Diamonds in the Desert. The story of August Stauch and his time

The discovery of the diamond fields of South West Africa in 1908
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Diamonds in the Desert. The story of August Stauch and his time

Author: Olga Levinson
Publisher: Kuiseb Verlag
2nd edition, Windhoek 2009
ISBN 978-99916-40-85-3 (Namibia)

ISBN 978-3-936858-78-5 (Deutschland)

Soft cover, 16x24 cm, 216 pages, numerous bw-photos


Description:

There is no other commodity with such an irresistible fascination as diamonds. People will risk all for them. They will betray, cheat, lie, deceive and murder. They will forfeit honour, friendship and loyalty. They will suffer privations and danger.

For diamonds make dreams a reality. They bring prestige and power. They open doors to presidents and kings. They magically transfer poor men into millionaires. That is what happened to August Stauch.

This is the true story of a lonely railway employee at one of the most desolate and godforsaken outposts on earth, who stumbled across diamonds in the desert which became the richest source of these gems in the world. It is a human and poignant story that has never been fully told.


Content:

Olga Levinson
Introduction
The Stauch family
Arrival in German South West Africa
Luderitzbucht
The desert
The great diamond discoveries
Diamond fever
Fears for the future
The momentous visit of His Excellency
Control and monopoly
Slander
Diamonds by the handful
Stolen fortune
Stauch's contemporaries
Joy and misfortune
The good old days
"Diamonds are a girl's best friend"
Ida's first visit
The Hottentot Paradise
Happy days at Zehlendorf
Farms and politics
The Oppenheimer report
Hidden diamonds
The great takeover
The peak period
Land and settlement
The flood of diamonds
Problems and confrontations
Ruin
Dordabis and a new life
The lonely end
Epilogue
And still the desert yields its diamonds
Postscript: Diamonds for ever?
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Index of personal and company names


Extract:

Stauch, Scheibe and a few labourers set off for that area, well-equipped with mules, wagons and water. They made two vain attempts to cross a formidable sand-dune barrier. The monstrous difficulties, combined with a shortage of water, caused the workers to protest and object to continuing the expedition.

They were finally persuaded to make one more effort and this time they succeeded. Utterly exhausted they reached a valley in the Pomona area which Stauch named Idatal, Ida’s Valley, in honour of his wife. They set up camp hoping that their tents would provide some protection against the blistering sand storms and cold, wet, all-enveloping fog. After a rest they sent the mules and wagons back to Kolmanskop.

Scheibe immediately started exploring the desert for diamonds, while Stauch went off to plot their exact position on the coast. He returned in the late afternoon without having found anything of interest and encountered a Herero labourer, Jakob, who had gone in search of driftwood for the camp fire. He was clutching an armful of wood. Stauch said to him jokingly, “Jakob, don’t look for wood. Look for diamonds.” Jakob promptly dropped the wood and knelt on the desert sand. He was barely on his knees when he exclaimed excitedly: “Mister! Ai je titatita. Ai je titatita!”

Stauch saw in amazement that Jakob’s hands were full of diamonds. Not knowing where to put them, Jakob began stuffing them into his mouth to gather more handfuls. Stauch dismounted and knelt beside Jakob. He called out to Prof. Scheibe who ran up to them and gasped in astonishment at the incredible picture. Stauch and Jakob were busy picking up diamonds that lay in such profusion in the sand that Scheibe later described them as lying “like plums under a plum tree”.

Scheibe kept on crying, “Ein Märchen! Ein Märchen!” (A fairy-tale! A fairytale!) over and over. So this valley came to be known as Märchental (Fairy-tale Valley) - which indeed it was. Then night fell like a curtain dropping at the dramatic climax to a play. The men were reluctantly forced to depart from the fabulous treasures. After dinner they sat chatting, much too excited to sleep, and waited for the customary sand storm and the sea mist to envelop them.

