BIOGRAPHIES OF NAMIBIAN PERSONALITIESin alphabetical order

BIOGRAPHIES OF NAMIBIAN PERSONALITIES
in alphabetical order

KLAUS DIERKS
Copyright © 2003-2004 Dr. Klaus Dierks

001501
Haahti, Hannu
* in Finland
First entry to Namibia: 1911
Last departure from Namibia: 1912
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Finnish missionary in Namibia, 1911-1912.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: REL
Profession: Missionary

Namibia National Archives Database

000842
Haasbroek, Leendert Johannes
* 04.02.1884 at Cape Province, South Africa
First entry to Namibia: 1920
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Johannes Leendert Haasbroek was born on 04.02.1884 at Cape Town and educated at Franschhoek and Cape Town in South Africa. He came to Namibia in 1920, settled in Okahandja where he was mayor for seven years, then at Outjo, where he was mayor from 1944 until 1949. He was an attorney and notary, auctioneer and sworn appraiser.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: LAW
Profession: Lawyer
Functions: Mayor - Okahandja - 1921?-1937?
Mayor - Outjo - 1944-1949

Married to: Susanna Maria Haasbroek, née le Roux, married 1912-
Father: Gideon Daniel Haasbroek
RAW DATA: WWSA 1959;

002155
#Hâb, Kai||khaun Captain (Red Nation)
*
+ .1710
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The Nama Captain of the Kai||khaun (also called Red Nation), the main group of all Nama groups in Namibia, #Hâb (1695-1710), was probably the first Chief on record of this community. He was involved in several conflicts with San and Dama groups. #Hâb unified the Namibian Nama groups (Bondelswarts (!Gami-#nun); Topnaar (#Aonin); Fransman Nama (!Khara-khoen); Veldschoendrager (||Hawoben); Groot Doden (||Ô-gain); Swartboois (||Khau-gõan) and the |Kharo-!oan from present-day Keetmanshoop), whereby the Kai||khaun played a leading role. Later the ||Khau-|gõan and the Kharo-!oan were the first groups to separate from the Kai||khaun. The community government (Nama: !haos di #hanub) consisted of the Captain (Nama: gao-aob) and some councillors (Nama: |abe-ma-aogu). The family chiefs (Nama: gai-khoin) and the councillors elected among the candidates the most suitable. All candidates must, however, belong to the family of the Captain (Nama: gaosib khoin). He was followed by ||Khomab #Hâmab (1710-1725).
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Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
Profession: Traditional leader
Functions: Captain - Kai||khaun (Red Nation) - before 1700

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

000161
Haddy, Richard
* .1796 in England
+ .1871 at London, England
First entry to Namibia: 1844
Last departure from Namibia: 1850
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After his arrival in South Africa, the Wesleyan missionary Richard Haddy spent thirteen years in the Eastern Province in South Africa. He visited Warmbad in January 1827. In 1838, he was transferred to the Cape Town circuit, but moved to Windhoek on the invitation of Jonker Afrikaner in 1844, upon which Carl Hugo Hahn and Franz Heinrich Kleinschmidt of the Rhenish Missionary Society were forced to relinquish that station and moved to Schmelen's Verwachting (Okahandja). He was responsible for this circuit for seven years, but only spent four years there. He returned to Cape Town in 1850, and left the mission work in southern Africa in 1852 and returned to England. At the Cape, he gave the Cape Government information on the state in Hereroland and Great Namaland, which made Jonker Afrikaner suspicious of missionaries.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: REL
Profession: Missionary

RAW DATA: P. Reiner 1992:409; Lau 1985:V1257; Mears 1970:16+18; Tabler 1973:50; Heese;

001503
Hagel, Franz Josef
* .1881 in Germany
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Catholic missionary.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: REL
Profession: Missionary

Namibia National Archives Database

001504
Hagen, Hauptmann
*
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Captain (Hauptmann) Hagen was a German Schutztruppe officer. He negotiated in 1907 with Joseph Christian and Abraham Morris from the !Gami-#nun (Bondelswarts) during the German-Nama War 1903-1913. Later he was a liaison officer to the Cape Police.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: MIL
Profession: Military officer

RAW DATA: Drechsler 1966:230, 236;

000162
Hahn, Alfred Friedrich Linsingen
* 01.01.1892 at Paarl/South Africa
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Alfred Friedrich Linsingen Hahn was born on 01.01.1892 in Paarl (South Africa) and was the sixth child of Carl Hugo (Jr.) and Anna Judith Julie Auguste Hahn. He was an excise officer in various parts of South Africa.
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Gender: m

Mother: Anna Judith Julie Auguste Hahn (1861-1938)
Father: Carl Hugo (Jr.) Hahn (1846-1933)

RAW DATA: Guedes;

000163
Hahn, Anna Helene Caroline
[Majus, Anna Helene Caroline - birth name]
* 02.01.1794 at Riga, Latvia
+ 26.05.1838
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Anna Helene Caroline Hahn, née Majus, was born on 02.01.1794 at Riga (Latvia). She was the second wife of Carl Peter Hahn and mother of Carl Hugo Hahn (Snr.). She died on 26.05.1838.
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Gender: f

Married to: Carl Peter Hahn (1774-1863)
Children: Carl Hugo Hahn (Snr.)(1818-1895)

RAW DATA: Guedes;

000172
Hahn, Carl Hugo (Snr.)
* 18.10.1818 at Aahof near Riga, Latvia
+ 24.11.1895 at Cape Town, South Africa
First entry to Namibia: 1842
Last departure from Namibia: 1873
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Carl Hugo Hahn (Snr.) was born on 18.10.1818 at Aahof near Riga (Latvia). He was a missionary of the Rhenish Missionary Society (Rheinische Missionsgesellschaft). He was one of the most influential and controversial missionaries in 19th century Namibia. Hahn was born into a German-speaking family from Livonia (then governed by Russia), he joined the Rhenish Mission in 1838, was ordained in 1841 and sent to southern Africa. He arrived 1842 in Windhoek, then stayed since 1844 until 1853 in Otjikango, which he named Gross-Barmen. He undertook trips to Europe, for fundraising, in 1853-1855 and 1859-1863. Hahn settled at Otjimbingwe in 1855, where he established the Augustineum teacher training school in 1866 (the foundation of the institution, at which catechumens, preachers and teachers were to be trained, was made possible by generous donations received from Princess Elisabeth zur Lippe and a circle of German aristocrats. Contrary to general belief, the Augustineum does not owe its name to Princess Augusta von Lippe-Detmold. Carl Gotthilf Büttner, Hahn's successor, wrote the following in 1877: "The Augustineum owes its name to the father of the church in Africa, Augustine, and is the seminary for Herero and Nama boys who are to be trained as national assistants"). Hahn also established a commercial mission enterprise. He interfered strongly in local politics, supporting the attempts of trader Charles John Andersson to establish a hegemony based on sections of the Ovaherero in central Namibia. Hahn travelled to Ovamboland and was instrumental in motivating Finnish missionaries to start work there. He resigned from the mission in 1872 and settled in South Africa, where he became pastor of the German Lutheran congregation in Cape Town until 1884. Hahn was appointed in 1882 "Special Commissioner for the Walwich Bay Territory" of the Cape Government. He retired in 1884, lived for some time in Germany (1885), travelled to visit his daughter in the USA (1886/87), Margaritha (Gita) Beiderbecke (née Hahn), and lived with his son, Carl Hugo Hahn (Jnr.), in Paarl, South Africa. He died on 24.11.1895 in Cape Town. He is, together with his wife Emma Sarah, buried at the cemetery of the German St. Petri Congregation at Paarl near Cape Town. Hahn was an important Otjiherero linguist, very much aided by the efforts of his domestic servant and interpreter, Urieta (Johanna Maria Gertze). He received for his linguistic works a honourary Ph.-D. degree from the University Leipzig in 1873. He married Emma Sarah Hone in 1843, and had four children. See also the memories of his third son Eloisa Traugott Hahn: "Lebenserinnerungen" (1939/40).
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Gender: m
Field of activity: REL
Profession: Missionary

Married to: Emma Hahn, née Hone (1814-1880), married 1843-1880
Children: William Heinrich Josaphat Hahn (1844-1925)
Carl Hugo (Jr.) Hahn (1846-1933)
Eloisa Traugott Hahn (1848-1939)
Margaritha (Gita) Beiderbecke (née Hahn)(1850-1906)

Collections/Papers:
1). Thüringisches Staatsarchiv Rudolstadt (Letters to Fürstin Elisabeth zur Lippe)
RAW DATA: Lau: Andersson 2:301; Tabler 1973:50-52; Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);

000164
Hahn, Carl Hugo, (Jnr.)
* 17.07.1846 at Rehoboth
+ 29.10.1933 at Gordons Bay, South Africa
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Carl Hugo Hahn (Jnr.) was born on 17.07.1846 at Rehoboth. He was the second child of Carl Hugo and Emma Sarah Hahn. After going to school in Bielefeld and Gütersloh from 1853 to 1868 and studying theology in Berlin and Erlangen from 1868 to 1871, he was employed in the mission house from 1874 to 1875, but left the Rhenish Missionary Society in 1874 and moved to Cape Town, where he assisted his father, Carl Hugo Hahn (Snr.), from 1875 to 1883. In 1883, he moved to the Paarl, for which parish he was responsible until he retired to Gordons Bay near Cape Town in 1921. He married Anna Judith Julie Auguste von Linsingen (born 1861 at Wiesbaden in the Cape Colony (South Africa) and died 1938 at Paarl) on 25 January 1881 and had ten children (one of them "Cocky" Carl Hugo Linsingen Hahn, Native Commissioner in Ovamboland). Carl Hugo Hahn (Jnr.) died at Gordons Bay on 29.10.1933 and is buried along his parents and his wife at the cemetery of the German St. Petri Congregation at Paarl near Cape Town.
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Gender: m
Profession: Pastor

Married to: Anna Judith Julie Auguste Hahn, née von Linsingen (1861-1938), married 1881-1933
Mother: Emma Sarah Hahn, née Hone (1814-1880)
Father: Carl Hugo Hahn (1818-1895)
Children: inter alia Carl Hugo Linsingen (Cocky) Hahn

Collections/Papers:
1). NAN: in: A.335 (Letters with son C.H.L. (Cocky) Hahn; biographical sketch of his father C.H. Hahn Sen.)
2). Thüringisches Staatsarchiv Rudolstadt (Letters to Fürstin Elisabeth zur Lippe)
RAW DATA: Vergissmeinnicht 1893:9+136; Lau 1985:V1257; Hellebore 1976:15; Guedes;

