• Aus
• Bethanien
• Gobabis
• Karibib
• Keetmanshoop
• Khorixas
• Luderitz
• Maltahöhe
• Mariental
• Okahandia
• Okakarara
• Omaruru
• Oshakati
• Ondangwa
• Otjiwarongo
• Outjio
• Rundu
• Swakopmund
• Tsumeb
• Walvis Bay
• Windhoek

R Rabie - Rylander

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001118
Rabie, Eric Lynton
* 18.08.1896 at Aberdeen, South Africa
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Eric Lynton Rabie was born on 18.08.1896 at Aberdeen in South Africa. He  was educated at the Marist Brothers, Uitenhage. He served in World War One. He came to Namibia in 1941. He was a local Director for the Barclays Bank D.C.O. He was active in various sports bodies.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: BUS

Married to: Louise Marie Rabie, née Rapmund, married 1925-
Father: C.J. Rabie
RAW DATA: WWSA 1959;

001787
Radford, David
*
First entry to Namibia: 1860
---
David Radford was a trader in Angra Pequeña since 1862. He was the first European to settle there (until the 1880s, when Heinrich Vogelsang "bought" Angra Pequeña for Franz Adolf Eduard Lüderitz).
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Gender: m
Field of activity: BUS

Father:
RAW DATA: Esterhuyse 1968:39-40; Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);

001788
Rafalski, Hans
* 20.08.1874 in Germany
+ 24.01.1944 at Berlin, Germany
First entry to Namibia: 1904
Last departure from Namibia: 1914
---
Hans Rafalski was born on 20.08.1874 in Germany. He came to Namibia in 1904 as non-commissioned Schutztruppe officer. After the German-Namibian War had ended, he became a police officer in the Lüderitzbucht District. He organised the first diamond police unit. Later, he headed the police school in Windhoek. He went for holiday to Germany in 1914, and was prevented by World War One from returning to Namibia.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: MIL

Children: Hans-Joachim Rafalski (1909-)

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001726
Raiff, Wilhelm
* .188? in Germany
+ .194?
First entry to Namibia: 1903
Last departure from Namibia: 1919
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Wilhelm Raiff came to Namibia in 1903, presumably employed by the Otavi Railway. He served as Schutztruppe soldier in the German Namibian War of 1904. He established a construction firm in Grootfontein. In the First World War he was a  non-commissioned officer in Nkurenkuru. In 1916 he was jailed by the South African authorities for the illegal movement of cattle. He escaped from the Grootfontein prison and lived as an outlaw until his re-capture in October 1917. He was involved in the escape of Feuerstein and Voswinckel from the Windhoek prison. He was deported to Germany in 1919. There he was trained as an architect, and established an office of the "Interessenvertretung ehemaliger Südwestafrikaner" in Berlin. Later he joined the Nazi Reiter-SA and reached the rank of Standartenführer. He wrote a book "Kämpfe im Busch" about his Namibian experiences (published 1935).
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Gender: m

RAW DATA: AHK 1975:113-115;

001941
Ramakhutla, Erica
* 18.02.1956 in Namibia
+ 21.04.2003 at Windhoek
---
Erica Ramakhutla was born on 18.02.1956. She was a SWAPO activist and functionary of the SWAPO Women's Council. She died on 21.04.2003 in Windhoek.
---
Gender: f
Field of activity: POL

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000408
Range, Paul, Dr.
* .1879 at Berlin, Germany
First entry to Namibia: 1906
Last departure from Namibia: 1912
---
Paul Range was born in 1879 at Berlin in Germany. He served as a government geologist in Namibia from 1906 until 1912, also as a reserve officer. He published extensively on the geology of the country. Later he was a university teacher in Berlin.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: NAT
Profession: Geologist

RAW DATA: W. Tabel: Erlebnisberichte von Forschern und Jägern aus der Kolonialzeit Südwestafrikas, in: Afrikanischer Heimatkalender 1976, pp.85-120; Fischer 1935:149, 234, 237;

000250
Rath, Anna (Jnr.)
* 29.03.1851 at Otjimbingwe
---
Anna Rath was born on 29.03.1851 at Otjimbingwe. She was the daughter of Johannes and Anna Rath. She was taken to the Cape Colony by her parents in the late 1858 or early 1859 to attend school, thus escaping the marine disaster off Walvis Bay in which Johannes Rath lost his wife and four children on 01.04.1859. She remained at the Cape and became a teacher there. She was married to the Reverend J.C. Pauw in 1898.
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Gender: f

Mother: Anna Rath, née Jörris (1822-1859)
Father: Johannes Rath (1816-1903)

RAW DATA: RAW DATA: DSAB II:570;

000251
Rath, Hermann
* .1853
+ 01.04.1859 at Walvis Bay
---
Hermann Rath was born in 1853. He was the eldest son of Johannes and Anna Rath. He drowned together with his mother and three of Johannes Rath's other children on 01.04.1859 when the ship in which they were returning from the Cape foundered off Walvis Bay.
---
Gender: m

Mother: Anna Rath, née Jörris (1822-1859)
Father: Johannes Rath (1816-1903)

