BIOGRAPHIES OF NAMIBIAN
PERSONALITIES
in alphabetical order
KLAUS DIERKS
Copyright © 2003-2004 Dr. Klaus Dierks
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000309
Tamm, Franz
* 25.07.1836 at Bregenstadt, Germany
+ 16.11.1876 at Otjozondjupa
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Franz Tamm was born on 25.07.1836 at Bregenstadt in Germany. He was a cartwright and
artisan of the Rhenish Missionary Society who came to Namibia with Carl Hugo Hahn and
Eduard Hälbich in 1864, and worked at the Waterberg mission station, where he died of
tetanus after a shooting incident on 16.11.1876.
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Gender: m
Namibia National Archives Database
001880
Tatlow
*
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Tatlow was a trader in Omaruru around 1891.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: BUS
RAW DATA: Bülow 1896:31;
001184
Technau, Ernst Guenther
* at Windhoek
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Ernst Guenther Technau was educated at the Deutsche Oberrealschule Windhoek. He was a
farmer and the proprietor of Felsenquell Mineral Water Works. He was married to Anna
Technau, née Tegethoff in 1936.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: AGR
Profession: Farmer
Married to: Anna Technau, née Tegethoff, married 1936-
Father: Karl Gustav Gottlieb Technau
RAW DATA: WWSA 1959;
000413
Tecklenburg
*
First entry to Namibia: 1900
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Tecklenburg came to Namibia in 1900 as a judge (Landrichter) but took over administrative
functions in the colonial government as "Referent" (1901-1903), then "1.
Referent" (1904-1907), a position that was de facto a deputy governor. It could not
be established when he left Namibia; his position was taken over by Oskar Hintrager.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: LAW ADM
Profession: Judge
RAW DATA: Lenssen Chronik; Kolonial-Handels-Adressbuch; Drechsler 1966:189, 200, 208,
212-213, 217, 242, 253, 255, 356-359, 363-364;
001185
Theron, Johannes Gysbert Marthinus, Dr.
* 20.12.1921 at Harrismith, South Africa
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Johannes Gysbert Marthinus Theron was born on 20.12.1921 at Harrismith in South Africa. He
was educated at the Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg. He was a medical
practitioner. He came to Namibia ca.1956. He was married to Susane Barbara Magdalena
Theron, née Hollenbach in 1949.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: MED
Profession: Medical practitioner
Married to: Susane Barbara Magdalena Theron, née Hollenbach, married 1949-
Father: Jacob Phillipus Theron
RAW DATA: WWSA 1959;
002032
Thieme, Sven
*
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Sven Thieme is the Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer of the Ohlthaver & List
Group since 2003.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: BUS
Namibia National Archives Database
002221
Thom, Kapuka John, Ovaherero (Ovahimba) Chief
*
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Ombara (traditional title) Ovahimba Chief Kapuka John Thom is the current
Chief of the Vita Royal House, since 1996.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
Profession: Traditional leader
Functions: Chief - Ovahimba - 1996-
RAW DATA: Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);
001881
Thomas, Abraham
*
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Abraham Thomas was a church elder in Keetmanshoop. He was the translator for Rhenish
Missionary Fenchel.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: REL
Namibia National Archives Database
001882
Thomas, Zachäus
* .188?
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Zachäus Thomas was an evangelist of the Rhenish Mission in Keetmanshoop. He was one of
the leaders of the breakaway from the mission, later pastor of the AMEC.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: REL
RAW DATA: Schlosser 1958:74;
000065
Thomas, Wolfgang Heinz
* .1944
First entry to Namibia: 1976
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Wolfgang Heinz Thomas was born in 1944. He lived since 1955 in South Africa. He studied in
Stellenbosch, Berlin, Freiburg and Northwestern University. 1976 he was a member of the
finance commission of the Turnhalle Conference.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
Profession: Economist
Namibia National Archives Database
001883
Thompson, Allan Douglas
* .1889
+ .1960
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Allan Douglas Thompson was born in 1889. He was a senior karakul officer at the Government
stud farm Neudamm, east of Windhoek. He died in 1960.
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Gender: m
Collections/Papers:
1). NAN: A.26 (Reports 1937-38)
001884
Threlfall, William
* 06.06.1799 at Hollowforth, England
+ 08.1825 at Dabakabis near Warmbad
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William Threlfall was born on 06.06.1799 at Hollowforth in England. He was a Wesleyan
missionary. After several journeys in South Africa and short missionary engagements, he
went to Lilyfontein in the Cape Colony to regain his health in 1824. Although no local
support was available, he started on other journeys north shortly afterwards. He was
murdered at Dabakabis near Warmbad together with his two African companions in August 1825
and has since been considered a martyr in mission literature.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: REL
Profession: Missionary
RAW DATA: Lau Hahn V:1295; DSAB I:792;
001885
Timpe, Carl
*
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Carl Timpe was a captain who was well versed with the Namibian Atlantic coast. He
was hired by Adolf Lüderitz in 1883.
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Gender: m
RAW DATA: Esterhuyse 1968:39;
001886
Tindall, Joseph
* 15.06.1807 at Gringley-on-the-hill, England
+ 25.11.1891 at Robertson
First entry to Namibia: 1839
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Joseph Tindall was born on 15.06.1807 at Gringley-on-the-hill in England. He was a
Wesleyan missionary. He was first sent to Namaland to assist Missionary Cook in Warmbad
1839. From there he travelled north to visit Captain Amraal and Jonker Afrikaner. He
settled with Amraal and his people at Naosanabis (today: Leonardville) in 1843 but had to
leave in 1851, owing partly to ill-health. He was married to Sarah Tindall, née Goodyer
Cooper.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: REL
Profession: Missionary
Married to: Sarah Tindall, née Goodyer Cooper
Children: Henry Tindall (1831-1909)
Namibia National Archives Database
001066
Tirronen-Henrichsen, Gabi
[Henrichsen, Gabi - birth name]
[Haller, Gabi - previous married name]
* at Swakopmund
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Gabi Tirronen-Henrichsen was a writer and tour guide. She was married to Peter Haller and
Tauno Tirronen.