001506
Hahn, Carl Hugo Linsingen
[Shongola - nickname]
[Cocky - nickname]
* 07.01.1886 at Paarl (South Africa)
+ 26.09.1948 at Kranzfontein near Grootfontein
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Carl Hugo Linsingen "Cocky" Hahn was a grandson of Carl Hugo Hahn (Snr.) and son of Carl Hugo Hahn (Jnr.). He was born on 26.09.1886 at Paarl in South Africa. He became a military officer in the service of the British-South African Army during World War One. In August 1915, after the defeat of the German Schutztruppe, the South African Major Pritchard informed various Ovamboland chiefs that SWA was now under SA rule. Pritchard was accompanied by Carl Hugo Linsingen (Cocky) Hahn, who became later the Resident Commissioner in the north in 1921 (until 1946). Hahn was also called by the Namibian indigenes "Shongola" (Oshivambo: the whip). The first Resident Commissioner in the north was Major Charles N Manning (until 1921). During 1916, in order to secure control over Ovamboland, and especially over King Mandume ya Ndemufayo of the Uukwanyama area, South Africa appointed "Cocky" Hahn as Intelligence Officer to gather information on Mandume. After the defeat and death of King Mandume ya Ndemufayo in February 1917, "Cocky" Hahn witnessed the traditional burial of the King. In 1921 Hahn became Resident Commissioner in the north. In this capacity he also controlled the Kaokoveld. The name "Ohopoho" (Otjiherero: It is enough) was allegedly coined by him. The locals called the place Otjihinamaparero, also Otjitoporwa (Otjiherero: The first borehole in the area). During this time (1923) disputes between the Ovaherero Chief Vita Tom and Ovahimba Chief Muhona Katiti occurred. They led, as requested by "Cocky' Hahn, to the third visit by Charles Manning to the Kaokoveld, meanwhile Magistrate of Rehoboth. As a result of this visit Manning recommended dividing the northern Kaokoveld into three tribal areas: Muhona Katiti was given Ondoto, Epembe, Ovikange and Ehomba and Vita the areas west of Epembe with Otjitanga, Hamalemba, Omangete, Ombakaha and Otjiyandjasemo. The Ovatjimba Chief Kasupi who had died in the mean time, was succeeded by Kahewa-Nawa, who received the areas around Ombepera. On 13.04.1923 Hahn met Vita for the first time. Hahn wrote about this meeting "He (Vita) is a fine looking old native with excellent manners and personality." In 1932 "Cocky" Hahn was pivotal in deposing King Iipumbu ya Tshilongo (1907-1932) of the Uukwambi area who was resisting both the Finnish mission and SWA Administration since 1922. From this time onwards the records of the mission and the administration were full of complaints about Iipumbu. Complaints were lodged about his intransigence, especially regarding migrant labour that was not as forthcoming from Uukwambi as required by the colonial administration. But it also emerged from archival records and oral history that King Iipumbu ya Tshilongo was a tyrant whose autocratic and often arbitrary rule made many of his subjects flee the Uukwambi area for neighbouring districts. His alleged and real sexual misdemeanours made him unpopular. He even wanted to marry one of his social or allegedly biological daughters, Neekulu ya Shivute. Neekulu fled to the Finnish missionary at Elim. Iipumbu sent some of his soldiers to fetch her forcefully and even threatened the missionary station at Elim (Neekulu finally found refuge with missionary Emil Liljeblad at Oshigambo in the Ondonga area). All these events led to his deposition. Hahn used military aircraft and machine guns to demoralise the Uukwambi forces at Ombwelafuma. In the mean time Iipumbu tried to obtain support from the Portuguese colonial authority at Ombandja in Angola. This support was however not forthcoming. The Portuguese informed Hahn of Iipumbu’s activities. During Iipumbu’s absence from the Uukwambi area, Hahn used the opportunity to attack the Uukwambi with the assistance of some Uukwanyama and Ondonga warriors under the command of Nehemia Shoovaleka. Iipumbu was finally arrested at Onemedhiya and forced into exile in the Kavango after SA war planes bombed his residence. Iipumbu stayed until 1938 in the Kavango and returned home to Amupolo after falling sick. The Ovambo people called King Iipumbu ya Tshilongo "Ndilimani", meaning "dynamite" in the Oshivambo language. The Ovambo were placed under pressure by "Cocky" Hahn to surrender their arms. The SWA Administration exploited the famine of 1929-1933 in Ovamboland and exchanged arms against food. In 1946 Carl Hugo (Cocky) Hahn retired and was succeeded by Harold Eedes in 1947. Hahn died on 26.09.1948 at Kranzfontein near Grootfontein. He was married to Alcye Hahn, and their son was Rodney Hahn.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: ADM

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

000165
Hahn, Caroline Clara Clothed
[Lücker, Caroline Clara Clothed - birth name]
[Luckier, Caroline Clara Clothed - birth name]
[Locker, Caroline Clara Clothed - birth name]
* 08.06.1850
+ 13.05.1931 at Hamburg, Germany
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Caroline Clara Clothed Hahn was born on 08.06.1850 and was the daughter of Franz Ludwig Julius and Paula Conrad Lücker. She was the wife of William Heinrich Samuel Josaphat Hahn. She died on 13.05.1931 at Hamburg in Germany.
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Gender: f

Married to: William Heinrich Samuel Josaphat Hahn (1844-1926), married 1874-
Mother: Paula Conrad Luckier
Father: Franz Ludwig Julius Luckier

RAW DATA: Guedes;

000166
Hahn, Eloisa Traugott
[Hahn, Elieser Traugott - alternative spelling]
* 15.09.1848 at Komaggas, South Africa
+ 19.03.1939 in Estonia
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Eloisa Traugott Hahn was born on 15.09.1848 at Komaggas in the Cape Colony. He was the third child of Carl Hugo and Emma Sarah Hahn. He went to school in Bielefeld and Gütersloh in Germany from 1857 to 1867, after which he studied theology in Dorpat (Estonia, then Russian Empire) and Berlin from 1867 to 1869. He became a church minister in the Baltics (then Russian Empire), but was banished to Siberia from 1915 to 1917 during the First World War. In 1918, however, he received his doctorate in theology. He married Rosalie Sophie Paling on 13 January 1872. He died on 19.03.1939 in Estonia.
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Gender: m
Profession: Pastor

Married to: Rosalie Sophie Hahn, née Paling (1850-1904), married 1872-1904
Mother: Emma Sarah Hahn, née Hone (1814-1880)
Father: Carl Hugo Hahn (1818-1895)

RAW DATA: Lau 1985:V1258; Guedes; Karen Dierks, née von Bremen;

000167
Hahn, Emma Sarah
[Hone, Emma Sarah - birth name]
* 14.03.1814 in England
+ 26.06.1880 at Cape Town, South Africa
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Emma Sarah Hahn was born on 14.03.1814 in the United Kingdom. She was the fourth daughter of William and Sarah Hone. She was accepted and sponsored for missionary work by the Society for Female Education in the East. She sailed from England for South Africa in January 1843 and became superintendent of the mission school at St. Stephen's Lutheran Church on 18.05.1843. She accepted Carl Hugo Hahn's proposal in August 1843, after only days of courtship. She married at the Ebenezer station. Emma Sarah took her full share of the load of mission work in central Namibia until Carl Hugos' resignation in 1873, she also raised four children. She died on 26.06.1880 at Cape Town in South Africa.
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Gender: f

Married to: Carl Hugo Hahn (1818-1895), married 1843-1895
Mother: Sarah Hone, née Johnson (1781-1864)
Father: William Hone (1780-1842)
Children: William Heinrich Josaphat Hahn (1844-1925)
Carl Hugo (Jr.) Hahn (1846-1933)
Eloisa Traugott Hahn (1848-1939)
Margaritha (Gita) Beiderbecke (née Hahn)(1850-1906)

Namibia National Archives Database

000168
Hahn, Helene
[Langenbeck, Helene - birth name]
* at Barmen, Germany
+ 25.11.1871 at Schwerte, Germany
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Helene Hahn was the wife of Samuel Hahn, the Rhenish Missionary at the Namaqua settlement called Ebenezer at the mouth of the Elephants River in the Cape Colony from 1834 to 1848, when he was transferred to Bethany. In 1853, they returned to Germany. They had seven children, one of them well-known as Dr. Johannes Theophilus Hahn. She died on 25.11.1871 at Schwerte in Germany.
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Gender: f

Married to: Samuel Hahn (1805-1883), married 1834-
Children: Johannes Theophilus Hahn

RAW DATA: Lau 1985:V1258; Tabler 1972:52; Vergissmeinnicht 1893:15; Faulenbach;

000169
Hahn, P. Daniel
* 05.01.1849 at Bethany
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P. Daniel Hahn was born on 05.01.1849 at Bethany. He was the seventh child of Samuel and Helene Hahn, brother of the well-known Dr. Johannes Theophilus Hahn. He obtained a Dr.-Phil. and was Professor in Cape Town in South Africa. When he was four years old, his parents returned to Germany. After studying chemistry, physics, mineralogy and mathematics in Halle, he spent a short time in London, but then returned to the Cape Colony. Besides his engagement for the South African College, at which he was employed, he also played an important role in improving the farmers' knowledge of agricultural ground, and was also responsible for the development of Groot Constantia into a model wine farm.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: SCI

Mother: Helene Hahn, née Langenbeck (-1871)
Father: Samuel Hahn (1805-1883)

RAW DATA: Men of the Times, 1906:5; Vergissmeinnicht 1893:15;

000170
Hahn, Johannes Samuel
* 12.03.1805 at Teuschenthal near Halle, Germany
+ 22.07.1883 at Stellenbosch, South Africa
First entry to Namibia: 1848
Last departure from Namibia: 1851
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Johannes Samuel Hahn was born on 12.03.1805 at Teuschenthal in Germany. He was trained as an agricultural lay missionary by the Rheinische Missionsgesellschaft, and sent to Ebenezer (Cape Colony) in 1834, where he served until 1848. He became missionary at Bethany (1848-1850) and founded the station Berseba (1850-1852). He moved to Germany in 1852 for health reasons, but returned to South Africa in 1875, where he lived at Stellenbosch. Hahn married Helene Langenbeck on 22 .07.1834. They had seven children, among them Dr. Johannes Theophilus Hahn. He died on 22.07.1883 at Stellenbosch in South Africa.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: REL
Profession: Missionary

Married to: Helene Hahn, née Langenbeck, married 1834-
Children: Johannes Theophilus Hahn (1842-1905)
P.Daniel Hahn (1849-)

RAW DATA: P. Reiner 1992:411; Vergissmeinnicht 1893:15; Lau 1985:V1258; Tabler 1973:52; DSAB;

000533
Hahn, Johannes Theophilus, Dr.
* 24.12.1842 at Ebenezer, South Africa
+ 22.01.1905 at Johannesburg, South Africa
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Johannes Theophilus Hahn was the son of the missionary Samuel Hahn. He was born on 24.12.1842 at Ebenezer in South Africa. He grew up in Ebenezer (Cape Colony) and Bethany (Namaland). Hahn was sent for education to Germany in 1849, studied in Halle (Germany) where he received his Dr.-Phil. in 1870 with a dissertation on the Nama language. He moved back to South Africa, where he married Marianne Ester de la Roche Smuts. In 1871 he went to Namaland to trade, and was involved in many political and economic dealings which made him unpopular: in particular his attempts to bring trekboers to Namibia were much resented by local leaders. In 1878 he moved to Stellenbosch, where he completed the first detailed map of southern and central Namibia in 1879. He briefly held a post as curator of the South African Public Library and published scholarly papers on Nama language, culture, religion, and customary law. In 1889 he returned to Namaland as an agent of the Kharaskhoma Syndicate, attempting to win mining concessions from the Veldschoendragers (||Hawoben) and Bondelswarts (!Gami-#nun). He soon returned to the Cape Colony, and remained an employee of the mining company until his death on 22.01.1905 at Johannesburg in South Africa.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: BUS
Profession: Trader Company Agent Linguist Cartographer

Married to: Marianne Ester de la Roche Hahn, née Smuts
Mother: Helene Hahn, née Langenbeck
Father: Samuel Hahn (1805-1883)

RAW DATA: Lau 1995:235; DSAB I:344; Drechsler 1966:66-67, 332, 336; Esterhuyse 1968:12; Tabler 1973:52;

000171
Hahn, William Heinrich Josaphat
[Hahn, Josaphat - call name]
* 07.08.1844 at Windhoek
+ 21.12.1925 at Hamburg, Germany
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William Heinrich Josaphat Hahn was born on 07.08.1844 at Windhoek. He was the eldest child of Carl Hugo and Emma Sarah Hahn. He went to school in Gütersloh in Germany from 1855 to 1865, after which he studied theology in Berlin and Greifswald from 1866 to 1868. Thereafter however he turned to teaching, and stayed in this profession until 1917. He was married to Caroline Clara Clothilde Lücker on 15.04.1874. They had four children. He died on 21.12.1925 at Hamburg in Germany.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: EDU

Married to: Caroline Clara Clothilde Hahn, née Lücker (1850-1931), married 1874-
Mother: Emma Sarah Hahn, née Hone (1814-1880)
Father: Carl Hugo Hahn (1818-1895)

RAW DATA: Guedes;

