Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg

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Duke Adolf Friedrich
Governor of Togoland
In office
19 June 1912 – 31 August 1914
MonarchWilhelm II
ChancellorTheobald von Bethmann Hollweg
Preceded byEdmund Brückner
Succeeded byHans Georg von Doering (acting)
Born(1873-10-10)10 October 1873
Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, German Empire
Died5 August 1969(1969-08-05) (aged 95)
Eutin, West Germany
Spouse
Princess Viktoria Feodora Reuss of Schleiz
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(m. 1917; died 1918)​

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(m. 1924)​
Frederick Francis II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
MotherPrincess Marie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt

Duke Adolf Friedrich Albrecht Heinrich of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (

National Olympic Committee of West Germany
(1949–1951).

Biography

Born in

Prince Hendrik of the Netherlands, prince consort to the Dutch Queen Wilhelmina
.

Explorer of Africa

From 1907 to 1908, Adolf Friedrich led a scientific research expedition in the region of the Central African

Senckenberg Museum

From 1910 to 1911, he led an expedition to

primeval forest region of the Congo tributaries and the basin of Lake Chad. Individual groups extended their explorations to the Bahr el Ghazal near the upper Nile, while others travelled to south Cameroon and the islands of the Gulf of Guinea. Vom Kongo zum Niger und Nil ("From the Congo to the Niger
and the Nile"), a two-volume work based on the 1910–1911 expeditions, has an excellent reputation today for its detail and images.

From 1912 to 1914, Adolf Friedrich was the last governor of Togoland in German West Africa; he was invited for the official celebration of the independence of Togo in 1960. After World War I, he served as the vice-president of the privately chartered German Colonial Society for Southwest Africa; his brother Johann Albrecht was president from 1895 to 1920.

Duke of the United Baltic Duchy

After

Livonian Confederation. The first head of state of the United Baltic Duchy was to be Adolf Friedrich, but he never assumed office. The appointed regency council consisting of four Baltic Germans, three Estonians and three Latvians
functioned until 28 November 1918, without any international recognition, except from Germany.

Member of the International Olympic Committee

Adolf Friedrich then served as a member of the International Olympic Committee from 1926 to 1956 and as the first president of the National Olympic Committee of Germany from 1949 to 1951.

Personal life

Adolf Friedrich was married twice. In

Reuss-Schleiz (1889-1918), daughter of Heinrich XXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line and Princess Elise of Hohenlohe-Langenburg. She died a day after giving birth to their only daughter, Duchess Woizlawa Feodora, on 18 December 1918. He later married the widow of his half-brother Duke John Albert, Princess Elisabeth of Stolberg-Rossla
, on 15 October 1924; they were among the guests at the 1937 wedding of Juliana of the Netherlands and Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld.

Princess Elisabeth survived her husband by only a few weeks after his death in Eutin in 1969.

Legacy

Adolf Friedrich is commemorated in the scientific names of a genus of lizards, Adolfus, and of a species of chameleon, Kinyongia adolfifriderici,[1] as well as in the cichlid Haplochromis adolphifrederici,[2] and in the large tree species Aningeria adolfi-friederici.[citation needed]

Works

Vom Kongo zum Niger und Nil, 1912, First edition
  • Ins innerste Afrika. Leipzig, 1909. Translated into English as In the Heart of Africa. London: Cassell, 1910. vol. 1, vol. 2, vol. 3.
  • Vom Kongo zum Niger und Nil. Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, 1912. Translated into English as: From the Congo to the Niger and the Nile: An Account of the German Central African Expedition of 1910-1911. London: Duckworth, 1913. vol. 2.
  • Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Zentral-Afrika-Expedition unter Führung Adolf Friedrichs, Herzog zu Mecklenburg. Leipzig, 1922. vol. 2, vol. 4, vol. 5, vol. 7.

See also

References

  1. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5
    . ("Adolf Frideric [sic]", p. 2).
  2. ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (21 Aug 2018). "Order CICHLIFORMES: Family CICHLIDAE: Subfamily PSEUDOCRENILABRINAE (h-k)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 6 December 2018.

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Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg
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Born: 10 October 1873 Died: 5 August 1969
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