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000024
Gaerdes, Fritz
* 17.10.1892 at Vegesack, Germany
+ .1975 at Okahandja
First entry to Namibia: 1921
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Fritz Gaerdes was born on 17.10.1892 at Vegesack near Bremen in Germany. He came to Namibia in 1921 to visit his brother Jan at Okahandja, but stayed on until his death. As from 1922, he taught at the German school in Okahandja. His particular achievements were, however, found in his hobbies, in particular natural sciences. His profuse collecting activities, in particular as an entomologist, earned him a name in scientific circles, while his books and articles on popularised science subjects contributed to the education of the public. He was also involved in the protection of monuments. In 1950 he was nominated for the SWA Historical Monuments Commission, in which he served as a chairman from 1961-1969, and also on the S.A. National Monuments Council. He was elected as corresponding member of the SWA Scientific Society, and in 1952 the SWA Administrator nominated him as member of the Hunting and Nature Conservation Council. His activities also led to the establishment of a conservation area near Okahandja, which was unfortunately later claimed as a military area by the South African Army. He also was particularly active in the upgrading of the Okahandja Public Library, for which he served as a secretary from 1954-1972 and which was named after him. In 1928 he married Anna Maria Schlettwein. His daughter Annemarie, married Heywood, is a well-known university teacher and historical writer. Gaerdes died in 1975 in Okahandja.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: EDU NAT
Profession: Teacher

Married to: Anna Maria Gaerdes, née Schlettwein, married 1928
Children: Annemarie Gaerdes (married Heywood)

Collections/Papers:
1). Basler Afrika Bibliographien: PA.1 * Findaid published
2). NAN: A.240 (Correspondence of Gaerdes with SWA Education Dept. 1921-1962; articles written by Gaerdes)
3). National Museum of Namibia (Insect collection)
4). UNAM Library: Namibiana Collection (integrated)(Part of library)

000474
Gaerdes, Jan
* 15.04.1889 at Vegesack, Germany
+ .1981 at Swakopmund
First entry to Namibia: 1913
---
Jan Gaerdes was born on 15.04.1889 in Vegesack near Bremen in Germany, in a family of sailors and peasants, and was trained as a pharmacist. He came to Namibia in 1913, worked as a farm assistant, and served as German soldier in Namibia in World War I. He worked in many different odd jobs, building wells and dams, as a pharmacist, storekeeper, filming assistant, etc; with firms such as Sam Cohen, CDM, OMEG, Northern Labour Organisation. He farmed on Kalidona, which he leased in 1925 and finally bought in 1940. Gaerdes' love was hunting and zoology, and he wrote a number of articles on the status of game in Namibia. He died in 1981 at Swakopmund.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: SCI
Profession: Pharmacist

Collections/Papers:
1). Überseemuseum Bremen (Ethnographic collection)
2). NAN: A.440

000150
Galton, Francis, Sir
* 16.02.1822 at Birmingham, England
+ 17.01.1911 at Haslemere, England
First entry to Namibia: 20.08.1850
Last departure from Namibia: 1852
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Francis Galton was born on 16.02.1822 at Birmingham in the United Kingdom. He was a British traveller and scientist from a wealthy family. His expedition, supported by the Royal Geographic Society, reached Walvis Bay on 20 August 1850 and left in January 1852. He was also the first European to visit what are now the copper mines at Tsumeb, and to reach Ovamboland from the south. His published account of these travels came to be a key source of information for his contemporaries, as well as for modern historians. He died on 17.01.1911 at Haslemere in England.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: SCI
Profession: Scientist

RAW DATA: P. Reiner 1992:407; Lau 1985:V1255; Tabler 1973:42;

000730
Gamble, S.A.
[Gamble, S.N.]
*
+ 02.1880
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S.A. Gamble was a trader. He lived and traded at Nabauhauro on the Auob River from 1873, and was shot by Gobabis Orlams ca. February 1880. He appears as a creditor to Moses Witbooi and several Witboois in Hendrik Witbooi's "Debt Book", where the later in 1889 took over old debts owed to Gamble from 1869.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: BUS
Profession: Trader

RAW DATA: Tabler 1973:43; Palgrave 1991;

001475
Gaméb !Gaomab, Kai||khaun Captain (Red Nation)
*
+  .1814
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Gaméb !Gaomab was the Captain of the Kai||khauan (Red Nation) from 1800 until 1814. He was the seventh in the genealogy of the Kai||khaun. He was succeeded by Tsawúb Gamab (1814-1824).
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Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
Profession: Traditional leader
Functions: Captain - Kai||khaun (Red Nation) - 1800-1814

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

001476
Gameb, Traugott
*
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Teacher in Scheppmannsdorf, 1903.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: EDU

RAW DATA: BRMG 1903:19;

000819
Gamsu, Barnett
* 08.12.1900 in Russia
First entry to Namibia: 1921
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Barnett Gamsu was born in Russia on 08.12.1900. He emigrated with his family to South Africa in 1911. He came to Namibia in 1921 as representative for J.W. Jagger Co. He founded his own wholesale business in 1939. He held the territorial chair of the G.G.N.W.F. He was active in the Red Cross Society, the Windhoek Chamber of Commerce (which he chaired) and a Member of the Windhoek Town Council. He also served as Deputy Mayor of Windhoek.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: BUS

Married to: Gertie Gamsu, née Isaacson, married 1929
Father: Joseph Gamsu
Children: David Gamsu (1935-)
RAW DATA: WWSA 1959;

000820
Gamsu, David
* 29.06.1935 at Windhoek
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David Gamsu was born on 29.06.1935 in Windhoek and educated in South Africa. He was a businessman and Director of South West Wholesale.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: BUS

Mother: Gertie Gamsu, née Isaacson
Father: Barnett Gamsu (1900-)

Namibia National Archives Database

000821
Ganzkow, Joachim Roland
* 10.05.1929 at Stettin, Germany (now: Poland)
First entry to Namibia: 15.03.1962
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Joachim Roland Ganzkow was born on 10.05.1929 at Stettin in Germany (now Poland) and educated at the Wirtschaftshochschule in Hannover in Germany. He emigrated to South Africa in 1952 and to Namibia in March 1962. He was director of various companies.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: BUS
Profession: Businessman

