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Adolf Lüderitz
German colonial merchant (1834-1886) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Franz Adolf Eduard Lüderitz (16 July 1834 – end of October 1886) was a German merchant and the founder of German South West Africa, Imperial Germany's first colony. The coastal town of Lüderitz, located in the ǁKaras Region of southern Namibia, is named after him.
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