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Gender: f
Field of activity: WRI
Married to: <1>Peter Haller
<2>Tauno Tirronen
Father: Henrichsen
Namibia National Archives Database
000349
Tirronen, Toivo Emil
* 26.09.1920 at Mikkeli, Finland
+ 15.07.1981 in Namibia
First entry to Namibia: 1951
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Toivo Emil Tirronen was born on 26.09.1920 in Mikkeli, Finland. He underwent military
service in World War Two. He studied natural sciences at Helsinki. He was sent in 1950 to
Namibia as a teacher by the Finnish Missionary Society. After obtaining his Secondary
Teachers Diploma in Stellenbosch (1951), he worked as a teacher in Ovamboland from 1951 to
1975, where he established the Oshigambo High School in 1960. After his retirement, he
continued to live in Ovamboland and did translation work. He died on 15.07.1981 and was
buried in Elim (Uukwambi). Tirronen developed a particular interest in languages and wrote
a number of school textbooks in Oshindonga and Oludhimba, as well as an Afrikaans
introduction to Oshindonga, an Oshindonga-Finnish dictionary, a (posthumously published)
Oshindonga-English dictionary and a biography of the Finnish pioneer Missionary Martti
Rautanen. He also translated biblical texts and other literature into Oshindonga, and
co-ordinated the revision of the Oshindonga Bible.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: EDU
Profession: Teacher
Collections/Papers:
1). ELCIN Archives, Oniipa
002205
Tjaherani, Ovaherero Chief
*
+ .1884 at Omburo
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Tjaherani was the Ovaherero Chief at Omburo near Omaruru (ca.1860-1884). He was the
half-brother of Chief Manasse Tyiseseta (1884-1898), who was elected Ovaherero Chief of
Omaruru after Tjaherani's death in 1884. It is reported that in January 1883 he exported Dama labourers to the Cape Colony in South Africa. Tjaherani died in
1884 at Omburo.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
Raw Data: Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);
002207
Tjamuaha, Frederik II, Ovaherero Chief
*
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Fredrik Tjamuaha II is the Chief of the Tjamuaha Royal House
since 1999.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
Raw Data: Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);
000310
Tjamuaha, Ua Tjirwe, Ovaherero Chief
[Tjamuaha, ua Tjirue - alternative spelling]
[#Ai!gorob - Nama name]
[Koppervoet - Nama name translated to Dutch]
[Kopervoet - alternative spelling]
* ca. 1790 at Otjikune
+ xx.12.1861 at Okahandja
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Ua Tjirwe Tjamuaha was a wealthy and famous Ovaherero Chief, born around 1790 in Otjikune
as son of Tjirwe ua Mutjise and Tjiputa ua Ngombo. By 1820 he was married to his chief
wife Tjorozumo. He lived in the upper reaches of the Swakop River around Okahandja. He
moved to Windhoek the following year (Tjamuaha settled at Otjipuna
(present-day "Pokkiesdraai", named as such because missionary Wilhelm Eich had
to return there when smallpox broke out in Windhoek)). He was an associate
and tributary of Jonker Afrikaner between 1842 and 1861. He served Jonker Afrikaner by
stealing the cattle of fellow Ovaherero for him and placing men at his disposal. The two Ovaherero groups under their leaders Oove ua Muhoko Kahitjene and
Tjamuaha formed an alliance with Jonker Afrikaner and concluded a peace
treaty with him in late December 1842 (Christmas Peace of 1842). In 1844, with Jonker’s and his ally Tjamuaha’s approval, many poor and
cattleless Ovaherero (Ovatjimba) settled at the Rhenish mission stations Otjikango and
later at Otjimbingwe. They formed the core population in these stations. In 1846 Tjamuaha
settled at Okahandja after another Ovaherero leader, Oove ua Muhoko Kahitjene, had already
settled there, and after Jonker Afrikaner had raided Tjamuaha’s cattle in March. On
12.03.1851, Francis Galton arranged for a peace treaty between
Jonker Afrikaner and the Ovaherero. Jonker Afrikaner, however, was still determined to
prevent the establishment of any relations between European missionaries and Ovaherero
chiefs independent of his control. Galton also offered to arrange for a peace treaty
between the Ovaherero communities of Oove ua Muhoko Kahitjene, one of Jonker’s former
allies, and Chief John Samuel Aron Mungunda from Otjombuindja in the Ozongoto area, but
Kahitjene declined the offer. In a subsequent skirmish between Mungunda’s sons and
Kahitjene, the latter was killed. The Ovaherero decided that the Mungunda community should
settle together with Tjamuaha’s son, Maharero (or Kamaharero).
Kahitjene’s downfall could be directly attributed to his attempts to win access to
arms with assistance of Rhenish Missionary Carl Hugo Hahn. Maharero left Otjimbingwe and
returned to Tjamuaha’s place, Okahandja. In 1852 Jonker Afrikaner, extremely anxious
to prevent Europeans from exploring Hereroland and Ovamboland and supplying Ovaherero with
arms, attacked Tjamuaha and Maharero at Otjosemba. Even Hahn lost his cattle. In 1854
Jonker Afrikaner settled at Tjamuaha’s Okahandja settlement, at the site where the
Rhenish Missionary Society’s church would be built in 1875, in order to gain better
control over the Ovaherero. Jonker’s raids into Hereroland led even Ovaherero to flee
from places like Otjitambi and Otavi into the Kaokoveld. In 1856 ||Oaseb of the Kai||khaun
attacked with Hendrik Henricks of the ||Hawoben, the Ovaherero leader Ua Tjirue Tjamuaha,
without any success. On 09.01.1858, during the Hoachanas Peace Accord, Jan and Piet
Kopervoet, sons of Ua Tjirwe Tjamuaha, were signatories to the treaty. In
1860, Tjamuaha undertook a journey to Kaokoland in attempt to unite the Ovaherero against
the Orlam Afrikaners. Ua Tjirwe Tjamuaha died in December 1861 in Okahandja. His successor
was Maharero (Kamaharero) (1862-1890).
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Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
Mother: Tjiputa ua Ngombo
Father: Tjirwe ua Mutjise
Raw Data: Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);
002222
Tjavara, Paulus U, Ovaherero (Ovahimba) Chief
*
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Ombara (traditional title) Ovahimba Chief Paulus U Tjavara is the current
Chief of the Otjikaoko Traditional Authority, since 1996.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
Profession: Traditional leader
Functions: Chief - Ovahimba - 1996-
RAW DATA: Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);
000616
Tjetjo, Kandji, Ovaherero Chief
[Tjetjoo Alternative spelling]
*
+ September 1904 near the Bechuanaland border
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Kandji Tjetjo from Owikokorero was an important Ovaherero Chief. He was one of the
adversaries of Samuel Maharero. Samuel Maharero's recognition by
the German authorities as supreme Ovaherero leader in August 1891 was not accepted by
other Ovaherero leaders, such as Manasse Tyiseseta of Omaruru, Kandji Tjetjo of
Owikokorero and the Ovambanderu leader Kahimemua Nguvauva, as well as Riarua,
Maharero’s former advisor. In April 1894 Ovaherero Chief Kambazembi of the Waterberg
attempted to reconcile Nikodemus Kavikunua and Chief Riarua with Samuel Maharero. He was
not successful. Riarua in alliance with Kandji Tjetjo even raided Samuel’s cattle
posts. In August/September 1899 Kandji Tjetjo (together with his son
Traugott) was attacked by the Germans because he refused to hand over his arms. He
participated in the German-Namibian War of 1904. On 11.02.1904, when Theodor Leutwein
returned to the central parts of SWA from the south, he divided the
German troops into four sections: a western section under Von Estorff tasked to advance
via Omaruru, a main section under Leutwein tasked to attack Samuel Maharero who was
probably at Otjosonjati at this time (Königs-Albertshöhe) in the upper Swakop valley,
Major von Glasenapp’s eastern section tasked to attack Kandji Tjetjo in the east and
Lieutenant Gygas’ section tasked to attack the Otjimbingwe Ovaherero. On 11.03.1904
Leutwein reported that Samuel Maharero was positioned along the line of Otjosazu, Okatumba
at the Swakop River and Katjapia (with ±1 000 rifles); that Chief Michael Tyiseseta was
moving from the Etjo Mountains in an eastward direction (with ±500 rifles); that the
Tjetjo community had retreated from Kehoro at the Black Nossob River in the direction of
the Onjati Mountains (with ±1 000 rifles); and that more Ovaherero under the command of
Zeraua (with ±1 000 rifles) could be found in the area of Otjimbingwe at the Sney
River, and at Lievenberg and Oruware at the Swakop River. On 12.03. Von Glasenapp’s
unit marched along the Epukiro omuramba (fossil river) via Kanduwe, and Von Winkler
along the Black Nossob River to Onjatu where the Germans pursued the Ovaherero under the
command of Tjetjo. One day later the battle of Owikokorero was fought between Von
Glasenapp and the Ovaherero under Tjetjo, with heavy losses for the Germans (total losses
are nearly 70%: seven officers are killed, three wounded and 19 soldiers killed, three
wounded). On 03.04.1904 Kandji Tjetjo met the Germans in a battle at a site between
Okaharui and Otjikuara, with heavy losses on both sides. In September 1904, after the
Waterberg Battle of August, the fleeing Ovaherero assembled at Okahandja North between the
Omatako omuramba and the Eiseb omuramba. They fled further via Otjinene,
Epata, Osombo-Windimbe (Ozombo ja Windimba) and Erindi-Ombahe, following the course of the
Eiseb omuramba. Zacharias Zeraua from Otjimbingwe reported later that the chiefs
Samuel Maharero from Okahandja, Banjo from Otjombonde, David and Salatiel Kambazembi from
Waterberg, Ouandja from Otjikururume, Kayata from Otjihaenena, Michael Tyiseseta from
Omaruru, Katjahingi and Assa Riarua had all assembled at Osombo Onjatu at the Eiseb omuramba.