Father: Walter Ganzkow
RAW DATA: WWSA 1974;

002160
!Gaob |Hanamab, Kai||khaun Captain (Red Nation)
*
+ .1800
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<FONT size=2>The Nama Captain of the Kai||khaun (also called Red Nation), !Gaob |Hanamab (1770-1800)<FONT size=2>, was probably the sixth Chief on record of this community. He was followed by Gaméb !Gaomab (1800-1814).
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Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
Profession: Traditional leader
Functions: Captain - Kai||khaun (Red Nation) - 1770-1800

RAW DATA: Budack 1972:242; Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);

001477
#Garib
*
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One of the Nama leaders who signed the Treaty of Hoachanas 1858.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: TRA

RAW DATA: Lau: Andersson I;

001028
Gariseb, Engelhardt
* .1945 at Otjimbingwe
+ 24.12.2002 in Namibia
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Engelhardt Gariseb was born in 1945 at Otjimbingwe. He was a SWAPO activist in the liberation struggle. He was the Mayor of Grootfontein from 199? to his death on 24.12.2002.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL

Collections/Papers:
1). NAN: PRI 3/5 (Prison file)
RAW DATA: The Namibian 07.01.2003;

002056
||Garoëb, Justus
[Traditional title Gaob Justus ||Garoëb]
* 16.12.1942 at Omaruru
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Justus ||Garoëb was born at Omaruru on 16.12.1942. He is the fifth in the recorded genealogy of the Damara kings. He matriculated at the Augustineum Training College, Okahandja. He was forced to drop his medical studies at the University College of Zululand (South Africa) for financial and family reasons. He was a Member of the Damara Advisory Council since 1971, taking over chairmanship 1977 after the death of Chief David ||Goreseb. He was elected as Senior Headman for Khorixas in 1976. He refused to take part in the Turnhalle Constitutional Conference (1975-77). He took the Damara Council into the opposition party, the Namibia National Front (NNF) in 1977, becoming the NNF President. He led the boycott of the 1977 election for the first Damara Representative Authority when the Damara Council was abolished. He reconstituted the Damara Council as a political party in 1980, as founding president. He was elected as Member of the Executive Committee for Finance, Agriculture and Forestry of the Damara 2nd Tier Authority in 1982. He was appointed as the Paramount Chief of the Damara Community (disputed until 1987) by the Damara Council and the Executive Committee of the 2nd Tier Authority 1982. He joined the Multi Party Conference (MPC) 1983 but withdrew in 1984, announcing the Damara Council's support for SWAPO. He was the leader of the Damara Council delegation to the 1984 Lusaka Conference  on the side of the SWAPO delegation. He was also the leader of the Damara Council delegation to the 1986 |Ai||gams Conference in Windhoek. He was the founding President of the United Democratic Front (UDF) in 1989 and was elected into the Constitutional Assembly 1989/90 for the UDF and the First and Second (until 1996 when he returned as a traditional leader to Okombahe until 2000) National Assembly of the Republic of Namibia. ||Garoëb returned to the Third National Assembly in 2000 (now for a coalition between the DTA and the UDF).
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Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
Functions: President: UDF; President: Damara Council; Paramount Chief of the Damara; Member of the National Assembly

Married to: Irmgard ||Garoës

Collections/Papers:
1). Namibia Handbook and Political Who's Who, 1990 (Pütz, Von Egidy and Caplan)
2). Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks)

000120
||Garoëb, Moses Makue
[Garoëb, Moses - alternative spelling]
* 04.1942 at |Arixas near Mariental
+ 19.08.1997 at Windhoek
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Moses ||Garoëb was born in April 1942 at |Arixas near Mariental as the son of Samuel Geingob and Rebecca Geingos. At the age of 17, he took an active part in the demonstrations against the forced removal from Windhoek's Old Location to Katutura, and witnessed the massacre of 12 December 1959. He went into exile in 1961 as a member of SWANU, and joined SWAPO in the same year. He went to study in the United States and appeared before the United Nations in the early 1960s. After graduating with a BA in Political Science from the University of Rochester (NY), he returned from the U.S. to Africa in 1966. In Tanzania, he became a broadcaster with "The Namibia Hour" from Radio Tanzania, and then editor of SWAPO's newsletter "Namibia Today" and Director of Information. At the SWAPO Consultative Congress in Tanga, 1969, he was appointed a member of the Central Committee and Executive Committee (later Political Bureau), positions which he held until his death, and SWAPO Administrative Secretary (until 1989). He was elected into the Constitutional Assembly 1989/90, continued as a member of the first National Assembly and was re-elected in 1994. From 1990-1995, he served as SWAPO Secretary-General. From 1995 until his death, he was Minister of Labour and Human Resources. He died on 19 September 1997 and was given a state funeral at the Old Location Cemetery on 27 September 1997. Moses ||Garoëb was a SWAPO loyalist. Not having a tribal power-base, his popularity within SWAPO was based on his outspokenness and his accessibility as an Administrative Secretary, while outside SWAPO, his often uncompromising and hard-hitting statements made him many enemies. His last years were overshadowed by progressing ill-health (Diabetes). He died on 19.08.1997 at Windhoek and was one of the first leaders of the independent Republic of Namibia who received a state funeral.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
Functions: Secretary-General - SWAPO - 1991-1997
Minister of Labour and Human Resources - Namibia - 1995-1997

Married to: Monica ||Garoës
Mother: Rebecca Geingos
Father: Samuel Geingob

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

001996
Garrett
*
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Trader whose presence in Namibia is documented for 1878.
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Gender: m

RAW DATA: Tabler 1973:43;

001997
Gassiott, Henry S.
* in England
First entry to Namibia: 1850
Last departure from Namibia: 1851
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Henry S. Gassiott was a wealthy sportsman and tourist. He landed at Angra Pequeña in November 1850 with the intention to travel inland to the Limpopo River, but did not get further than Bethany, then trekked southwards via Sendelingsdrift to Cape Town.
---
Gender: m

RAW DATA: Tabler 1973:43-44;