001399
Haibeb, Piet, #Aonin Captain (Topnaars)
[Haibib, Piet - alternative spelling]
[Eibib, Piet - alternative spelling]
[Pietheibib - alternative spelling]
[||Haibeb ||Gamab - Nama name]
*
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Piet Haibeb was the Captain of the Topnaars (#Aonin). He was the fourth captain on record in the genealogy of the captains of the #Aonin dynasty. In 1854, the Topnaar under the command of Chief Piet ||Haibeb ||Gamab (his predecessor was Chief Khaxab gaib |Khaoremab) were deeply divided, and the elements of choice in their decision could not be perceived from the written missionary sources. Some joined Jonker Afrikaner, others the Swartboois, others remained apart from these conflicts and stayed in Walvis Bay (Rooibank) or escaped either into the Erongo Mountains, or moved to the Kaokoveld or Franzfontein. In 1883 the British Cape colonists Evenson and Willmer sold their mining rights, which they had obtained in Rooibank from Topnaar Captain Piet ||Haibeb, to German mining entrepreneurs Scheidweiler and Hasenclever. He sold his territory in August 1884 (August Lüderitz) and November 1884 to the Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft für Südwestafrika against a monthly pension of Pound (£) five. ||Haibeb died in 1909 (or 1910) and was followed by Tuob Jonas |Khaoreb (until 1914).
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Gender: m
Field of activity: POL

Married to: #Gai-||nais
RAW DATA: Drechsler 1966:33, 36; Bülow 1896:46; Budack 1972:245-246; Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);

002299
Haihambo yaMukwanuli, Ovamboland (Uukwanyama) King
*
+
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The sixth Uukwanyama King on record was King Haihambo yaMukwanuli. He followed King Shimbilinga shaNailambi. He ruled before 1807. The first seven Uukwanyama kings cannot be precisely dated. His successor was the seventh Uukwanyama King Hamangulu yaNahambo (1807-1811).
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Gender: m
Field of activity: POL

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

002302
Haikukutu yaShinangola, Ovamboland (Uukwanyama) King
*
+ .1859
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The ninth Uukwanyama King was King Haikukutu yaShinangola. He followed King Haimbili yaHaufiku (1811-1858). He ruled from 1858 until 1859. He died in 1859. His successor was the tenth Uukwanyama King Sefeni shaMukuyu (1859-1862).
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Gender: m
Field of activity: POL

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

002301
Haimbili yaHaufiku, Ovamboland (Uukwanyama) King
*
+ .1858
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The eighth Uukwanyama King was King Haimbili yaHaufiku. He followed King Hamangulu yaNahambo. He ruled from 1811 until 1858. He strengthened his kingdom by waging wars against neighbouring territories. His capital was Onehula. He died in 1858. His successor was the ninth Uukwanyama King Haikukutu yaShinangola (1858-1859).
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Gender: m
Field of activity: POL

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

000091
Haita, Justus Festus
[Haita, Yustus Festus - alternative spelling]
*
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Justus Festus Haita was arrested in January 1968 by the South Africans. He was charged in February 1969 under the Terrorism Act. He was tried in Windhoek in July 1969 and sentenced to life imprisonment on Robben Island.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: POL

Collections/Papers:
1). NAN: PRI 3/29 (Prison file)

000092
Haita, Solomon Festus
*
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Solomon Festus Haita was arrested in January 1968. He was charged in February 1969 under the Terrorism Act. He was tried in Windhoek in July 1969 and sentenced to life imprisonment on Robben Island.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: POL

Collections/Papers:
1). NAN: PRI 3/27 (Prison file)

000173
Hälbich, Johann Carl Eduard
* 19.03.1836 at Gross-Reichen, Germany
+ 21.12.1888 at Otjimbingwe
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Johann Carl Eduard Hälbich was born on 19.03.1836 at Gross-Reichen in Germany. He came to Namibia in 1864 as one of Hahn's mission colonists. He was employed by the Rhenish Missionary Society. He also managed the mission store for a while, but when the trading company failed, he took over part of his assets and eventually established one of the most successful trading operations in the country. During the 1870s, he had a store at Otjimbingwe, and was appointed veldkornet for the Otjimbingwe district in 1878, apparently by Palgrave. He was married to Friederike Amalie Barthel on 01.03.1864. They had six children. He died on 21.12.1888 at Otjimbingwe.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: BUS
Profession: Trader

Married to: Friederike Amalie Hälbich, née Barthel (1834-1911), married 1864-

RAW DATA: Tabler 1972:50; Lau 1989:301; Vergissmeinnicht 1893:41;

000014
Halenke, Herbert, Dr.
* 21.10.1915 at Windhoek
+ August 2003 at Windhoek
---
Herbert Halenke was born in Windhoek on 21.10.1915. He visited the school in Windhoek and obtained the Abitur in 1933. He studied veterinary medicine in Hannover in Germany 1935-1937 and in Berlin 1939-1941. He was a veterinarian officer in the German Army in WW II and prisoner-of-war in England 1944-1948. He returned to Namibia in 1948 and took over the family farm Hohenau in 1949. He married Dr. Erika Lühl in 1949. From 1953 to 1961 Halenke was in a leading position in planning and building the Namibian meat industry. In 1977 he was the co-founder of the Interessengemeinschaft Deutschsprachiger Südwester (IG), which he chaired from 1977-1982. From 1982 he was the honorary President of the IG. Halenke retired in 1982. He died in August 2003 at Windhoek.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: AGR BUS POL
Profession: Veterinarian
Functions: Chairperson - Interessengemeinschaft Deutschsprachiger Südwester - 1977-1982

Married to: Erika Halenke, née Lühl, married 1949-
Father: Otto Halenke

RAW DATA: WWSA 1959; Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);

000943
Halim, Omar
* in Indonesia
---
Omar Halim was an Indonesian senior UN officer. He served in the United Nations Transition Group (UNTAG) as deputy of Cedric Thornberry during Namibia's independence process in 1989/90.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: ADM

RAW DATA: New Era 08-10.6.2001;

001505
Hall, Thomas Perris
* 07.02.1889 at Sheerness, England
---
Thomas Perris Hall was born on 07.02.1889 at Sheerness in the United Kingdom. He was educated in Edinburgh. He came to South Africa 1906. He was the local manager of Sleith David Ltd., Walvis Bay general merchants. He also was a Member of the Walvis Bay Harbour Advisory Board.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: BUS

Married to: Dorothy Eileen Hall, née Walsh, married 1921-
Father: T.P. Hall
RAW DATA: WWSA 1929/30;

000093
Haluteni, Abel
*
---
Abel Haluteni was arrested at the end of 1966. He was tried with other Namibians in the Pretoria Terrorism Trial from September 1967 to February 1968. He was sentenced to life imprisonment on Robben Island, which was reduced to 20 years on appeal.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL

Collections/Papers:
1). NAN: PRI 3/2 (Prison file)

000758
Hamaambo, Mweukefina Kulaumone Jerobeam Dimo
* 27.10.1932 at Eengava, Ohangwena Region
+ 08.09.2002 at Windhoek
---
Mweukefina Kulaumone Jerobeam Dimo Hamaambo was born on 27.10.1932 at Eengava in the Ohangwena Region. He was one of thirteen children of his parents. He went to school at Ohaingu and Engela. At a young age, he went on contract work as a farm worker, at the South African Railways, as a domestic worker at CDM 1950-1952, at the cannery in Walvis Bay, and eventually at the gold mines in Johannesburg. After that, he continued his education at Onekwaya and Odibo. He joined the Ovamboland People's Organisation (OPO) at Walvis Bay in 1959. In 1960/61 he attempted to leave the country via Lobito but was deported back from Britain. He finally left into exile via Bechuanaland to Tanzania in 1962. He then went for military training, first in Algeria, then in the Soviet Union. In 1966, he was appointed Second Deputy Army Commander of the South West Africa Liberation Army (which became PLAN in 1970). He rose to First Deputy Army Commander in 1967, and Army Commander in 1968, a post he held until the end of the liberation struggle in 1989. He returned to Namibia in 1989 to participate in the transition to independence. He was appointed the first Namibian Chief of Defence Forces in 1990, until he retired in 2000. After his death on 08.09.2002, he was given a state funeral on 14.09.2002. He was the first to be buried at the new Heroes' Acre in Windhoek.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: MIL
Functions: Commander - PLAN - 1966-1989
Member of Central Committee - SWAPO
Chief - Namibia Defence Force - 1990-2000

Mother: Josephina Melila Shipo
Father: Jona Hamaambo
RAW DATA: Eulogy read at his burial;

002300
Hamangulu yaNahambo, Ovamboland (Uukwanyama) King
*
+ .1811
---
The seventh Uukwanyama King on record was King Hamangulu yaNahambo. He followed King Haihambo yaMukwanuli. He ruled from 1807 until 1811. The Uukwambi kings Nakantu kaNakwedhi (eighth Uukwambi King: 1750-1780) and Nuukata waTshiinga (ninth Uukwambi King: 1780-1800 who was followed by the tenth Uukwambi King, Iilonga yaNyango) as well as the seventh Uukwanyama King Hamangulu yaNahambo (1807-1811) were Ondonga King Nembungu’s contemporaries (ca. 1750 until 1810 or 1820). His successor was the eighth Uukwanyama King Haimbili yaHaufiku (±1811-1858).
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL

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

001507
Hammacher, F., Dr.
*
---
Deputy chair of the board of the Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft für Südwestafrika. Reichstag deputy (Nationalliberale).
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: BUS

RAW DATA: Drechsler 1966:299, 332, 340;

000843
Hamman, Eduard Christian
* 03.10.1903 at Lichtenburg, Transvaal, South Africa
First entry to Namibia: 1941
---
Eduard Christian Hamman was born on 03.10.1903 at Lichtenburg in South Africa. He was educated at the Lichtenburg High School and University of Pretoria. He was a civil servant 1924-1941. He resigned to go farming. He came to Namibia in 1941. He was a cattle breeder at the farm Onganja. He also became a director at the Barclays Bank.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: BUS AGR
Profession: Businessman Farmer

Married to: Cathrine Helen Hamman, née Wessels, married 1932-
Father: H.J.M. Hamman
RAW DATA: WSA 1974;

000844
Hamman, Johannes Nicolaas
* 28.02.1924 at Lichtenburg, Transvaal, South Africa
---
Johannes Nicolaas Hamman was born on 28.02.1924 at Lichtenburg in South Africa. He was educated at Potchefstroom and Pretoria. He came to Namibia in 1944. He was a businessman and director of various companies.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: BUS
Profession: Businessman

Married to: Catherine Johanna Hamman, née Lindenberg, married 1959
Father: Johannes Nicolaas Hamman
RAW DATA: WWSA 1974;

001508
Hammann, Karl
* 04.02.1867 at Darmstadt, Germany
First entry to Namibia: 1897
Last departure from Namibia: 1905
---
Karl Hammann was born on 04.02.1867 at Darmstadt in Germany. He became a missionary of the Rheinische Missionsgesellschaft. He came to Namibia in 1897 and was stationed in Otjihaenena. He returned to Germany in 1905.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: REL
Profession: Missionary

Married to: Johanna Hammann, née Jansen, married 1900-
RAW DATA: Drechsler 1966:1776, 353;

001509
Hammer
* in Germany
---
Pastor of the German Lutheran Church in Windhoek since 1907.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: REL
Profession: Clergy

Namibia National Archives Database

000094
Hamulemo, Simeon Namuganga
*
---
Simeon Namuganga Hamulemo was arrested in 1966. He was charged in mid-1967 under the Terrorism Act. He was tried with other Namibians in the Pretoria Terrorism Trial from September 1967 until February 1968. He was sentenced to life imprisonment, which sentence was reduced to 20 years on appeal, on Robben Island.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL

Collections/Papers:
1). NAN: PRI 3/27 (Prison file)

