The official AHF German Colonies quiz thread

[Mischa]

Carl Benz, Wilhelm Maybach but the photos I found where they looks older and this guy is young!
Regards
Mischa

[Mischa]

Hello
Nikola Tesla! (Tesla Pardubice)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla
Regards
Mischa

[Henk]

Wireless station, Kamina, Togo
Tesla turbines, demolished in the night of 24/25 August 1914

[danebrog]

Hello Henk

100% Score, congratulations!!

I am not sure if the turbines had their origins by Tesla, as I meant the principle basics by wireless transmission of signals, but.....

Seems, for the next questions I have to look for exotic places at exotic places

But now its up to you, Henk

cheers

Olav

[Henk]

Hello Olav,

It’s amazing to see that remnants of the turbines have survived for nearly a century…

More about Kamina: Telefunken-Zeitung 16 (July 1919)
http://www.radiomuseum.org/forumdata/us ... v1_v10.pdf

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In 1910 the ‘Deutsches Forschungsunterehmen Kairo-Kapstadt’ announced the intention to cross Africa with two Büssing trucks, setting out from Cairo in July 1911 and expecting to reach Cape Town some 16 months later.

At about the same time, a British party planned to undertake a similar automobile journey in the opposite direction. However, probably because of the increased war threat during the Moroccan crisis, both initiatives had to be withdrawn.

The proposed nine members of the German team brought an array of military, technical and scientific expertise to the expedition. The leader was a young artillery lieutenant, who, for other reasons, became rather well known in Germany during the 1920s.
Who was he?

[Henk]

I know…, it’s a not-so-easy question…

I’ve been searching for years to trace scanty records of this early Cairo-to-Cape motoring initiative. I’m in good company. Already in 1911, diplomats of the British Foreign Office faced difficulties in finding relevant information.

An example: so far I didn’t find clear information on the colonial background (probably GEA) of ‘Amtsrichter’ Gustav Lacmann from Colmar and/or ‘Regierungsassessor’ Ferdinand ten Brink from Forbach, who were supposed to participate in the Africa expedition…
(Any ideas..?)

But back to my question…

In 1924 the proposed leader headed an expedition to Persia to establish a German settlement….

[Henk]

Before his ill-fated experiment in Persia, he was engaged as an army captain in the realization of volunteer land-settlement projects in Germany. These had a military structure and were aimed at encouraging a will to work amongst the many unemployed, demobilized soldiers who had returned in defeat from the World War I and felt disconnected from civilian life.

Particularly his first settlement at Völpke was well known at the time...

[danebrog]

the Völpke hint was most helpful
never heard before

Very, very tricky, Henk




cheers

Olav

[Henk]

Hello Olav,

Yes, you found the answer: Detlef (or Detlev) Schmude

See: http://www.uni-magdeburg.de/mbl/Biografien/0401.htm

Schmude was also a principal member of the Ordo Novi Templi (Order of the New Templars), one of the ariosophic organizations that flourished in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

You may now take us to one of those exotic places that you had in mind…

Regards, - Henk

[danebrog]

The Schmude Story is as interesting as strange

But now

There were some remarkable small actions beneath the major fights in Africa
This was the place of a spectacular belgian defeat

Name the Place and the Names of the Officers in charge

[Mischa]

Name the Place and the Names of the Officers in charge

Hello danebrog,
I have to poor sources, so I mean it may be in Kahe, Moschi, Taveta, Moi ... und in vielen anderen
Gruß
Mischa

[danebrog]

Kahe, Moschi, Taveta, Moi ... und in vielen anderen

Allright, but: it was a belgian defeat (under really particular circumstances)
This in mind the opportunities are fairly reduced

Last but not least it should not be too easy

[Henk]

Intriguing question…

Is this the place…??



[In September 1914 captain Max Wintgens raided Idjwi in Lake Kivu with a fleet of canoes and captured the Belgian military outpost in the extreme south of the island]

[danebrog]

Hello Henk

thats wrong, but you´re on the right track
Hint: look after a later Date

[danebrog]

Hint: Anno Domini 1917 - and far behind british and belgian lines