It was Silvesternacht, a New Year’s eve they were to remember all their lives. Nature itself seemed to be bewitched. There was no storm and no fog. A strange, unearthly spell fell over the enchanted valley. The moon rose like a genie. The two men could not resist the temptation to return to the mystic valley, half expecting that it might all have been a fantasy, a desert mirage.

But there the diamonds lay, glittering in the pale moonlight like a scene from the Arabian Nights. It was a vision such as has never been seen before or since. This valley proved to have the richest deposit of diamonds ever known. At first it was not even necessary to use any mining methods. The diamonds were simply picked up by hand.

In the first twenty months one million carats of diamonds were mined. Pomona was later described as a place “as thickly studded with lustrous gems as the showcases of a jeweller’s window”. Stauch and Scheibe pegged some ten claims in the best areas. One, called the Hexenkessel (witches’ cauldron), was also exceptionally rich in diamonds, while another valley was named after Scheibe - Scheibe-Tal. But it was at Idatal that the largest diamonds were found, stones of up to 43 and 52 carats.

When reports of the fabulous discovery at Pomona reached Lüderitzbucht, prospectors tore off like hunters on the trail of a fox. They travelled day and night to the fields, with wagons, horses, provisions, claim boards and poles. Some took camels which they loaded with barrels of water and equipment. One prospector returned after only a few days with a bag overflowing with diamonds.

Trading on the Lüderitzbucht Stock Exchange was hectic: 30 000 marks changed hands for shares without any proof of diamond occurrences. Fortunes were made and lost in the days that followed. Then came the devastating news. Stauch and Scheibe had pegged their claims in all innocence in what they believed was part of “Lüderitzland”. They soon discovered that the matter was far from being so simple. The valleys concerned all lay in the Pomona mainland concession that had been granted to De Pass & Co. This gave rise to a complicated situation involving various claimants.

The facts were that in 1863 Captain Sinclair, representing De Pass, Spence and Co., had signed an agreement with the Bethanien Hottentot chief, David Christian, which granted the firm rights to the coastal strip of land from Angra Pequena to Baker’s Cove.

While mining guano on Pomona Island the interesting “mineralisation” on the adjacent mainland was observed and a company formed by De Pass in Cape Town to exploit it. Then along came Herr Lüderitz, raising the German flag at Angra Pequena. When Daniel de Pass read of this, he immediately protested to the British government.

The British in turn protested to the German government and “a flurry of correspondence and protest notes followed between London and Berlin, London and the Cape”, as recounted by John Phillips, the great-great-grandson of Daniel de Pass. As a result two Anglo-German commissions of enquiry were appointed to investigate the claims.

The first one sat at the Cape in 1885 and gathered evidence all along the South West African coast. (It incidentally gives a fascinating insight into the early commercial history of South West Africa.) The following year a second Anglo-German commission sat in Berlin. A compromise was reached in which Lüderitz obtained the coastal strip, excluding the Pomona mining area.

According to the “Angra Pequena Settlement”, De Pass, Spence and Co. were awarded “for themselves and their assigns a full title in perpetuity to the Pomona mine with two English miles of land around the mine on every side.“ This was intended as a consolation prize for De Pass. But the irony was that it proved to be the most valuable part of the whole area and the real prize. For it was there that Stauch and Scheibe made their fabulous discovery. […]


Index:

