Drechsler 1966:258, 294;

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000729
Flent
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Apparently a trader in 1889. He appears as a creditor in Witbooi's "Debt Book". The spelling is doubtful, and could stand for "Flint".
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Gender: m
Field of activity: BUS

RAW DATA: Not found in Tabler, Lenssen, Esterhuyse;

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001465
Fock, Gerhard Jürgen
* .1907
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Gender: m

Married to: Dora Fock
Father: Georg Fock

Namibia National Archives Database

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000800
Fock, Georg, Dr.
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Gender: m

Children: Gerhard Jürgen Fock (1907)
Collections/Papers:
1). NAN: A.423 (Agreements, correspondence, diary notes)
RAW DATA: Mitteilungen SWAWG vol.23, no.1:1-9;

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001466
Foelin, Henri
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Mining engineer, accompanied Adolf Lüderitz on his last expedition 1886.
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Gender: m

Namibia National Archives Database

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000801
Fogarty, Nelson Wellesley
* 13.09.1871 at Canterbury, England
First entry to Namibia: 1916
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Nelson Wellesley Fogarty was born on 13.09.1871 at Canterbury in the United Kingdom. He was educated at the King's School Canterbury, and St. Augustine's College, Canterbury in the U.K. He came to South Africa in 1893. He was an Assistant Curate at Claremont 1894 and at Oudtshoorn 1895. He was Chaplain to Bishop Gaul of Mashonaland in 1897. He became Principal of St.Mary's College in Hlotse, Basutoland in 1901. He became Director of the Government Industrial School in Maseru, 1904. He was Canon at Bloemfontein from 1912 to 1922. He became the Archdeacon of Damaraland (Namibia) in 1916 and the Bishop of Damaraland in 1924.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: REL
Profession: Clergy

Married to: Alice Fogarty, née Melville, married 1889
Father: John Fogarty
Children: Lorna Mary Cope (married Fogarty)
RAW DATA: WWSA 1929/30;

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000776
Fordred, Ronal Ivor
* 08.06.1923 at Zeerust, South Africa
First entry to Namibia: 1954
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Ronal Ivor Fordred was born on 08.06.1923 at Zeerust in South Africa. He was educated at Johannesburg Witwatersrand Technical College. He served in the South African Army from 1943 to 1946. He came to Namibia 1954 as projects engineer for Matthew Hall (Pty) Ltd. and became director of various companies.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: BUS
Profession: Businessman

Married to: Joan Agnes Fordred, née Walker, married 1948-
Father: E.W. Fordred
RAW DATA: WWSA 1974;

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Forsythe
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Trader. He was killed in 1864 at Gobabis for his goods by the Kai|khaun (Khauas Nama).
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Gender: m
Field of activity: BUS

RAW DATA: Tabler 1973:41;

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000873
Fourie, Louis, Dr.
* .1874 at Oudtshoorn, South Africa
+ .195? at Plettenberg Bay, South Africa
First entry to Namibia: 1916
Last departure from Namibia: 1928
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Louis Fourie was born in 1874 at Oudtshoorn in South Africa. He was a medical doctor in the public service. He was transferred to Namibia in 1916. He took a special professional interest in bubonic plague, and undertook ethnographical studies with a focus on the San community (Bushmen). He was a founder member of the SWA Scientific Society, which elected him as their first President. He left Namibia in 1928.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: MED
Profession: Medical doctor
Functions: President - SWA Scientific Society - 1925-1926

RAW DATA: Mitt.NWG vol.43, no.4-6;

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Fourie, Martin E.
* 10.07.1909 at Malmesbury, South Africa
First entry to Namibia: 1952
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Martin E. Fourie was born on 10.07.1909 at Malmesbury in South Africa. He joined the South African Army in 1931. In World War II he served in the Middle East in a liaison capacity, then he was the 2nd in command in the Regiment Botha 1942. In 1943 he was seconded to the British forces, attached to Force 33 with intelligent work in Greece. He became the G.S.O. to the Cape Command from 1945 to 1952. He was the O.C. of the SWA Command since 1952.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: MIL
Profession: Military officer

