Qualla: Curt von Hagen https://qualla.com/curt-von-hagen en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:29 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/r/p/p/3/curt-von-hagen-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Curt von Hagen https://qualla.com/curt-von-hagen Curt von Hagen: Introduction https://qualla.com/curt-von-hagen/ Photo credit Goldsztajn, CC BY-SA 3.0. The city of Mount Hagen is the largest settlement in the Papua New Guinea highlands, a trading hub in a region that grows coffee, tea, and gold. Its name is not Engan, or Melpa, or any of the local languages. It belongs to a Prussian artillery officer who never set foot in the place, who ran a tobacco plantation on the coast for three years before being killed in the jungle on the morning of 13 August 1897, trying to avenge the murder of a travel writer whose bones had been buried in the bush for two years. Curt von Hagen was thirty-seven. The colonists he was hunting shot him in an ambush a few hours into their pursuit. His name attached itself to the highlands long after his death, and to a volcano 3,765 metres tall.

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/p/p/3/curt-von-hagen-wp/rpp3-curt-von-hagen-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Curt von Hagen: A Philosopher's Bloodline https://qualla.com/curt-von-hagen/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. Curt von Hagen was born on 12 September 1859 in Schippenbeil, an East Prussian town now called Sepopol in Poland. He came from a family of scholars and soldiers. His father was a Prussian Generalleutnant, founder of the noble von Hagen line. His grandfather, Ernst August Hagen, w...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/p/p/3/curt-von-hagen-wp/rpp3-curt-von-hagen-a-philosophers-bloodline.mp3 0:06 2 full Curt von Hagen: A Riding Accident, a Bankruptcy, a Tropical Fresh Start https://qualla.com/curt-von-hagen/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. His military career ended early. In 1886 a riding accident forced him out of the army, and Hagen turned to business. He married Helene Winkler, the daughter of a factory owner, in 1881, and they had a single daughter, Else. Looking to make a new life, he invested in a joint-stock...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/p/p/3/curt-von-hagen-wp/rpp3-curt-von-hagen-a-riding-accident-a-bankruptcy-a-tropical-fresh-st.mp3 0:06 3 full Curt von Hagen: From Overseer to Landeshauptmann https://qualla.com/curt-von-hagen/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. He must have done it well, because within three years he had become general director of the German New Guinea Company. He shut down the old station at Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen and relocated operations, building a new port facility and the Erima station. On 22 September 1896 he was...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/p/p/3/curt-von-hagen-wp/rpp3-curt-von-hagen-from-overseer-to-landeshauptmann.mp3 0:06 4 full Curt von Hagen: The Pursuit https://qualla.com/curt-von-hagen/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. In July 1897 the two men identified as ringleaders in the Ehlers murder, Ranga and Opia, were arrested on Hagen's initiative and held in Stephansort. They escaped. During their flight they robbed and killed a Chinese merchant and stole his rifles. At the start of August, Hagen an...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/p/p/3/curt-von-hagen-wp/rpp3-curt-von-hagen-the-pursuit.mp3 0:06 5 full Curt von Hagen: A Posthumous Empire of Names https://qualla.com/curt-von-hagen/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. Hagen's widow had difficulty claiming a pension. The German New Guinea Company argued that her husband had died pursuing vigilante justice outside his official duties - 600 marks were eventually approved for her, 150 for their daughter. A bronze eagle memorial was cast for him. I...

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