Georg Hartmann (geographer)
Georg Hartmann was a German geographer working in German South West Africa.
He was born in Dresden and educated at the technical school of his native city and at Leipzig, where he studied mathematics, physics, and geography. From 1893 to 1908 he traveled throughout German South West Africa and southern Angola. He worked as a director for the Otavi Mining and Railway Company and was co-founder of the town Grootfontein in Otjozondjupa Region, Namibia.
In 1908 he returned to Germany, settling in the village of Rathstock, near Alt Tucheband. He gave lectures, and authored papers on history, colonial politics and sociology.
Hartmann's mountain zebra is named in his honor. It is a subspecies of the mountain zebra native to south-western Angola, Namibia and South Africa. Hartmann Valley in the Kaokoveld is also named after him.
Hartmann died at Grammersdorf in Schleswig-Holstein.Selected works