A. Dunkelsbuhler and Company 16
A. und E. de Pass 30 siehe auch De Pass, Spence und Co.
ACDM siehe African Coastal Diamond Mining
AEG siehe Allgemeine Elektrizitätsgesellschaft
AGV siehe Aktiengesellschaft für Verkehrswesen
African Coastal Diamond Mining 201
Afrika Bank siehe Deutsche Afrika Bank
Aktiengesellschaft für Verkehrswesen 19, 20, 45, 158 - 160, 166, 195, 206
Albrecht, Johann, Herzog von Mecklenburg, Vorsitzender der DKG 114
Alexander, Kapitän 28
Alexander, der Große 9
Allgemeine Elektrizitätsgesellschaft 61
Allmana Svenska 202
Anglo-American Corporation of South Africa Limited 154, 155
Annental 145
Argyle Mine 202
Aschenborn, Richard, Kapitän 33
Ashton Joint Venture 202
Asscher, Abraham 14
Asscher, Joseph 14
Asscher (Diamantenschleiffirma) 14
Asta Chemie-Werke 163,181
Astor, Nancy 13
Astor, Waldorf 13
Atherstone, Dr., William Guybon 10
Atmore, Alice 112
Auchab-Gesellschaft 54
Auguste Viktoria, Kaiserin 114
B
B. Burmeister & Co., Juwelierfirma 62
Baericke, Max Ewald 42, 43, 48, 49, 64, 65, 97, 118, 132, 133, 206
Bailey, SirAbe 174
Balfour 157
Barn (Transportfahrer) 11
Bannau, Charles (Charly) 49
Barclays Bank 127
Barnato, Barney 14, 15Barnato Diamond Mining Company siehe Kimberley Central Company
Bauer 109
Baumgart, W., Schuldirektor, 111
Bause, Albert, Baumeister 113
Bayer, E., Zahnarzt 112
Becker, Gustav 174
Beetz, Dr., Werner 93, 101
Beit, Alfred 15, 144
Berliner Gründergesellschaft 144
Berliner Handelsgesellschaft 160
Bismarck, Otto von 33
Blödorn, Max 48
Blohm, E.G. (Heini) 197, 198
Blum, Vorarbeiter 43
Blümers, Dr. Arzt 152
Böhmer, Dr., Rudi, Bezirksamtmann 73, 74, 113, 127, 134
Bonaparte, Napoleon 13, 137
Boteler, Leutnant 29
Botha, Louis, General 149, 155, 156
Böttcher, Friseur 97
Bredow, Walter 40, 156-158
Brill, Bezirkshauptmann 59, 63, 64
Brittan, Michael 157
Brown, Polizeispitzel 73
Burchardt, Bergbauingenieur 45
Busch, O.W.A. 73
Busch, Firma O.W.C. 96
Busch, Otto, Architekt 104
Buschtal 145
CDM siehe Consolidated Diamond Mines
CSO siehe Central Selling Organisation
Caplan, Gebrüder 172, 173
Carew, Kapitän 31
Carstens, Jack 172, 201
Carstens, William 172
Celliers, Dr., Geologe 172, 173, 175
Cellini, Benvenuto 9
Central Selling Organisation 16, 175, 176, 202, 203, 205
Charlottental 53, 73, 94, 97, 145
Charlottental-Diamantengesellschaft 73
Charlottental Diamantensyndikat 97
Cherniavsky 109
Christian, David, Nama-Häuptling 30, 32, 79Coetzee, Jan 174
Coetzee, Theunis 172,174
Collins, Sam 200
Collis-Diamantensyndikat 38
Collis, E. Kenyon 38
Condip Properties 198
Consolidated Diamond Mines ofSouth WestAfrica, Ltd. 92, 100, 101, 111, 156, 157,
159,160,176,181,199,200,203
Cornell, Fred 51 - 53
Cullinan, Annie 12
Cullinan, „Dinkie" siehe Cullinan, Annie