000269
Hamutenya, Hidipo L.
* .1939 at Onengali
---
Hidipo L. Hamutenya was born in 1939 at Onengali. He had his training first at the St. Mary's Mission school at Odibo and later at the Augustineum Teachers’ Training College at Okahandja. He was inspired by the December 1959 Windhoek uprising, after which student unrest erupted at the Augustineum. Hidipo Hamutenya took part. He had to flee the country and he went to Dar-Es-Salaam. He received his education at the Lincoln University, Pennsylvania (USA)(BA) and McGill University Montreal (Canada)(MA). He became a Member of the SWAPO Politburo since August 1976. In the same month Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda and Mosé Tjitendero jointly opened the United Nations Institute for Namibia (UNIN) in Lusaka, which was to train Namibian administrators. UNIN was initiated by the UN Commissioner for Namibia, Sean McBride. Hage Geingob became its first Director. Hidipo Hamutenya was one of its founding members. Hidipo Hamutenya became SWAPO’s Secretary for Information and Publicity in 1981 (until 1985). He was the Deputy Director of UNIN from 1985 until 1989. He was a Member of the Constituent Assembly (1989-1990) and a Member of the National Assembly since 1990. After independence he was appointed Minister of Information and Broadcasting, 1990-1993. He became Minister of Trade and Industry, from 1993 to 2002 and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2002 onwards-. During the SWAPO Central Committee Meeting from 02.04.2004 to 03.04.2004 in Windhoek, Hifikepunye Lucas Pohamba (proposed by Sam Nujoma), Nahas Angula (proposed by Andimba Toivo Ya Toivo, seconded by Libertine Amathila) and Hidipo Hamutenya (proposed by Mosé Penaani Tjitendero, seconded by Hartmut Ruppel) were elected as the three SWAPO presidential candidates for the Presidential Election 2004 in order to succeed the President of the Republic of Namibia, Sam Nujoma. The sole SWAPO presidential candidate will be elected during an Extraordinary SWAPO Congress at the end of May 2004. During the Extraordinary SWAPO Congress on 28. and 29.05.2004 over 500 delegates from Namibia’s ruling SWAPO party were voting on a successor to President Sam Nujoma, who has been the dominant political figure in Namibia for five decades. An inclusive first round of secret balloting saw party Vice-President Hifikepunye Lucas Pohamba, handpicked by Nujoma to be his successor, with the most votes - 213 out of 516 - but fell short of the overall majority required to avoid another round of voting against his two rivals. Foreign Minister Hidipo Hamutenya, who was dismissed in a surprise move by President Nujoma on 21.05.2004 (together with his Deputy Minister, Kaire Mbuende), gathered 166 votes while Nahas Angula won 137 votes. Under SWAPO constitutional rules, Angula fell out, and Pohamba and Hamutenya went into a second round of voting. In the second round, all but one of Angula’s votes went to Pohamba.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
Profession: Politician

Father: Aaron Hamutenya, founding member of SWAPO

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

002334
Hamutumbangela, Theophilus Hingashikuka
* 06.02.1917 at Onghala
+ 28.11.1990
---
On the 06.02.1917 King Mandume ya Ndemufayo's royal residence, although deserted, was destroyed by the invading South African colonial forces. According to Uukwanyama oral "evidence", Mandume committed suicide. The South Africans claimed that he was killed by Maxim machine-gun fire, and apparently they (Lieutenant Thomas Edward Moroney) later decapitated him. The Finnish Missionary Society voiced no protests. On the same day Theophilus Hingashikuka Hamutumbangela was born at Onghala in the Uukwanyama area. He later became an Anglican priest and supporter of the Namibian fight for liberation and independence and against colonial injustice and the forced contract labour system. Between 1943 and 1946 he received his theological education at a theological seminar in South Africa where he qualified as a deacon. He was ordained as a priest in 1947. Thereafter he served at the newly established Anglican church at Onekwaya as a priest and school teacher. During January 1954 grievances of Namibian contract labourers against the illegal confiscation of goods at a road block at Namutoni were focussed on by an early spokesperson for contract labourers and later SWAPO leader, Eliazer Tuhadeleni. He was strongly supported by Theophilus Hamutumbangela. In April 1954 and after there was no reaction by the SWA Administration, Hamutumbangela directed a petition to the United Nations. Hamutumbangela continued his political work with leaders such as Sam Shafiishuna Nujoma until his deportation from his parish Onekwaya in Ovamboland to Windhoek in 1957. Sam Nujoma and Jariretundu Kozonguizi influenced the "Anglican Bishop of Damaraland", Vincent, to convince the South Africans to allow Hamutumbangela to return home. This happened at the beginning of 1958. Hamutumbangela actively supported the liberation struggle of the Namibian people in the north for many years. He again was arrested in Windhoek in 1959 after the Old Location Uprising in December. He was later released but was "house-interned". After the beginning of the armed liberation struggle by SWAPO against the South Africans in August 1966, he was again arrested and served a prison term at Windhoek. There he became sick by food poisoning. He never gained completely his health. Hamutumbangela died , physically ruined and mentally impaired, on 28.11.1990.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: REL
Profession: Clergyman

Collections/Papers:
1). NWG Newsletter (Vogt, A): April-June 2004
2). Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks)

002159
|Hanab #Ô||nâimab, Kai||khaun Captain (Red Nation)
*
+ .1770
---
The Nama Captain of the Kai||khaun (also called Red Nation), |Hanab #Ô||nâimab (1755-1770), was probably the fifth Chief on record of this community. He was followed by !Gaob |Hanamab (1770-1800).
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
Profession: Traditional leader
Functions: Captain - Kai||khaun (Red Nation) - 1755-1770

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

001511
Hanefeld, A.
* 09.09.1867 at Weitma/Bochum, Germany
First entry to Namibia: 1899
---
A. Hanefeld was born on 09.09.1867 at Weitma/Bochum in Germany. He was a missionary of the Rheinische Missionsgesellschaft. He came to Namibia in 1899 and was stationed in Ondjiva (now Angola).
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: REL
Profession: Missionary

Married to: Wilhelmine Hanefeld, née Rittershaus, married 1902-

Namibia National Archives Database

002115
Hankuze, Yeyi (Mayeyi) Chief
[Shikati, traditional title]
*
+ .
---
Around 1750 the community of the Yeyi (Mayeyi) lived in present-day Caprivi Strip. They moved from Diyeyi (land of the Yeyi) in the area of Linyanti under the leadership of three group leaders Shikati Hankuze, Shikati Qunku together with his brother Qunkunyane and Shikati Matsharatshara into the Okavango Delta in present-day Botswana. Later they moved back into the Caprivi Strip, to Linyanti and Sangwali.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL

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

001415
Hannemann, Hans, Dr.
* 20.09.1877
---
Schutztruppe medical officer.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: MIL MED
Profession: Military officer; Medical practitioner

RAW DATA: Fischer 1935:155;

001502
Hänninen, August
* in Finland
---
Finnish missionary.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: REL
Profession: Missionary

Namibia National Archives Database

001512
Hannula, Frans Willehard
* in Finland
---
Finnish missionary in Ovamboland.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: REL
Profession: Missionary

Namibia National Archives Database

001513
Hansen, Nikolaus
* in Germany
---
Medical orderly (Sanitäter) in the Schutztruppe.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: MIL

Collections/Papers:
1). Bürgerhaus Tarp (Manuscript on Ovaherero War 1904/05)

000847
Hanssen, Jacobus Johannes
* 14.09.1900 at Cape Town, South Africa
---
Jacobus Johannes Hanssen was born on 14.09.1900 at Cape Town in South Africa. He was educated at the Grey High School, at Port Elizabeth, and the Potchefstroom Agricultural College. He was a cattle and karakul farmer at Tara and Grey Heights. He was a member of several agricultural organisations and boards.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: AGR
Profession: Farmer

Married to: Magdalena Hanssen, née Pretorius, married 1927-
Father: Jacobus Petrus Arnoldus Hanssen
RAW DATA: WWSA 1959;

002171
Haoseb !Hoasemab, #Aonin Captain (Topnaars)
*
---
Captain of the Topnaars (#Aonin). He was the second captain on record in the genealogy of the captains of the #Aonin dynasty. No dates could be traced and he was followed by Khaxab gaib ||Khaoremab (around 1820).
---

Gender: m
Field of activity: POL

RAW DATA: Budack 1972:245-246;

000848
Harper, Sally
* at Natal, South Africa
---
Sally Harper was educated at the University of Natal in South Africa. She joined the Central Archives, Pretoria, as an archivist in 1967. in 1970 (?), she moved to the Windhoek Archives where she later became Director until 19??. She was Director of Culture, 19??-??. She left for private business, studied again, and joined a consultancy group in Windhoek.
---
Gender: m

Namibia National Archives Database

000849
Harris, Adolph
*
First entry to Namibia: 1932
---
Adolph Harris was educated at Marist Bros., Johannesburg. He was an attorney, notary and conveyancer. He served i.a. as Mayor of Springfontein, Oranje Free State, South Africa before coming to Namibia in 1932. He was the Editor of the "Windhoek Advertiser" from 1940 until 1945.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: LAW JOU
Profession: Lawyer
Functions: Editor - Windhoek Advertiser - 1940-1945

Married to: Hedwig Harris, née Ehrlich, married 1911-
RAW DATA: WWSA 1959;

000850
Harris, Hedwig
[Ehrlich, Hedwig - birth name]
* at Bloemfontein, South Africa
First entry to Namibia: 1932
---
Hedwig Harris, née Ehrlich, was born at Bloemfontein in South Africa and educated at Bloemfontein and Rondebosch. She came to Namibia in 1932. She was a businesswoman and active in various charitable associations and in sport (tennis). She was married to Adolph Harris.
---
Gender: f
Field of activity: BUS
Functions: Chairperson - Cripple Care Association SWA
Chairperson - Navy League - 1939-1945

Married to: Adolph Harris, married 1911-
Father: Wolf Ehrlich
RAW DATA: WWSA 1959;

002008
Harrison, James
*
---
James Harrison was a hunter and trader. He worked for J. Chapman at the Matchless Mine in 1863. He owned a store at Walvis Bay in the 1870s, and went on hunting and trading trips inland.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: BUS
Profession: Hunter Trader

Married to: Mrs. Harrison, née Kennedy
RAW DATA: Tabler 1973:53-54;

002009
Hart, Henry
[Hart, Harry - alternative name]
*
---
Henry Hart was a hunter and trader. He worked for Eriksson and the Missionshandelsgesellschaft. His presence in Namibia is documented between 1877 and 1880.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: BUS

Collections/Papers:
RAW DATA: Tabler 1973:54;

002010
Hartley
*
---
Hartley was a hunter and trader. His presence in Namibia is documented between 1865-1867.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: BUS

RAW DATA: Tabler 1973:54;

000851
Hartmann, Georg, Dr.
* 04.08.1865 at Dresden, Germany
+ .1945
---
Georg Hartmann was born on 04.08.1865 at Dresden in Germany. He studied mathematics, physics and geography. He absolved his military service 1889/99. He extensively travelled in Namibia in the employ of the South West Africa Company, the Kaoko Land- und Minengesellschaft and Gibeon Schürf- und Handelsgesellschaft between 1893 and 1907 (and later?): 1893 Namaland (in July 1893 Hartmann reported that "Hendrik Witbooi is rightfully defending his independence against the Germans; that he had never harmed any "white" or stolen anything from them and that the Witbooi Nama maintain high discipline at all times); 1894, 1895/96, 1900 Kaokoveld; 1900 Ovamboland and South Angola; 1898 Kalahari Sandveld; 1906/07 Namaland. He compiled maps and published extensively about his travels.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: SCI
Profession: Scientist

Collections/Papers:
1). NAN: A.296 (Correspondence with SWACO, extracts from diary) * Photocopy from SWACO Archives. The originals should therefore be in the SWACO Accession ??
RAW DATA: Deutsches Koloniallexikon; Drechsler 1966:106, 123-124, 1229-131, 218, 305, 343-344, 346, 359; Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);

001514
Hasenclever, F.A.
* in Germany
---
German industrialist who invested in a Namibian mining venture in 1883.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: bus

RAW DATA: Esterhuyse 1968:37f; Drechsler 1966:328;