The chiefs Mambo and Kandji Tjetjo were also at the Eiseb omuramba, at the
waterholes Otjinene and Epata. On 02.09.1904 Von Estorff’s forces attacked
Owinauanaua, dislodging the chiefs Mambo and Kandji Tjetjo and forcing them to flee
eastwards in the direction of the Bechuanaland Protectorate. Kandji Tjetjo died of thirst
at Oruaromunjo and Mambo died of exhaustion while following Tjetjo.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
RAW DATA: Drechsler 1966:101, 111, 127-128, 198, 344; Chronology of Namibian History, 2003
(Dierks);
001891
Tjetjo, Traugott, Ovaherero Chief
[Tjetjoo Alternative spelling]
* in Namibia
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Traugott Tjetjo was an important Ovaherero Chief. He was the son of Kandji Tjetjo. In August/September 1899 Kandji Tjetjo (together with his son
Traugott) was attacked by the Germans because he refused to hand over his arms. He
participated in the German-Namibian War of 1904.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
Father: Kandji Tjetjo
RAW DATA: Drechsler 1966:127-128, 198, 248; Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);
002198
Tjihahu, Ovaherero Chief
*
+
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Ovaherero Chief Tjihahu was the father of Chief Tjoro. His
grandson, Chief Katjari (Chief of the Otjirungu group under the leadership of John Samuel
Aron Mungunda from Otjombuindja in the Ozongoto area, son of Chief Tjoro, son of Chief
Tjihahu) took a defiant attitude against the strong social influence exercised by the
Rhenish missionaries in Otjikango.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
Profession: Traditional leader
Functions: Chief - Ovaherero - before 1830
RAW DATA: Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);
000036
Tjipahura, Kaleb Hanganee
[Tjipuahura, Kaleb - alternative spelling]
* in Botswana
+ 10.04.1987 at Windhoek
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Kaleb Hanganee Tjipahura was born in Botswana as son of Ovaherero exiled in 1904. He
joined SWAPO in 1962, went into exile for military training, and returned to Namibia. He
was captured by South African forces in 1966. He was charged in mid-1967 under the
Terrorism Act. He was tried with other Namibian in the Pretoria Terrorism Trial from
September 1967 to February 1968. He was sentenced to life imprisonment on Robben Island.
He was released in 1985. He died at Windhoek on 10.04.1987 from complications of kidney
ailments he contracted through his imprisonment.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
Collections/Papers:
1). NAN: PRI 3/15 (Prison file)
RAW DATA: Obituary: The Namibian 22.5.1987;
002191
Tjirwe ua Mutjise, Ovaherero Chief
*
+
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Setting out from the Kaokoveld, Ovaherero leader Tjirwe ua
Mutjise, son of Mutjise, son of Mbunga, son of Tjituka, son
of Kasupi, son of Vatje, son of Kengeza of the oruzo orwohorongo
(community or clan, also religious group from the father’s side, while eanda
is a socio-economic group to which the mother belongs), moved to Okahandja (probably after
1785). His successor was Ua Tjirwe Tjamuaha (ca. 1840-1861).
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
Profession: Traditional leader
Functions: Chief - Ovaherero - after 1750
RAW DATA: Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);
00267
Tjitendero , Mosé Penaani
* 25.12.1943 at Okahandja
Mosé Penaani Tjitendero was born on 25.12.1943 at Okahandja. He was educated at Otjizonyati, the Rhenish Mission Primary School, Okahandja and the Bulskop Primary School at Ovitoto. He visited the Augustineum Training College, Okahandja from 1961 until 1962. He was expelled from the Augustineum in Okahandja in 1963 after attending a political rally in Windhoek. He went to work at Olivier & Co., replacing Peter Katjavivi. With 12 others Tjitendero formed a social club known as the "White Coats" (tabula rasa) where they plotted to leave the country and come back one day wearing black academic gowns. He left Namibia 1964 after a SWANLIF rally through Aminuis to Francistown in Botswana. With about 80 others he hired a truck but was refused entry by British border guards. He was helped by Zambian UNIP officials, "it was our first taste of freedom, a black man confronting a white man". He was put up at the UNIP guest house at Livingstone in Northern Rhodesia (present-day Zambia), caught a train to Broken Hill (Kabwe) and from there to Tanzania by bus, arriving there some three months later. Immediately he was appointed as Student Representative in Dar-es-Salaam and started broadcasting on the Tanzanian external service. He obtained the O and A Levels at Dar-es-Salaam. As student representative he travelled extensively throughout Africa, Asia and Europe. He was the elected Secretary for SWA Affairs of the first SWA National Students Union (later NANSO) in Sweden - a short-lived joint venture by SWANU and SWAPO students. He returned to Tanzania with scholarship offers and opted to go to the USA. There he obtained his BA (History, Political Science) from the Lincoln University from 1967 until 1970, his MA (History) from the University of Massachusetts in 1972 and the Ph.-D. (Education, Psychology, Sociology) from the University of Massachusetts in 1976. After an Internship UNESCO, Paris in 1974, he received a Diploma in International and Comparative Human Rights Law from the University of Strasbourg in 1974. He was recalled to Lusaka in 1975 by SWAPO President Sam Nujoma and Hidipo Hamutenya to open the UN Institute for Namibia (UNIN) in Lusaka. Under the slogan "Let there be an institute" he started to work as Senior Education Lecturer from 1976 to 1982. He was an elected Member of the Central Committee for Educational Institutions 1981 and 1982 set up by UNIN's UNESCO-sponsored Teacher's Training Programme (Head: from 1982 to 1988). He was the Director of the UN Vocational Training Centre in Sumbe (Angola) from 1988 to 1989. He returned to Namibia with the advent of the implementation of the UN SC Resolution 435 in 1989 and became the Regional Head in the SWAPO Election Directorate in Otjiwarongo. He was elected to the Constituent Assembly and National Assembly (until the present date). He became Speaker of the National Assembly from March 1990 until the present date. He is married to Saundra Parr from the United States of America.
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
Profession: Politician
Married to: Saundra Parr (USA)
Collections/Papers:
1). Namibia Handbook and Political Who's Who, 1990 (Pütz, Von Egidy and Caplan)
2). Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks)
002188
Tjituka, Ovaherero Chief
*
+
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Setting out from the Kaokoveld, Ovaherero leader Mutjise, son of Mbunga,
son of Tjituka, son of Kasupi, son of Vatje, son of
Kengeza of the oruzo orwohorongo (community or clan, also religious group from the
father’s side, while eanda is a socio-economic group to which the mother
belongs), moved to Okahandja (probably after 1785). He was followed by Ovaherero Chief Mbunga.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
Profession: Traditional leader
Functions: Chief - Ovaherero - before 1750
RAW DATA: Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);
000504
Tjizemba
*
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Tjizemba was a high-ranking official at Ondonga King Nangolo's court.
---
Gender: m
Namibia National Archives Database
000266
Tjongarero, Daniel K.J. ("Danny")
* .1947 in Namibia
+ 23.04.1997 at Windhoek
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Daniel (Danny) Tjongarero was born in 1947. He was educated at a Lutheran mission school.