Cullinan, Sir Thomas, Major 11, 12, 16
DKG siehe Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft für Südwestafrika
Dahlerus, Birger 182; siehe auch Nissen, Elisabeth
de Beer, Diederick 11
de Beer, Johannes 11
De Beers siehe De Beers Consolidated Mines Limited
De Beers Botswana Mining Company (Debswana) 201
De Beers Consolidated Mines Limited 11, 15, 16, 38, 43, 56-59, 61, 65, 68, 69, 84,
144 - 147, 149, 152, 154, 155, 157, 175,176,200 - 205
De Beers Marine Namibia 205
Debswana, siehe De Beers Botswana Mining Company
Debus, Gabriele 186
Debus, Käthe siehe Stauch, Käthe
Debus, Max 177
Debus, Renate 186
Debus, Thomas 186
de Meillon, Hauptmann 89, 146, 149, 157
de Pass, Aaron 29, 30 - 33
de Pass, Daniel 29, 30, 80, 157
de Pass, Elias 29
De Pass & Co. 79
De Pass Company 31
De Pass, Spence & Co. 30,77,79,80,120
de Praun, Paulus, Kunstsammler 164
Dernburg, Bernhard, Dr., Staatssekretär 59 - 64, 66-71, 74, 75, 120, 207
de Sancy, Seigneur (französischer Botschafter in der Türkei) 13
Desert Mining Resources 201
Deubier, G. 111
Deutsche Afrika Bank 67, 118, 127
Deutsche Diamantengesellschaft 74, 81, 85, 90, 126, 145, 149, 157
Deutsche Kolonial Eisenbahnbau- und Betriebsgesellschaft 20
Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft für Südwestafrika 33, 37, 41, 44, 48, 67, 74, 80, 90, 92,
113, 114, 134, 136, 157,207
Deutsche Ostafrika Linie 49, 98
de Villiers, Johann 201
Diamant Regie des Südwestafrikanischen Schutzgebietes 67 - 69, 120, 121, 143, 144,
147,148
Diamanten Aktiengesellschaft 67, 157
Diamanten Pachtgesellschaft 69, 157
Diamond Producers' Association 175
Diamond Trading Company 202
Diaz, Bartholomöu 27 - 29
Dominik, Hans 163
Doyie, Sir Arthur Conan 38
Dresdner Bank 45
Dubrowicz 115
Dudley, Earl of 11
Duminy, Kapitän 28
du Preez, Ben 201
Dyckerhoff 166
Dyckerhoff und Widmann Aktiengesellschaft 166, 187, 195
Ebert 118-122
Eden, Kapitän T. E. 28
Edward VII. (König von England) 12
Einstein, Albert 184-186
Elektriska Aktiebolaget 202
Elisabeth, die Heilige 18
Eriksson, Axel 111
Erzberger, S. W. 69
Eschen, Polizeihauptmann 73
Espehahn 138
Fielding, Händler 38
Fincham.A.T. 200
Fischer, Dr. Paul 115
Frauenholz, Kunsthändler 165
Fredericks, Josef, Nama-Häuptling 32, 33, 132
Fredericks, Traugott 132,133
Freese 134, 138
Freiberg 81, 82
Friedrich, Adolf, Herzog 177
Fritzsche, Dr. Max 142
Frobenius-lnstitut 197
Fromm, Bezirksamtmann 140, 141
Fuchs, Baurat 19,20,126,127
Fürstenberg, Curt 159, 160
General Electric Company 202
General Motors
Gerlich, Paul 67
German Relief Organisation 197
Germania 54
Gerson, Dr. 163
Gesellschaft für Kolonial-Werte 157
Gibeon Schürf- und Handelsgesellschaft 38
Glockemeier, Georg 101
Glück Auf 54
Glück Auf, Diamantengesellschaft 126
Goerke, Leutnant 63
Goerke, Inspektor H. 126