000852
Hasse, Hans Ulrich
* 12.08.1919 at Kalkfeld
---
Hans Ulrich Hasse was born on 12.08.1919 at Kalkfeld and was educated at Swakopmund and Tsumeb. He served in the German Air Force from 1937 until 1945, and attained the rank of First Lieutenant. He was the owner of Ostora Ovambo, Tsumeb.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: BUS
Profession: Businessman

Married to: Siegrid Hasse, née von Garnier, married 1965
Father: Paul Hasse
RAW DATA: WWSA 1974;

000853
Hatz, Hartmut Leopold
* 20.12.1937 at München, Germany
First entry to Namibia: 10.1952
---
Hartmut Leopold Hatz was born at 20.12.1937 at München in Germany. He was educated at the Maria Theresia Oberrealschule München, at the Deutsche Höhere Privat-Schule Windhoek (DHPS) and the Staatsbauschule in München. From 1960 until 1961 he was a surveyor with the CSIR in Pretoria. From 1961 until 1962 he was a construction engineer with the Tsumeb Corporation. In 1962 he became the Managing Director of the Bau-Unternehmen Bavaria.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: ENG
Profession: Engineer

Married to: Margareta Johanna Hatz, née Olwage, married 1964-
Father: Leopold Hatz (1907-)
RAW DATA: WWSA 1974;

000854
Hatz, Leopold
* 22.02.1907 at München, Germany
First entry to Namibia: 1952
---
Leopold Hatz was born at 22.02.1907 at München in Germany. He was educated at the Staatsbauschule München. He was a master carpenter. He came to Namibia in 1952. He was a Managing Director of the Bau-Unternehmen Bavaria.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: BUS
Profession: Businessman

Married to: Anneliese Hatz, née Paulus, married 1936-
Children: Hartmut Leopold Hatz (1937-)
RAW DATA: WWSA 1974;

001515
Hatzfeldt
*
---
---
Gender: m

RAW DATA: Drechsler 1966:339-340;

001728
Hauck, Gerhard
* .1874 at Düsseldorf, Germany
+ .1943 at Düsseldorf, Germany
First entry to Namibia: 06.1896
Last departure from Namibia: 1919
---
Gerhard Hauck was born in 1874 at Düsseldorf in Germany. He was trained as a butcher. He came to Namibia as part of Schutztruppe reinforcements in June 1896, and returned to Germany in 1900. He emigrated to Namibia with his wife in 1904 and worked in many different jobs and capacities. He had his military service in 1915 and became prisoner-of-war. After this he returned to his café in Lüderitz. He was deported to Germany in 1919 after a row with a British officer. He published a book on his experiences in Namibia ("Ich sah Afrika", 1934). He died in 1943 at Düsseldorf.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: MIL

RAW DATA: AHK 1975:118-119;

001105
Hauffe, Ilse
*
---
Ilse Hauffe and her husband Wilko established a karakul carpet weaving enterprise at their farm Beenbreck near Uhlenhorst.
---
Gender: f

RAW DATA: Windhoek Observer 22.2.2003, p.13;

000095
Haufiku, Nghidipo Jesaja
*
---
Nghidipo Jesaja Haufiku was arrested in March 1966. He was charged in mid-1967 under the Terrorism Act. He was tried with other Namibians in the Pretoria Terrorism Trial from September 1967 until February 1968. He was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment on Robben Island.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL

Collections/Papers:
1). NAN: PRI 3/20 (Prison file)

001516
Haug
* in Germany
---
German Consul-General in South Africa.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: DIP

RAW DATA: Drechsler 1966:281, 369;

000392
Hausiku, Bonifatius
[Haushiku, Bonifatius - alternative spelling]
* in the Kavango
---
Bonifatius Hausiku was born in the Kavango region. He received his schooling in the Kavango, Windhoek and Lesotho, where he matriculated. He studied philosophy and theology in St. Petersburg near Pretoria in South Africa. He became an assistant priest in Natal and returned to Namibia in 1968. His ordination took place in 1974. He was consecrated as first "black" Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Windhoek on 11 November 1994.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: REL
Profession: Catholic priest
Functions: Archbishop - 1994-

Namibia National Archives Database

001517
Haussleiter, Pastor
* in Germany
---
Sixth mission inspector of the Rheinische Missionsgesellschaft, from 1903 to 1908.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: REL

Namibia National Archives Database

002297
Hautolonde uaNdja, Ovamboland (Uukwanyama) King
*
+ around 1650
---
The fourth Uukwanyama King on record was King Hautolonde uaNdja. He followed King Heita yMuvale. He ruled around 1650. The first seven Uukwanyama kings cannot be precisely dated. He ruled possibly at the same time than the first Ondonga (Aandonga) King Nembulungo lyNgwedha from the Aakwanekamba (Hyena Clan)(ca. 1650-1690) who was born around 1620. Kavonga's successor was the fifth Uukwanyama King Shimbilinga shaNailambi (before 1800).
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL

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

002179
||Hawaxamab, Simon,!Gomén Captain (Topnaar)
[Kukub gaib ||Hawaxamab - Nama name]
* in Namibia
+ in Namibia
---
Simon ||Hawaxamab was a Captain of the Topnaars (!Gomén) of Sesfontein. He was the seventh captain in the genealogy of the !Gomén dynasty. He followed Benjamin Kido (Kuli Gâsemab). After Kido's death, the office of !Gomén captain was bestowed to the son of the sister of the !Gomén Captain ||Gaubeb Anibamap, to Simon ||Hawaxamab (Kukub gaib ||Hawaxamab).
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL

Married to: <1>Axües
<2>!Nabas
RAW DATA: Budack 1972:247-248;

000544
Hawega, Petrus
*
---
Petrus Hawega was probably a member of the (Ovaherero) Hoveka family, some of whom seem to have settled in Namaland. One part of that family under Gottfriedt was firmly integrated into the Hoachanas population, Gottfriedt Hawega even being !Noreseb Manasse's deputy captain.
---
Gender: m

RAW DATA: Budack 1972:93;

000174
Haybittle, Henry
*
---
Henry Haybittle was a brother of Richard Haybittle, who is more frequently mentioned in the literature. Both were traders in Namibia, and took part in Andersson's campaign against the Orlam-Afrikaners in 1864. His presence in Namibia is documented between 1861 and 1864.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: BUS
Profession: Trader

RAW DATA: P. Reiner 1992:412; Tabler 1973:54-55;

002011
Haybittle, Richard
*
---
Richard Haybittle was a brother of Henry Haybittle. Both were traders in Namibia, and took part in Andersson's campaign against the Orlam Afrikaners in 1864. Richard Haybittle with Joubert was in charge of delivering Cape Government relief supplies to the Dorsland Trekkers in 1879. His presence in Namibia is documented between 1861 and 1881.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: BUS
Profession: Trader

RAW DATA: P.Reiner 1992:412; Tabler 1973:54-55;

002012
Hayes, John
*
---
John Hayes was a hunter. His presence in Namibia is documented between 1878 and 1881.
---
Gender: m

RAW DATA: Tabler 1973:55;

000855
Heath, Basil Denis
* at Alexandria, Cape, South Africa
---
Educated at Russell College, Cradock. Cattle dealer in Otjiwarongo.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: BUS

Married to: C.D. Heath, née Pyper, married 1941
Father: William Samuel Heath
RAW DATA: WWSA 1959;

001518
Heck, Lutz, Prof. Dr.
* .1892 at Berlin, Germany
---
Lutz Heck was a mammologist and the Director of the Berlin Zoo in Germany. He travelled to Namibia (particularly Etosha Pan) to acquire animals, and published about his travels.
---
Gender: m

Namibia National Archives Database

000016
Hecker, Jürgen
* 12.11.1952 at Pretoria, South Africa
---
Jürgen Hecker was born on 12.11.1952 in Pretoria in South Africa. He received his schooling in Windhoek (DHPS). 1971 he obtained his Abitur. Then he underwent military service in the South African Navy. From 1973 until 1978 he was studying psychology and German in South Africa and Germany, MA (German). 1979 he started teaching German in Swakopmund. In 1980 he underwent training for the diplomatic service in South Africa. 1981 he was lecturing German at the Windhoek College of Education. From 1982 to 1984 he was heading the German radio programme of the SWABC. In October 1984 political differences (strong bias in favour of South Africa and the anti-independence forces in Namibia) in the SWABC led to the resignation of Jürgen Hecker and six other staff members within the German Radio Service of the SWABC.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: EDU Journalism

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

001519
Hedley, Sergeant
*
---
British resident in Okahandja, 1884.
---
Gender: m

RAW DATA: Esterhuyse 1968:79;

001520
Heese, Carl August Daniel
* .1867
+ .1901
---
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: REL
Profession: Missionary

RAW DATA: DSAB IV;

000346
Heese, C.P.
* 22.08.1931 at Gochas
---
C.P. Heese was born on 22.08.1931 at Gochas. He received his schooling in Keetmanshoop. He studied education at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa. He researched and wrote on the history of education in Namibia.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: EDU
Profession: Educationist

Namibia National Archives Database

000175
Hegner, Carl Ludwig Hermann
* 27.11.1840 at Mohrungen, Ostpreussen, Germany (now: Poland)
+ 26.10.1915 at Gütersloh, Germany
First entry to Namibia: 1871
---
Carl Ludwig Hermann Hegner was born on 27.11.1840 at Mohrungen, Ostpreussen in Germany (now: Poland). he was a missionary of the Rheinische Missionsgesellschaft who worked at several mission stations in South Africa 1866 until 1871, after which he moved to Berseba together with the !Aman people. With the exception of a short sojourn at Keetmanshoop (1873-1877) and another absence from 1898 until 1900, he remained at this station until 1905. He was married to Elisabeth Kleinschmidt on 05.01.1871. They had at least five children. He died on 26.10.1915 at Gütersloh in Germany.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: REL
Profession: Missionary

Married to: Elisabeth Hegner, née Kleinschmidt, married 1871-

RAW DATA: Vergissmeinnicht 1893:44; Lau 1989:II179;

000206
Hegner, Elisabeth
[Kleinschmidt, Elisabeth - birth name]
* 13.09.1844 at Windhoek
+ 02.09.1913 at Gütersloh, Germany
---
Elisabeth Hegner was born on 13.09.1844 at Windhoek. She was the second child of Franz Heinrich and Hanna Kleinschmidt. She returned to Namaland in 1864 after going to school in Germany for several years. She married Rhenish missionary Carl Ludwig Hermann Hegner on 05.01.1871 and lived with him at Keetmanshoop and Berseba. They had at least five children. She died on 02.09.1913 at Gütersloh in Germany.
---
Gender: f

Married to: Carl Ludwig Hermann Hegner (1840-1915), married 1871-1913
Mother: Hanna Kleinschmidt, née Schmelen (1819-1884)
Father: Franz Heinrich Kleinschmidt (1812-1864)

RAW DATA: Lau 1985:V1268; Faulenbach;

001521
Heidemann, J.N.
*
---
---
Gender: m

RAW DATA: Drechsler 1966:335;

000176
Heidmann, Ida
[Eick, Ida - birth name]
* 27.04.1836 at Elberfeld, Germany
+ 10.06.1899 at Rehoboth
---
Wife of missionary Johann Christian Friedrich Heidmann.
---
Gender: f

Married to: Johann Christian Friedrich Heidmann, married 1871-

RAW DATA: Vergissmeinnicht 1893:44; Faulenbach;