000154
Gaudeul, A.
* in France
---
A. Gaudeul was a Roman-Catholic missionary sent out from France to South Africa in the early 1870s' together with Brother George. They established a Roman Catholic mission at Pella (which had been vacated by the Rhenish Missionary Society in 1869) in 1875. In 1882, their society decided to rationalise her activities, and they left the station on 25.09.1882.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: REL
Profession: Missionary

Namibia National Archives Database

000822
Gauerke, Erno
* .1915 at Mecklenburg, Germany
---
Erno Gauerke was born in 1915 and grew up in Germany, where he was active in the youth movement. He emigrated to Namibia in 1947. 1950 he left for South Africa and came back to Namibia in 1971, where he first worked as Manager of the Deutsche Höhere Privatschule (D.H.P.S.), then as a free-lance journalist. Since 1974 he was the Chairman of the South West Africa cultural/political organisation of the Afrikaans-Duitse Kultuurunie (ADK), board member of the Republican Party and of SWAPAC. He served as a high-profile journalistic proponent of the various South-African-generated "interim governments" and the bantustanisation of pre-independence Namibia, mainly through the publications of the ADK and his book "SWA/Namibien: Eine schwierige Geburt" (Windhoek 1986).
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: JOU
Profession: Journalist

RAW DATA: Wege und Wandlungen 2;

001479
Gebhardt, Lisa
*
---
Lisa Gebhardt was the librarian of the Windhoek Public Library for decades. She established many important features of the library, which were neglected after her retirement: namely the Africana Collection, a book box service for customers outside Windhoek, and local history research.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: LIB
Profession: Librarian

Namibia National Archives Database

001478
Gehlmann, Hermann
* 06.01.1881 at Dornstedt, Germany
First entry to Namibia: 1909
---
Hermann Gehlmann was born on 06.01.1881 at Dornstedt in Germany. He was a missionary of the Rheinische Missionsgesellschaft. He came to Namibia in 1909 and was stationed at Tsumeb.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: REL
Profession: Missionary

Married to: Helene Gehlmann, née Bernsmann, married 1913-

Namibia National Archives Database

001480
Geibel, Lothar
* 02.08.1880
---
Schutztruppe officer.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: MIL
Profession: Military officer

RAW DATA: Fischer 1935:139, 223;

000262
Geingob, Hage
* 03.08.1941 at Otjiwarongo
---
Hage Geingob was born on 03.08.1941 at Otjiwarongo. He worked as a teacher for the Rhenish Mission School in Tsumeb. He went into exile, and was educated in New York (BA in Political Science, Fordham University 1970, MA, New School for Social Research). He served as SWAPO's Chief Representative in Kinshasa (Congo) and Botswana, then for the two Americas and at the UN from 1964 to 1971. He was the Director of the UN Institute for Namibia (UNIN) in Lusaka from 1975 until 1989. He became SWAPO Director of Election in 1989. He was the elected Chairman of the Constituent Assembly, 1989-1990 and thereafter Member of the National Assembly from 1990 until August 2002. He was appointed as the Prime Minister of the Republic of Namibia on 21.03.1990 and served in this position from 1990 until August 2002, when he was dismissed. Since 2003 he lives in Washington, USA. There he became the administrator for the "Global Coalition for Africa", an inter-governmental forum that aims to promote development in Africa.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
Profession: Politician
Functions: Chief Representative in the Americas and the UN - SWAPO - 1964-1971
Member of Politburo - SWAPO - 1969-2002
Director - UN Institute for Namibia - 1975-1989
Director of Elections - SWAPO - 1989
Chairman - Constituent Assembly of Namibia - 1989-1990
Prime Minister and Member of the National Assembly - 1990-2002

Married to: Loini Geingos

Namibia National Archives Database

001697
Geldenhuys, J.J.
[Geldenhuys, Jannie - colloquial name]
*
---
J.J. (Jannie) Geldenhuys was a South African Defence Force (SADF) commander in Namibia. He was a Member of the South African Broederbond.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: MIL
Profession: Military officer

Namibia National Archives Database

001406
Gelshorn, Otto
* 30.10.1873
+ 07.05.1907
---
Otto Gelshorn was born on 30.10.1873. He was the Bezirksamtmann of Gibeon between 1906 and 1907. He was a Schutztruppe reserve officer. He died on 07.05.1907.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: MIL
Profession: Civil servant

RAW DATA: Hubatsch; Fischer 1935:195;

000155
George, Brother
* in France
---
Brother George was a Roman-Catholic mission helper sent out from France to South Africa in the early 1870s' together with Father A. Gaudeul. They established a Roman Catholic mission at Pella (which had been vacated by the Rhenish Missionary Society in 1869) in 1882, their society decided to rationalise her activities, and they left the station on 25.09.1882.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: REL

Namibia National Archives Database

000823
Gericke, Dawid, Dr.
*
---
Dawid Gericke joined the Windhoek Academy for Tertiary Education in 1982. He was the Dean of the Faculty of Education from 1987 until the end of the 1980s.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: EDU
Profession: University teacher

RAW DATA: On record 15-27.07.1987;

000824
Germani, Hans
*
+ 08.1983 at Johannesburg, South Africa
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Hans Germani, originally trained as a medical doctor, served as South African correspondent of the Springer group of German newspapers since 1976 until his death. He was a vocal defender of the South African policies on Namibia and otherwise; his book "Rettet Südwest" is a virulently anti-SWAPO pamphlet in the Cold War tradition. He died in August 1983 in Johannesburg.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: JOU
Profession: Journalist

RAW DATA: Obituary FAZ 9.8.1983;

000825
Gertenbach, Jacobus
* 01.03.1914 at Luckhoff, Orange Free State, South Africa
First entry to Namibia: 1945
---
Jacobus Gertenbach was born on 01.03.1914 at Luckhoff in the Orange Free State in South Africa. He was educated at Philippolis and Luckhoff. He was a solicitor and attorney and came to Namibia in 1945.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: LAW
Profession: Lawyer

Married to: Gertrud Felicitas Gertenbach, née Trück, married 1946
Father: John Diedlof Gertenbach
RAW DATA: WWSA 1959;