He graduated 1973 at the University of the North, Turfloop (South Africa). He was the
editor of the Lutheran church magazine "Immanuel". Later he was working for the
Council of Churches in Namibia. He was a SWAPO member since 1975 and National
Vice-Chairman of SWAPO since 1977. He acted as a spokesperson for the internal wing of
SWAPO. He was repeatedly jailed and tortured by the South African regime. He was elected
to the Constituent Assembly and the National Assembly (until 1995). He was appointed as
the Deputy Minister of Information and Broadcasting from March 1990 until December 1995
when he became the Managing Director of the Namibia Broadcasting Corporation. He kept this
position until his death from kidney failure on 23.04.1997.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
Profession: Politician
Married to: Agnes Tjongarero
RAW DATA: Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);
002197
Tjoro, Ovaherero Chief
*
+
---
Ovaherero Chief Tjoro was the father of Chief Katjari. Katjari
(Chief of the Otjirungu group under the leadership of John Samuel Aron Mungunda from
Otjombuindja in the Ozongoto area, son of Chief Tjoro, son of Chief Tjihahu) took a
defiant attitude against the strong social influence exercised by the Rhenish missionaries
in Otjikango.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
Profession: Traditional leader
Functions: Chief - Ovaherero - before 1840
RAW DATA: Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);
001888
Tönjes, Hermann
* 04.06.1871 at Remscheid, Germany
First entry to Namibia: 1989
Last departure from Namibia: 1908
---
Hermann Tönjes was born on 04.06.1871 at Remscheid in Germany. He was a missionary of the
Rheinische Missionsgesellschaft. He came to Namibia in 1898. He was stationed at Namakunde
in the Uukwanyama area of Ovamboland (now in Angola). He left Namibia in 1908. He was
married to Anna Tönjes, née Rautanen.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: REL
Profession: Missionary
Married to: Anna Tönjes, née Rautanen
Namibia National Archives Database
000311
Todd, James
*
+ .1878 at Kavango
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James Todd was a hunter and trader who came to Namibia as one of the copper prospectors in
ca. 1855. In the 1860s, he was fitted out by Charles John Andersson as elephant hunter,
but later worked for Eriksson. Although Todd had a Ovaherero wife, he does not seem to
have respected the Ovaherero, or orders by Chief Maharero. He was murdered by his own
servants at the Okavango in 1878.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: BUS
Namibia National Archives Database
001887
Todt
* in Germany
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Todt was the Bezirksamtmann of Windhoek in 1914.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: ADM
RAW DATA: Hubatsch;
000268
Toivo Ya Toivo, Andimba
[Ya Toivo, Hermann]
* 22.08.1924 at Omangundu
---
Andimba Toivo Ya Toivo was born on 22.08.1924 at Omangundu, near
Ondangwa. Later he attended the Omangundu primary School and the primary school at Onayena. Between 1939 and 1942 Andimba attended the
Vocational Training School at Ongwediva. He fought on the British side in World War Two.
In 1950 he obtained a teaching diploma at the St Mary School at Odibo. Toivo taught
at St. Cuthbert's, Onamutayi and St. Mary's Odibo.
Toivo worked as a railway police officer in Cape Town, 1952-1953. Toivo was involved in politics since 1954. He joined the African National Congress at Cape Town in 1957. He was a founder member of the Ovamboland People's Congress (OPC) (02.08.157)(in formal terms the OPC was never constituted), forerunner of the Ovamboland People's Organisation (OPO), subsequent SWAPO. Among the founding members of the OPC were Simon "Mzee" Kaukungua, Eliazer Tuhadeleni (Kaxumba kaNdola), Peter Hilinganye Mweshihange, Solomon Mifima, Maxton Joseph Mutongulume, Jariretundu Kozonguizi, Emil Appolus, Andreas Shipanga, Ottiliè Schimming and Kenneth Abrahams. Toivo met during this time Cape Town based South African socialists and liberals such as Brian Bunting, Sam Khan, Fred Carneson, Solly Sachs, Jack Simons, Patrick Duncan and Randolph Vigne. He also established close contacts with the two South African parties the Congress of Democrats (COD) and the Liberal Party.
In December 1958 Herman Andimba Toivo Ya Toivo succeeded in sending a petition to the United Nations, with the assistance of Mburumba Kerina and Michael Scott. Consequently he was deported from Cape Town, first to Keetmanshoop and Windhoek and later to Ovamboland, where he was placed under house arrest in his home village Oniipa. On the way from Cape Town to Keetmanshoop, Toivo was accompanied by Jariretundu Kozonguizi. In Keetmanshoop they entered into discussions with a newly formed organisation, the Society for the Advancement of the African People in South West Africa (SAAPSWA). They tried to persuade the SAAPSWA leader Philip Musirika to launch a new party, the Namaland People’s Congress, but nothing came of it.
Toivo, although a member of the Anglican Church, stayed in constant, close contact with Leonard Auala from the Evangelical Lutheran Ovambo-Kavango Church (ELOC). Because of OPO’s (later SWAPO’s) deep roots in the Ovambo people, ELOC subsequently gave its support to this national liberation movement. Members and supporters of SWAPO were also members of the congregation. The people, church and national liberation movement coincided. The OPO’s reconstitution as SWAPO in 1960 was triggered by national leaders such as Sam Nujoma, Andimba Toivo Ya Toivo, Mburumba Kerina, Jacob Kuhangua, Solomon Mifima, Paul Helmuth, Andreas Shipanga, Erasmus Erastus Mbumba, Emil Appolus, Maxton Joseph Mutongulume and Carlos Hamatui. South Africa immediately labelled SWAPO a "communist" organisation, but in terms of its policy objectives and conduct, SWAPO could in truth only be labelled a "nationalist movement".
With the beginning of SWAPO's armed struggle against the South African administration in March 1965, the first group of the SWA Liberation Army (SWALA) under the command of Peter Nanyemba, Tobias Hainjeko and John Otto Nankudhu left the Kongwa military training camp in Tanzania and moved to Nakonde in Zambia. From there they moved via Lusaka to Sesheke at the border to the Caprivi Strip. From Katima Mulilo they moved into Namibia and split up into several sub-groups. The sub-group headed by Patrick Iyambo (Lungada) moved to the homestead of Eliazer Tuhadeleni (Kaxumba kaNdola) at Endola in the Uukwanyama area where it later met the second sub-group. Tuhadeleni briefed SWAPO’s leaders including Andimba Toivo Ya Toivo, Joseph Matheus, Ben Amathila, Erastus Mbumba, Lot Homateni, Lamek Iithete and others. After their consultations with the SWAPO leadership, the group split up again for political mobilisation.
On 26.08.1966 SWAPO proclaimed officially the armed struggle for the liberation of SWA after the first SWAPO soldiers had completed their training. The first military clashes between NAPLA and SA troops occurred near the northern border with Angola (Omugulu-gOmbashe). In the mean time a further unarmed group under the command of Leonard Phillemon Shuuya (Castro) had run into a South African ambush in the Kavango. Only Julius Israel Shilongo (Kashuku) escaped and reported the incidents. Shilongo was hidden in the house of Erastus Mbumba. Phillemon, however, was converted by the South Africans and participated in the battle of Omugulu-gOmbashe on the South African side. After the Commander Johannes John Otto Nankudhu realised that he could not withstand the superior South African fire power, he ordered the NAPLA unit to retreat. Many NAPLA soldiers died, were wounded or taken prisoner by the South Africans. Eliazer Tuhadeleni (Kaxumba kaNdola) escaped and was not arrested until March 1967 when he was captured at Okaloko near Ondangwa.