000177
Heidmann, Johann Christian Friedrich
* 01.11.1834 at Moringen near Lübeck, Germany
+ 30.06.1913 at Valkenburg near Cape Town, South Africa
First entry to Namibia: 1868
Last departure from Namibia: 1906
---
Johann Christian Friedrich Heidmann was born on 01.11.1834 at Moringen near Lübeck in Germany. He was a trained glazier. He joined the Rheinische Missionsgesellschaft in 1861. He was sent to South Africa in 1865, and became the Rhenish Missionary to the Basters at De Tuyn (where he took over from Sterrenberg in 1866) and Schietfontein in the north-western Cape Colony. In 1868, he succeeded Johan Georg Schröder as missionary at Pella, south of the Oranje River. About 90 Baster families crossed the Oranje River into Namibia in December that year, and Heidmann moved with them. They settled at Rehoboth, which had been deserted since 1864, in 1868, and Heidmann served there from 1868 until he retired in 1906. He lived in Steinthal near Tulbagh after retirement, and in the end suffered from dementia and died at Cape Town in a mental institution. He was married to Ida Eick on 04.06.1869. During the crucial years of German take-over in Namibia from 1892-1895, Heidmann colluded closely with the German authorities to secure Baster cooperation against Hendrik Witbooi. He died on 30.06.1913 at Valkenburg near Cape Town in South Africa.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: REL
Profession: Missionary

Married to: Ida Heidmann, née Eick (1836-1899), married 1869-1899

Collections/Papers:
1). VEM: RMG 1.601 = B/c II 28 (Correspondence with the Rhenish Missionary Society)
RAW DATA: P.Reiner 1992:413; Tabler 1972:55; Vergissmeinnicht 1893:44; Fischer 1961:27; Quellen 21:III; Drechsler 1966:329; DSAB;

001522
Heider, Eduard
* in Germany
+ 16.06.1881 at Hoachanas
First entry to Namibia: 1872
---
Eduard Heider was a missionary of the Rheinische Missionsgesellschaft. He was sent out in 1872 and was stationed at Hoachanas where he died on 16.06.1881.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: REL
Profession: Missionary

Married to: Johanne Heider, née Werbeck

Namibia National Archives Database

001536
Heiligbrunner
*
---
In 1914 deputising for Bezirksamtmann of Keetmanshoop, Hiller v. Gaertringen while the latter was on leave.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: ADM

Namibia National Archives Database

001523
Hein, Johann Friedrich
* .1826 at Northern Cape, South Africa
+ 06.11.1902 at Kuboes
---
Johann Friedrich Hein was born in 1826 in the Northern Cape in South Africa. His original name was Willem. He assumed the name of his spiritual teacher, missionary Budler. He worked as a catechist, evangelist and teacher in the Richtersveld from the age of sixteen and became South Africa's first ordained minister classified as "coloured" in 1893. He died on 06.11.1902 at Kuboes.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: REL
Profession: Missionary

Married to: Elisabeth Hein, née Wimmer, married 1849-
RAW DATA: DSAB IV; Strassberger; SESA 5:476;

000178
Heinonen, Juho
*
---
Juho Heinonen was a Finnish mission assistant who landed at Walvis Bay together with six missionaries (inter alia Martti Rautanen and Botolf Bernhard Björklund) on 14.02.1869. He was a member of the party who left Otjimbingwe for Ovamboland on 27.05.1870. After a meeting with Ondonga King Shikongo sha Kalulu (1859-1874) at Omandongo on 10.07.1870, it was decided that Heinonen should remain behind in the Ondonga area together with Björklund, Jurvelin and Malmström. The main purpose of his coming was to teach handicraft, but as the local chiefs required the services of the mission assistants virtually for themselves, this objective could not be realised, and he eventually returned to Finland. His bride came to Ondonga on 19.05.1871, and they were married shortly afterwards.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: REL
Profession: Mission Assistant

Married to: ? Heinonen, married 1871-

RAW DATA: Stals 1967:55-559+62+78; Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);

000017
Heinrich, Walter
* 02.06.1918 at Berlin, Germany
First entry to Namibia: 1949
---
Walter Heinrich was born on 02.06.1918 in Berlin. He received his schooling at Hannover. He emigrated to Namibia in 1949. He chaired various choirs and the SWA Sängerbund. He worked on the news desk of the SWABC. He was the author of satiric poems and essays.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: MUS Broadcasting
Functions: Chairman - SWA Sängerbund

Namibia National Archives Database

001524
Heinrichs, Friedrich
* 01.02.1863 at Schwelm, Germany
First entry to Namibia: 1891
Last departure from Namibia: 1907
---
Friedrich Heinrichs was born on 01.02.1863 at Schwelm in Germany. He was a missionary of the Rheinische Missionsgesellschaft. He was stationed at Bethany. He was sent out in 1891 and returned to Germany in 1907.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: REL
Profession: Missionary

Married to: Elisabeth Heinrichs, née Göbel, married 1897-
RAW DATA: Drechsler 1966:85;

000179
Heisib
*
---
Heisib was a Orlam-Afrikaner messenger in the service of Charles John Andersson in 1863. In 1866. however, it appears that he was employed by the Hahns at Otjimbingwe.
---
Gender: m

RAW DATA: Lau 1989:267+302;

002296
Heita yMuvale, Ovamboland (Uukwanyama) King
*
+ around 1650
---
The third Uukwanyama King on record was King Heita yMuvale. He followed King Kavonga kaHaidongo. He ruled around 1650. The first seven Uukwanyama kings cannot be precisely dated. He ruled possibly at the same time than the first Ondonga (Aandonga) King Nembulungo lyNgwedha from the Aakwanekamba (Hyena Clan)(ca. 1650-1690) who was born around 1620. Kavonga's successor was the fourth Uukwanyama King Hautolonde uaNdja (around 1650).
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL

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

001525
Hellmich
* in Germany
---
Schutztruppe officer, 1906 "Etappenkommandant" in Omaruru.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: MIL
Profession: Military officer

RAW DATA: Drechsler 1966:245;

002325
Helmuth, Paul
* 14.02.1929 at Walvis Bay
+
---
Paul Helmuth was born on 14.02.1929 at Walvis Bay. He received his schooling at the Martin Luther High School in Omaruru (St. 6). At the end of World War Two he served with the SA Union Defence Force in the Native Military Corps at Rietfontein (Namibia) together with Andimba Toivo ya Toivo. He and Ya Toivo travelled the country by bicycle screening an 8 mm film to encourage enlistment's. Helmuth started his political career 1958 in Cape Town in South Africa, where he went to work as a fisherman, encouraged by Andimba Toivo ya Toivo, one of the founders of the Ovamboland People's Congress (OPC), 1957. He began organising Namibian fishermen after Mburumba Kerina advised OPC (later the Ovamboland People's Organisation (OPO)) founders to use the party as a form of trade union for Ovambo workers in South Africa. He transported OPO messages and publicity material by sea from Cape Town to Lüderitz and Walvis Bay where they were distributed by messengers throughout Namibia. In 1961 Helmuth decided, together with Katjimuina Veii from Walvis Bay, to leave the country in order to further his education. Hosea Kutako assisted them on their journey to Botswana. From there they crossed into Southern Rhodesia (present-day Zimbabwe) by donkey cart, avoiding the border posts, and were hosted by members of Joshua Nkomo's liberation movement. From there they travelled to Northern Rhodesia (present-day Zambia) and were taken care of by members of Kenneth Kaunda's United Independence Party (UNIP). From there they made their way to Dar-Es-Salaam in Tanzania where they were met by Solomon Mifima and other Namibian exiles. Helmuth was sent to study the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya, spending some time with the guerrillas in the forests while being cared for by members of the Kenyan African Democratic Union and Jomo Kenyata's Kenyan African National Union. He was recalled to Dar-Es-Salaam in 1962 for SWAPO's first party congress where some members arranged for SWAPO to break its dependence on the South African National Congress (ANC) whose offices and and infrastructure SWAPO was using. Helmuth opened SWAPO's office in Dar-Es-Salaam and was, since December 1962 in charge of the newly-formed National Union of SWA Workers (NU of SWAW), following a decision taken by SWAPO to train trade unionists for a future labour movement in Namibia. The NU of SWAW was re-named into the National Union of Namibian Workers (NUNW) during the Tanga SWAPO Congress of December 1969. From the end of 1962 he studied the Russian language at the Moscow State University, after having received one of the first ten SWAPO scholarships. He also opened SWAPO's first office in Moscow. He completed four years of Law and International Relations at the Kiev University in 1966. After leaving the Soviet Union, Helmuth became the SWAPO representative for western Tanzania. He was re-called to Dar-Es-Salaam late in 1967 to study the Arusha Declaration and Tanzania's Ujaama Policy. He was appointed the first SWAPO Representative to Scandinavia in 1968. He came into conflict with some SWAPO leaders during the December 1969 Tanga Congress over the issue of SWAPO prisoners and alleged corruption by some members of the party. Consequently he went to Sweden, after being relieved from his position, without being expelled from SWAPO. Following this, he was a post graduate student at the Stockholm University. Helmuth was granted political asylum in Sweden, and he worked as a civil servant in the Swedish Government until his return to Namibia in 1977 at the invitation of the party leader of the National Democratic Party (NDP), Rev. Cornelius Ndjoba. His permanent return to Namibia was arranged by Mburumba Kerina. While touring Europe and Africa in 1978, he and Kerina heard of Clemence Kapuuo's death in Windhoek. Consequently Helmuth and Kerina decided not to return to Namibia, but go back to Sweden instead. Helmuth returned to Namibia in 1979, when he became personal secretary to Tara Imbili of the NDP in the first Interim's National Assembly from 1979 to 1983. He was nominated by the NDP to join the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (DTA) Steering Committee in preparing the programme for the Multi-Party-Conference (MPC) in 1983. He became the MPC Secretary for Information and Publicity. He was a Member for the DTA of the Second National Assembly of the "Transitional Government of National Unity (TGNU)" between 1985 and 1989. Early in 1989 Paul Helmuth and Tara Imbili founded the Namibian National Democratic Party (NNDP) following a split in the National Democratic Party (NDP) of Gabriel Kautuima (DTA). Imbili broke away to join SWAPO a few months after the NNDP was formed. The NNDP was not successful in the United Nations supervised elections according to UN Resolution 435 in November 1989 which led to Namibia's independence. Helmuth consequently left the political stage but remained involved in social and political matters. "Oom Paul" gained a reputation as a vivid caller into the "Call-in-Services" of the Namibian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC), calling himself the "People's Parliament".
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL

RAW DATA: Namibia Handbook and Political Who's Who, 1990 (Pütz, Von Egidy and Caplan); Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);

000352
Helu, Ludwig
* 27.08.1959 at Keetmanshoop
+ 15.01.2001 at Keetmanshoop
---
Ludwig Helu was born on 27.08.1959 at Keetmanshoop. He went to the Diaz School in Lüderitz from 1966 until 1989, the Minna Sachs School at Keetmanshoop from 1970 to 1972 and the Roman-Catholic St. Theresa High School from 1973 to 1976. He was a businessman and politician. He was a member of SWAPO until the establishment of the SWAPO-D Party in 1978. He became the Chairman of SWAPO-D. He served in the Cabinet of the "Transitional Government of National Unity" as Deputy Minister of Nature Conservation, Mining, Commerce and Tourism from 1985 until 1988 and as Deputy Minister of Economic Affairs, Mining and Sea Fisheries from 1988 until 1989.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
Functions: Deputy Minister of Nature Conservation, Mining, Commerce and Tourism (1985-1988) and Deputy Minister of Economic Affairs, Mining and Sea Fisheries (1988-1989)
Vice-Secretary - Karas Black Chamber of Commerce

RAW DATA: Obituary: Republikein 18.01.2001; Namibia Handbook and Political Who's Who, 1990 (Pütz, Von Egidy and Caplan);

001526
Henckel von Donnersmarck, Graf
* in Germany
---
Acquired shares in the Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft für SWA.
---
Gender: m

RAW DATA: Drechsler 1966:41;

000856
Henckert, Gustav
* .1876 at Breslau, Germany (now Poland)
+ .1943 at Rehoboth
First entry to Namibia: 1896
---
Gustav Henckert was born in 1876 at Breslau, Germany (now Poland). From 1899 until 1902 he was a farm manager on the farm Naos. He fought in the German-Namibian War of 1903-1908. Thereafter he was a farmer in the Rehoboth district. He died in 1943 in Rehoboth.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: AGR
Profession: Farmer

Children: E.C.B. Henckert
Collections/Papers:
1). NAN: A.276 (Personal documents)