000156
Gertse, Petrus
*
---
Petrus Gertse was a foster-son or son of Piet Gertze and worked as an assistant for missionaries in the 1840s. In the 1850s he worked independently at Otjimbingwe.
---
Gender: m

Namibia National Archives Database

000157
Gertse, Piet
* in South Africa
---
Piet Gertse originated from Komaggas in the Cape Colony in South Africa. He was one of Schmelen's associates. He was an evangelist and teacher who worked in close association with the Rhenish Mission Society in the 1840s. He worked for the Walvis Bay Mining Company in the late 1850s. In 1861, he was stationed at Otjimbingwe by Jonker Afrikaner to inform on European activities there. His wife's name was Lena (?) or Friederike (?).
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: REL

RAW DATA: Lau 1989:300;

000158
Gertse, Samuel
* .1805 at Kookfontein, South Africa
+ 16.10.1889 at Otjimbingwe
---
Samuel Gertse was born in 1805 at Kookfontein in South Africa. He married the first baptised Otjiherero-speaker, Johanna (Urieta) in 1864, and worked for the Rhenish Missionary Society for most of his life in various capacities, amongst other as agricultural instructor for Ovaherero converts at Omaruru in the 1870s. He died on 16.10.1889 at Otjimbingwe.
---
Gender: m

Married to: Johanna Urieta Gertse, married 1864-1889

RAW DATA: Lau 1985:V1255;

001998
Gertsson, F.
*
---
F. Gertsson was a trader who was based in Omaruru. His presence in Namibia is documented for 1879.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: BUS

RAW DATA: Tabler 1973:44;

001481
Gertze, Karl
*
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Teacher in Rehoboth, 1906.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: EDU POL

Father: Matthäus Gertze
RAW DATA: JBRMG 1906:34;

001482
Gertze, Matthäus
*
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Teacher in Rehoboth, 1906.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: EDU

Children: Karl Gertze
RAW DATA: JBRMG 1906:34;

001483
Gessert, Ferdinand
* 12.07.1870 at Elberfeld, Germany
+ 05.05.1953 at Keetmanshoop
---
Ferdinand Gessert was born on 12.07.1870 and educated in Elberfeld in Germany. He studied in Heidelberg and Berlin. He travelled in 1894 to Cape Town and from there to Namibia. He became farmer on the farms Inachab (which he bought from Paul Frederiks in 1894) and Sandverhaar. He undertook a study trip to Egypt to study irrigation methods. He did extensive experiments in irrigation agriculture under the extreme conditions of southern Namibia and was author of many articles on the subject. He was a Member of the Landesrat before 1915. He died on 05.05.1953 at Keetmanshoop.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: AGR
Profession: Farmer

RAW DATA: AHK 1972:31-38;

002223
Getzen-Leinhos, Ada Maria Kaera
[Ida Kaera - alternative name]
*  .1864
+  .1926 at Tsumeb
---
Ada (Ida) Maria Kaera Getzen Leinhos was the daughter of the Anglo-Canadian hunter and trader Frederick Thomas Green (Kerina in the Otjiherero language) and Betsy Kahitjene (Betsy was related to the Ovaherero Chief Oove ua Muhoko Kahitjene). Ada was born in 1864. Her mother Betsy died when she was three years of age. She was raised by another relative, Kaipukire Kahitjene. She was baptised at Otjimbingwe. Ada received her schooling in Cape Town. In 1881 she married Frekkie Getzen (who died 1900 at Swakopmund) in Omaruru. Since 1902 Ada lived with her daughter Susanna and the German farmer Karl Besser, who married Susanna in March 1904 at Karibib, on the farm Okatjiho near Okahandja. During 1903 Ada tried to purchase the farm Okatjiho from her uncle, Samuel Maharero. This was not successful because the farm was not surveyed yet. She also had a claim on grazing land near Grootfontein (Okahua near Berg Aukas (Info: Mburumba Kerina)) because she was also related to the Kambazembi family from the Waterberg. On 22.05.1904 Ada married the German trader Kasper Friedrich Leinhos in Okahandja. Three years later Ada asked for a divorce. This was rejected by the German authorities on 26.09.1907 because in the mean time the new 1907 legislation on Namibian natives had outlawed marriages with native women with retrospective effect. Thus, she was legally never married with Leinhos. Ada Kaera never accepted this ruling. She also defied the 1907 legislation that natives were not allowed to possess land, cattle and to have no freedom of movement. She relentlessly fought against this injustice and looked at the German courts as her last hope of attaining fairness and justice. After the German Ovaherero War 1904-1908 she helped members of her family, especially her mother Kaipukire, to survive and not be put into German concentration camps. Four weeks after the August 1904 Ohamakari (Waterberg) battle she approached the German courts in order to get her grazing land at Grootfontein returned to her from the South West Africa Company. The court case went until 1914 and was at the end unsuccessful (according to oral evidence from Mburumba Kerina Ada won the court case, but the court ruling was never executed due to the outbreak of World War One. Kerina now wants to lay a claim with the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany to get the farm Okahua back for the Getzen-Leinhos family). Ada Getzen-Leinhos also tried again, together with her son-in-law, Karl Besser, to purchase the farm Okatjiho. This also was rejected by the authorities, because she was classified as "non-white" and not entitled to possess land and cattle. Ada Kaera died 1926 at Tsumeb. She was the great grandmother (or grandmother according to Mburumba Kerina) of Mburumba Kerina who later played a role in Namibian politics.
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Gender: f

Oral Evidence to Author by Prof. Mburumba Kerina

000826
Gevers, Rainer
* 22.05.1932 at Graaff-Reinet, South Africa
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Rainer Gevers was born on 22.05.1932 at Graaff-Reinet in South Africa. He was educated at the Piet Retief High School and the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa, and the University of Montana in Canada. He was a mining engineer and General Superintendent of Mining at Tsumeb Corporation.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: SCI
Profession: Geologist

Married to: Hildegard Beate Gevers, née Buchholz, married 1957-
Father: Gottfried Ernst Gevers
RAW DATA: WWSA 1974;

