Samuel Maherero
1856 – 1923 Herero (South West Africa, now Namibia) Paramount chief, resistance leader
Herero chief who led the 1904 uprising against German colonists.
- Religion
- Christian
- Affiliations
- Herero people
Samuel Maherero was paramount chief of the Herero in German South West Africa. In 1904 he led an uprising against German settlers and colonial rule over land and cattle. German forces under Lothar von Trotha crushed the revolt with an extermination campaign now widely recognized as genocide; Maherero escaped into exile in British Bechuanaland.
In the timeline
- 1904 Herero uprising begins mentioned