000857
Henckert, W.G.
* 01.11.1930 at Rehoboth
---
W.G. Henckert was born on 01.11.1930 at Rehoboth. He was educated at the Windhoek High School and the Stellenbosch University in South Africa. He was a farmer and merchant. He was a partner of L. Henckert and Co.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: AGR
Profession: Farmer

Father: E.C.B. Henckert
RAW DATA: WWSA 1959;

000858
Hendrickson, Hildi
*
---
Hildi Hendrickson was an assistant professor at Long Island University, Brooklyn, New York. She conducted fieldwork in Botswana and Namibia with Ovaherero people. Her research focussed on performance and identity in a historical perspective, in particular on dress and ceremony.
---
Gender: f
Profession: Social scientist

Namibia National Archives Database

000545
Hendrik, Hans, ||Hawoben Captain (Veldschoendrager)
[Hendriks, Hans]
[!Hao-khom gaib !Nanimab - Nama name]
*
---
Hans Hendrik was a Captain of the Veldschoendragers (||Hawoben) from 1887 until 1889, when he was replaced (on instigation of Dr. Theophilus Hahn) by his brother Jan Hendrik (1889-1905). He was the fourth in the recorded genealogy of the ||Hawoben. He was the leader of the part of the Veldschoendragers which joined Hendrik Witbooi (while Jan Hendrik led the part which co-operated with the Germans).
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL

RAW DATA: Lau 1995:236; Drechsler 1966:67, 210, 220; Budack 1972:249-251; Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);

000508
Hendrik, Henricks, ||Hawoben Captain (Veldschoendrager)
[Hendrik Hendrik]
[!Nanib gaib #Arisemab - Nama name]
*
+ 09.1865 in the area between Otjimbingwe and Windhoek
---
Hendrik Henricks (!Nanib gaib #Arisemab) was Captain of the Veldschoendragers or ||Hawoben since 1837. He was the second in the recorded genealogy of the ||Hawoben. He was the son of #Ariseb (Kannamab) and the mother !Nanis, a stately woman who was regularly seen in the church at Warmbad in the 1840s. In 1846, he and his people lived at Schans Vlakte (||Khauxa!nas). In 1856 Hendrik Henricks, together with ||Oaseb of the Kai||khaun attacked Ua Tjirue Tjamuaha, without success. He became an ally of the Orlam Afrikaners in 1857. In January 1858, Hendrik was a signatory of the Hoachanas Peace Accord. The arrival of European miners intensified various conflicts between Jonker Afrikaner and other Namaland chiefs, such as ||Oaseb of the Kai||khaun and Willem Swartbooi (!Huiseb #Haobemab) from Rehoboth. Jonker had Hendrik Henricks (or !Nanib gaib #Arisemab) of the ||Hawoben and Piet Koper !Gamab of the Fransman Nama or !Khara-khoen as allies. In the end, the Kai||khaun-Swartbooi alliance became the weaker party. Jonker was, however, not successful to win over Kido Witbooi (or #A-||êib). But the dividing lines between Jonker and the other Nama groups were not clear cut. Jonker attempts to induce his relatives in Blydeverwacht as well as the Bethany and Goliath Nama from Berseba, to fight against the Swartboois and the ||Oaseb group were not successful. The communities of Berseba and Bethany were strongly admonished by their Rhenish missionaries and were not actively involved. At the same time ||Oaseb, apart from coveting his strong alliance with the Swartboois, tried to motivate his old Nama associates, the Bondelswarts (!Gami-#nun) and even Jonker’s allies, the Goliath Nama, to move against Jonker. The Bondelswarts, as before, largely remained uninvolved in the conflicts in Namaland. They could afford to do so primarily because of their position as "border police" which was a source of income and protection from the Cape Government. Jan Boois or Jan Frederiks from Bethany fought firstly with ||Oaseb of the Kai||khaun and the Swartboois and switched later to Jonker Afrikaner’s side. Piet Koper !Gamab of the Fransman Nama and Hendrik Henricks of the ||Hawoben joined Jonker. Hendrik Henricks achieved fame as a fearless and skilled warrior in the 1860s. On 03.09.1865, Jan Jonker Afrikaner and Hendrik Henricks launched an unsuccessful attack at Otjimbingwe, and Hendrik Henricks was killed when the Ovaherero pursued the fleeing groups. Karl Hendrik (Ses)(!Naníb #Kharib #Arisemab)(1865-1887), his brother, became his successor.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
Profession: Captain of the ||Hawoben

Mother: !Nanis
Father: #Ariseb (Kannamab)

RAW DATA: Budack 1972:249-251; Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);

000546
Hendrik, Jan, ||Hawoben Captain (Veldschoendrager)
[Hendrik, Bob]
[!Kharab !Hao-khomab - Nama name]
*
+.1924 at Windhoek
---
Jan Hendrik (!Kharab !Hao-khomab) was the Captain of the ||Hawoben (Veldschoendragers) as from 1889 (until 1922), replacing his brother Hans Hendrik (!Hao-khom gaib !Nanimab). He was the fifth and last in the recorded genealogy of the ||Hawoben. He was the leader of the part of the Veldschoendragers which co-operated with the Germans (while Hans led the part which joined Hendrik Witbooi). In 1922 he participated in the Bondelswart Uprising against the South Africans. The leader of the ||Hawoben, !Kharab !Hao-khomab (or Jan Hendrik or Bob), who had earlier organised a meeting at Keetmanshoop to support the Bondelswarts in their uprising and had resisted the police who wanted to arrest him in July 1922, was sentenced to six years imprisonment in the Windhoek prison. He died there in 1924.
---
Gender: m

Married to: !Kharas
RAW DATA: Lau 1995:236; Drechsler 1966:67; Budack 1972:249-251; Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);

000509
Hendrik, Karl (Ses), ||Hawoben Captain (Veldschoendrager)[Ses, Karl - alternative spelling]
[Klaas - alternative name]
[Hendrik, Karl - alternative Dutch name]
[Zes, Karl - alternative Dutch name]
[Arisimab, alternative spelling]
[|Heiguxab - Nama name]
[!Nanib gaib #Arisemab - Nama name]
*
+ 23.01.1888 at near Gibeon
---
Karl (Ses) Hendrik (!Nanib gaib #Arisemab) was the Captain of the Veldschoendragers or ||Hawoben since September 1865 until January 1888. He was the third in the recorded genealogy of the ||Hawoben. Hendrik was the son of #Ariseb (Kannamab) and !Nanis. He was also known as Klaas, Karl Hendrik or Karl Zes. Apparently his mother's name was |Haiguxas. On 15.06.1863 Christian Afrikaner, supported by ||Oaseb, Piet Koper !Gamab of the Fransman Nama and the ||Hawoben leader Karl Hendrik (Ses, or !Nanib #karib #Arisemab or *Heiguxab), brother of Hendrik Henricks (!Nanib gaib #Arisemab), was defeated by Andersson’s "private army" in the battle of Otjimbingwe, which marked the beginning of the erosion of Orlam Afrikaner power. They lost more than one third of their men. Christian Afrikaner and Piet Koper were killed. Christian’s brother David Afrikaner and his uncles Jonas and Jager Afrikaner (Jnr.) were also killed. Jan Jonker Afrikaner became Christian’s successor. Philippus Katjimune on the Ovaherero side was also killed in the battle. Hendriks participated in the Conference of Hoachanas which was arranged by Palgrave in June 1878. He was together with Manasse !Noreseb from Hoachanas and Hendrik Windstaan of the Groot Doden one of the adversaries of Moses Witbooi, although he and many of his followers had joined Hendrik Witbooi's move to the north in 1885. By September 1887, he had become Paul Visser's close ally in the conflicts between Visser and Moses Witbooi. Hendrik Witbooi, with 80 warriors, temporarily returned to Gibeon in October 1887 to help his father Moses. #Arisemab fell in one of the ensuing battles with Hendrik's forces on 23.01.1888 near Gibeon, allegedly he committed suicide after his last ammunition was spent. His successor was Jan Hendrik or Hans Hendrik (!Hao-khom gaib !Nanimab)(1887-1889).
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Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
Profession: Captain of the ||Hawoben

Mother: !Nanis
Father: #Ariseb (Kannamab)

RAW DATA: Lau 1989:171; Lau 1995:227; Hugo v.Francois: Nama und Damara, p.97; Budack 1972:249-251; Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);

001527
Hendriksz, Frederik Jacobus
* 21.05.1891 at Swellendam, South Africa
---
Postmaster.
---
Gender: m

Married to: Sophia Hendriksz, née Hugo, married 1919-
Father: S.J. Hendriksz
RAW DATA: WWSA 1929/30;

000859
Hendriksz, Johannes Frederick
* 11.02.1922 at Kimberley, South Africa
---
Frederick Johannes Hendriksz was born on 11.02.1922 at Kimberley in South Africa. He was educated at the Diamandveld Hoërskool in Kimberley and Witwatersrand Technical College in Johannesburg. He was a pharmacist and owner of the Mariental Apteek. He was the Chairman of the Mariental Sakekamer, Republiekfeeskomitee, Rapportryerskorp and Voortrekkerfondskomitee. He was Mayor of Mariental and Chairman of the SWA Beplannings-Adviesraad (SWABAR).
---
Gender: m

Married to: Johanna Augusta Hendrikz, née Jacobs, married 1949
Father: Johannes Jacobus Hendrikz
RAW DATA: WWSA 1974

001727
Hennig, Richard
* in Germany
First entry to Namibia: 1914
Last departure from Namibia: 1919
---
Richard Henning arrived with his family in Namibia in 1914 as a retired military officer, planning to establish a farm. He was remobilised at the beginning of World War I and worked in the Schutztruppe staff. After the capitulation at Khorab he stayed in Urupupa, Swakopmund and Windhoek until his voluntary repatriation in 1919. In 1926 he published a book "Sturm und Sonnenschein in Deutsch-Südwest" about his Namibian experiences.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: MIL
Profession: Military officer

RAW DATA: AHK 1975:116-118;

001107
Henninger, Hildburg
* .1916 in Windhoek
+ 13.12.2002
---
Hildburg Henninger was born in 1916 and educated in Windhoek. She was trained as a medical assistant in Berlin. She worked from 1950 until 1970 for the Rhenish Mission in Otjimbingwe. Thereafter she worked as a social worker in the slums of Lima, Peru.
---
Gender: f

Namibia National Archives Database

000018
Henrichsen, Almuth
* 28.02.1937 at Schwarzheide/Lausitz, Germany
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Almuth Henrichsen was born on 28.02.1937 at Schwarzheide/Lausitz in Germany. She received her schooling in Neukieritzsch (Lausitz) and, after fleeing to West Germany, in Eschweiler. She emigrated with her mother to Namibia. She received her training as bookseller in Swakopmund with Ferdinand Stich. She studied humanities at the University of South Africa. She worked from 1981 to 1995 as Secretary for the Namibia Scientific Society. She established the firm "Namibia Book Marketing" in 1995.
---
Gender: f
Field of activity: Book sector
Functions: Secretary - Namibia Scientific Society - 1981-1995

RAW DATA: Mitteilungen Nam.Sci.Soc. 43:7-12(2002):40;

001528
Henrichsen, Emil
*
+ .1978
---
---
Gender: m

Namibia National Archives Database

001529
Henrik
*
+ 13.09.1894
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Henrik was a field cornet of the Khauas Nama. He was killed on 13.09.1894 at Aais by Sergeant Bohr, an event which sparked the 2nd Khauas uprising against the Germans .
---
Gender: m

RAW DATA: Drechsler 1966:96;

001420
Hensel, Hans
* 11.02.1873
---
Schutztruppe officer.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: MIL
Profession: Military officer

RAW DATA: Fischer 1935:91;

000830
Herberger, Otto Heinrich
* 15.07.1906 at Baden, Germany
First entry to Namibia: 1943
---
Otto Heinrich Herberger was 15.07.1906 at Baden in Germany. He was educated in Germany. He emigrated to South Africa in 1928 and came to Namibia in 1943. He was a Director of Asbest Cement and Engineering (Pty) Ltd., Asbest-Cement Co. (Pty) Ltd.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: BUS
Profession: Businessman