Married to: Zeta Fourie, née Wane, married 1936-
Father: M.C. Fourie
RAW DATA: WWSA 19159;

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000406
Fournier, Walter
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Walter Fournier was a wealthy Prussian landlord who undertook a hunting trip to Namibia in 1901 and wrote a book about it ("Auf flüchtigem Jagdross in Deutsch-Südwestafrika", 1902).
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Gender: m

Namibia National Archives Database

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001993
Frank, C.F.
[Frank, L.C.]
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C.F. Frank was a trader. It is reported that he has been the confidential agent of Palgrave at Omaruru. He was an agent for Axel Eriksson at least from 1877 to 1878.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: BUS

RAW DATA: Tabler 1973:41;

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000803
Frank, Chaim
* 17.01.1903 in Lithuania
First entry to Namibia: 05.08.1926
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Chaim Frank was born (17.01.1903) and educated at Vilnius, Lithuania. He came to Namibia in August 1926. He was a farmer and merchant at Lidfontein, Gibeon District.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: BUS

Married to: Frieda Frank, née Minc, married 1937
Father: Simon Isaac
RAW DATA: WWSA 1959;

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000804
Frank, Simon
* 11.10.1913 at Robertson, Cape, South Africa
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Simon Frank was born on 11.10.1913 at Robertson in South Africa. He studied at the University of Cape Town and UNISA in South Africa. He received his LLB. in 1942. He was an advocate. He was the Mayor of Newcastle, South Africa from 1947 to 1948 and became Mayor of Windhoek in 195?.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: LAW
Profession: Advocate

Married to: Anna Frank, née Jooste
RAW DATA: SWA Annual 19954; WWSA 1959;

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000393
Franke, Erich Victor Carl August
[Franke, Victor - alternative spelling]
* 21.07.1865 at Zuckmantel, Silesia (Schlesien), Germany (now Poland)
+ 07.09.1936 at Hamburg, Germany
First entry to Namibia: 26.06.1896
Last departure from Namibia: 1919
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Erich Victor Carl August Franke was born on 21.07.1865 at Zuckmantel, Silesia (Schlesien), Germany (now Poland). After his schooling in Silesia, he joined the German Army. He came to Namibia as a Schutztruppe officer in June 1896. He was Bezirksamtmann in various places (Outjo 1899-1910), and travelled extensively, most notably in Ovamboland and the Kaokoveld. He took part in many campaigns against the resistance of Namibian communities against German colonial rule. He is celebrated in settler circles as the "Hero of Omaruru" after he succeeded to relieve the towns of Omaruru, Okahandja and Windhoek at the beginning of the German-Ovaherero War 1904. After the battle of Otjihinamaparero on 27.02.1904 he wrote into his diary:
"A wounded man with a terribly damaged leg is brought in . ... He is questioned and then shot, Von Arnim executes him properly. He is shot from the back without noticing what is happening to the unfortunate man." At the beginning of World War I, Franke led a counter-attack on Portuguese forces at Naulila in Angola. He took over the command of the Schutztruppe after the death of von Heydebreck on 12.11.1914. He signed the capitulation treaty (Khorab treaty) in 1915. He left Namibia in 1919, and retired as Major-General from the German army in 1920. Later he lived for some time in Brazil. - Franke left an extremely interesting, very personal diary (a copy of which is available at the National Archives of Namibia and is in the process to be published: the first volume from 26.05.1896 to 27.05.1904 was published in 2003) and was known as a competent and ruthless but notoriously difficult commander, traits that were exacerbated by his morphine addiction. He died on 07.09.1936 at Hamburg in Germany.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: MIL
Profession: Military officer
Functions: Bezirksamtmann - Outjo - 1899-1910

Collections/Papers:
1). Bundesarchiv Koblenz: NL 30 (Diaries 1886-1920, correspondence and files 1886-1953)
2). NAN: A.402 (Microfilm of no.1), * Findaid available
RAW DATA: Fischer 1935:passim; Deutsches Koloniallexikon; Hubatsch; Drechsler 1966:168; Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);