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 138, 188, 191
Goliath, Christiaan, Häuptling der Nama aus Berseba 143
Gordon, Gebrüder 172, 173
Graaf, Sir David de Villiers 156
Graaff's Trust Limited 81,156
Griffith, Kapitän 31, 38
Grillental 53
Grimm, Hans 38
Güttier 118-122
H.M. Association 174,175
Haack, Hanni siehe Knacke, Hanni
Hahn, Prof. 59
Hahn, Hugo 196
Hähnel, Ernst 165
Hamburger Kolonialkontors 115
Hans Merensky Foundation 196
Hartmann, R. 63, 73
Heim, Georg, Chemiker 83, 84
Heligoland 145
Hertzog, James, Barry, Munnik, Premierminister, General 175
Herz, Leopold 57, 144
Hesse 118-122
Hexenkessel 79Hill,John Hugo 162
Hintrager, Dr. Oskar, Geheimrat 57, 59, 75, 134
Hirsche, H. 144
Hirsekorn, Dr. 178, 180
His Master's Voice 182
Hitler, Adolf 190
Hoffmeister, Dr. Cuno 141
Hope, Henry Thomas 13
Hörlein, Hans, Baumeister 100, 101, 161
Hörn, Werner 183
Hüll, Henry Charles 154-157
Hüttich, Pfarrer 17
Idatal 77, 79, 82, 97, 100
Imperial Cold Storage 168
Itten, Prof. Johannes 162, 177
Jacobi, Landmesser 22
Jacobs, Erasmus 10
Jäger, Ernst 186
Jagersfontein 146, 147
Jakob, Hererojunge 77, 78
James l 13
James II 13
Jehan,Schah 14
Jeppe, Sir Julius 174
Joel, Solly 15, 16
Joel, Stanhope 15
John Burmester & Spence 96
Jones, J.M. 57
Jones, Kapitän R. 38
Jörg, Junker siehe Luther, Martin
Joyce 95, 96
Jwaneng-Mine 201
Kabilenski, H 104
Kahn, Sali 98, 99
Kaiser, Prof. Erich 93, 101, 126, 130, 145, 206
Kaiser Wilhelm 34Kant, Immanuel 191
Kaokoveld Exploration Company 201
Kapps, Hotelier 65, 97, 105, 109, 116
Karlstal 54
Katharina die Große 12
Katharina von Medici 9
Kaukausibtal 97-99
Kaukausibtal Diamantengesellschaft 97
Kaukausibtal Syndikate 98
Kendrick, Thomas 48
Kennedy 172
Kimberley Central Company 15
Kippers, Dr. H.C. Ewald 163
Klinge 132, 133
Klinghardt, Georg 89 - 93
Knacke, Friedrich 49, 94 - 96, 115, 145, 149, 172
Knacke, Hanni 115
Koffiefontein 146
Kolle, Leonard 100, 101, 161, 186
Kolman, Jonny 100
Kolmanskuppe Diamantengesellschaft 67, 70, 73
Kolmanskuppe Diamanten Mine 145
Kolmanskuppe Gesellschaft siehe Kolmanskuppe Diamantengesellschaft
Koloniale Bergbaugesellschaft 45, 67, 69, 102, 145, 156
Koloniale Eisenbahnbau- und Betriebsgesellschaft 158
Konsolidierte Lüderitzbuchter Diamantminengesellschaft Pomona 157
Köpke, Winfried 198
Krabbenhöft und Lampe 111
Krafft, Alexander 195
Krafft, Berenike 190, 195
Krafft, Marianne siehe Stauch, Marianne
Krafft, Michael 195
Krafft, Nikolai 183, 189, 195
Krause, Dr., Bergbauingenieur 115
Krebs, Ulla siehe Stauch, Ulla
Kreft, Hermann Heinrich, Missionar 38
Kreplin, Emil, Bürgermeister von Lüderitzbucht 25,43,48,70,71 73 74 76 86
108,114,141,145
Kreplin, Fritzi 108
Laaf, Missionar Erich 113
Laeschke, Marta 108