Married to: Anni Herberger, née Klein, married 1934-
Father: Theodor Herberger
RAW DATA: WWSA 1959, 1974;

001530
Hermens
*
---
Hermens was a Schutztruppe officer. He was involved in the war crime of Ombakaha (at the Omuramba Ganas) on 02.11.1904 where 70 Ovaherero soldiers were killed who had come to surrender to the Germans.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: MIL
Profession: Military officer

RAW DATA: Drechsler 1966:188;

001531
Herre, Hans
* 07.04.1895
+ 16.01.1979
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Botanist who researched in Namibia.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: SCI
Profession: Botanist

Namibia National Archives Database

001532
Herridge, J.W.
*
---
Trader in Namaland ca.1885.
---
Gender: m

RAW DATA: Esterhuyse 1968:79;

000861
Herrle, Hans E.
* 12.06.1913 in Namibia
---
Hans E. Herrle was born on 12.06.1913. He was educated at the Swakopmund High School. He was General Manager of Damara Meat Packers, Apex Slaghuise Bpk. and Ossa Bonemeal Factory Windhoek.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: BUS
Profession: Businessman

RAW DATA: WWSA 1959;

000547
Hermann, Ernst
* in Germany
+ 10.1904 at Nomtsas
First entry to Namibia: 1890
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Ernst Hermann was a trained agriculturist. He joined the employ of the Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft für Südwestafrika in 1887, to be appointed as their local representative in Namibia in 1890. With funds raised from Germany, he established the first experimental wool sheep farm in Namibia, near Kubub (Aus). At the same time, it was arranged that he would use his position to spy on Hendrik Witbooi's arms suppliers, which he did. Kubub was situated on land Josef Frederiks II had signed away to Lüderitz, which by 1890 was taken over by the Kolonial-Gesellschaft. Hermann apparently simply settled there in December 1890. Frederiks was not prepared to tolerate this. In his first report on Kubub, Hermann expressed the hope on alternatively establishing himself within a vast territory surrounding Nomtsas, one and a half million hectares in extent. In December 1891 he finally succeeded in "renting" this area from Frederiks. When Hendrik Witbooi warned Hermann not to settle at Nomtsas, Hermann heeded this warning in spite of his blunt reply. However, he lodged an official complaint about "harassment by Hendrik Witbooi", and urgently appealed for military backing of his Nomtsas project, which von François refused. Hermann consequently continued at Kubub, which was raided and destroyed by Hendrik Witbooi in November 1893. After Hendrik Witbooi's loss of sovereignty in 1894, Leutwein declared the whole area around Nomtsas Crown Land. In a subsequent deal between Hermann and Leutwein, Hermann was given Nomtsas with 20 000 ha as farm land, in return for renouncing all claims on "land ownership" by the Kolonial-Gesellschaft resulting from his work for them. In October 1904, Hermann and his wife were killed at Nomtsas by Witbooi soldiers.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: AGR
Profession: Farmer

RAW DATA: Drechsler 1966:48, 83, 331, 340;

001533
Hess, Edmund
* 06.11.1896 at Uitenhage, South Africa
---
Private Secretary to the SWA Administrator Werth
---
Gender: m

Father: J. Hess
Collections/Papers:
1). NAN: A.112
RAW DATA: WWSA 1929/30;

000862
Hesse, Hubert
* 12.01.1913 at Vienna, Austria
First entry to Namibia: June 1954
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Hubert Hesse was born on 12.01.1913 at Vienna in Austria. He was educated at Wuppertal-Elberfeld and Berlin. He was a businessman in paint chemistry. He came to Namibia in 1954. He was the Managing Director of the SWA Paint Factory.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: SCI
Profession: Chemist

Married to: Marga Hesse, née Hansen, married 1939
Father: Hubert Hesse
RAW DATA: WWSA 1974;

000863
Hester, Hubert
* 30.10.1885 at Helmeringhausen, Westfalen, Germany
First entry to Namibia: 1907
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Hubert Hester was born on 30.10.1885 at Helmeringhausen in Germany. He came to Namibia in 1907 as a Schutztruppe soldier. Later he became a farmer. He established the farm and subsequent village of Helmeringhausen between Maltahöhe and Bethany.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: AGR
Profession: Farmer

Married to: Hilde Luise Hester, née Kaempffer, married 1922
Father: Heinrich Hester
Collections/Papers:
1). NAN: A.215
RAW DATA: WWSA 1959;

001534
Hewitt
*
---
Labour recruitment agent for the Transvaal mines in Namibia, early 1900s.
---
Gender: m

RAW DATA: Drechsler 1966:159-160, 350;

000865
Heyer, Paul Max
* 28.07.1910 at Hamburg, Germany
First entry to Namibia: 1936
---
Max Paul Heyer was born on 28.07.1910 at Hamburg. He came to Namibia in 1936. He was the Manager of the Technical Department of Sam Cohen Ltd. from 1945 until 1951 and a Director of Hugo Hensel (Pty) Ltd.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: BUS
Profession: Businessman

Married to: Margot Heyer, née Hagner, married 1940-
Father: J. Heyer
RAW DATA: WWSA 1959;

000866
Heyns, Piet S.
*
---
Piet S. Heyns was educated at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa. He was working at the SWA Department of Water Affairs since 1977. He was a Director of Investigations and Research at the DWA since 1987 until date, subsequently the Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Rural Development.
---
Gender: m

RAW DATA: On record 12-16.08.1987;

002013
Hickey, John
* in Ireland
+ .1878 at Omaruru
First entry to Namibia: 1864
---
John Hickey was a hunter and trader. He came to Namibia in 1864 with Rhenish Missionaries, and operated from Otjimbingwe and later from Omaruru. He hunted i.a. at Etosha and traded with Ovamboland. He married a Baster woman. He died in 1878 at Omaruru.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: BUS

RAW DATA: Tabler 1973:56-57;

002014
Hicks
*
---
Hicks was a hunter and trader. He went on a hunting expedition to Ovamboland between 1863 and 1864 with Palgrave, Pereira and Goodwin.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: BUS

RAW DATA: Tabler 1973:57;

000837
Hiemstra, Victor G.
* .1914 in South Africa
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Victor G. Hiemstra studied in Stellenbosch and Cape Town in South Africa. Between 1933 and 1943 he was a political commentator for the newspaper, the Cape Times. From 1943 to 1956 he was a lawyer in Pretoria. In 1956 he was appointed as a judge in Transvaal. From 1977 until 1984 he was the Presiding Judge in the South African Bantustan Bophuthatswana. Since 1977 he was a Chancellor of the University of South Africa (UNISA). From 1971 to 1973 he filled the deputy chair of the SA Academy of Science and Art. He was involved in some of the constitution-making exercises in Namibia.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: LAW
Profession: Lawyer

Namibia National Archives Database

002015
Higgs
*
---
Higgs was a trader. His presence in Namibia is documented between 1860 and 1868.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: BUS

RAW DATA: Tabler 1973:57;

002016
Hilden, T.
*
---
Hilden succeeded Andersson as manager of the Walvisch Bay Mining Company at Otjimbingwe in January 1858.
---
Gender: m

RAW DATA: Tabler 1973:57;

000779
Hillig, Ruthilde
* 12.11.1913
+ 20.04.2002
---
Ruthilde was born on 12.11.1913 at Windhoek. She was a founder member and long-term chair of the Namibian Arts Association. She died on 20.04.2002 at Windhoek.
---
Gender: f

Mother: Franziska Cordes, née Mayer
Father: Max Cordes (1875-1943)

Namibia National Archives Database

002092
Himarua, Uukwangali King
[Hompa, traditional title]
*
+ .1910
---
In the Kavango, the Uukwangali Queen Mpande who died in 1886, was succeeded by King Himarua who ruled the Uukwangali area until his death in 1910. He was the tenth in the recorded genealogy of the Uukwangali kings. Himarua was originating from the Uukwambi area in the western Ovamboland. He was a member of the Royal family Nasira, which was connected by marriage with the Uukwambi Royal House. Himarua was the staunchest adversary of German colonialism in the Kavango. In June 1903 the residence of King Himarua was attacked by a German military expedition under the command of Richard Volkmann and assisted by the Roman Catholic missionaries Nachtwey and Hermandung. Later Hompa Himarua gave asylum to fleeing Ovaherero during the German Ovaherero War 1904/05. Shortly before his death in 1910 the Germans established a police station at Nkurenkuru. Himarua was followed by King Kandjimi Hawanga who ruled until 1924.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL

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

000938
Himumuine, Berthold
*
---
Berthold Himumuine was a teacher and headmaster of the St. Barnabas School in the "Old Location" in Windhoek. He was involved in drafting petitions to the United Nations. In November 1946, the African Improvement Society (AIS) was founded as a kind of secretariat for the Herero Chiefs’ Council by students and teachers such as Clemence Kapuuo. Its functions were mainly cultural and educational. It soon began to compete in importance with the semi-official Bantu Welfare Club (founded at the beginning of the 1930s; "black" committee members 1937: A.E. Mogale, A.S. Mungunda, A.S. Shipena) operating in the "Old Location". Prominent members were Bartholomeus Gerhardt Karuaera (President), Berthold Himumuine (Secretary), Clemence Kapuuo and David Hoveka Meroro. Himumuine was the first Namibian "black" to obtain "Matric".
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: EDU
Profession: Teacher

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

000838
Hindorf, Richard, Dr.
* 17.11.1863 at Ruhrort, Germany
---
Richard Hindorf was born on 17.11.1863 at Ruhrort in Germany. He studied agriculture and statistics in Halle and Berlin and received his doctorate in 1886 (Halle). He had his agricultural practice in various tropical and subtropical countries including New Guinea, Australia, Java, Sumatra, Sri Lanka, Egypt and German East Africa. In 1893/94 he was in Namibia and South Africa. He published on tropical agriculture and on the Malay language. He was a founding member of the "Kolonial-wirtschaftliche Komitee" and the "Deutsche Kolonialschule Witzenhausen".
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: AGR

Collections/Papers:
1). HWWA: Personenarchiv (Collection of papers about him)
RAW DATA: Dt.Koloniallexikon;

000869
Hinsch, Hellmuth Werner Rudolf
* 14.11.1917 at Hamburg, Germany
First entry to Namibia: 01.03.1953
---
Hellmuth Werner Rudolf Hinsch was born on 14.11.1917 at Hamburg in Germany. He was educated at the Staatliche Ingenieursschule Hamburg (Degree in electrotechnics). He came to Namibia on 01.03.1953. He was the manager and proprietor of "Elektro Hinsch" in Windhoek. He was married with Olga Klara Hinsch, née Gehrcke.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: ENG
Profession: Engineer

Married to: Olga Klara Hinsch, née Gehrcke
RAW DATA: WWSA 1959;

000870
Hinsch, Olga Klara
[Gehrcke, Olga Klara - birth name]
* at Essen, Germany
First entry to Namibia: 01.03.1953
---
Olga Klara Hinsch was educated at the Hamburg-Altona College for Commerce and Market research. She came together with her husband, Hellmuth Werner Rudolf Hinsch, to Namibia on 01.03.1953. She was the chairperson and Director of "Elektro Hinsch" in Windhoek.
---
Gender: f
Field of activity: BUS
Profession: Businesswoman

Married to: Hellmuth Werner Rudolf Hinsch
Father: Karl Gehrcke
RAW DATA: WWSA 1974;

000439
Hintrager, Oskar, Dr.
* 11.10.1871 at Reutlingen, Germany
+ 24.07.1960 in Germany
First entry to Namibia: 1905
---
Oskar Hintrager was born on 11.10.1871 as son of a businessman in Reutlingen in Germany. After schooling in Reutlingen (Abitur 1889) and military service he studied law at the universities of Tübingen, Berlin and Leipzig, followed by a study tour to the USA 1894/95. He received his doctorate in law 1899 at Tübingen University, followed by another USA trip with a focus on penitentiary institutions. (Literature he collected on