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001467
Franken
*
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Employee of the Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft für Südwestafrika.
---
Gender: m

RAW DATA: Drechsler 1966:332;

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Franklin, William George
* 04.10.1931 at Worcester, Cape, South Africa
First entry to Namibia: 1960
---
William George Franklin was born on 04.10.1931 at Worcester, Cape in South Africa. He was educated at the Rhodes University at Grahamstown in South Africa. He was a journalist. He came to Namibia in 1960. He was the editor of the Windhoek Advertiser from 1961 until 1968.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: JOU
Profession: Journalist

Married to: Ulrike Franklin, née Heye, married 1960-
Father: William James Franklin
RAW DATA: WWSA 1974;

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000148
Franz
* .1832
---
Full name not traced. He was apparently taken prisoner as a child in Hereroland and brought to Komaggas in the Cape Colony in South Africa when he was 10 years old, he accompanied Carl Hugo Hahn and Kleinschmidt to Windhoek and then to Otjikango.
---
Gender: m

RAW DATA: Lau 1965:V1254; Lau 1989:299;

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001468
Franzman, Willem, Captain of the !Khara-khoen (Franzman Nama)

[Fransman, Wilhelm - also known]
*
+ 02.1854 in Namibia
---
Willem Franzman was the Captain of the !Khara-khoen (so-called "Franzman Nama"). He died in February 1854 of dysentery, and was followed by Piet Koper (!Gamab)(1854-1863) .
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: TRA
Profession: Traditional leader

RAW DATA: Vedder Quellen 10+14:Feb.1854; Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);

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Franzsen, Margaretha Petronella
[Franzsen, Rita - call name]
[Breitenbach, Margaretha Petronella - birth name]
* 21.11.1926 at Naauwpoort, South Africa
First entry to Namibia: 1954
---
Margaretha Petronella Franzsen was born on 21.11.1926 at Naauwpoort in South Africa. She was educated at the Rocklands Girls High School, Stellenbosch University and the Stellenbosch Technical College in South Africa. She was active in executive positions of welfare organisations since coming to Namibia in 1954.
---
Gender: f
Functions: Chair - Cripple Care Association of SWA - 1960-1972
Chair - Regional Welfare Board SWA
Secretary - Association for the Handicapped - 1972-

Married to: Andre Franzsen, married 1953-
Father: Marthinus Esaias Breitenbach
RAW DATA: WWSA 1974;

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Fraser, Norman Cameron
* 10.04.1889 at Queenstown, South Africa

First entry to Namibia: 1920
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Norman Cameron Fraser was born on 10.04.1889 at Queenstown in South Africa. He was educated at the Boys High School in Oudtshoorn (South Africa). He was admitted as Attorney and Notary in 1920. In the same year he came to Namibia. He was a partner in the legal firm of Bell, Fraser and Engling. He was a Member of the "white" Legislative Assembly from 1934 to 1950 and Chairman of the Legislative Assembly from 1940 to 1950. He was the President of the Law Society of SWA.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: LAW
Profession: Lawyer
Functions: Member - Legislative Assembly - 1934-1950
Chairman - Legislative Assembly - 1940-1950
President - Law Society of SWA

Married to: Kathleen Fraser, née Voss, married 1924
Mother: Anna Elizabeth Fraser, née Stucki
Father: William Fraser
RAW DATA: WWSA 1959;

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Frederik, Hendrik
[|Gurusmab - Nama name]
*
---
Appears in Hendrik Witbooi's "Debt Book" in a list of unclear purpose.
---
Gender: m

Namibia National Archives Database

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001469
Frederik, Hendrik
* in Namibia
---
Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Namibia from Nov.1979-19xx.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: REL
Profession: Clergy