Land- und Siedlungsgesellschaft siehe Südwester Land- und Siedlungsgesellschaft
Landbank 168Laubscher 172
Leipoldt, Major J.G.W. 150,151
Leischke 111
Lenz 111, 144,158,166
Lenz & Co., Baufirma 19,20,23-25,45,61,63, 73,87, 144, 158, 166
Leopold, Prinz 126
Lequis, Major 34
Levinson, Jack 201
Levinson, Olga 205
Lewala, Zacharias 40 - 42, 46, 149
Licht 134
List, Carl 122, 127
List, Paula 127
Lotz, Dr., H., Bezirksgeologe 39, 40, 101
Louw, Prospektor 172
Louw, Dr. Eric 197
Louw, Giel 91, 92
Löwenbräu 88
Lübbert, Dr. Erich 42, 76, 127, 134, 149, 152 - 154, 156 - 160, 166, 187, 191 - 193,
195, 196,206
Lübbert, Erich (jnr) 153
Lübbert, Irmela 153
Lüderitz, Adolf 23, 31 -34, 38, 79, 80, 96, 113, 132, 172, 207
Lüderitz, F.A.E, siehe Lüderitz, Adolf
Lüderitzbuchter Börsenverein 59
Lüderitzbuchter Elektrizitätsgesellschaft 102, 157
Lüderitzbuchter Minenkammer 74, 149
Ludwig XIV. 13
Lühl, Erika 186
Luise, Königin 137
Luther, Martin 19
Lydenburg Platinum Areas 172
Maclaja 165
Magnus, Dr. 162,163
Mahler 111
Märchental 78, 97, 138
Marconi 163
Märe 173
Marie Antoinette 13
Marine Diamond Corporation 200
Marifz, Manie, Burengeneral 173
Mary, Königin von England 12
Mauch, Karl 55
May, Dr. Eduard 192, 193, 195
McLean, Evelyn 14
Mehnert, Constantin 140
Mehrkens 94, 95
Merensky, Dr. Alexander 81, 142
Merensky, Dr. Hans, Geologe 55-57, 81, 115, 166, 172-176, 189, 196,208
Metje, Hermann, Bauunternehmer 111
Metzner, Alexander, Pastor 113,114
Michelangelo 164,165,206
Misdall 172
Morgan, J.P. 154
Morrell, Benjamin, Kapitän 29
Mrokon 44 - 46
Nachtigal, Dr. Gustav 33
Nadir, Schah von Persien 10, 14
Namaqua Diamond Co. of South WestAfrica 172
Namdeb Diamond Corporation 205
Napoleon siehe Bonaparte, Napoleon
National Bank of South Africa Ltd. 150
Neineis Mine 162
Nelkert, Anna Elisabeth siehe Stauch, Anna Elisabeth
Neue Hansa-Diamantengesellschaft 157
Neuhaus, Alfred 181
Newmont Mining Corporation 154
Niarchos 12
Nissen, Elisabeth 138, 182
Nissen, Sönke, Oberingenieur 25, 41, 45, 61, 62, 85, 111, 137, 138, 182
Nissen, Sönke Georg 138
Oates, Francis 144
Octha Diamond Mining Company 201
Ohlssons Brauerei 86
Olthaver, Hermann 114, 115
Olthaver, Werner 127
Oppenheimer, Sir Ernest 6,12,14,16,84,90,144 - 146,154 - 157,162,175,176
Oppenheimer, Harry 162
O'Reilly, John 10
Orloff, Prinz Gregor 12
Ostdeutsche Eisenbahngesellschaft 166
Otjimbojo Mine 162, 166
Otzen, Max, Redakteur 115Pasel, Kurt, Bergassessor 100
Paul Weiss & Co 87
Peyer, Dr. 43
Philipson-Stow, Frederic, Rechtsanwalt 15
Philipson-Stow, H.M. 57
Phillips, John 80,
Phönix 54
Plato 191
Plietz, Albert 111
Plinius der Ältere 9
Pohle, Dr. 33, 38
Polo, Marco 9
Pomona Diamantenfischerei 120
Pomona Diamantengesellschaft 81, 97, 156
Pomona Minengesellschaft 30, 81, 84, 150