000882
Gevers, Traugott W., Prof.
* .1900
---
Traugott W. Gevers studied geology in Cape Town in South Africa and München in Germany. He worked as a geologist in Namibia. Later he became professor of geology at the University of the Witwatersrand. He published numerous publications about Namibian geology.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: SCI
Profession: Geologist
Functions: President - SWA Scientific Society

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

000159
Gibb, Mr.
*
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In 1843, Carl Hugo Hahn met this trader, who was a trained pharmacist, in the Cape. Gibb was in Namibia in 1846, but left the country during that year to establish a business at a bay near Komaggas. During this trip, he took the son of Willem Swartbooi and two other talented boys to Cape Town, where they were to be trained as teachers.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: BUS
Profession: Trader

RAW DATA: Lau 1984:II334; Vedder 1985:243;

000827
Gibbons, Cedric Hay
* 30.03.1935 at Cape Town, South Africa
First entry to Namibia: 1961
---
Cedric Hay Gibbons was born on 30.03.1935 at Cape Town in South Africa. He was educated at Maitland High School and Cape Technical College. He came to Namibia in 1961. He was a businessman in the building industry.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: BUS
Profession: Businessman

Married to: Denise Mary Gibbons, née Crawford, married 1959-
Father: John Andrew Gibbons
RAW DATA: WWSA 1974;

001484
Gibson, H.C.W.
*
---
Director of the Kharaskhoma Syndicate.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: BUS

RAW DATA: Drechsler 1966:67, 97, 336, 342;

000828
Gie, Francis William Reitz
* 28.06.1908 at Robertson, Cape Province, South Africa
First entry to Namibia: 1936
---
Francis William Reitz Gie was born on 28.06.1908 at Robertson in the Cape Province in South Africa> He was educated at the Stellenbosch High School and the University of Cape Town in South Africa. He was a farmer and attorney. He came to Namibia in 1936.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: LAW
Profession: Lawyer

Married to: Shirley Gie, née Foord
Father: Jack Gie
RAW DATA: WWSA 1959;

000401
Giess, Heinrich Johann Wilhelm (Willi)
* 21.02.1910 at Frankfurt/Main, Germany
+ 28.09.2000 at Swakopmund
First entry to Namibia: 1926
---
Heinrich Johann Wilhelm (Willie) Giess was born on 21.02.1910 in Frankfurt/Main, Germany. He emigrated with his parents to Namibia in 1926. He studied at the Neudamm Agricultural College (1928-1929) and at the Animal Breeding Institute of the University of Halle, Germany (1931-1933), specialising on karakul breeding. Upon return to Namibia, he worked as a manager on a karakul farm, and later on his own farm. He was interned at the Andalusia Camp, South Africa, during World War II. He used the time to intensively study his long-time interest, botany, at the "Camp University" under the botanist Prof. Otto Volk. After the release, he started working at the University of Stellenbosch, collecting plant specimens within the Cape Region, until returning to his farm. Giess started the Namibian State Herbarium (then "SWA Herbarium") in 1953 on a part-time basis. After four years, the herbarium was taken over by the Division of Agriculture of the SWA Administration, and he was employed as a full-time curator. He held the post of curator until his retirement in 1975, but continued to work at the herbarium until 1980. Giess made an enormous contribution to the collection of herbarium material in the SWA Herbarium (now the National Herbarium of Namibia). 18 570 specimens in the present collection were collected by him personally. In honour of Prof. Dr. Kurt Dinter, Giess published the first issue of Namibia's botanical journal "Dinteria" in 1968. This journal was under his editorship until 1991, after which he continued in advisory capacity. 45 publications originated from his pen, not counting contributions to other publications, including the substantial "Bibliography of South West African Botany" in 1989. Amongst his publications are several new taxonomy descriptions. His contribution to Namibian botanical knowledge is immeasurable, and it should be noted that this knowledge is of great practical value to farmers. He died on 28.09.2000 at Swakopmund.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: NAT
Profession: Botanist

Mother: Lilly Giess
Father: Wilhelm Giess

Namibia National Archives Database

001408
Giesselmann, Justus
* 28.02.1877
+ 29.11.1904 at Lidfontein
---
Justus Giesselmann was born on 28.02.1877. He was a Schutztruppe officer. He died in action on 29.11.1904 at Lidfontein during the German Namibian War of 1903 to 1908.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: MIL
Profession: Military officer

RAW DATA: Fischer 1935:196, 205;

000539
|Gôbeb #Goraxab, Kai||khaun Captain (Red Nation)
[Petrus - alternative name]
*
+ 12.12.1880
---
|Gôbeb #Goraxab (Petrus)(1877-1880), the last of the ||Oaseb dynasty, succeeded #Goraxab ||Oasmab (Barnabas)(1867-1877) as Captain of the Kai||khaun (Red Nation) of Hoachanas. He was the twelfth in the genealogy of the Kai||khaun. His leadership was contested by !Noreseb Gamab (Manasse) (1880-1905), and when |Gôbeb died in a battle against the Ovaherero on 12.12.1880 at Otjikango (probably killed on instruction of !Noreseb Manasse), !Noreseb Gamab (Manasse)(1880-1905) succeeded him.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
Functions: Captain - Kai¦khaun - 1877-1880

Father: #Goraxab ||Oasmab (Barnabas)(1867-1877)

RAW DATA: Lau 1995:235; Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);

002121
Goliath, Andries, |Hai-|khauan Captain (Berseba Nama)
[Tububeb |Garisemab - Nama name]
*
+ 
---
Andries Goliath was the Captain of the |Hai-|khauan (Berseba Nama) between 1925 and 1933. His Nama name was Tububeb |Garisemab. He was the fourth in the recorded genealogy of the |Hai-|khauan captains. He succeeded Captain Johannes Christian Goliath (|Nâixab |Aiomab). His successor was Diederik Ruben Goliath (!Khorebeb |Garisemab)(1933-1938).
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL

RAW DATA: Budack 1972:255; Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);