On 07.09.1966 Andimba Toivo Ya Toivo, SWAPO’s secretary at Ondangwa, and 44 other prominent SWAPO members were detained and later tried and imprisoned on Robben Island ("Terrorism Trial": The State vs. Tuhadeleni and Others). Some of those arrested were detained without trial for over a year, or until the passing of the Terrorism Act, No. 83 of 1967, which was made retroactive to 27.06.1962. Among the arrested SWAPO members were Immanuel Gottlieb Nathaniel "Maxuilili" (restricted to house arrest until 1985), Eliazer Tuhadeleni, Axel Johannes and John Ya Otto (some were arrested in December). Even Sam Nujoma’s father, who was already over 70 years old, Daniel Utoni Nujoma, and whose sole "crime" was being Nujoma's father, was arrested at the Okahao Hospital and sent to Pretoria prison. There he developed tuberculosis from which he later died. On 26.01.1968 Andimba Toivo Ya Toivo was sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment by the Pretoria Supreme Court (after he was held in solitary confinement in Pretoria for more than a year before the sentence) and was incarcerated on Robben Island near Cape Town. The speech he made on behalf of his group after his conviction gained renown for its pronouncements denying SA the right to try SWA citizens or to rule their country (10.02.). His speech from the dock made headlines and became an internationally circulated key document to rally support for the Namibian liberation struggle. Ephraim Kamati Andjengo Kapolo died during the trial in Pretoria. The trialists were inter alia: Eliazer Tuhadeleni, John Otto Nankudhu (sentenced to life imprisonment), Simeon Shihungileni, Julius Israel Shilongo (Kashuku), Lazarus Zachariah (Shakala)(arrested on 16.04.1966 at Nkurenkuru and sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment), David Hamunime (Kengoya), Joseph Shimuefeleni, Helao Shityuwete (arrested on 26.03.1966 and sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment), Eino Kamati Ekandjo, Festus Nehale, Nghidipo Jesaja Haufiku (Kambwa), Immanuel Augustus Shifidi, Kaleb Hanganee Tjipahura, Rudolf Kadhikwa, Abel Shuudeni Haluteni, Betuel Nunjango, Michael Ifingilwa Moses, Matias Elia Nashidengo (Kanyeule), Malakia Shivute Ushona, Johannes Samuel Shiponeni, Petrus Kamati, Immanuel Gottlieb "Maxuilili" Nathaniel, John Ya Otto, Jason Daniel Mutumbulwa, Joseph Matheus, Jonas Nashivela, Nathanael Lot Homateni, Phillemon Kakwalindishi Shitilifa, Simeon Namunganga Hamulemo, Shinima Niilenge (Harakatyi), Petrus Sinima Niilenge, Ndjaula Tshaningua (Manghono), Sakeus Phillipus Iitika (Oshivela), Simeon Ipinge Iputa, Naftalie Amungulu (Kombadjele), and Rehabeam Olavi Nambinga. Joseph Shimuefeleni and Festus Nehale died later of negligence and mistreatment on Robben Island. Altogether 62 Namibian prisoners spent many years of hardship on Robben Island. Toivo served 16 of the 20 years.
On 01.03.1984 he was released from
Robben Island. After a brief stay in Namibia he left for Lusaka (together with Hendrik
Witbooi, Danny Tjongarero, Niko Bessinger and Crispin Matongo). Toivo became
a member of the SWAPO Central Committee and Politburo. He was elected as SWAPO
Secretary-General 1984-1991. He was elected as Member of the Constituent Assembly in 1989.
At independence, Toivo was appointed as Minister of Mines and Energy until 26.03.1999. He
was Minister of Labour from 1999-2000. Toivo became Minister of Prisons and Correctional
Services on 21.03.2000- .
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
Married to: Vicky Ehrenstein-Ya Toivo, née Ehrenstein
Collections/Papers:
1). NAN: PRI 3/28 (Prison file)
2). Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks)
Copyright of Photo: Dr. Klaus Dierks
000312
Tolonen, Karl Leonhard
*
---
Karl Leonhard Tolonen was a Finnish missionary who landed at Walvis Bay together with five
other Finnish missionaries (inter alia Martti Rautanen and Botolf Bernhard Björklund) and
three mission assistants on 14.02.1869. When the others left for Ovamboland on 27.05.1870
after having received training from Carl Hugo Hahn at Otjimbingwe, Tolonen, because he was
the most proficient in the Otjiherero language, remained behind at Otjimbingwe to take
Hahn's place while he was absent. He followed the other Finnish missionaries at a later
stage, and in mid-1871 was granted permission by Uukwanyama King Mweshipandeka sha
Shaningika to build a house in the Uukwanyama area. As he was not as well received as had
been expected, he returned to Ondonga in October the same year. Two similar incidents
occurred during 1872. In January 1876, he returned to Finland for personal reasons.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: REL
Profession: Missionary
Namibia National Archives Database
002217
Tom, Vita, Ovaherero (Ovahimba) Chief
[Oorlog - alternative name]
* 15.06.1863 at Otjimbingwe
+ 22.06.1937 near Okahao (Ongandjera area)
---
Vita Tom, also called "Chief Oorlog", was born on 15.06.1863 during the Battle
of Otjimbingwe. He was related to Christian Wilhelm Zeraua and
Manasse Tyiseseta of Omaruru (Omukweyuva-eanda: mother of Vita was Kaitundu,
daughter of the sister of Manasse and the father was Tom Bechuana or Tom Botswana
originating from Bechuanaland). He became a commando leader in Kaokoland following the
raids of the Swartbooi and Topnaar. In 1871 Axel Wilhelm Eriksson, Tom Bechuana and Vita
Tom visited King Mweshipandeka sha Shaningika of the Uukwanyama area in Ondjiva
(present-day Angola). In 1881 the Dorsland-Trekkers crossed the Kunene River
at Swartbooisdrift and moved into Angola. In Humpata and Neves, Tom Bechuana and Vita Tom
joined the Dorsland-Trekkers. He stayed in Angola and during the German
Ovaherero War 1904-1908 when many Ovaherero sought refuge with him. For instance, at the
end of 1904 some Ovaherero including Haingombe, Wilhelm Katjisume, Thomas Mutate and
Martin Kazerewi escaped into Angola, where they joined Vita Tom. Later the Okahandja
Ovaherero preferred the leadership of Salatiel Kambazembi who temporarily also had joined
Vita. In June 1909 a Portuguese military expedition under the leadership of Joao de
Almeida moved from Angola against the Kavango. This expedition was accompanied by Vita
Tom. Some Ovaherero fugitives from Bechuanaland joined Vita during this time. During the
First World War, in December 1914, German troops under Major Franke attacked Naulila in
Angola and defeated the Portuguese troops. Franke was wounded and Georg Trainer took over
command. After the battle some prisoners of war were executed. Vita Tom also took part on
the Portuguese side. He was able to escape. During September 1915 Vita Tom fought on the
Portuguese side against King Mandume ya Ndemufayo of the Uukwanyama area. In 1916 Vita Tom
("Chief Oorlog") moved through the Ombuku and Omuhonga Rivers to Okonguati and
Otjiyandjasemo in the Kaokoveld where he met Ovatjimba Chief Kasupi at Ombepera. He
returned the same year to Angola. Vita returned finally from Angola in 1917. He was
accompanied by Edward Tjipepa (his brother), Martin Tjiheura, Moses Ndjai, Paul Zakekua,
Wilhelm Tjireye, Ngairo Muhenye Gabriel Cabrito, Joel Kapi, Vetamuna Tjambiru, George
Hartley and Adrian Karipose. Vita settled permanently at Otjiyandjasemo, south-west of
present-day Okonguati. He was supported by Ovatjimba Chief Kasupi from Ombepera. Tensions
built up, however, with the Ovahimba Chief Muhona Katiti. The South African authorities
(SA Police at Cauas Okawa) tried to mediate between Vita and Muhona. On 06.06.1917 Tom
Vita was called to Windhoek and met SA Colonel MJ de Jager in order to find a solution for
the various Kaokoland conflicts. This led later to an expedition to investigate affairs in
the Kaokoveld under the command of the Native Resident Commissioner Charles N Manning. On
24.08.1917 Charles Manning mediated between Vita Tom and Ovahimba Chief Muhona Katiti in
Otazuma in the vicinity of Otjivero in the Kaokoveld. Consequently Muhona moved his
residence to Epembe at the Ondoto River. During June 1919, new disputes between Vita Tom
and Ovahimba Chief Muhona Katiti arose. They resulted in Charles Manning’s new visit
to the Kaokoveld. At this time Vita lived no longer at Otjiyandjasemo but in Ongongo at
the Hoarusib River. After Manning had also visited Muhona and the Ovatjimba leader Kasupi,
he met Vita at Kaoko Otavi. Manning accepted that among the Kaokoland communities Vita was
the strongest leader. In 1920 Vita Tom decided to return from Ongongo at the Hoarusib
River and to settle permanently at Otjiyandjasemo. In April 1923 new disputes between Vita
Tom and Ovahimba Chief Muhona Katiti occurred. They led, as requested by Carl (Cocky)
Hahn, Resident Commissioner of Ovamboland, 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 Tom 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 "Cocky" Hahn met Vita for the first time. Hahn wrote
about this meeting "He is a fine looking old native with excellent manners and
personality." In September 1925 Vita Tom received Deneys Reitz in Otjiyandjasemo.