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000252
Rath, Johannes
* 31.01.1816 at Vienna, Austria
+ 06.06.1903 at Kuils River, Cape Colony, South Africa
---
Johannes Rath was born on 31.01.1816 at Vienna in Austria. He was a Rhenish Missionary. He began his career as a weaver, but entered the Rhenish Mission in 1840 and was ordained as a missionary on 14.08.1844. He travelled together with Heinrich Scheppmann to Cape Town where he arrived on 19.11.1844. They arrived at Walvis Bay on 04.01.1845. The two missionaries were the first to use this route to South West Africa. From Walvis Bay they reached Otjikango (Gross Barmen), where he became an assistant to Carl Hugo Hahn on 09.04.1845. He learnt the Otjiherero language so quickly that he could preach in it by 1847. At the end of 1845 severe droughts caused a shortage of food, but there was no direct link between Otjikango and Walvis Bay. Rath was asked to go to Walvis Bay via Windhoek to buy necessities there. He left on 28.01.1846, but there was no way of reaching Walvis Bay from Windhoek because the Northern Bay Road constructed by Orlam Afrikaner Chief Jonker Afrikaner was not completed yet (only to be completed by the early 1850s). Eventually he was forced to travel to Cape Town. Because of difficulties on his journey he arrived at Otjikango only on 01.12.1846. In 1848 he once again travelled to Cape Town. He married Anna Jörris of Mettmann near Düsseldorf in Germany, at Walvis Bay on 21.03.1848. In accordance with the decision of the mission conference at Otjikango in April 1849 Rath was instructed to establish a mission station between Otjikango and the Atlantic coast. On 09.07.1849 he founded a station at Otjimbingwe on the banks of the Swakop River, on a site which Rhenish Missionary Heinrich Scheppmann had found suitable in 1845 when seeking a direct route to Walvis Bay from Otjikango. The Ovaherero Chief Wilhelm Christian Zeraua promised to settle there and after the first rains in January 1850, the Ovaherero flocked to Otjimbingwe. There Rath built a simple house of clay bricks and a room (with mere openings for the door and windows) for services and teaching. Fifty pupils were present on the first day. After the Orlam Afrikaners under Jonker Afrikaner had attacked Otjimbingwe at the end of 1852 Rath left for Cape Town in 1853. He returned over land and on his way worked for seven months in Bethany before reaching Otjimbingwe at the end of 1853. With Carl Hugo Hahn, the big-game hunter Frederick Joseph Green and George W. Bonfield, Rath undertook a journey of four months to Ovamboland on 20.05.1857, mainly to extend his mission work. The journey took the party to Ondonga, where the travellers were forced to flee for their lives, because of hostilities by the Ondonga community. The two Rhenish Missionaries got back to Otjimbingwe on 11.09.1857. In October 1858 Rath, accompanied by his wife and six children, went to Cape Town to arrange the education of the eldest two and to get his Otjiherero dictionary of 3 900 words printed. On his return journey he was shipwrecked in Walvis Bay on 01.04.1859, losing his wife and four children in the disaster. He returned to Otjimbingwe but on 13.06.1861 he left this station and South West Africa for good. In 1862 he began his long service as a missionary at Sarepta in the Cape Colony, where he worked until 27.07.1893, when he was succeeded by Rhenish Missionary Friedrich Eich. On his retirement Rath first went to live at Stellenbosch but after the marriage of his daughter Anna Rath to the Reverend J.C. Pauw in 1898, he went to live with his son-in-law at Wellington. While visiting another daughter, Katharina de Villiers of Kuils Rivier, he died on 06.06.1903 at Kuils River, Cape Colony and was buried at Sarepta.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: REL
Profession: Missionary

Married to: Anna Rath, née Jörris (1822-1859), married 1848-1859
Children: Katharina Rath (married de Villiers)(1849-)
Anna Rath (1851-)
Hermann Rath (1853-1859)
Johannes Jr. Rath (18??-1859)
Marie Rath (18??-1859)
Leopold Rath (1858-1859)

RAW DATA: DSAB II:570-571;

002328
Rath, Katharina
* .1849 at Otjimbingwe
+
---
Katharina Rath was born in 1849 at Otjimbingwe. She was the oldest daughter of Johannes and Anna Rath. She was taken to the Cape Colony by her parents in the late 1858 or early 1859 to attend school, thus escaping the marine disaster off Walvis Bay in which Johannes Rath lost his wife and four children on 01.04.1859. She married a Mr. de Villiers and lived at Kuils River in the Cape Colony in South Africa.
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Gender: f

Mother: Anna Rath, née Jörris (1822-1859)
Father: Johannes Rath (1816-1903)

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000254
Rath, Leopold
* .1858
+ 01.04.1859 at Walvis Bay
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Leopold Rath was the youngest child of Johannes and Anna Rath. He drowned together with his mother and three of Johannes Rath's other children when the ship in which they were returning from the Cape Colony foundered off Walvis Bay.
---
Gender: m

Mother: Anna Rath, née Jörris (1822-1859)
Father: Johannes Rath (1816-1903)

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000255
Rath, Marie
*
+ 01.04.1859 at Walvis Bay
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Marie Rath was one of Johannes and Anna Rath's children who drowned together with his mother and three of Johannes Rath's other children when the ship in which they were returning from the Cape Colony foundered off Walvis Bay.
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Gender: f

Mother: Anna Rath, née Jörris (1822-1859)
Father: Johannes Rath (1816-1903)

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000029
Ratledge, James Philo
[Ratledge, Jim - ]
* in Canada
+ 20.03.1998 at Somerset West, South Africa
First entry to Namibia: 1948
---
James Philo Ratledge was born in Canada. He was a senior manager in the Tsumeb Corporation from 1948-1977. He was instrumental in the establishment of the Tsumeb copper and lead smelter plants. He was a founder member and first president (from 1969 until 1971) of the Association of Mining Companies of South West Africa. On his retirement in 1977 he took to crop farming in the Kombat area. His last years until his death on 20.03.1998 he spent at Somerset West in South Africa.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: EN
Profession: Engineer

Married to: Marlene

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000256
Rausch, Johann Heinrich Wilhelm
* 10.07.1832 at Siegburg, Germany
+ .1867
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Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Rausch was born on 10.07.1832 at Siegburg in Germany. He was a teacher at the school of the Rhenish Missionary Society at Stellenbosch from 1854 to 1866, whose house at the same time was a hostel for missionary sons who attended the school. In 1866, he joined the Dutch Reformed Church for financial reasons and was stationed at Victoria West. He was married to Jacoba Hendrika Vos from Stellenbosch on 14.12.1857.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: EDU
Profession: Teacher

Married to: Jacoba Hendrika Rausch, née Vos, married 1857-

RAW DATA: Vergissmeinnicht 1893:33; Strassberger 1969:32; von Rohden 1888:113; Faulenbach;

000207
Rautanen, Friederika (Frieda)
[Kleinschmidt, Friederika - birth name]
* 25.04.1854 at Rehoboth
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Friederika (Frieda) Rautanen, née Kleinschmidt, was born on 25.04.1854 at Rehoboth. She was the daughter of Franz Heinrich and Hanna Kleinschmidt. She married the Finnish Missionary Martti Rautanen on 11.09.1872
---
Gender: f

Married to: Martti Rautanen (1845-1926), married 1872-
Mother: Hanna Kleinschmidt, née Schmelen (1819-1884)
Father: Franz Heinrich Kleinschmidt (1812-1864)

RAW DATA: Grönholm 1983:10; Tabler 1972:90; Vergissmeinnicht 1893:20; Faulenbach;

