{"id":21963,"date":"2024-05-10T10:42:45","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T08:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onwheels.travel\/luederitz-and-kolmanskop\/"},"modified":"2024-05-10T10:42:51","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T08:42:51","slug":"luederitz-and-kolmanskop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onwheels.travel\/en\/luederitz-and-kolmanskop\/","title":{"rendered":"L\u00fcderitz and Kolmanskop"},"content":{"rendered":"

L\u00fcderitz<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

“L\u00fcderitz”, that doesn’t sound South African or Namibian. Correct. In May 1883, a Dr. Heinrich Vogelsang, emissary of the German merchant Adolf L\u00fcderitz, “bought” 5 miles of land around L\u00fcderitz Bay from the Nama chief Joseph Fredericks. The deal went down in history as a “mileage scam”. Vogelsang did not clearly declare the mileage. While Fredericks assumed the measure of the English mile, Vogelsang insisted on the German mile, which is about 4.7 times longer than the English mile, making the ceded territory almost five times larger than Frederick had assumed. The purchase price was 200 rifles and 2000 marks in kind. More land was bought later. L\u00fcderitz thought that if he bought the land, he could virtually build a new state on it. Of course, the local Nama saw it differently, for them it was something like a lease.<\/p>\n

As the English laid claim to the offshore islets, L\u00fcderitz had his possessions protected by the German Emperor. This is how the German colony of “South West Africa” gradually came into being, which in turn became today’s Namibia.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

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