There was some political stirring in the Kaokoveld because some Ovaherero moved from Outjo
northwards. The headmen of this group were Langman Tjihahura, Jonas Tjivikwa, Hiaukambe
Turitijo and Johannes Muzuma. The group settled at Okawao, Otjohaka, Omawatinda, Onaiso,
Otjikuvare and Otjomumborombonga. The fluid situation was furthermore intensified by an
internal power struggle between Ovatjimba Chief Kahewa-Nawa and his nephew Weripaka. This
resulted in Kahewa-Nawa’s followers seeking support from Chief Tom Vita. During July
1936 and following the visit of Administrator Conradie to the Kaokoveld and also due to
the weakening health of Chief Vita Tom, a Tribal Council (Ombongarero yomuhoko) was
created at Okorosave in the Kaokoveld. Before this the Kaokoveld resorted under the Native
Commissioner of Ovamboland. The Council recognised the two main chiefs, Vita and Karuvapa.
The Ovaherero were represented by Moses Ndjai, Wilhelm Tjireye, Edward Tjipepa, George
Hartley, Martin Tjiheura, Langman Tjihahura, Ludwig Tjitambo, Palminus M’gandje and
Johannes Muzuma. The delegates for the Ovahimba and Ovatjimba were the chiefs Tjiparapara,
Muzire, Marukwavi, Katje, Youruruka Tjirambo, Mumbombaro Kurama, Kwenda Kutanga, Kazungama
Witahura Yapapu Ohupa, Kaimuvaza Mbunguho and Twazapu Musaso. In Ohopoho (later Opuwo) an
office was created for the Council. The name "Ohopoho" (Otjiherero: It is
enough) was coined by Carl (Cocky) Hahn, Native Commissioner in Ovamboland. The locals
called the place Otjihinamaparero, also Otjitoporwa (Otjiherero: The first borehole in the
area). On 22.06.1937 Vita Tom died near Okahao (Ongandjera area). His successor was Moses
Ndjai from Okorosave.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
Father: Tom Bechuana
RAW DATA: Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);
001190
Tostensen, Arne
*
---
Arne Tostensen was a Professor at the Nordic Africa Institute at Uppsala in Sweden. He has
conducted extensive research on the role of Namibia in the political economy of southern
Africa before independence.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: SOC
Profession: Social scientist
Namibia National Archives Database
001189
Toetemeyer, Hans-Günther
* 25.01.1930 at Keetmanshoop
---
Hans-Günther Toetemeyer was born on 25.01.1930 at Keetmanshoop. He received his schooling
in Gelsenkirchen. He studied at the University Bonn from 1951 to 1956, then teaching in
Köln. From 1972 to 1983 he was a municipal official for education, culture and sport in
Hagen in Germany. He joined Social Democratic Party (SPD) in 1963. From 1966 to 1975 he
was a member of the state parliament (Landtag) in Nordrhein-Westfalen. Since 1983 he was a
member of the Federal Parliament (Bundestag).
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
Profession: Politician
RAW DATA: Kürschners Deutscher Bundestag 1983;
001889
Toetemeyer, Hermann
* .1900 in Germany
---
Hermann Toetemeyer was born in 1900 in Germany. He was a missionary of the Rheinische
Missionsgesellschaft.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: REL
Profession: Missionary
Namibia National Archives Database
001890
Tötterman, Carl Gustav
*
---
Carl Gustav Tötterman was a Finnish missionary.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: REL
Profession: Missionary
Namibia National Archives Database
001191
Trainer, Hauptmann
* in Germany
---
Hauptmann Trainer served in the Schutztruppe from February 1904 until 1915. For some time
he served as Adjutant of Major Franke. After the Schutztruppe surrender in 1915, he was a
liaison officer for the Schutztruppe. He was repatriated to Germany 1919.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: MIL
Profession: Schutztruppe officer
Collections/Papers:
1). NAN: A.315 (Correspondence of Trainer with German and South African military
authorities re personnel questions of the Schutztruppe)
001687
Trenk, Walter
* 29.05.1877
+ 15.07.1918
---
Walter Trenk was born on 29.05.1877. He was a Schutztruppe officer. He published several
articles on his exploration travels in the Namib. He died on 15.07.1918.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: MIL
Profession: Military officer
RAW DATA: Fischer 1935:196, 219, 222;
001892
Trey, Bernhard
* 09.02.1881 at Weener/Ostfriesland, Germany
First entry to Namibia: 1909
---
Bernhard Trey was born on 09.02.1881 at Weener/Ostfriesland in Germany. He was a
missionary of the Rheinische Missionsgesellschaft. He came to Namibia in 1909 and was
stationed in Outjo.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: REL
Profession: Missionary
Married to: Anna (Aenne) Trey, née Jung, married 1911-
Namibia National Archives Database
001688
Trommsdorff, Friedrich, Dr.
* 18.11.1872
+ 17.01.1933
---
Friedrich Trommsdorff was born on 18.11.1872. He was a Schutztruppe medical officer. He
published about San arrow poison. He died on 17.01.1933.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: MIL MED
Profession: Military officer Medical practitioner
RAW DATA: Fischer 1935:223;
001192
Tromp, Philippus Johannes de Witt
* 20.02.1925 at Fraserburg District, South Africa
First entry to Namibia: 1944
---
Philippus Johannes de Witt Tromp was born on 20.02.1925 at Fraserburg District in South
Africa. He was educated at the Cannan High School, Karos in South Africa. He came to
Namibia in 1944. He was a businessman with widespread interests, Director of Nictus
(Edms.) Bpk. and related companies, Landswyd Beleggings Bpk., Rehoboth Beleggings- en
Ontwikkelingskorporasie, P.J. de W. Tromp en Seuns (Edms) Bpk., Pro-Fidei Beleggings Bpk.,
Sentrakoop Handelaars Bpk., and others. He was the Chairperson of TS Nywerhede (Edms) Bpk.
He was a Member of the Broederbond. He was married to Hester Magdalena Tromp, née Myburgh
in 1947.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: BUS
Profession: Businessman
Married to: Hester Magdalena Tromp, née Myburgh, married 1947-
Father: Nicolaas Cornelius Tromp
RAW DATA: WWSA 1974; Wilkins/Strydom;
000609
Troost, Edmund
*
---
Edmund Troost was a lieutenant of the Schutztruppe, and also a trained artist. Troost
participated in the campaign against Hendrik Witbooi in the Naukluft 1894, but apparently
left the military service in 1896. He was a man of independent wealth, a considerable part
of which he consequently chose to spend on innovatory schemes, quite without any profit
motives, in Namibia. In 1904 he introduced diesel machines at his own cost. He also
designed a heavy duty steam desert vehicle for special application in the colony which he
introduced by 1895. Many of his ideas were never tried out, but dutifully filed by the
colonial administration. The famous "Martin Luther" locomotive outside
Swakopmund is a remnant of one of Troost's schemes.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: MIL
RAW DATA: Lenssen 1966:68,85,118,150;
001255
Trueman, Ken
* .1933 in England
---
Ken Trueman was born in 1933 in England. He was the General Manager of CDM from 1984
to 1987. He served on the Diamond Board for SWA and the Council of the Chamber of Mines of
SWA.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: MIN
Namibia National Archives Database
001193
Trümpelmann, Hans Dieter
* 25.02.1912 at Pretoria District, South Africa
First entry to Namibia: 01.01.1965
---
Hans Dieter Trümpelmann was born on 25.02.1912 at Pretoria District in South Africa. He
was educated at the Afrikaans High School in Pretoria, and the Normal College in Pretoria.