002127
Goliath, David Christian, |Hai-|khauan Captain (Berseba Nama)
[|Gurob gaib #Khaxamab- Nama name]
*
+ .1976 at Berseba
---
After the death of Edward Isaak (Jnr.) in 1959, Diederik Isaak (#Ariseb |Aiomab)(1959-1970s) was appointed as successor. He was the eighth in the recorded genealogy of the |Hai-|khauan captains. Subsequently, the cleavage between the Goliath and Isaak clans again rifted into the open. Consequently the South Africans appointed a second |Hai-|khauan Captain, David Christian Goliath (|Gurob gaib #Khaxamab) (1959-1970s). The whole issue became intertwined both with the struggles around the implementation of the Odendaal Plan and with emerging party policies between the pro-South African Bantustan development and pro-independence forces. The Isaak group supported the South African Namaland dispensation with the later (1977) Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (DTA) while the Goliath group joined the South West Africa People's Organisation (SWAPO) in the 1970s. David Christian Goliath died in 1976 at Berseba and was followed by Stephanus Goliath (1976-).
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
Functions: Captain - |Hai-|khauan - 1959-1970s

RAW DATA: Budack 1972:255; Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);

002120
Goliath, Diederik, |Hai-|khauan Captain (Berseba Nama)
[|Gariseb |Aiomab - Nama name]
*
+ 
---
Diederik Goliath was the Captain of the |Hai-|khauan (Berseba Nama) between 1894 and ca. 1900. His Nama name |Gariseb |Aiomab. He succeeded the deputy captains Eduard Isaak and Diederik Isaak (1893-94). His successor was Johannes Christian Goliath (||Nâixab |Aiomab)(ca. 1900-1925).
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL

Married to: <1>Tububes
<2>!Khorebes
RAW DATA: Budack 1972:255; Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);

002122
Goliath, Diederik Ruben, |Hai-|khauan Captain (Berseba Nama)
[!Khorebeb |Garisemab - Nama name]
*
+  12.11.1946 at Hoachanas
---
Diederik Ruben Goliath was the Captain of the |Hai-|khauan (Berseba Nama) between 1933 and 1938. His Nama name was !Khorebeb|Garisemab. He was the fifth in the recorded genealogy of the |Hai-|khauan captains. He was successful in the power struggle between the Goliath and Isaak groups and won against his opposition candidate, Edward Isaak (Snr.). He opposed the South African native reserve's policy and was consequently deposed in August 1938 and banned to Hoachanas. The South Africans appointed two successors as Deputy Captains from each clan (Edward Isaak (Snr.), however, declined the offer): Edward Isaak (Jnr.)(||Khaub |Khurimab)(1938-1956) and David Vries (|Gurob Tsauramab) (1938-1956). Diederik Ruben Goliath died on 12.11.1946 in exile at Hoachanas. After the independence of the Republic of Namibia, his body was re-buried at Berseba on 02.06.1995.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL

RAW DATA: Budack 1972:255; Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);

000540
Goliath, Johannes Christian, |Hai-|khauan Captain (Berseba Nama)
[|Nâixab |Aiomab - Nama name]
*
+ ca. 1925
---
Johannes Christian Goliath was the Captain of the |Hai-|khauan (Berseba Nama) and schoolmaster at Berseba from 1895-1925. His Nama name was |Nâixab |Aiomab. He succeeded Diederik Goliath (|Gariseb |Aiomab)(1894-1895). He was the third in the recorded genealogy of the |Hai-|khauan captains. He was one of those Namaland chiefs who supported the Germans during the Nama-German War 1903 to 1908. Between 1921 and 1923 Goliath was forced to sell one third of his communal ground (east of the railway line between Mariental and Keetmanshoop) in order to cover his pressing debts. He died in 1925. His successor was Andries Goliath (Tububeb |Garisemab)(1925-1933).
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL

RAW DATA: Baumann 1967:90; Budack 1972:255; Drechsler 1966:210, 220; Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);

000541
Goliath, Paul, |Hai-|khauan Captain (Berseba Nama)
[#Hobexab - Nama name]
* ca.1790 at Doorn Rivier, Northern Cape, South Africa
+ 15.04.1869 at Berseba
---
Paul Goliath (#Hobexab) was born in ca. 1790 at Doorn Rivier in the Northern Cape in South Africa. He was a wealthy interpreter and deputy Captain at Bethany. He was elected leader of Gulbrandsdalen as from October 1850, an outpost of Bethany, and established himself as independent leader of that community at !Autsawises (Berseba) with missionary Samuel Hahn in 1850 (until 1852), and supported by Christoph Tibot. The community was dependent on the Kai||khaun (Red Nation) of Hoachanas under Captain ||Oaseb. He was the first in the recorded genealogy of the |Hai-|khauan captains. Goliath was praised by his people as a peace-loving and skilled ruler. He ruled until 1869. He signed the Peace Treaties of Hoachanas (January 1858) and of Gibeon (Orlam Peace of December 1867). He died on 15.04.1869 at Berseba. His successor was Jakobus Isaak (1870-ca. end of 19th century).
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
Functions: Captain - Berseba - 1850-1869

Married to: |Aios
RAW DATA: Lau 1989:300; Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);

002128
Goliath, Stephanus, |Hai-|khauan Captain (Berseba Nama)

*
+
---
After the death of David Christian Goliath in 1976 at Berseba, he was followed by Stephanus Goliath (1976-), a staunch supported of SWAPO in the south. He is the tenth in the recorded genealogy of the |Hai-|khauan captains.

Gender: m
Field of activity: POL

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

001486
Golinelli, Dr.
*
---
Dr. Golinelli was the Distriktschef of Keetmanshoop from 1897 to 1901. He was later heading the South West Africa office in the Kolonialabteilung des Auswärtigen Amtes in Berlin.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: ADM

RAW DATA: Hubatsch; Drechsler 1966:129-133, 168, 230, 329, 346-347, 352, 355, 361-362, 365;

001999
Goodman
*
---
Manager of a copper mine, 1858.
---
Gender: m

RAW DATA: Tabler 1973:44;

002000
Goodwin
*
---
Hunter and trader. From 1863-1864 he was in Ovamboland with Palgrave, Pereira and Hicks.
---
Gender: m

RAW DATA: Tabler 1973:44;

