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Adolf Schiel | |
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.jpg) Adolf Schiel photographed by Jan van Hoepen | |
| Born | (1858-12-19)19 December 1858 |
| Died | 8 August 1903(1903-08-08) (aged 44) Bad Reichenhall, Germany |
| Occupation(s) | Farmer, Soldier |
Adolf Friedrich Schiel (19 December 1858 – 8 August 1903)[1] was an officer in the South African Republic's military forces during theAnglo-Boer war of 1899-1902.[2]
Born inFrankfurt-am-Main on 19 December 1858,[1] Schiel was conscripted into thePrussian Army, serving as acavalry trooper.[3][4] He came to the South African Republic in 1878, settling inNatal. There, he took up farming and was later appointed head of the prisons service. In 1898 he was commissioned alieutenant colonel and charged with supervising construction of a fortress adjacent to Johannesburg Prison. On the eve of war Schiel was given permission to form aBoer Commando composed, primarily, of his former prisons staff. Schiel was wounded and taken prisoner during theBattle of Elandslaagte on 20 October 1899.[5] He returned to Germany following the war where he published his autobiography,23 Jahre Sturm und Sonnenschein in Südafrika ("23 Years of Storm and Sunshine in South Africa"), and later died on 8 August 1903 inBad Reichenhall of the wounds he had received at Elandslaagte.