Namibia National Archives Database

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000535
Frederiks, Cornelius , !Aman (Bethany Nama)
*
+ 16.02.1907 at Shark Island
---
Cornelius Frederiks was a church elder and leader of the larger part of the Bethany community. He was the rival of Bethany Captain Paul Frederiks (1893-1906). He was a staunch supporter of Hendrik Witbooi and fighter against German colonialism and member of the "Witkamskap". He is mentioned in Witbooi's "Debt Book" 1891 as the source of eight horses. Cornelius Frederiks joined Hendrik Witbooi in 1894 for the battles against the Germans in the Naukluft Mountains. He served in the Witbooi regiment under German command at the beginning of the Ovaherero War 1904. He joined Hendrik Witbooi with his faction of the Bethany people during the beginning of the Great Resistance War of the Nama communities against the Germans in October 1904. He was commanding many war operations against the German forces, some together with the !Gami-#nun (Bondelswarts) under Abraham Morris in the lower Fish River area, then with Jakob Marengo in the Karas Mountains, later again north of Bethany with Hendrik Brandt and Ovaherero fighters under Chief Andreas. The Germans, who usually referred to him just as "Cornelius", considered him one of their most dangerous enemies, and put a price of 3 000 Mark on his head. They finally forced him to surrender with his people on 03.03.1906. The Bethany people were then imprisoned in the notorious Shark Island concentration camp near Lüderitz, where more than half of them died, including Cornelius Frederiks himself (on 16.02.1907). The "geneticist" Eugen Fischer studied the bodies of 17 Nama prisoners of war who had perished in the concentration Shark Island. One of the decapitated bodies was that of Cornelius Frederiks.
---
Gender: m

RAW DATA: Lau 1995:231; Quellen 4:9.4.1894; Drechsler 1980:192+211-213; Drechsler 1966:210, 215, 222-223, 247, 249-250, 358; Generalstabswerk; Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);

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Frederiks, David, !Aman Captain (Bethany Nama)
[Frederick, David - alternative spelling]
[Fredericks, David - alternative spelling]

[Boois, David - alternative spelling]
*

+   
---
David Frederiks was the Captain of the !Aman in Bethany from 1977. He was the ninth in the recorded genealogy of the !Aman captains. He followed Captain Simon Frederiks (!Hanamub #Hobexamab|Ai-ob #Hobexamab)(1938-1977).
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL

RAW DATA: Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);

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Frederiks, David Christian, !Aman Captain (Bethany Nama)

[||Naixab - Nama name]
[Christiaan, Dawid - alternative spelling]
[Frederiks, Christian - alternative name]

[Christian, David - alternative name]

*
+ 12.12.1880 at Gross-Barmen
---
David Christian Frederiks was the Captain of the !Aman (Bethany Nama) from 1842-1880. He followed Captain Joseph Frederiks I (1825-1842) who died in 1842 at Bethany. He was the third in the recorded genealogy of the !Aman captains. In October 1850 he was not able to stop the group of the Goliath Nama under the leadership of Paul Goliath (#Hobexab) to split from the !Aman and to move to !Autsawises (Berseba). Around 1856 the Great Namaqua Mining Company tried to obtain mining rights from David Christian. He was one of the signatories to the Hoachanas Peace Accord of January 1858. 1863 Frederiks gave a mining concession to Benjamin Sinclair which was later taken over by the Pomona Mining Company. 1864 the mining of copper, silver and lead commenced. In July 1865 Frederiks, together with Kido Witbooi and Paul Goliath, was defeated by Captain ||Oaseb of the Kai||khaun (Red Nation of Hoachanas). In December 1867 the Peace Accord of Gibeon (Orlam Peace of 1867) was concluded between Kido Witbooi, Paul Goliath and David Christian Frederiks. In September 1870 he participated in the Okahandja Peace Conference. In June 1880 he advised William Coates Palgrave to leave the territory. David Christian Frederiks was killed during fighting with the Ovaherero near Otjikango (Gross-Barmen) on 12.12.1880, and was succeeded by his stepson and nephew Josef Frederiks II (!Korebeb-||Naixab)(1880-1893).
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
Functions: Captain - !Aman - 1842-1880

