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Prussian Blind Love

exotic Emil Doerstling Painting “happiness love of Prussia (Prussia Happy Love) from 1890 shows Gustav Sabac el Cher and his fiancée Gertrud Pearly. They were married in 1901.

A Walk Through the German Historical Museum in Berlin. Berlin has many works of art and treasures of Africa. Born conductor of the Egyptian queen Nefertiti, for example, the wife of King Akhenaton who introduced humanity to monotheism.
Axel Sabac el Cher lives today in

city of Stuttgart, the capital of the southwestern German state of Baden-Württemberg Bavaria nearby. From its name and color of the skin of his father, who died in 1962, Axel knew that his ancestors had lived in Germany for generations. One day in 1999, a scientist from Dresden Military History Museum seemed to her door with an oil painting from 1890. The painting depicts lovers obviously happy and peacefully in the arms. She was pale pink skin and red hair blonde. It was dark as Nubia, he was, left no doubt he was an African. But in the uniform of a Prussian Guard.

Gustav Sabac el Cher in a Prussian uniform military

> 1900

(German Historical Museum)

The German Historical Museum in Berlin, had bought the picture of an art dealer in Munich. The dealer’s father had acquired during the war in his hometown of Königsberg. The father had no idea who was depicted in the painting, but he knew that the famous painter of the 19th century, it had signed Emil Doerstling and says when he finished the painting was the 1890th year Kaiser Wilhelm II led Chancellor Bismarck out of office, the year Germany Pearl East Africa, Zanzibar, was completed, given by the British in exchange for Heligoland, since then a German island in the sea Baltic. The time, Vincent van Gogh painted many self portraits.

But how

wore a black man in the 1800s, the uniform of the Imperial Army. The museum turned to the historian Gorch Pieken for expert advice, and the scientist took a dive in the Prussian military history, from the world of royal and imperial military band. And it came with a note that was for the Arte television channel in the form of a documentary filmed, and a book under the title of the painting – the happiness of love of Prussia (Prussia Happy Love). The history of Africans in a Prussian uniform. Research began on this in the imperial mantle African red collar and gold buttons, and white belt. The research of the historian was to Konigsberg, to be exact, the body of music of the first Prussian Grenadiers Regiment. Pieke find lists of orchestras of the time and was not long before the name of Gustav Sabac el Cher. But who was he really? He began to check the lists out of the military band, baptismal certificates, diaries foreign to Africa in the 19th century, and many other documents. When he finally sorted all the information with the history of painting and Gustav Sabac el Cher came. The mystery was solved.

the beginning was assassinated. In the 1840s, the Prinz-Albrecht-Palais in Berlin. The marriage of Prince Albrecht of Prussia was on the rocks. He wanted to push his wife into a room. A soldier on guard screamed for fear of being involved in an embarrassing situation. Albert, angry, stabbed the soldier. But a Prussian prince could not be sent to prison at that time. sent in such circumstances, the blue-blooded criminals in the country for some time. Albrecht had been in Egypt, a country full of skill in the trend in Europe at the time. Countless ancient treasures dug up and shipped to Europe. The Europeans were nostalgic for the East, Cairo and the Nile found. Well, the children of Africa as a companion or bad, or simply as a souvenir. Mehmed Ali, the viceroy of Egypt, gave Albrecht a little boy as a gift.

Back in Europe was the “Nubian boy”, first as Prince Albrecht Sabac el Cher translated “into” Good Morning “. It was the name of the boy. He lived in the attic with other EU officials and has taught language and religion of his new home by the teachers of Prussia. At the age of sixteen, the memory Albrecht Sabac el Cher in August during a baptism ceremony where he was appointed a Protestant. All this happened without anybody worrying about how the boy felt. In his birth certificate, it is in Córdoba, a province of Sudan have been born.

August

stayed with the prince himself if the prince married his second wife, Rosalie, live mainly in the vicinity of Castle Mountain Albrecht Dresden and followed by the prince in military expeditions to the North Caucasus and Moscow, where they visited Prince Albrecht nephew Alexander II gave the Czarina herself a gilded clock as a gift in August. This clock is still owned by the family. In the battle of the king against Austria in Graz in 1866, Sabac el Cher side by side with the young warrior prince of Prussia. He married very young – in 1867. The bride was a woman of 24 years, Berlin named Anna Maria Jung, which Trinity Church, the Church will take place today, even in the street with the name of Mohr Road (Moor Street) remembers all , married the first in Africa in Berlin, read these Africans came from West Africa in the 1600s – the scene of the slave trade “adventurers” in Brandenburg (Item: Pink decrease brightness). The records of the Church testifies that the applications should be rushed to marry earlier, but nothing about racism or prejudice. Three months later, Gustav was born, the musicians in the painting and the grandfather of Axel in Stuttgart. . A year later, the Elise daughter was born. Love is always fruitful if it can be.

is now, next to Alex Sabac el Cher Angela. She talks freely about the difficulties they had as a child with such a name. “It was very strange and I do not know exactly where it came from. I was with her at the age of fourteen or fifteen years – that this name was me. Then I swore I would never reject them. “The brunette is Gustav I remember great-granddaughter. The skin tone darker than the painter Gustav was exaggerated long gone. Aside from the color hair, Angela Rose as they come. It is forty-two years, studied economics and director of a company that recycling facilities for cooling. She had never experienced takes on his family background and now with wonder and alienation. So far they only knew by his father a fairy tale about the “little Nubian boy”, which was so rich, and said the son of a sheikh stolen desert, ‘huge army. “It is supposed to come from somewhere in the vicinity of Aswan,” Angela recalls the story. History has also taken from different angles and historical reflections on the division of Germany between East and West. In Senzig in Brandenburg, south of Berlin, there are memories and relics of the family. Gustav is buried alongside his wife Gertrude. On the tombstone: “head of early music and the Chief Infantry Regiment of the No. 1 crown prince”

As a musician and conductor, Gustav was a star, even after his retirement from the army.

Previously

Axel was a textile merchant, but is now retired, but from time to time, he taught scuba diving in the Indian Ocean. Since the historian knocked on his door with a picture of his grandparents, Axel dig team of researchers has concluded, for more information about his ancestors. He knows now that his grandfather Gustav in the Prinz-Albrecht-Palais born. Gustav was a musician until the First World War and it was only after a very successful orchestra and conductor in the orchestra of the first radio in the early 1920s. Later, he and his wife Gertrud Pearly over coffee in the garden Königswusterhausen. The bit unbelievable, for example, that this man, photographed in a newspaper (where he of course not as “black” as in painting – as usual!) If in the city of Hitler, that it was the turn of political thought Hitler a good thing. Soon, he and his wife their “Negroes had” Local – Coffee nigger closely Königswusterhausen. They went ahead and opened another in Berlin, but it did not help much. Gustav died in 1934.

research revealed also wrote a letter of condolence to the Netherlands to the widow after the death of her husband by no less a person of the Emperor William, who died soon after Gertrude. After two couple’s son Pieke Horst and Herbert have been even darker skin than his father, but he served in Hitler’s Wehrmacht. But decreased Horst Herbert, the father of Axel, a violinist was, after the First World War at the National Theater in Mannheim.

the history of Africans in Germany is oblong and back to the greatest princes. The managers in Germany and Europe as a whole has been appropriated by Africans as a status symbol they put on a mere mortal citizens and great respect among fellow aristocrats. But Gustav Sabac el Cher is the only conductor Afroancestral celebrated in the Prussian army. The user