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About Carl Hugo Linsingen Hahn
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Cocky Hahn
Full names: Carl Hugo Linsingen
Date of birth: 7 Jan 1886
Place of birth: Paarl
School: Paarl Boys High
Springbok no: 113
Debut test province: Transvaal
Physical: 1.77m
Date of death: 27 Sep 1948 (Age 62)
Test summary: Tests: 3 Tries: 1
First Test: 6 Aug 1910 Age:24 Right Wing against Britain at Wanderers (Old Wanderers), Johannesburg
Last Test: 3 Sep 1910 Age:24 Right Wing against Britain at Newlands, Cape Town
Test history:
Date Age Position Opponent Result Score Venue Prov
06 Aug 1910 24 Right Wing Britain Win: 14-10 1 try Wanderers (Old Wanderers), Johannesburg Tvl
27 Aug 1910 24 Right Wing Britain Lose: 3-8 Crusaders (St George's Park), Port Elizabeth Tvl
03 Sep 1910 24 Right Wing Britain Win: 21-5 Newlands, Cape Town Tvl
Hudie Hahn : Hamilton SP RFC History
Hudie Hahn : Hamilton SP RFC History
Full name: Carl Hugo Linsingen Hahn (his mother’s maiden name was von Linsingen)
Born: Paarl, 7 January 1886. According to the church register, he was born in Paarl, but according to a passport application, made in 1947, he was born in Karibib in South West Africa (now Namibia). His father, the Rev. Carl Hugo Hahn of the Lutheran Church, was in Paarl from 1883 to 1921. He was baptised in Paarl. On his wife’s passport application, a decade before his, his place of birth is given as Paarl.
Deceased: Grootfontein, Namibia, 27 September 1948
Clubs: Pirates, Hamiltons
Province: Transvaal
International career: 1910: 3 tests
Hudie Hahn’s grandfather, Carl Hugo Hahn, was born near Riga in Livland in 1818. He went to Germany and joined the Rhenish Mission Society. After ordination he went to South West Africa to work amongst the Hereros, where he established himself with Chief Jonker Afrikaner in Windhoek in 1842. He was active in the field of linguistics. He left the Rhenish Mission Society’s service in 1873 and went to Paarl. He died in Cape Town on 24 November 1895.
His son, the Rev. Carl Hugo Hahn, was born at Reheboth in South West Africa in 1846. He was a minister in Cape Town and then at Paarl. He was educated in Germany, joined the Rhenish Mission Society, but left it and went to Cape Town in 1875, where he assisted his father. From 1883 to 1921 he ran a parish in Paarl. He died in Gordon’s Bay on 29 October 1933. His wife was of German extraction. They had ten children. His maternal grandfather, Baron von Linsingen, died in one of the Frontier Wars.
In World War I Hudie Hahn, who was also called Cocky, joined the Imperial Light Horse in which he held the rank of Major. From 1920 to 1926 he was the Native Commissioner in Ovamboland and in 1947 he served on the Public Services Commission in Windhoek. He was twice part of a Union of South Africa delegation to the United Nations. His wife was the daughter of the Anglican Bishop of Damaraland.
He was a fast wing three-quarter in his playing days and played in all three tests against Tommy Smyth’s 1910 British Isles tourists.
Hahn Street : G.J. van Eck.
HAHNSTRAAT heet na C. H. Hahn. Hudie Hahn soos hy in sy Springbokdae bekend was, het teen die Britse toerspan in die laaste toets op 3 September 1910 op Nuweland in die Springbokspan gespeel wat Smyth se span met 21 : 5 geklop het. Hy was toe een van die jongeres.
Later het hy sy land ook op 'n ander terrein as rugby gedien: Both his father and grandfather were missionaries, the former being one of the first white men to enter Ovamboland.
. . . in the early days of his commissionership he earned his Native name of shongola (the whip). During a period of drought he was in charge of the distribution of food and seeing a Native man run off with a woman's bowl of grain, he chased him, brought him down with a hard tackle (having been an international footballer in earlier years, and hammered him well. The next time anybody was rash enough to try the same trick, Major Hahn was ready with a sjambok and a good thrashing amid applauding cries of 'Shongola, shongola!'.
Major C. H. L. Hahn, the Union's Native Commissioner in Ovamboland from 1920-1947, died at Grootfontein on 27 September (1948) at the age of 61. He was described by Lord Harlech, who visited this vast area in the north of South West Africa in 1944, as 'one of the ablest Native Administrators in the whole of Africa', Major Hahn was an acknowledged authority on South-West African tribes and as fluent a Native linguist as any of the Ovambos themselves - was a member of the Union delegation to U.N. in 1946 and 1947 . . .
He was the grandson of Dr. Hahn, a leading missionary in the middle of the last century. . . ."
BRONNE:
(1) The South African Outlook, Nov. 1, 1948, p. 163.
(2) African Affairs 48: 74, Jan. 1949. Obituary.
Ook: CRAVEN, Danie: Springboks Down the Years.
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Carl Hugo Linsingen Hahn's Timeline
| 1886 |
January 7, 1886
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Paarl, South Africa
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| 1948 |
September 26, 1948
Age 62
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Kranzfontein near Grootfontein
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