Heinrich Ernst Göring
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Heinrich Ernst Göring 1839-1913, colonial governor of German South-West Africa and father of Hermann Göring, the Nazi leader and commander of the Luftwaffe.
[edit] Biography
[edit] German South-West Africa
In October 1885 Göring was sent to the South West Africa as Reichskommissar and attempted to make treaties with local rulers, by which they would accept German protection. This was one of the conditions that the European powers had agreed upon as being a necessary prerequisite for the establishment of a Protectorate.
He made an agreement with Maharero, the Herero leader, and established his headquarters at Maharero's capital, Okahandja. Some of the Nama tribes also made protection treaties, but those led by Hendrik Witbooi refused to do so.
Göring then returned to Germany to report on his progress. On his return to the territory in 1888 he was accompanied by the nucleus of a military force in the form of seven officers, only to find that Maharero had repudiated the treaty he had signed, and ordered Göring to leave Damaraland immediately. Göring retreated to the British enclave of Walvis Bay.
[edit] Bibliography
- Gewald, Jan-Bart (1999). Herero heroes: a socio-political history of the Herero of Namibia 1890-1923. Oxford: James Currey. ISBN 0-85255-749-3.
- Wellington, John H. (1967). South West Africa and its human issues. London: Oxford University Press.
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