000257
Rautanen, Martti
[Nakambale - Ovambo name]
* 10.11.1845 at Novasolka, Finland
+ 19.10.1926 at Olukonda
---
Martti Rautanen was born on 10.11.1845 at Novasolka in Finland. He was a missionary of the Finnish Missionary Society and translator of the Bible into Oshindonga. He completed his training at the mission school in Helsingfors (Helsinki) in 1867. He came to Namibia via the Cape Colony (arrival in Cape Town: 30.12.1868) with the missionaries Botolf Bernhard Björklund, Karl August Weikkolin, P. Kurvinen, K.L. Tolonen and four lay brothers on 14.02.1869. Having been taught Otjiherero by Rhenish missionaries under Carl Hugo Hahn at Otjimbingwe, they resumed their journey, arriving in Ovamboland on 08.07.1870. There Rautanen and three others began to work in the Uukwambi area. Rautanen soon left to work alone among the Ongandjera community, where he founded a mission station called Rehoboth (Okahao), named after the existing Rhenish mission station Rehoboth south of Windhoek. He married Friederika (Frieda) Kleinschmidt on 11.09.1872, daughter of the Rhenish Missionary qt Rehoboth (in the south), Heinrich Kleinschmidt. As his wife was German speaking, Rautanen spoke German at home. Due to the anti-missionary attitudes of the Ongandjera King Tsheya tsUutshona (1862-1878) and the Uukwambi King Nuyoma (1863-1875), the Finnish Missionary Society evacuated the mission stations in the Uukwambi and Ongandjera areas in 1873. Thereafter Rautanen worked in Omandonga, the capital of the Ondonga area until 1880. From there he moved to Olukonda, where he spent the rest of his life. Rautanen became the counsellor, missionary and personal physician of several successive Ondonga kings: Kambonde kaNankwaya (1874-1883), Iitana yaNekwiyu (1883-1884) and Kambonde kaMpingana (1884-1909). In 1882 he became the head of the Finnish missionary work in Ovamboland. His Ovambo name was Nakambale ("He who carries the (tobacco) basket"). His most important work was the translation of the Bible into Oshindonga. His translation of Matthew was published in 1891, then followed Mark (1892), Luke (1895), John (1896) and the Acts (1897). The complete New Testament was published in 1908. The whole Bible was available in Oshindonga in 1924. Rautanen also contributed considerably to a mission journal, Osondaha, which had appeared in Oshindonga since September 1901. In recognition of his achievements he was awarded an honorary doctorate in theology by the University of Helsinki in 1925. He died at Olukonda on 19.10.1926. The Rautanens had two sons and three daughters. Trained as missionaries, the elder son, Karl Christian Reinhold, and the second eldest daughter, Emelia Johanna, returned to Ovamboland, while the eldest daughter, Anna Mathilda Rautanen, married Hermann Tönjes, a Rhenish Missionary in the Uukwanyama area of Ovamboland, who later became commissioner at Lüderitz.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: REL
Profession: Missionary

Married to: Friederika Rautanen, née Kleinschmidt (1854-), married 1872

RAW DATA: Tabler 1972:90; Grönholm 1983:10; Vergissmeinnicht 1893:16; v.Schumann; Drechsler 1966:110, 343; DSAB I:665-666;

000751
Rautenberg, Hulda Anna Charlotte
* 12.10.1911 at Bergedorf, Germany
+ 18.06.2002 at Flintbek bei Kiel, Germany
First entry to Namibia: 1935
Last departure from Namibia: 1961
---
Local historian who published a history of Swakopmund.
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Gender: f
Field of activity: WRI

Namibia National Archives Database

001670
Raven, Alfred von
* 13.09.1877
---
Schutztruppe officer.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: MIL
Profession: Military officer

RAW DATA: Fischer 1935:86, 178;

001104
Reddy, Enuga Sreenivasulu
* .1924 in India
---
Enuga Sreenivasulu Reddy became interested in the struggles of the Indian and African congresses in South Africa while a student at the University of Madras (now: Chennai) in India. Arriving in New York for further studies in 1946, he met the South African people's delegation led by A.B. Xuma, and since then was actively involved in supporting their struggle. He joined the United Nations Secretariat in 1949 und dealt with South Africa and also with Namibia for most of the 35 years he served as a UN official. From 1963 to 1984, he was the official in charge of action against Apartheid, as principal secretary of the Special Committee against Apartheid and later Director of the Centre against Apartheid. He was Assistant Secretary-General of the UN from 1983 to 1985.
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Gender: m
Field o f activity: POL

Father:
Collections/Papers:
1). Yale University
2). Nehru Memorial Museum
3). Witwatersrand University Library
4). University of Durban-Westville Library

001789
Redecker, Gottlieb
* 30.04.1871 at Otjimbingwe
+ 21.01.1945 at Gütersloh, Germany
Last departure from Namibia: 1921
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Gottlieb Redecker was born on 30.04.1871 at Otjimbingwe. He was sent to Germany in 1882, where he graduated from secondary school and studied civil engineering. He returned in 1896 to construct a wagon factory for the Hälbich family in Otjimbingwe. He went again to Germany, married Marie Kornfeld and was sent to Namibia again as government construction engineer (Regierungsbaumeister) in 1899. Redecker built the Christuskirche in Windhoek and the government offices (Tintenpalast). He returned to Germany in 1921 and worked in a government office for war damage compensation. He retired in 1931, lived in Berlin and died in Gütersloh on 21.01.1945 in an air raid during World War Two.
---
Gender: m

Married to: Marie Redecker, née Kornfeld, married 1898
Mother: Lina Redecker, née Gronemeyer (-1882)
Father: Johann Wilhelm Redecker (1836-1911)
RAW DATA: AHK 1978:21-25;

000258
Redecker, Johann Wilhelm
* 29.09.1836 at Jöllenbeck, Germany
+ 27.01.1911 at Otjimbingwe
First entry to Namibia: 1867
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Johann Wilhelm Redecker was born on 29.09.1836 at Jöllenbeck in Germany. He was a trader and settler who landed at Walvis Bay on 15.05.1867 as one of Rhenish Missionary Carl Hugo Hahn's mission colonists. When the mission colony was dissolved in 1874, he started his own business, and had a store at Otjimbingwe during the 1870s. He was married twice: to Lina Gronemeyer from Gütersloh on 31.03.1869, and in 1885 again to Anna Maria Husemann. In all, he had eight children, one of them being the well-known architect Gottlieb Redecker. He died on 27.01.1911 at Otjimbingwe.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: BUS
Profession: Trader