Pomona Mining Company siehe Pomona Minengesellschaft
Popham, Hörne, Leutnant 28
Prächtel 134
Praun siehe de Praun
Premier Mine 146,147
Pschorrbräu 88
Pusztatal 53
Rabe, Elisabeth siehe Nissen, Elisabeth
Rabinowitz, Solomon 172, 173
Radford, David 31, 32
Range, Dr. Paul, Geologe 42, 45, 50, 54, 57, 69
Rathenau, Walther, im Vorstand derAEG 61, 63, 64, 66
Regie siehe Diamant Regie des Südwestafrikanischen Schutzgebietes
Reh 45
Reinshagen, Dr. Rechtsanwalt und Notar 50
Reuning, Dr. Ernst 90 - 93, 151, 172 - 175, 196, 197, 201
Reuning Terrasse 201
Rhodes, CeciI John 14-16,32,38
Ricardo, Dr. Ehrwürden 10
Rietfonteiner Farmergesellschaft 167
Rietfonteiner Molkerei 167
Ritter, Kurt, Vertreter des Hamburger Kolonialkontors 115
Rohrbach, Paul 42
Roschdestwensky, Admiral 34
Rosenthal, Eric 182
Rössing Uranmine 203Rothschild 15
Ruf, Willi 183
Rümmler 107, 116, 120
Rümmler, Elsa 116
Safari Verlag 165
Salvisburg, Rudolf 162
Sandamab Mine 162
Sandig, Dr. H.U. 183
Schäfer, Prof. 187
Scheibe, Prof. Robert 77-81, 83, 95, 99, 119, 138
Scheibetal 79
Schiappacasse, Kapitän 149
Schiechel, Max 101
Schiller, Friedrich von 189
Schimansky, Stefan 162
Schinz, Dr. Hans, Botaniker 33
Schlettwein, Karl 142
Schmidt, G.F. 67, 126
Schmidt, Justinchen 127
Schoenberg, Prof. Dr. Erich 183, 184
Scholz, Ludwig, Besitzer der Farm Marmora 80 - 82
Schuster, Franz, Bäcker 49, 50, 67, 70, 71, 73, 97, 114, 207
Schwann, Charlotte 96
Schwerin, Anna 19
Schwerin, Clara 19
Schwerin, Ida Magdalena Theresia siehe Stauch, Ida
Schwerin, Johann 17, 19-21
Schwerin, Margarete 19
Schwerin, Martha 19
Schwerin, Mathilde 19
Scott, Jack 201
Seitz, Dr. Theodor, Gouverneur 123-125, 134, 148, 150, 151, 168, 169
Sinclair, Benjamin, Kapitän 30, 79, 132
Smuts, Jan Christiaan, General 155, 189
Sönke Nissen-Koog 138,182
South African Territories Limited 73
South West African Trust Company Lirnited 162, 165, 181
South West Electric Power Company Limited 157
Spatenbräu 88
Spence, John, Kapitän 30, 89
Stauch, Agiaia 195
Stauch, Andreas 17-19
Stauch, Andreas ünr) 17,195Stauch, Anna Elisabeth 17
Stauch, August siehe Stauch, Kaspar Andreas August
Stauch, Barbara 17
Stauch, Ernst 17, 90
Stauch, Evamaria 195
Stauch, Franziska 195
Stauch, Hans 20,24,33,38,54,55,64,81, 125, 126, 136, 160-162, 177, 181,
183,195
Stauch, Helmut 84, 85, 126, 136, 138, 139, 177, 195, 198
Stauch, Ida 19 - 21,25,54,73,84,125 - 130,136,138,139,154,161,177,181,
183,186,189,190,194, 195
Stauch,Johannes 195
Stauch, Kaspar Andreas, August 1,7, 16-26,33-37,39-49,53-55,57,60,
62-64,67,70,74-81,83-86,94,97, 99, 100, 102, 111, 114, 116, 119,
120, 124- 128, 130, 131, 134, 136-138, 140-143, 145, 147, 148,
152-154, 156-172, 177-190, 192-195, 197, 198,202-204
Stauch, Käthe 45, 130, 136, 138, 177, 183, 186, 189, 191-194