000542
#Goraxab ||Oasmab, Kai||khaun Captain (Red Nation)
[Barnabas - alternative name]
*
+ 21.05.1877
---
||Oasmab #Goraxab was the successor and son of Captain ||Oaseb !Na-khomab (Cornelius)(1840-1867) of the Kai||khaun (Red Nation) of Hoachanas. He ruled from 1867 until his death in 1877. He was the eleventh in the genealogy of the Kai||khaun. He was allied to the Orlam Afrikaners under Jan Jonker. He was defeated by the "southern alliance" of Berseba, Bethany and Gibeon in 1867 (Orlam Peace of December 1867). #Goraxab died on 21.05.1877. His successor was |Gôbeb #Goraxab (Petrus) (1877-1880).
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
Functions: Captain - Kai||khaun - 1867-1877

Father: ||Oaseb !Na-khomab (1840-1867)

RAW DATA: Lau 1987:130; Budack 1970:242; Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);

001487
Gordon, Robert Jacob
*
First entry to Namibia: 08.1779
---
Robert Jacob Gordon was a British military officer in the rank of Colonel. He was one of the earliest European travellers to Namibia. He entered Namibia at the mouth of the Oranje River with W. Paterson in August 1779.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: MIL

Married to:
Mother:
Father:
Children:
RAW DATA: Tabler 1973:44;

000830
Gorelick, Samuel
* 03.04.1906 in Bjelarus
---
Samuel Gorelick was born on 03.04.1906 in Belarus. He came to Namibia in 1925. He was a businessman, motor dealer and Director of Gorelick's Motors (Pty) Ltd. and Gorelick's Cement Works.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: BUS
Profession: Businessman

Married to: Polly Gorelick, née Sherker, married 1949-
Father: Zvi Harry Gorelick
RAW DATA: WWSA 1974;

000831
Gorelick, Solly Cholom
* 27.06.1910 in Bjelarus
---
Solly Cholom Gorelick was born on 27.06.1910 in Belarus. He came to Namibia in 1930. He was a businessman and farmer. He was a Director of Gorelick's Motors (Pty) Ltd., Gorelick's Cement Works and Super Rocla Pipes SWA Ltd.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: BUS
Profession: Businessman

Married to: Dina Gorelick, née Leviton, married 1948
Father: Zvi Harry Gorelick
RAW DATA: WWSA 1974;

002053
||Goreseb, Abraham
*
+ .1894 at Okombahe
---
Abraham ||Goreseb was a Damara Chief as from around 1860 until 1894. He was the first in the recorded genealogy of the Damara kings.The Damara Community of the |Gowanin under the leadership of ||Goreseb supported the Ovaherero against the Nama in 1864. Consequently the |Gowanin were allowed to settle in Okombahe. Equally, the Damara Community of the !Omen started to settle at Okombahe since the 1860s. ||Goreseb died in 1894 at Okombahe.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
Profession: Traditional leader

Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks)

000832
||Goreseb, Cornelius
* .1844
+ .1910 at Okombahe
---
Cornelius ||Goreseb, a Damara Chief of the |Gowanin Community from 1894-1910, was born in 1844 and baptised at Otjimbingwe and attended the mission school there. He was the second in the recorded genealogy of the Damara kings. He and his group left Otjimbingwe for unknown reasons and eventually settled at Springbokfontein in the Erongo Mountains, where a school was established. When ||Goreseb was about 40, he was visited by representatives of the German government, who agreed to recognise him as the leader of the community at Springbokfontein. After this, the authority of other Damara leaders began to decline in favour of Goreseb's leadership. He developed a reputation as a very strict man. Around 1900 he was widely recognised as chief of many of the Damara communities. At this time he moved from Springbokfontein and settled at Okombahe. Damara groups from all over the country began to gather and settle at Okombahe. Governor Leutwein, keen on getting allies and dividing the indigenous people, "granted" the land around Okombahe to the Damara under ||Goreseb's rule. He died in 1910 at Okombahe.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
Profession: Traditional leader

RAW DATA: Kotze/Botha/van Staden; Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks)

002055
||Goreseb, David
*  at Okombahe
+ .1977 at Okombahe
---
David ||Goreseb was a Damara Chief as from 1953 until 1977. He was the fourth in the recorded genealogy of the Damara kings.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
Profession: Traditional leader

Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks)

002054
||Goreseb, Judas
*  at Okombahe
+ .1953 at Okombahe
---
Judas ||Goreseb was a Damara Chief from 1910 until 1953. He was the third in the recorded genealogy of the Damara kings.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
Profession: Traditional leader

Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks)

001485
Görgens, H.
*
---
H. Görgens was a land surveyor in the rank of Vermessungsdirektor. He was the Bezirksamtmann for Omaruru from 1912 to 1914.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: ADM

RAW DATA: Hubatsch;

001488
Gorges, Edmund Howard Lacam, Sir
* 11.20.1872
+ 18.11.1924
---
Edmund Howard Lacam Gorges was born on 11.20.1872. He was the Administrator of South West Africa from 31.10.1915 until 30.09.1920 during the military occupation of the territory. He died on 18.11.1924.
---
Gender: m

Collections/Papers:
1). NAN: A.312

000442
Göring, Ernst Heinrich, Dr.
* 31.10.1838 at Emmerich, Germany
+ 07.12.1913 at München, Germany
First entry to Namibia: August 1885
Last departure from Namibia: August 1890
---
Ernst Heinrich Göring was born on 31.10.1838 at Emmerich in Germany. He received a doctorate in law. He was a combatant in the wars of 1866 and 1870/71. He joined the colonial service as the first Imperial German official representative resident in Namibia (title: Kaiserlicher Kommissar). He arrived at Angra Pequeña in August 1885, and established an office in the mission school building at Otjimbingwe with a staff of two. From there, he concluded various protection treaties, attempted to start controlling mining rights, and the arms and liquor trade. He had to leave hurriedly after the Ovaherero Chief Maharero had cancelled his treaty with the Germans. He took refuge at Walvis Bay and left the country in August 1890 to become German consul in Haiti. He retired in 1895. His son Hermann Göring gained notoriety as a top Nazi leader. He died on 07.12.1913 at München.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: ADM
Functions: Kaiserlicher Kommissar (Imperial Commissioner) - Deutsch-Südwestafrika - 1885-1890

Children: Hermann Göring (1893-1946)