Married to: <1>Lina Redecker, née Gronemeyer (-1882), married 1869-18822
<2>Anna Maria Redecker, née Husemann (1885)
Children: Gottlieb Redecker (1871-1945)

RAW DATA: Tabler 1972:91; von Schumann 1986:3; Vergissmeinnicht 1893:47; Mossolow 1978:21; Lau 1989b:191; Drechsler 1966:60, 334;

000259
Redecker, Lina
[Gronemeyer, Lina - birth name]
* at Gütersloh, Germany
+ 02.02.1882
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First wife of Johann Wilhelm Redecker.
---
Gender: f

Married to: Johann Wilhelm Redecker (1836-1911)
Children: Gottlieb Redecker (1871-1945)

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002314
Reeh, Günther
* 07.04.1926 at Lautzenbrücken in Germany
+
First entry to Namibia: 1952
Last departure from Namibia: 1971
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Günther Reeh was born in Lautzenbrücken (Westerwald) in Germany on 07.04.1926. From April 1939 onwards he received his schooling in some of the "Adolf Hitler schools" (Krössinsee   and Sonthofen in Germany). After World War Two he decided to become a missionary in the Rhenish Missionary Society in Wuppertal. After his training he went to Namibia in September 1952. He started his missionary career in Okahandja where he met Heinrich Vedder. He worked together with Otto Milk from the "white" Deutsche Evangelische Lutherische Kirche (DELK). Reeh was soon confronted with the South African Apartheid policy which was, however, condoned by the majority of German speaking missionaries and clergies. After a short sojourn in Windhoek, Reeh was transferred to Tsumeb to work in the congregation of the DELK and the Rhenish Church. 1956 he was transferred back to Windhoek. On 04.10.1957 <FONT size=2>Rhenish "black" pastors were opposed to the idea of a Federal Church (as decided during the Missionary Conference in Okahandja, December 1955) and demanded one single, entirely united Church, with no division into different population groups, and it should be called the Evangelical Lutheran Church of SWA (ELC). ELC was constituted at a synod held in Okahandja. The church was led by Preses Hans Karl Diehl and Günther Reeh (Windhoek), Hendrik Isaak (Maltahöhe), Andreas Kukuri (he died on 29.12.1966) and Otto Milk (Okahandja), Daniel Strydom (Rehoboth) and Herrmann Tötemeyer (Keetmanshoop). 1961 Reeh moved to the Karibib congregation (until 1964 when he moved back to Windhoek, in order to take over the office of the Secretary of the ELC). On 27.01.1964 Clemence Kapuuo, advisor to the Ovaherero Chief Hosea Kutako, rejected the South African plan to create Bantustan according to the Odendaal Plan. The plan was also rejected by the leaders of the two Lutheran churches: Leonard Auala from the ELOC and Vice Preses Paulus ||Gowaseb and Secretary-General Günther Reeh from the ELC. In 1965 the All-Africa Lutheran Conference took place in Addis Ababa. The Namibian delegation consisted of members of the ELOC, Arvo Eirola and Leonard Auala, as well as members of the ELC, Albert Mouton, Paulus ||Gowaseb, Joshua Hoebeb and Günther Reeh. On 30.06.1971 Lutheran church leaders Nangolo Leonard Auala and Paulus ||Gowaseb, supported by Lukas de Vries condemned the contract labour and the Apartheid system (Open letter of Namibian church leaders to SA Prime Minister Vorster signed by Auala and ||Gowaseb and allegedly drafted by Günther Reeh)). This protest was supported by the Roman-Catholic church leaders, Bishop Koppmann from Windhoek and Bishop Schlotterback from Keetmanshoop. The German Evangelical Lutheran Church (DELK) under Otto Milk rejected the letter. On 18.08.1971 the church leaders Nangolo Leonard Auala, supported by Petrus Shipena and Vilho Kaulinge, and Paulus ||Gowaseb, supported by Elifas Eiseb, Albertus Maasdorp and Günther Reeh, met SA Prime Minister John Vorster in Windhoek. Vorster tried to defend the South African Apartheid system as a Christian philosophy. This was rejected by the Namibian church leaders. All these events led to the South African decision to declare Günther Reeh and his family to "prohibited immigrants" and a further work permit in Namibia was consequently refused in 1972.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: REL

Married: Lieschen Schaberg (01.01.1956-)

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

000750
Rehbock, Theodor, Prof. Dr.
* .1864 at Amsterdam, Netherlands
+ .1950
First entry to Namibia: 1896
Last departure from Namibia: 1897
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Theodor Rehbock was born in 1864 at Amsterdam in the Netherlands. He was a hydraulic engineer and Professor at the Technische Hochschule (Technical University) in Karlsruhe. He was on a consultancy trip to Namibia from 1896 to 1897. He travelled widely, especially in southern Namibia. Many later dam projects in Namibia can be traced back to his recommendations, laid down in a substantial published report, "Deutsch-Südwestafrika, seine wirtschaftliche Erschliessung unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Nutzbarmachung des Wassers", 1898. Rehbock was also an excellent photographer. Among his photographs of Nama people, published in a volume "Deutsch-Südwestafrika: 96 Lichtdrucke...", are outstanding examples of sensitive portraiture free from the racist attitude which characterised so much of contemporary colonial photography. He died in 1950.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: ENG
Profession: Engineer

RAW DATA: Dt.Koloniallexikon;

000260
Reid, Mr.
*
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Mr. Reid was a trader who was in the employ of Charles John Andersson in 1852. In 1855, he was the manager of the Matchless Mine.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: BUS
Profession: Trader

RAW DATA: Lau 1987:103;

001790
Reinecke, Dr.
*
---
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Gender: m
Field of activity: POL

RAW DATA: Drechsler 1966:169, 353;

000409
Reuning, Ernst, Dr.
*
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Ernst Reuning was a geologist in the service of the Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft für Südwestafrika. Later he was a university teacher (Privatdozent) at the University of Giessen.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: NAT
Profession: Geologist

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001791
Reiss, Leutnant
[Reis, alternative spelling]
*
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Schutztruppe officer.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: MIL
Profession: Military officer

RAW DATA: Drechsler 1966:346;

001792
Rethemeier, A.
* .1905 in Germany
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Missionary of the Rheinische Missionsgesellschaft.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: REL
Profession: Missionary

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001793
Rethemeier, Hermann
* .1895 in Germany
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Missionary of the Rheinische Missionsgesellschaft.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: REL
Profession: Missionary