RAW DATA: Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);

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Frederiks, Eduard, !Aman Captain (Bethany Nama)
[Fredericks, Eduard - alternative spelling]

[#Khaxab - Nama name]
*
+   .1922 at Bethany
---
Eduard Frederiks was the Captain of the !Aman, from 1916 until 1922. He was the sixth in the recorded genealogy of the !Aman captains. He followed indirectly Captain Paul Frederiks (1893-1906). His successor was Joseph Frederiks III (|Ai-ob #Hobexamab)(1922-1938).
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL

RAW DATA: Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);

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Frederiks, Jan, !Aman (Bethany Nama)
*

+  .1846 at Bethany
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The missionary of the London Missionary Society, Johann-Heinrich Schmelen, established a mission station in Bethany (|Ui#gandes, also called Klipfontein) in 1814, where the Orlam family Frederiks (also called Boois) lived since 1804. The son of Kobus Frederiks, headman of the !Aman from ca. 1824 until 1846, Jan Frederiks, became Schmelen's interpreter. He was one of the group leaders of the !Aman until his death in 1846. In the Namaland conflicts in the 1840s Jan Frederiks was the ally of Captain ||Oaseb of the Kai||khaun and the Swartboois, later he supported Jonker Afrikaner.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL

RAW DATA: Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);

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Frederiks, Johannes
*
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Johannes Frederiks was a schoolmaster, scribe and interpreter at Gibeon. He stayed behind when Hendrik Witbooi left Gibeon in 1885. In 1887 he was expelled from Gibeon by Moses Witbooi and forced to live at an outstation: this seems to have been related to his loyalties to missionary Rust, who by that stage was identified with German efforts of colonisation. No further details traced.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: EDU

RAW DATA: Quellen 17:11.1.1886, 13.1.1887;

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Frederiks, Joseph I, !Aman Captain (Bethany Nama)
[Fredericks, Joseph - alternative spelling]

[Boois, Joseph - alternative spelling]
[Frederiks, Josef - alternative spelling]
*

+   ca. 1842 at Bethany
---
Joseph I Frederiks was the Captain of the !Aman and |Khauas Nama from 1825 until 1842. He followed Captain Kobus Frederiks (1804-1825). He was the second in the recorded genealogy of the !Aman captains. His successor was David Christian Frederiks (||Naixab) (1842-1880).
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL

RAW DATA: Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);

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Frederiks II, Joseph, !Aman Captain (Bethany Nama)
[Frederick, Josef - alternative spelling]
[Fredericks, Josef - alternative spelling]
[Frederiks, Josef - alternative spelling]
[!Khorebeb-||Naixab - Nama name]
* at Bethany
+ 20.10.1893 at Bethany
---
Joseph II Frederiks was the Captain of the !Aman from 1880 until 1893. His Nama name !Khoreb-||Naixab. He was the stepson and nephew of David Christian Frederiks who was killed in the Battle of Otjikango in 1880. He was the fourth in the recorded genealogy of the !Aman captains. Frederiks was connected to the selling of large tracts of land to the German merchant Adolf Lüderitz and his agent Heinrich Vogelsang (Angra Pequeña and surroundings: the "sale" was characterised by some fraudulent manoeuvres on the German side which exploited the seller's ignorance in terms of the English mile versus the German geographical mile). He also concluded a protection treaty with the Germans in October 1884 (with Gustav Nachtigal). Frederiks died on 20.10.1893 at Bethany. He was succeeded by Paul Frederiks (1893-1906).
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
Functions: Captain - !Aman - 1880-20.10.1893

RAW DATA: DSAB III:311; Rohlfs 1884:11; Esterhuyse 1967:passim;

Drechsler 1966:31-32, 329, 330; Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);

Namibia.Bethanie.Frederiks.jpg (32270 bytes)Namibia_Karas_Bethany_1.JPG (102479 bytes)
Copyright of Photos: Dr. Klaus Dierks (Joseph Frederik's II House at Bethany)