He graduated from the Pretoria University. He came to Namibia in 1965. He was the Deputy
Director of Education of the SWA Administration from 1968 until 1970. He was the Director
of Education from 1971. He was married to Louise Magdalene Ruth Trümpelmann, née Johl in
1941.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: EDU
Profession: Teacher
Married to: Louise Magdalene Ruth Trümpelmann, née Johl, married 1941-
Father: Johannes Friedrich Theodor Trümpelmann
RAW DATA: WWSA 1974;
002311
Tsamkxao, #Oma, San Chief
*
+
---
#Oma Tsamkxao, ||'Aiha (traditional title), is the Chief
of the Ju|'hoansi Traditional Authority since 1990.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
RAW DATA: Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);
002168
Tsauxab gaib, ||Khau-|gôan Captain (Swartboois)
*
---
Tsauxab gaib was the second captain in the genealogy of the Swartbooi Nama. He was the son
of |Khanabeb. The precise dates could not be traced. Most probably he lived at a time,
when the ||Khau-|gôan were still part of the Kei||khaun community. He was followed
Manasse Swartbooi (#Haobeb Tsauxamab)(before 1800).
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
RAW DATA: Budack 1972:252-253;
002161
Tsawúb Gamab, Kai||khaun Captain (Red Nation)
*
+ .1824
---
Tsawúb Gamab was the Captain of the Kai||khauan (Red Nation) from 1814 until 1824. He was
the eighth in the genealogy of the Kai||khaun. He was succeeded by !Na-khom Gamab
(1824-1840).
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
Profession: Traditional leader
Functions: Captain - Kai||khaun (Red Nation) - 1814-1824
RAW DATA: Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);
001937
Tseib, Jonathan, Kharo-!oan Captain (Keetmanshoop Nama)
[Zeib, Jonathan - alternative spelling]
*
---
Jonathan Tseib was the Captain of the Keetmanshoop Nama (Kharo-!oan). The Kharo-!oan left
the Kai||khaun (Red Nation) in 1850. In 1859/60 Tseib was one of the Namaland Chiefs who
was an adversary to Jonker Afrikaner of the Orlam Afrikaners. The
political constellation as it consolidated itself in the late 1850s can be described as
follows: The chiefs ||Oaseb of the Kai||khaun, Amraal Lambert or #Gai|nub of the
Kai|khauan, Piet Koper !Gamab of the Fransman Nama or !Khara-khoen, Hendrik Henricks or
!Nanib gaib #Arisemab of the ||Hawoben and Jacobus Boois from Bethany supported Jonker
Afrikaner, while Willem Swartbooi or !Huiseb #Haobemab from Rehoboth, the chiefs from
Bethany (David Christian Frederiks) and Berseba and
later Kido Witbooi or #A-||êib from Gibeon, assisted by Captain Tseib from Keetmanshoop,
represented the anti-Jonker coalition. The Rhenish missionaries and European traders
greatly added to these polarisations of different Namibian groups. The intent was to
destroy Jonker’s nascent state structures in order to weaken any local political
power that might have resisted the missionaries’ objectives and later colonial
annexation. Jonker’s slogan: "Africa to Africans, but Namaland and Hereroland
to us" was a challenge which was not acceptable to the missionaries. In
1904 Tseib did not participate in the German-Nama War 1903-1913.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
RAW DATA: Drechsler 1966:67; Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);
002260
Tshaanika shIipinge, Ovamboland (Ongandjera)
King
*
+ .1948
---
The twenty-second Ongandjera King was King Tshaanika shIipinge
(1936-1948). He followed King Sheya shaAmukwa (1930-1936). King Tshaanika shIipinge died
in 1948.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
RAW DATA: Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);
002258
Tshaanika Tsha Natshilongo, Ovamboland
(Ongandjera) King
*
+ .1930
---
The twentieth Ongandjera King was Tshaanika Tsha Natshilongo
(1887-1930). He followed King Iiyambo yIileka who was killed by Tshaanika in 1887. In
1890, at the invitation of King Tshaanika Tsha Natshilongo, the Rhenish Missionary Society
sent out two missionaries, August Wulfhorst and Friedrich Meisenholl, to work in the
Ongandjera area in Ovamboland. On their way to Okahao they were stopped by King Negumbo of
the Uukwambi area. Thereafter they were invited by King Ueyulu ya Hedimbi to establish
mission stations in the Uukwanyama area instead (which they did in 1891). During the
German Ovaherero War 1904-1908 he gave refuge to some fleeing Ovaherero. For instance, in
September 1904 Daniel Kariko, the former group leader from Okombahe, fled to Tshaanika
Tsha Natshilongo. King Tshaanika Tsha Natshilongo died in 1930. His successor was the 21st
Ongandjera King Sheya shaAmukwa (1930-1936).
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
RAW DATA: Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);
002249
Tshaanika tsha Tshiimi, Ovamboland
(Ongandjera) King
*
+
---
The eleventh Ongandjera King on record was Tshaanika tsha Tshiimi.
He ruled before 1858. The first 14 Ongandjera kings cannot be dated. His successor was the
twelfth Ongandjera king Namatsi.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
RAW DATA: Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);
000037
Tshaningau, Njabula
* .1909
---
Njabula Tshaningau was born in 1909. He was charged under the Terrorism Act and tried with
other Namibians in the Pretoria Terrorism Trial from September 1967 to February 1968. He
was sentenced to life imprisonment, reduced to 20 years on appeal. He was imprisoned on
Robben Island. He was the oldest of the Namibians on Robben Island.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
Namibia National Archives Database
002256
Tsheya tsUutshona, Ovamboland (Ongandjera)
King
*
+ .1878
---
The eighteenth Ongandjera King was Tsheya tsUutshona who ruled from
1862 until 1878. He overpowered Queen Nakashwa in 1862. King Tsheya dies in 1878. He was
followed by the 19th King Iiyambo yIileka (1878-1887).
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
RAW DATA: Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);
002285
Tshikesho, Ovamboland (Uukwambi)
King
*
+ .1860
---
The eleventh Uukwambi King on record was King Tshikesho (1860). He
followed King Iilonga yaNyango (around 1800). His successor was the twelfth Uukwambi King
Tshikongo (1860).
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
RAW DATA: Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);
002289
Tshikesho tshEelu, Ovamboland (Uukwambi) King
*
+ .1863
---
The fifteenth Uukwambi King was King Tshikesho tshEelu (1863). King
Tshikesho tshEelu followed King Iipumbu ya Nangaku (1862-1863), but died in the same year.
He established his capital at Onambashu. He was followed by King Nuyoma
(1863-1875).
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
RAW DATA: Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);
002286
Tshikongo, Ovamboland (Uukwambi)
King
*
+ around 1860
---
The twelfth Uukwambi King was King Tshikongo (1860). After the
death of the 11th Uukwambi King Tshikesho firstly Tshikongo and in the same year Nuyoma
wIipumbu (1860-1862) became the 12th resp. the 13th king of the Uukwambi area in
Ovamboland. Due to the frequent wars with the Ongandjera area, the Uukwambi area was
repeatedly devastated. Capital during this time was Iino.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
RAW DATA: Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);
000038
Tuhadeleni, Eliaser
[Kandola, Kahumba - given name]
[kaNdola, Kaxumba - alternative spelling]
*
+ .1997 at Windhoek
---
Eliaser Tuhadeleni was a SWAPO activist. He took part in the Battle of Omugulu-gOmbashe on
26.08.1966, evaded arrest but was eventually caught and sent to Pretoria Central Prison.