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000592
Rhodes, Cecil John
* 05.07.1853 at Bishop's Stortford, England
+ 26.03.1902 at Muizenberg, South Africa
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Cecil John Rhodes was born on 05.07.1853 at Bishop's Stortford in England. He was a pastor's son who came to South Africa for health reasons. A successful diamond miner, he went into Cape politics by 1880, invested in the newly-discovered South African gold fields and subsequently amassed a vast personal fortune, becoming one of the most powerful men on the subcontinent. He died on 26.03.1902 at Muizenberg in South Africa.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: BUS POL

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000637
Riarua, Ovaherero Chief
[Amadamap - Nama name]
*
+ 31.05.1899
---
Riarua (Amadamap - Nama name) was Maharero's (Kamaharero) advisor. On 23.08.1880 a new <FONT size=2>war between the Nama and Ovaherero broke out, after the battle of Gurumanas (||<FONT size=2>Gurumâ!nâs). The Ovaherero leader Karuvingo and the Nama leader Nu-|<FONT size=2>narub were both killed in the skirmish. The Ovaherero escaped to Okahandja where Wilhelm Maharero, the oldest son of Maharero and Riarua (Nama name "Amadamap"), Maharero's advisor, received orders to repel the expected Nama attack. On 26.03.1881 Jan Jonker Afrikaner proposed to Riarua that he should kill Maharero in order to establish peace. Riarua declined to do this and Jan Jonker escaped to Tsebris and later to the Gamsberg. At the beginning of 1883, Maharero decided to establish the southern border of Hereroland himself. He left Okahandja, Otjikango and Otjiseva and moved together with Riarua first to Windhoek and later to Aris. There he was attacked by the Nama community of the Groot Doden. The Groot Doden were defeated and dispersed (last descendants live to-day in the area of Schlip). After the death of Maharero (Kamaharero) in 1890, Samuel Maharero was recognised by the German authorities as supreme Ovaherero leader on 03.08.1891. This was not accepted by other Ovaherero leaders, such as Manasse Tyiseseta of Omaruru, Kandji Tjetjo of Owikokorero and the Ovambanderu leader Kahimemua Nguvauva, as well as Riarua, Maharero’s former advisor. In April 1894 Chief Kambazembi of the Waterberg attempted to reconcile Nikodemus Kavikunua and Chief Riarua with Samuel Maharero. He was not successful. Riarua in alliance with Kandji Tjetjo even raided Samuel’s cattle posts. However, in June 1894 Theodor Leutwein took Samuel Maharero’s side, stripping Riarua of all authority during negotiations at Okahandja. On 18.05.1895 Leutwein, Samuel Maharero and Riarua met the Ovaherero chiefs Kavikunua and Kahimemua at Otjinauanaua. An agreement was reached which eventually led to the downfall of Nikodemus and Kahimemua in 1896. On 31.05.1899 Riarua (Amadamap) died.
---
Gender: m

Children: Assa Riarua

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

000593
Riarua, Asser, Ovaherero Chief
[Riarua, Assa]
* ca.1856
+ .1904 (?) in the Omaheke (?)
---
Asser Riarua was born around 1856. He was the son of Riarua and Nandaura. He was a famous Ovaherero military leader whose bravery on the battlefield was combined with highly-respected skills of negotiation and mediation. For instance, on 05.07.1892 <FONT size=2>Ovaherero and Ovambanderu under the leadership of Assa Riarua, as well as Nikodemus Kavikunua, Daniel, Barnabas and Justus Kavizeri, attacked Hendrik Witbooi’s stronghold Hornkranz but were defeated. On their way back to Windhoek, the unsuspecting Ovaherero were attacked by some German settlers under the command of John Ludwig. Two Ovaherero were killed, some were wounded and cattle were driven off. This incident was not followed up by the German authorities, and Samuel Maharero’s faith in the Germans was badly shaken. He defended himself against the racist attitude of German settlers and, for instance, reported that he was roughly evicted from a bakery in Windhoek. He participated in the German Ovaherero War of 1904-1908. He tried to safeguard German settler women and children. As an example on 14.01.1904, shortly after the outbreak of the war, he allowed missionary Eich with his small party of German women and children safe passage from Waterberg to Okahandja, with the approval of Samuel Maharero. Other headmen such as Michael Tyiseseta, Ouandja and David Kambazembi agreed to the safe passage. After the Waterberg Battle in August 1904, he assembled with other Ovaherero leaders at Osombo Onjatu at the Eiseb omuramba, on his way into Bechuanaland. His further fate could not be established.
---
Gender: m

Mother: Nandaura
Father: Riarua (Amadamap)

RAW DATA: Pool 1991; Heywood et al. 1992; Drechsler 1966:155, 351; Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);

002082
Ribebe, Angelina Matumbo
[Hompa, traditional title]

*
+
---
In the Kavango, the Shambyu Queen Hompa Angelina Matumbo Ribebe rules since 1989.
---
Gender: f
Field of activity: POL

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

000436
Richter, Dr.
*
First entry to Namibia: March 1893
---
Dr. Richter arrived as first professional doctor in German South West Africa in March 1893.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: MED
Profession: Medical doctor

RAW DATA: AHK 1982, p.33;

000261
Richter, Albertine
* .1806
+ 14.05.1882 at Wandsbeck, Germany
---
Albertine Richter was the wife of the late Wilhelm Richter, who worked most of his life as the second in charge of the training institute of the Rhenish Missionary Society.
---
Gender: f

Married to: J. Heinrich Richter (1804-1845)

RAW DATA: Lau 1985:V1288; Faulenbach;

000281
Richter, J. Heinrich
* 11.12.1799 at Belleben/Mansfeld, Germany
+ 05.04.1847
---
Heinrich J. Richter was born on 11.12.1799 at Belleben/Mansfeld, Germany. He was a teacher and director of the mission training institute from 1827 until 1847 and then director of the Rhenish Missionary Society from 1842 until his death on 05.04.1847.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: EDU
Profession: Teacher

RAW DATA: Lau 1985:V1288; Vergissmeinnicht 1893:8;

000282
Richter, Traugott
*
+ .1880
---
Traugott Richter was a teacher who was sent to the South African Cape Colony by the Rhenish Missionary Society. It appears that he was already at the Cape before 1877, as he returned there during that year. In 1880, he was killed in Windhoek.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: EDU
Profession: Teacher