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002132
Frederiks III, Joseph, !Aman Captain (Bethany Nama)
[Frederick, Josef - alternative spelling]
[Fredericks, Josef - alternative spelling]
[Frederiks, Josef - alternative spelling]

[|Ai-ob #Hobexamab - Nama name]
*
+   .1938 at Bethany
---
Joseph III Frederiks was the Captain of the !Aman from 1922 until his death in 1938. He was the seventh in the recorded genealogy of the !Aman captains. He followed Captain Eduard Frederiks (#Khaxab)(1916-1922). His successor was Simon Frederiks (!Hanamub #Naoxamab)(1938-1977).
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL

RAW DATA: Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);

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001470
Frederiks, Kobus, !Aman Captain (Bethany Nama)
[Fredericks, Kobus - alternative spelling]

[Boois, Kobus - alternative spelling]
[Ou Kobeb - alternative name]
*

+   ca. 1825 at Bethany
---
Kobus Frederiks was the Captain of the !Aman and |Khauas Nama from 1804 until his death in ca.1825. He was the first in the recorded genealogy of the !Aman captains. The missionary of the London Missionary Society, Johann-Heinrich Schmelen, established a mission station in Bethany (|Ui#gandes, also called Klipfontein) in 1814, where the Orlam family Frederiks (also called Boois) lived since 1804.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL

RAW DATA: Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);

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000537
Frederiks, Paul, !Aman Captain (Bethany Nama)
*
+ 21.12.1906 in Namibia
---
Paul Frederiks was the son of Josef Frederiks II, the Captain of Bethany, whom he succeeded on 03.12.1893. He was the fifth in the recorded genealogy of the !Aman captains. He supported German rule in Namibia throughout his period of office. In 1894 he sold the farms Inachab, Sandverhaar, Witputs and Feldschuhhorn to the German farmer Ferdinand Gessert. In the same year he concluded
a private treaty with the Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft für Südwestafrika (DKGSWA). In October 1898 the Germans launched a punitive expedition against Frederiks because he refused to allow the registration of the community's weapons. One farm near Bethany was consequently confiscated by the Germans. However, the majority of the Bethany people joined Hendrik Witbooi under Cornelius Frederiks early in 1894, and again in 1904. Paul Frederiks ruled until his death on 21.12.1906. His indirect successor was Eduard Frederiks (|Ai-ob #Hobexamab)(1916-1922).
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
Functions: Captain - !Aman - 12.03.1893-21.12.1906

Father: Josef Frederiks II (?-1893)


RAW DATA: Drechsler 1966:210, 358; Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);

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Frederiks, Simon, !Aman Captain (Bethany Nama)
[Frederick, Simon - alternative spelling]
[Fredericks, Simon - alternative spelling]

[Boois, Simon - alternative spelling]
[!Hanamub #Naoxamab - Nama name]

*
+   .1977 at Bethany
---
Simon Frederiks was the Captain of the !Aman in Bethany from 1938 until his death in 1977. He was the eighth in the recorded genealogy of the !Aman captains. He followed Captain Joseph Frederiks III (|Ai-ob #Hobexamab)(1922-1938). His successor was David Frederiks (1977-).
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL

RAW DATA: Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);

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Frenssen, Gustav
* .1863
+ .1945
---
Gustav Frenssen, a successful German fiction writer, wrote the most successful colonial novel in Namibia, "Peter Moors Fahrt nach Südwest". He never visited Namibia but based the book on interviews with combatants of the 1904 war, most notably ... Michaelsen.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: WRI
Profession: Lutheran pastor Writer

Collections/Papers:
1). Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesbibliothek Kiel (Manuscripts and letters)