Stauch, Konrad 17
Stauch, Lina 17
Stauch, Marianne 20,24,54,64, 125, 126, 136, 138, 139, 154, 160-162, 166, 177,
183, 189-191, 195, 198
Stauch, Ulla 177, 195
Steingröver, Joseph, Steuermann 34
Stille, Hans 162
Strohm, Dr. Gustav 197, 198
Südwest-Minengesellschaft 144
Südwestafrikanisches Minensyndikat 68
Südwester Land- und Siedlungsgesellschaft 166, 168, 170, 181,
Sühr 137,139
Swakopmunder Diamantengesellschaft 54
Taupitz.Anne 112
Telitzki, Anne 154
Thaning, Otto 201
Thode, Henry 165
Thompson, T. Kapitän 28
Thompson, William B. 154
Toscanini Mine 201
Überseeische Industrie- und Handelsgesellschaft 159, 168, 197, 198
Uis Mine 162, 166
van der Horst, J. G. 81
van Niekerk, Schalk 10, 11
Vereinigte Diamantengesellschaft 67
Vereinigte Diamantminenaktiengesellschaft 157
Villiate.A. 144
Victoria, Königin von England 10
Vidal, Kapitän 29
Vogelsang, Heinrich, Bremer Kaufmann, Leiter der Lüderitz'schen Faktorei 31 - 33,
132
Voigts, Albert 81, 129, 140, 142, 161, 178, 183
Voigts, Gustav 129, 142
Voigts, Ida 129, 161, 183
von Brandis, Ernst 197
von Gemmingen 165
von Houwaldt, Major Freiherr 34
von Humboldt, deutscher Konsul in Kapstadt 59
von Mecklenburg, Herzog Johann Albrecht 136
von Murr, Christoph Theophilus 164
von Praun siehe de Praun, Paulus
von Puttkammer, Hauptmann 118
von Schuckmann, Frau 111
von Schuckmann, Gouverneur 63, 66, 69, 74, 124, 130
von Tippelskirch & Co. 111
von Wolf, „Baron" Hansheinrich 127 - 129, 132, 133, 141
von Wolf, Jayta 127, 128, 133
Voss, Zollbeamter 94
Vox Schallplatten und Sprechmaschinen Aktiengesellschaft 162, 163, 181, 182
Wackwitz, Landesprobst 183, 184
Wagener, Irmela siehe Lübbert, Irmela
Wagner, P.A., Geologe 61
Wagner, Richard 18,22
Wecke, Fritz, Händler 129
Wecke & Voigts 130
Weidtmann, Max, Baumeister 25, 41, 43, 45, 62, 63
Weiss, Arnold 87
Weiss, Carl, Kapitän 74, 81, 86, 87, 141 - 143, 157, 158
Weiss, de Meillon & Co. 59, 67, 89, 146, 157 siehe auch Diamanten-Aktiengesellschaft
Weiss, Jackie 89
Weiss, Ludwig 87, 172
Weiss, Martin 87
Weiss, Paul Simon 86, 89, 126, 149, 152
Weiss, Rosa 87
Weiss, Willi 86
Wells, Frederick 11, 12
Werner 181, 183
Wernher, Beit & Co. 11
Werth, Administrator 168, 169, 177, 178
Wiese, Christo 201
Wilhelm II siehe Kaiser Wilhelm
Williams, Apotheker 38
Williams, Alpheus F. 144-146
Williamson, Dr. John T, Geologe 202
Winkelmann 96
Winkelvoss, Charlotte 73, 96, 97, 110
Winkelvoss, Georg, Kaufmann 73, 96 99
Winston, Harry 14
Witbooi, Hendrik, Nama-Häuptling 38, 130
Wodehouse, Sir Philip, Gouverneur der Kapkolonie 10
Woermann Brock & Co. 111
Woermannlinie 21, 49, 94, 96, 99, 116, 148
Woermannsyndikat 94, 95
Worms, Louis, Geschäftsmann 64
Wunderlich, Dr. Georg 80, 157
Ziegler, Architekt 111
Zillertal 53
Zimmer, Frau 118-122