Namibia National Archives Database

000283
Richter, Wilhelm
* .1804
+ 20.06.1845
---
Wilhelm Richter was born in 1804. He was employed by the Rhenish Missionary Society at the Mission House from 01.09.1834. He worked for most of his life as the second-in-charge of the training institute of the Rhenish Missionary Society in Germany. He died on 20.06.1845.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: EDU

Married to: Albertine Richter (1806-1882)

RAW DATA: Vergissmeinnicht 1893:137; Lau 1985:V1288; Kriele 1928:86;

000594
Ricketts, Edward
[Rickerts, Edward - alternative spelling]
[Rickets, Edward - alternative spelling]
[Rickett, Edward - alternative spelling]
[Rikkets, Edward - alternative spelling]
*
First entry to Namibia: 1853
---
Edward Ricketts, a "coloured" man, was a trader who was based at Tsub|Garis. According to <FONT size=2>William Coates Palgrave, he came to Namibia around 1853. His purchase of land from Moses Witbooi in 1886 was the only one that was endorsed by Hendrik Witbooi. He died before 1896.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: BUS

Married to: Ellen Ricketts

RAW DATA: NAN BKE 354 SPS.13; Quellen 17:16.7.1886, 13.1.1887; Bochert 1980:44;

000595
Ricketts, Ellen
[Rieth, Ellen - second married name]
*
---
Ellen Rickets was the wife of Edward Ricketts, a "coloured" man, and apparently a trader in her own right. A widow, she married the German Unteroffizier Fritz Rieth in 1896. Both the Bethany people and Hendrik Witbooi sold land to her in settlement of debts between 1894 and 1899 - the farms Ausis and Tsub|Garis (Voigtsgrund). However, under German colonial law her property belonged to her husband and she was not even entitled to inherit. Her husband died in 1910, a pauper with nothing but debts. Her further fate was not traced.
---
Gender: f
Field of activity: BUS

Married to: Edward Ricketts
Fritz Rieth (-1910)

RAW DATA: NAN ZBU 1974 U.V.v.2; NAN NLA 107 R.12;

001794
Rickmann, Wilhelm
* .1869 in Germany
+ .1908
---
Veterinarian.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: VET
Profession: Veterinarian

RAW DATA: DSAB IV;

001795
Riechmann, Heinrich
* 03.06.1859 at Eikel, Germany
First entry to Namibia: 1889
---
Heinrich Riechmann was a missionary of the Rheinische Missionsgesellschaft. He came to Namibia 1889. He was stationed in Franzfontein from 1891-.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: REL
Profession: Missionary

Married to: Hermine Riechmann, née Gudelius, married 1891-
RAW DATA: Drechsler 1966:125, 314;

000365
Rihs, Walter, Senior
*
First entry to Namibia: 1988
Last departure from Namibia: 1998
---
The Swiss national Walter Rihs Snr., together with his son Walter, set up fraudulent businesses in Namibia which were linked to attempts by the Swiss arms dealer Juerg Jacomet to dump nuclear waste in Namibia. Rihs and his wife were deported from Namibia in 1998.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: BUS

Namibia National Archives Database

000366
Rihs, Walter, Junior
*
+ 25.04.1997
First entry to Namibia: 1988
---
The Swiss national Walter Rihs Jnr., together with his father Walter, set up fraudulent businesses in Namibia which were linked to attempts by the Swiss arms dealer Juerg Jacomet to dump nuclear waste in Namibia.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: BUS

Namibia National Archives Database

002022
Rijkvoet, Carel Christoffel
*
First entry to Namibia: 29.09.1761
Last departure from Namibia: 09.02.1762
---
Carel Christoffel Rijkvoet was a participant of a land expedition from the Cape Colony to Namibia from July 1761 until April 1762. The expedition consisted of its leader Hendrik Hop, Surveyor Carel Frederik Brink, Naturalist Johan Andreas Auge, Carel Christoffel Rijkvoet, scout Jacobus Coetzee and twelve other Cape burghers, as well as 68 Basters. They crossed the Oranje River on 29.09.1761, visited Warmbad, travelled northwards up to the Xamob (Löwen) River, and turned back on 09.12.1761. On 09.02.1762, they crossed the Oranje on their way back.
---
Gender: m
Profession: Surgeon

RAW DATA: Esterhuyse 1968:6; Eveleigh pp.92ff; Tabler 1973:58-59;