Collections/Papers:
1). NAN: A.407 (Biography and photograph)
(The surviving papers of his son Hermann apparently do not contain family papers from his father (Mommsen, Nachlässe))
RAW DATA: Lau 1995:235; DSAB I:313; Esterhuyse 1968:98-145; Drechsler 1980:32-42; Hubatsch; Dt. Koloniallexikon;

001489
Gorth, Matthäus
* 08.05.1823 at Heppenheim, Germany
+ 05.01.1853 at #Goais
First entry to Namibia: 31.12.1851
---
Matthäus Gorth was born on 08.05.1823 at Heppenheim in Germany. He was a missionary of the Rheinische Missionsgesellschaft. He arrived at Walvis Bay on 31.12.1851. He died from fever only one year later (31.12.1851) at #Goais.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: REL
Profession: Missionary

RAW DATA: Vedder Quellen 3;

000833
Gotthardt, Josef, Bishop
* 16.12.1880 at Thalheim, Germany
+ .1963
First entry to Namibia: 13.10.1907
---
Josef Gotthardt was born on 16.12.1880 at Thalheim in Germany. He was educated in Holland and Germany. He came to Namibia as Catholic missionary  13.10.1907. He was the Prefect Apostolic of Cimbebasia 1921, then Vicar Apostolic. He became Titular Bishop in 1926 and Titular Archbishop in 1952. He became an Assistant to the Papal Throne in 1951. He died in 1963.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: REL
Profession: Clergy

Father: Jacob Gotthardt
RAW DATA: WWSA 1959; DSAB IV;

001409
Gottschalk, Ernst Artur
* 05.03.1880
---
Ernst Artur Gottschalk was born on 05.03.1880. He was a Schutztruppe veterinary officer. He became widely known through the account in Uwe Timm's novel "Morenga", where his name has been chosen for the main fictional narrator.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: MIL
Profession: Military officer Veterinarian

RAW DATA: Fischer 1935:143;

000834
Goudie, Andrew S., Prof. Dr.
* 21.08.1945
---
Andrew S. Goudie was born on 21.08.1945. He was a geographer. He was professor of geography at the University of Oxford 1976-. He was the Deputy editor of "Journal of arid environments". He researched on the geomorphology of the Namib Desert.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: SCI
Profession: Geographer

Namibia National Archives Database

001410
Grabau, Ludwig
* 14.02.1879
---
Schutztruppe officer.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: MIL
Profession: Military officer

RAW DATA: Fischer 1935:245, 247;

002001
Gray
*
Last departure from Namibia: 22.07.1852
---
Gray was a mission schoolmaster of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society. He and his wife worked with Bailey at Warmbad in 1851, then with Tindall, and left for the Cape Colony on 22 .07.1852.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: REL

RAW DATA: Tabler 1973:44;

002002
Greef
*
---
Greef was a hunter and trader. He was a Boer from Swellendam in South Africa who travelled on the eastern borders of Hereroland late in 1853.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: BUS

RAW DATA: Tabler 1973:44;

002020
Greef, Andries
*
First entry to Namibia: 1761
Last departure from Namibia: 1762
---
Participant of Hendrik Hop's expedition to Namibia, 1761/62.
---
Gender: m

Namibia National Archives Database

002004
Green, Catherine Agnes Ann
[Stewardson, Catherine Agnes Ann - birth name]
*
---
Catherine Agnes Ann Green, née Stewardson, was a daughter of the hunter and trader Stewardson. She married Frederick Thomas Green on 07 March 1865 and always travelled with him. She was the first white woman in Ovamboland, and their first child Mary was born on 04 November 1865 at Ondonga. She also raised Green's daughter Ada (Ada (Ida) Maria Kaera Getzen Leinhos) from his first wife Betsy Kaipukire. They had seven children, of whom three survived. After Green's death in 1876, she carried on his business.
---
Gender: f

Married to: Frederick Thomas Green (1829-1876)
Father: Stewardson
Children: Mary Green (1865-)
RAW DATA: Tabler 1973:45-49; P.Reiner 1992:409;

002003
Green, Charles Alexander
* in Canada
+ .1862 or 1863 at the Okavango River
First entry to Namibia: 1856
---
Charles Alexander Green was a hunter and trader. He was a younger brother of Frederick Joseph Green who came with his father and brothers from Canada to South Africa during the 1840s. He traded in Bechuanaland, went to Australia from 1853  to 1856, and went to Hereroland to travel and trade with J. Chapman, Edwards, and F. Green. He drowned by accident in the Okavango River in 1862 or 1863.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: BUS

Father: Robert Green
RAW DATA: Tabler 1973:45;

000160
Green, Frederick Thomas
[Green, Frederick Joseph - alternative name]
[Kerina - Otjiherero name]
* 04.04.1829 at Montreal, Canada
+ 04.05.1876 at Heigamchab
First entry to Namibia: 1856
---
Frederick Thomas Green was born on 04.04.1829 at Montreal in Canada. He was frequently referred to as Frederick Joseph Green. He was a hunter, trader and adventurer. He was a Canadian by birth and came to South Africa with his father and brothers in the 1840s. He was a close partner and friend of Charles John Andersson. He became politically involved in the 1860s for Andersson, helped organise the Ovaherero army against Namaland groups. He had a reputation for ruthlessness as, for example, he did not scruple to kill women and children of the Orlam Afrikaners. It was on his instigation that Carl Hugo Hahn went to Ovamboland with a view to establish a mission station there. He travelled widely in and beyond Namibia, i.a. with Wahlberg to Lake Ngami. After 1864, he made Ovamboland the centre of his operations. He was the first European to travel the Okavango upstream to Libebe (present-day Andara), and to reach the Kunene from the south. He died from an abscess of liver at Heigamchab on 04.05.1876, while returning from a trip to Cape Town. His first wife was Betsy Kaipukire; their daughter, Ada (Ada (Ida) Maria Kaera Getzen Leinhos) was raised by Green and his second wife, Catherine Agnes Ann (Kate) Stewardson, whom he married on 07.03.1865 and with whom he had seven children, of whom three survived.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: BUS
Profession: Trader

Married to: Betsy Green, née Kaipukire
Catherine Agnes Ann Gr

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