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Frere, Henry Bartle Edward, Sir
* 29.03.1815 at Llanelly, Wales
+ 29.05.1884 at London, England
---
Henry Bartle Edward Frere was born on 29.03.1815 at Llanelly in Wales in the United Kingdom. He was the Governor of the Cape Colony and High Commissioner from 31 March 1877 to 15 September 1880. He repeatedly recommended that Walvis Bay be annexed to the Cape Colony and that a protectorate be declared over the territory up to the Transvaal in the east and the Kunene in the north. However, he was authorised by the Colonial Office to annex only Walvis Bay, which was done by Staff - Commander Richard C. Dyer on 12 March 1878. He was initially sent to the Cape Colony in South Africa to carry out plans for the Confederation of South Africa, but met with insurmountable obstacles such as the Frontier War five months after his arrival and the Zulu War (which commenced with the overwhelming defeat of the British at Isandlwana) shortly after. British public opinion and the government held him responsible, and he was recalled in 1880. He died on 29.05.1884 at London.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL

Married to: Catherine Frere, née Arthur, married 1844-


RAW DATA: DSAB II:243-246; Tabler 1973:129; v. Schumann; Guedes;

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000809
Frewer, Wilhelm Ferdinand
* 19.12.1911 at Essen, Germany
First entry to Namibia: 1935
---
Wilhelm Ferdinand Frewer was born on 19.12.1911 at Essen in Germany. He studied music at the Folkwangschule in Essen (Germany). He came to Namibia in 1935. He was a director of the firm W. Frewer, Music Dealer. He established the Windhoek Symphony Orchestra and also served as its conductor.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: MUS
Profession: Musician Music dealer

Married to: Edith Anna Frewer, née Weiss, married 1938-
Father: Anton Frewer
RAW DATA: WWSA 1959;

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000810
Frey, Karl, Dr.
[Frey, Carl - alternative spelling]
* 03.09.1886 at Mengen near Freiburg, Germany
+ 08.1987
First entry to Namibia: 19.06.1912
---
Karl Frey was born on 03.09.1886 at Mengen near Freiburg in Germany. He was educated at the universities of Strasbourg and Paris. He received his Dr.-phil. from the University in Strasbourg. He came to Namibia during June 1912 as a teacher of the Kaiserliche Oberrealschule in Windhoek. He served as Inspector of Schools in the SWA Education Department from 1923 onwards. He was interned in South Africa during World War Two from 1940 to 1946. He retired after his release from internment and lived as a farmer on Eorondemba. He was a Member of the Board of the Land and Agricultural Bank. From 1958-1970 he was a Member of the Senate of the Union/Republic of South Africa. He died in August 1987.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: EDU
Functions: Inspector of Schools - SWA Administration - 1923-
Board member - Land and Agricultural Bank of SWA
Member - Senate of the RSA - 1958-1970

Married to: Christine Henriette Ida Louise Frey, née Nissen-Lass, married 1914
Father: Jakob Martin Frey
RAW DATA: WWSA 1959;

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Freyn, Barend
*
---
Barend Freyn was a hunter and explorer. He and P. Brand joined W. van Reenen's expedition to Great Namaqualand at Warmbad in November 1791. Freyn led a party overland into Great Namaqualand early in 1793, in an attempt to join S.D. van Reenen and Pienaar of the "Meermin" at Walvis Bay.
---
Gender: m

RAW DATA: Tabler 1973:41;

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Friedrich, Walter, Dr.
* .1883 at Lübeck, Germany
+ 16.05.1951 at Cape Town, South Africa
First entry to Namibia: 1914
Last departure from Namibia: 1929
---
Walter Friedrich came to Namibia in 1914. He was a medical practitioner in Karibib from 1914 until 1919, then at the Catholic Hospital in Windhoek from 1919 to 1929. He was the President of the SWA Scientific Society in 1927. In 1929, he moved to Switzerland, then to Berlin, and in 1950 moved to South Africa.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: MED
Profession: Medical doctor
Functions: President - SWA Scientific Society - 1927

RAW DATA: Mitt.NWG 43,4-6;

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Frielinghaus
*
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First head (Oberingenieur) of the Mines Office of the Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft für Südwestafrika, 1888.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: ADM

RAW DATA: Esterhuyse 1968:130;