001796
Riruako, Kuaima, Ovaherero Chief
* 24.04.1935 at Aminuis
---
Kuaima Riruako was born on 24.04.1935 at Aminuis. He is a relative of Hosea Kutako and a great nephew of Maharero. He went to Standard 6 at the St. Barnabas School at the Old Location in Windhoek. He received a US High School diploma and and a BA degree (Political Science and Philosophy) from the New York University in the United States. He was a founder member of the <FONT face=Arial>National Unity Democratic Organisation (<O:P></O:P>NUDO), after having been regularly sent across the Bechuanaland (Botswana) border illegally at night to negotiate with Ovaherero there on behalf of Hosea Kutako's Chief's Council. He went into exile in 1964 with 154 others but was refused refugee status by the British Bechuanaland Authorities and restricted to within 12 miles of the Namibia/Botswana border. With five members of the group, Riruako decided to have the British decision tested in court. They were imprisoned in Ghanzi and Maun (Botswana). With assistance from the Windhoek Advocate I. Goldblatt, who had aided Namibian blacks in their petitions for independence, legal council was organised via Bulawayo (Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe) and an Advocate Leo Baron appeared for the Riruako group. The court ruled against his application for refugee status and he appealed to the High Court at Lobatse (Botswana). The restrictions were lifted and Riruako and 150 were granted permanent residence in Botswana. The case was raised in the British Parliament by Barbara Castle, and Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie sent 4 500 Ethiopian Dollars in aid. In 1965 Riruako travelled first to Ethiopia and then to Accra in Ghana where he attended the First All African Conference (1965) in the hall of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) where he met Mburumba Kerina and Fanuel Kozonguizi and was introduced to Emperor Haile Selassie. While NUDO representative in Accra, he studied Political Economics at the Kwame Nkrumah Institute. He was expelled from Ghana at gunpoint after the coup against Kwame Nkrumah on 24.02.1966 and fled to Lusaka in Zambia. There a local SWAPO representative warned him he would not receive a residence permit unless he would leave NUDO and join SWAPO instead. Riruako refused and was imprisoned in Livingstone. The Zambian Police eventually handed him over to the South African Police at Katima Mulilo in Namibia. From there he was sent to prison in Pretoria where he was put in solitary confinement for a year and tortured. Here he met Andimba Toivo ya Toivo (SWAPO Secretary-General) and Gerson Veii (SWANU President). Eventually an Ovambo policeman (Eliphas) leaked the information of his whereabouts back to Namibia. When Advocate I. Goldblatt applied for his release, the South African Police dumped Riruako together with Werner Manuningwe into the Zambezi River near Katima Mulilo at night. They were rescued by fishermen and landed in Zambia where he was again refused asylum and handed over to the Bechuanaland Authorities, who deported him back to Zambia. He was imprisoned in Lusaka and Livingstone awaiting a residence permit. He was pressured again to join SWAPO but Riruako remained adamant in his support of NUDO. Eventually he was released into the care of Kenneth Abrahams in Lusaka (Riruako is related to Ottilié Abrahams). With Abraham's help and that of a Swiss refugee official, Riruako was appointed Director of the UN refugee transit camp where he soon improved conditions by making the refugees plant their own vegetable gardens. "The jealousy of locals" eventually led to the closing of the camp, the refugees being dispersed by night. Riruako was sent to the Angolan border. With the assistance of an US development official and the UN Mission, Riruako received a visa for the USA in 1969. For lack of a scholarship he worked during the day, put himself through an American high school at night and later attended the University of New York. With the help of a friend he gained a pass for the UN Building in New York and sneaked through to the 38th floor and the UN Secretary General's, Kurt Waldheim's, office. After the audience with Waldheim, he received a scholarship and brought other Namibians to New York on similar grants. After an argument with the then South African Ambassador to the United Nations, Pik Botha, he was appointed Permanent UN Representative for NUDO. In 1977, he became the first Namibian exile to return to Namibia on a South African passport. In 1978, while in Paris in France, he was elected as Paramount Chief of the Ovaherero (as successor to Clemence Kapuuo) and Chairman of NUDO (July 1978). In 1987 he became President of the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (DTA). After the independence of Namibia, Riruako was, with interruptions, Member of the National Assembly for the DTA. Since the 1990s Riruako demanded reparations from the German Government for the injustice and the property losses suffered by the Ovaherero community during the German-Namibian War 1903-1908, especially during the state visits of the German Chancellor, Helmut Kohl, September 1995 and the German President, Roman Herzog, March 1998. At the end of 2003 Riruako left the DTA and took NUDO out of the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: TRA

Married: Contansia Veseevete, three children
RAW DATA: Panorama 85 (1978):19; SWA Annual 1979:157; Namibia Handbook and Political Who's Who, 1990 (Pütz, Von Egidy and Caplan); Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);

001121
Rissik, Alec Elias
* 27.11.1906 at Middelburg, South Africa
---
Alec Elias Rissik was born on 27.11.1906 at Middelburg in South Africa. He was educated at the Middelburg High School. He was an Attorney-at-Law and Notary Public at Keetmanshoop. He became Senior Partner of Rissik Cox of Keetmanshoop and Karasburg. He was a Director of Excelsior Holdings (Pty) Ltd and the Chairperson of the Keetmanshoop Ratepayers Association.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: LAW
Profession: Lawyer

Married to: Violet Maud Rissik, née Harris, married 1936-
Father: Solomon Rissik
RAW DATA: WWSA 1959;

000284
Ritter, Carl Gustav
* 25.04.1824 at Frankfurt, Germany
+ 23.09.1899 at Cape Town, South Africa
---
Carl Gustav Ritter was born on 25.04.1824 at Frankfurt in Germany. He was the treasurer of the Rhenish Missionary Society who came to South Africa in 1866 and held the position until 1875. In May 1867, he visited Otjimbingwe and other mission stations in the country on an inspection tour. Although Ritter was responsible for the financial matters of the Rhenish Missionary Society in southern Africa, missionary Carl Hugo Hahn felt that he interfered too much in missionary work itself, and this also contributed to the fact that Hahn eventually left the Society. He was married to Susanna Johanna Lückhoff, eldest daughter of the Rhenish Missionary Paulus Daniel Lückhoff, on 03.12.1867. He died on 23.09.1899 at Cape Town.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: REL

Married to: Susanna Johanna Ritter, née Lückhoff (1841-), married 1867-

RAW DATA: Vergissmeinnicht 1893:45,122; Vedder 1985:499; Diehl 1973:188; v.Schumann; Faulenbach;

001672
Ritter, Hermann
* 21.08.1873
---
Schutztruppe officer.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: MIL
Profession: Military officer

RAW DATA: Fischer 1935:79-80;

000285
Ritter, Susanne Johanna
* 28.02.1841 at Stellenbosch
---
Susanne Johanna Ritter was born on 28.02.1841 at Stellenbosch in South Africa. She was the second child of Paulus Daniel Lückhoff, a missionary of the Rhenish Mission Society at Stellenbosch. Married Carl Gustav Ritter on 03.12.1867.
---
Gender: f

Married to: Carl Gustav Ritter (1824-1899), married 1867
Father: Paulus Daniel Lückhoff (1803-1891)

Namibia National Archives Database

001797
Robb
*
---
Trader in Hereroland ca.1890.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: BUS

RAW DATA: Esterhuyse 1968:23;

001122
Robbertse, Joseph Jacobus
* 11.04.1925 at Naboomspruit, South Africa
---
Joseph Jacobus Robbertse was born on 11.04.1925 at Naboomspruit in South Africa. He was educated at the Brixton Primary School and the Parktown Boys High School in Johannesburg. He joined Nedbank in 1943. He was the Manager of Nedbank in Windhoek.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: BUS
Profession: Banker

Married to: Anne Robbertse, née van Greunen, married 1946-
Father: Joseph Jacobus Robbertse
RAW DATA: WWSA 1974;

001123
Robert, Alun
*
---
Alun Robert was a researcher and writer on Namibia. He specialised on the implementation of UNCN Decree No. 1 on the Protection of Namibia's natural resources. He worked as co-researcher for the UK Granada TV documentary "Follow the yellowcake road" and wrote "The Rössing File".
---
Gender: m

Namibia National Archives Database

000596
Robertson
[Robizoon - alternative spelling]
*
---
A 19th century trader associated with Robert Lewis.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: BUS

RAW DATA: Quellen 6:29.10.1891;

000077
Rodenwoldt, Volker
* 21.05.1919 at Grootfontein
+
---
Volker Rodenwoldt was born on 21.05.1919 in Grootfontein. He received his schooling in Grootfontein and Windhoek (1938 Abitur). Between 1939 and 1946, during World War Two, he was interned in Andalusia and Baviaanspoort in South Africa. He returned to Namibia in 1947 and became a businessman. He was the Mayor of Karibib from 1973-19??. He served as Chairperson of the Deutscher Schulverein Karibib and was a promoter for German language rights in Namibia. He was a founding member of the Interessengemeinschaft Deutschsprachiger Südwester (IG).
---
Gender: m
Functions: Mayor - Karibib - 1973-19??