He was charged under the Terrorism Act. 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. He died 1997 at Windhoek.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
RAW DATA: Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);
002173
Tuob |Khaoreb, #Aonin Captain (Topnaars)
[Jonas- European name (|hû-|ons)]
*
---
Tuob |Khaoreb (Jonas) was the Captain of the Topnaars (#Aonin). He was the fifth and last
captain on record in the genealogy of the captains of the #Aonin dynasty. Tuob died 1914.
1931 the #Aonin tried to re-establish a Captain, Samuel ||Haibeb, but this was not
confirmed by the South African authorities in Walvis Bay because there had been doubts
concerning Samuel's genealogy.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
Married to: ||Oases
RAW DATA: Budack 1972:245-246;
001194
Tworeck, Dörte
* at Swakopmund
---
Dörte Tworeck was born at Swakopmund. She was educated in South Africa. She was an artist
and worked for Ministry of Nature Conservation and Tourism and for the National Museum.
---
Gender: f
Field of activity: ART
Profession: Artist
Namibia National Archives Database
001186
Tyiseseta, Albertine
[Tyisesta - alternative name]
* in Namibia
+ 12.08.1951 at Omaruru
---
Albertine Tyiseseta was the wife of Ovaherero Chief Manasse Tyiseseta in Omaruru. She died
on 12.08.1951 at Omaruru.
---
Gender: m
Married to: Manasse Tyiseseta (-1898)
Father: Zeraua
Children: Michael Tyiseseta (-1923)
Hugo Tyiseseta
Charlotte Tyiseseta
Namibia National Archives Database
001187
Tyiseseta, Manasse, Ovaherero Chief
[Tyisesta - alternative name]
* 25.04.1850 at Otjimbingwe
+ 17.04.1898 at Omaruru
---
Manasse Tyiseseta was born at Otjimbingwe on 25.04.1850. He was trained at the Augustineum
in Otjimbingwe. He left, together with Christian Wilhelm Zeraua, Otjimbingwe in 1867 and
moved to Omaruru (Okonjose). Manasse taught at the school in Omaruru from 1871-1882. He
was the half-brother of Chief Tjaherani (ca. 1860-1884), and was elected Ovaherero Chief
of Omaruru after Tjaherani's death in 1884 (29.11.1876 after the death of Wilhelm Zeraua
according to other sources). Initially, he was a Christian and supported the missionaries,
but upon becoming Chief (1884-1898), he returned to the traditional religion. He was
married to one of Zeraua's daughters, Albertine. On 03.11.1885, a
protection treaty was concluded between Manasse and Göring in the presence of missionary
Büttner. In spite of this treaty Manasse managed to maintain a polity independent from
the Germans and Maharero. This independence was based on sound trade links with the Cape
Colony for arms and ammunition as well as a disciplined armed force. In the late 1880s,
following the arrival of German colonial forces in central SWA, Manasse Tyiseseta
continued to seek political independence. When Samuel Maharero was recognised by the
German authorities as supreme Ovaherero leader in August 1891, this was not accepted by
other Ovaherero leaders, such as Manasse Tyiseseta of Omaruru, Kandji Tjetjo of
Owikokorero and the Ovambanderu leader Kahimemua Nguvauva, as well as Riarua,
Maharero’s former advisor. On 29.11.1892 two mining engineers of the South West
Africa Company (SWAC), Rogers and Copeland, described a meeting with Manasse Tyiseseta
from Omaruru: "Manasse and his Raad continually ask if we were involved with
the Germans ... and I knew if he got in any way to understand that we were with the
Germans, we would go no further. [Manasse expressed:] This is our country! We are owners
of it. We do not want war. We are for peace. We have been cheated many times before; but
now our eyes are opened, and when once you could buy land with a bottle of whisky or a
suit of clothes, that time is all gone by." On 26.11.1894 Leutwein persuaded Samuel
Maharero and Zacharias Zeraua of Otjimbingwe to meet Manasse Tyiseseta at Omaruru to seek
agreement between the Ovaherero leaders. Leutwein’s demonstration of power led to the
downfall of Manasse’s independent position and to the establishment of a German
military garrison at Omaruru. During the rinderpest epidemic of 1897, Erich Victor Carl
August Franke reported that Manasse Tyiseseta of Omaruru refused to get his cattle
inoculated. He died of typhoid fever on 17.04.1898, and was buried next to
Wilhelm Zeraua in the old cemetery in Omaruru.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
Profession: Traditional leader
Married to: Albertina Tyiseseta
Children: Michael Tyiseseta (-1927)
Hugo Tyiseseta
Charlotte Tyiseseta
RAW DATA: Otto-Reiner 1991; Baumann 1967; Bourquin 1969; Chronology of Namibian History,
2003 (Dierks);
Copyright of Photo: Dr. Klaus Dierks
001188
Tyiseseta, Michael, Ovaherero Chief
[Tyisesta - alternative name]
* at Omaruru
+ .1923 (1926 or 1927 according to other sources) at Krugersdorp, South Africa
---
Michael Tyiseseta was born at Omaruru. He was the eldest son of Chief Manasse Tyiseseta
and his wife Albertine. He succeeded his father upon Manasse's death in 1898. In November
1899 a quarrel broke out between Samuel Maharero and Michael
Tyiseseta of Omaruru. Theodor Leutwein intervened and explained that Samuel had no direct
authority over Michael’s people. On 17.01.1904, he left Omaruru to join
the war against the Germans. On 11.03.1904 Leutwein reported
that Samuel Maharero was positioned along the line of Otjosazu, Okatumba at the Swakop
River and Katjapia (with ±1 000 rifles); that Chief Michael Tyiseseta was moving from the
Etjo Mountains in an eastward direction (with ±500 rifles); that the Tjetjo community had
retreated from Kehoro at the Black Nossob River in the direction of the Onjati Mountains
(with ±1 000 rifles); and that more Ovaherero under the command of Zacharias Zeraua (with
±1 000 rifles) could be found in the area of Otjimbingwe at the Sney River, and at
Lievenberg and Oruware at the Swakop River. In July 1904 Samuel Maharero occupied the area
of Otjozondjupa and the Hamakari River, while Michael Tyiseseta concentrated his forces at
Omuveroume between the Little and Great Waterberg. Michael took part in the
Battle of Waterberg in August 1904. After the Waterberg Battle, the
Ovaherero assembled at Okahandja North between the Omatako omuramba and the Eiseb omuramba.
They fled further via Otjinene, Epata, Osombo-Windimbe (Ozombo ja Windimba) and
Erindi-Ombahe, following the course of the Eiseb omuramba. Zacharias Zeraua from
Otjimbingwe reported later that the chiefs Samuel Maharero from Okahandja, Banjo from
Otjombonde, David and Salatiel Kambazembi from Waterberg, Ouandja from Otjikururume,
Kayata from Otjihaenena, Michael Tyiseseta from Omaruru, Katjahingi and Assa Riarua had
all assembled at Osombo Onjatu at the Eiseb omuramba. In December 1904 Michael
Tyiseseta and nine followers escaped the Germans and Michael handed himself over to the
British authorities in Walvis Bay. From there he was brought by the German vessel
"Eduard Bohlen" to Cape Town in South Africa from where he was transferred to
the Witwatersrand in Transvaal. He became a kind of a foreman on the gold mines of the
Reef. He died 1923 (1926 (Prof. Schlosser) or 1927 to other sources) in Krugersdorp (South
Africa). His remains are to be transferred with military honours to the independent
Republic of Namibia in 2004 to be buried along his forefathers at Omaruru.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
Profession: Traditional leader
Mother: Albertine Tyiseseta
Father: Manasse Tyiseseta (-1898)
RAW DATA: Bourquin 1969; Drechsler 1966:165, 198, 356; Schwabe 1903:23; JBRMG 1903:23;
Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);
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