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Fries, Eduard
*
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Eighth mission director of the Rheinische Missionsgesellschaft, 1918-
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Gender: m
Field of activity: REL
Profession: Clergy
Functions: Missionsdirektor - Rheinische Missionsgesellschaft - 1918-

Namibia National Archives Database

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000471
Fries, Engelbert de
* 18.08.1870
First entry to Namibia: 1893
---
Came to Namibia in 1893 as Schutztruppe soldier and stayed as a farmer and trader.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: MIL

Collections/Papers:
1). NAN: A.389 (Diaries 1893-1895; recipe book; passport; bank book, photographs

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Fritz, Georg Johann
* 08.03.1926 at Neu Bartelsdorf, Ostpreussen, Germany (now: Poland)
First entry to Namibia: 1954
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Georg Johann Fritz was born on 08.03.1926 at Neu Bartelsdorf, Ostpreussen, Germany (now: Poland). He was educated in Germany (Lehrerbildungsanstalt Mehlsack; Ingenieursschule Köln). He immigrated to Namibia in 1954. He was a building contractor and Director of G. Fritz (Pty) Ltd.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: BUS

Married to: Hannelore Fritz, née Prifflinger, married 1958-
Father: Hermann Fritz
RAW DATA: WWSA 1974;

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Fritzsche, Christian Adolf Max
*
+ at Dresden, Germany
First entry to Namibia: 1906
---
Christian Adolf Max Fritzsche was a lawyer and notary in Windhoek from 1906. He was a Member of the Landesrat from 1910 until 1915 and Consul for Belgium from 1911 to 1915.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: LAW
Profession: Lawyer
Functions: Member - Landesrat - 1910-1915

Collections/Papers:
1). NAN: A.223

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Fröhlich, Hans
* 08.06.1891 at Schönbrunn near Wolkenstein, Germany
+ 03.05.1979 at Lüderitzbucht
First entry to Namibia: 1907
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Hans Fröhlich was born at Schönbrunn in Germany on 08.06.1891. He emigrated to Namibia in 1907and worked until 1911 as farm apprentice with his uncle, Hansheinrich von Wolf, at Duwisib. He had his military service from to 910-1911 at Kranzplatz near Gibeon. He received from 1911 until 1912 training as an accountant in Maltahöhe. Then he was farm manager on farm Auros near Khub. During World War I he served with the police, and after the war he was farmer on Gurus, Morgenzon, Fahlgras, Aneis, and Halifax. From 1940 until 1941 he was interned at Andalusia in South Africa. From 1974 to his death on 03.05.1979 he lived in Lüderitz.
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Gender: m

Namibia National Archives Database

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Fröhlich, Richard Paul
* 18.08.1907 at Johannesburg, South Africa
---
Richard Paul Fröhlich was born on 18.08.1907 at Johannesburg in South Africa. He was educated at the Windhoek German High School. Her was a businessman and director of numerous companies. He was a Member of the Karakul Advisory Board.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: BUS
Profession: Businessman

Married to: Sophie Magdalena Fröhlich, née de Wet, married 1941-19??
Renate Fröhlich, née van Schriek, married 1968-
Father: Adolf Fröhlich
RAW DATA: WWSA 1959, 1974;

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Fromm
*
---
Distriktsamtmann for Okahandja, 1907-1912.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: ADM
Functions: Distriktsamtmann - Okahandja - 1907-1912

RAW DATA: Hubatsch;

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Fryer, Alfred
*
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Alfred Fryer was Boer farmer on ||Khauxa!nas (Gugunas or Schans Vlakte). He was accused by the German administration of assisting Jakob Marengo in 1904. He was later exonerated in a court of law in Keetmanshoop, but his three sons, the youngest only 16 years of age, were executed by the Germans on 29.09.1904 on the farm Garabis.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: AGR

RAW DATA: Drechsler 1966:205; Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);

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Fuller
*
---
Trader. He worked for F.W. Gunning at the White Nossob in June 1877.
---
Gender: m

RAW DATA: Tabler 1973:42;

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