Married to: Irmgard Rodenwoldt, née Meyer

Namibia National Archives Database

001673
Röder, Kurt
* 09.08.1881
+ 19.10.1914 at Naulila, Angola
---
Kurt Röder was born on 09.08.1881. He was a Schutztruppe soldier. He was killed at Naulila in Angola by Portuguese forces on 19.10.1914.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: MIL

RAW DATA: Fischer 1935:114;

001674
Rogge, Johannes
* 25.08.1865
+ 01.1905 in the Namib Desert
---
Johannes Rogge was born on 25.08.1865. He was a Schutztruppe officer. He died of exposure in the Namib Desert in January 1905.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: MIL
Profession: Military officer

RAW DATA: Fischer 1935:220;

001798
Rohden, Ludwig von
[Rhoden - faulty spelling]
* in Germany
---
Fourth mission inspector of the Rheinische Missionsgesellschaft.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: REL

Namibia National Archives Database

001124
Rohrbach, Paul
* 29.06.1869 at Irgen, Latvia
+ .1956 in Germany
First entry to Namibia: 1903
---
Paul Rohrbach was born on 29.06.1869 at Irgen in Latvia. He was a traveller, theologian, journalist, writer of travelogues, and German chauvinist political essays. He was sent to German South-West Africa as Government Commissioner for settlement in 1903. He took part in the 1904 German Ovaherero War, and was then tasked to chair the commission to determine damage payments to settlers after the war. He died in 1956 in Germany.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: WRI
Profession: Writer

Collections/Papers:
1 (Main part of personal papers apparently lost in World War II)
2). Bundesarchiv Koblenz: Kleine Erwerbungen (Remaining papers, 1915-1954)
3). Bundesarchiv Berlin (Personalakten)
4). Personenarchiv des HWWA (material about R.)
5). Familienarchiv
RAW DATA: Mommsen 1,I; Dt.Koloniallexikon; Drechsler 1966:17, 11411, 147, 156, 295, 314-315, 325-326, 329, 345, 347-348, 350-352, 354-355;

001799
Roiha, Yrjö
* in Finland
---
Finnish missionary.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: REL
Profession: Missionary

Namibia National Archives Database

001800
Rolfs, Abraham
[Rolf, Abraham - alternative spelling]
*
+ .1909 in Namibia
---
Abraham Rolfs was a subcommander of Jakob Marengo. <FONT size=2>In December 1908, a Bondelswart unit was established under his command. Rolf resumed the struggle against German colonialism and undertook several successful raids against German farms in Namaland. The Germans under the command of Major Baerecke tried to pursue Rolf. At the beginning of January 1909, faced with overwhelming German superiority (Major Baerecke), the Bondelswart unit under the command of Abraham Rolf crossed the Oranje River and withdrew to British-ruled territory. On crossing the border they told a British police officer that "they would surrender to the Cape Government if they are given assurances that they would not be extradited. Otherwise they would fight to the last". During the middle of 1909 and after German-British negotiations, the Bondelswart unit under the command of Abraham Rolf who had surrendered to the British authorities in South Africa at the beginning of the year, was turned over to the Germans. Of the ten Nama, six, including Abraham Rolf, were sentenced to death (they were publicly executed in Keetmanshoop) while four were condemned to life imprisonment and ordered to be kept in chains. Additionally, each of the condemned was given 100 lashes with the whip. However, the four Nama who had been given life sentences managed to escape from jail in Karibib in December 1909.
---
Gender: m

RAW DATA: Drechsler 1966:271-272, 360; Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);

001125
Roll, Johannes Richard Gunter
* 04.10.1905 in Germany
First entry to Namibia: 1931
---
Johannes Richard Gunter Roll was born on 04.10.1905 in Germany. He was educated at the Realgymnasium Dresden. He came to Namibia in 1931. He was a businessman and Director of the Hotel Fürstenhof, S.S.A Fibre (Pty) Ltd., Platex (Pty) Ltd., Durwin Estates, Priflinger & Roll and Spil (Pty) Ltd. He served as President of the Rotary Club, the Windhoek Chamber of Commerce and served as Chairperson of the Institute of Estate Agents and Auctioneers SWA Branch.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: BUS

Married to: Margarethe Roll, née Ahrens, married 1935
Father: Richard Roll
RAW DATA: WWSA 1974;

000619
Römer, Ernst
* 07.07.1884 at Biebrich, Germany
First entry to Namibia: 1912
---
Ernst Römer was born on 07.07.1884 at Biebrich in Germany. He came to Namibia in 1912. He served as "Hausvater" of the Rheinische Missionsgesellschaft in Otjimbingwe.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: REL

Married to: Rosa Römer, née Huppert, married 1913-

Namibia National Archives Database

000526
Rooman, Abraham
*
---
One of the Witboois who left Gibeon with Hendrik Witbooi in 1884.
---
Gender: m

RAW DATA: Quellen 17;

000597
Rooman, Nikolaas
[|Khobeb - Nama name]
*
---
According to Budack (1972:164), Nikolaas Roman's Nama name was |Khobeb. He married Alwina Byl or !Oses. Obviously the Roomans were a large and respected Witbooi family, closely attached to the Rhenish Mission. It seems that they originally came from Berseba. However, the name has also been traced in Little Namaqualand.
---
Gender: m

Married to: Alwina Rooman, née Byl

RAW DATA: Cape Archives 1/SBK, 1855; Quellen 16:25.11.1868;

000598
Rooman, Ruben
*
---
Ruben Rooman was a church elder at Gibeon, together with Hendrik Witbooi. In 1884 he came to share the missionaries' condemnation of Hendrik Witbooi and heavily criticised him when Witbooi finally left Gibeon in 1885. Ruben remained the pillar of Rhenish Missionary Heinrich Gottlieb Friedrich Rust's efforts among the small remaining congregation, despite his apparently very unsettled domestic life. When the Gibeon mission station was dissolved in 1887, Ruben stayed on, in charge of the mission buildings.
---
Gender: m

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