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Georg Von Hassel (or Hassell) / Fides Von Hassel (or Hassel)

Georg Von Hassel (or Hassell) / Fides Von Hassel (or Hassel)

Posted: 7 Aug 2012 8:04PM GMT
Classification: Query
I am an art historian based in Lima, Peru. I am currently involved in protracted academic research on Juan Manuel Figueroa Aznar, an important photographer and painter active in Cuzco and Paucartambo during the first half of the twentieth century. I have reason to believe that at some time he became associated with the German explorer and geologist George M. Von Hassel (a.k.a. Jorge M Von Hassel), who performed very important services in the pioneer surveying of the Amazonian frontier lands.

Unfortunately, there seems to be very little documentation available on Georg Von Hassel, other than his own fascinating chronicles of the explorations he undertook under commission of the Peruvian government. We even lack the dates of his birth and his death.

Georg Von Hassel (or his wife, or his daughter) might have resided in the United States. Certain references in the Library of Congress database identify him with Fides Von Hassel. A person with that same name, but with an additional “l”, seems to be buried in the Fort Lincoln cemetery, at Brentwood, Prince George's County, in Maryland, according to the information published by www.findagrave.com.

This was posted by Thomas Reachmack, whom I have been unable to contact. His entry further refers that “Mrs. Von Hassell was a dear friend of the John Reachmack family of Wahshington, D.C. She was a Peruvian and her husband was born in Germany and was a geologist”.

Any information regarding this matter would be most appreciated and duly acknowledged.

Re: Georg Von Hassel (or Hassell) / Fides Von Hassel (or Hassel)

Posted: 8 Aug 2012 2:41AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: von Hassel
Unfortunately I can't tell you anything about this particular person, but can tell you the von Hassel and von Hassell are two completely unrelated families. You might check the 1917 volume of the Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch (Briefadel), which includes the older generations of the von Hassel family.

Gilbert von Studnitz

Re: Georg Von Hassel (or Hassell) / Fides Von Hassel (or Hassel)

Posted: 8 Aug 2012 5:52AM GMT
Classification: Query
Thank you for your response. Indeed, Von Hassel and Von Hassell are two different families, but there is a high probability of misspelling, particularly in references that involve non-German speaking countries.

Again, I appreciate your input.

Gustavo Buntinx

Re: Georg Von Hassel (or Hassell) / Fides Von Hassel (or Hassel)

Posted: 17 Jan 2013 9:50PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: von Hassel
Back in 1993 I published in SOUTH AMERICAN EXPLORER an article, "Fights of Machu Picchu," in which Jorge von Hassel has a prominent role. The article is online, here,
http://lastdaysoftheincas.com/wordpress/englishman-and-germa...

I may have other info on him; would require looking in my files. He signed a photo of himself, "von Hassel," so I assume that's the spelling.
Dan Buck

Re: Georg Von Hassel (or Hassell) / Fides Von Hassel (or Hassel)

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 3:55AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: von Hassel
Gustavo,
If you search Ancestry.co US & Germany, you will find three records for Georg von Hassel, two 1912 Hamburg/NY passenger lists (same voyage, one is a German record & the other a US), and one 1928 Callao/NY list.

Von Hassel's birth date is estimated at 1869/70.
Dan

Re: Georg Von Hassel (or Hassell) / Fides Von Hassel (or Hassel)

Posted: 20 Jan 2013 12:49AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Von Hassel
I agree with the previous reply, and am adding additional information:

On the ship manifest for S.S. Essequibo,the ship that Georg Von Hassel arrived in New York on 12/18/28, there is a visa #69 issued on 12/1/28. The details associated with this record should provide more information than already discovered. Since it is more than 75 years ago, it appears to be available at the National Archives. These are located in The Records of the Foreign Service Posts of the Department of State under record groups 84.2 and 84.3. They are on microfilm. This may reveal which of the 12 places in germany named Hassel are related to his surname. Parish records that survived in Berlin may also be necessary. The surname Von Hassel does not appear in the major lexicon of german nobility. Jeff.

Re: Georg Von Hassel (or Hassell) / Fides Von Hassel (or Hassel)

Posted: 21 Jan 2013 9:54PM GMT
Classification: Query
I'm not sure what you mean by "major lexicon of the German nobility", but the von Hassel family is indeed listed in the Gotha (Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels), lastly in the Briefadel edition of 1984. The unrelated von Hassell family is also listed, lastly in the Briefadel edition of 1990.

Re: Georg Von Hassel (or Hassell) / Fides Von Hassel (or Hassel)

Posted: 22 Jan 2013 11:22AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: von Hassel
Gustavo Buntinx,
Turns out, that after landing in NY 18 Dec 1928, von Hassel got on the Olympic and sailed for Southampton, arriving 30 Dec 1928. Record here at Ancestry.com

Also, the Library of Congress digitized newspaper site, Chronicling America, has a full-page New York Tribune article, "Adventures and Observations Among the Putumayos in the Rubber Lands, 15 September 1912, that quotes von Hassel & features a large portrait of "Dr. and Mrs. Von Hassel," here,
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1912-09-15...

Finally, if you search NewspaperArchive.com you'll find couple early 1900s -- 1905 & 1907 -- investment ads for rubbe companies with which von Hassel was associated, and as well a search of books.google.com will turn up a number of histories of Amazonia in which he is mentoned. Dan

Re: Georg Von Hassel (or Hassell) / Fides Von Hassel (or Hassel)

Posted: 20 Feb 2013 9:49AM GMT
Classification: Query
Thank you, indeed, for that valuable information. I will be following up on it and I will gladly share with you my own findings.

Gustavo

Re: Georg Von Hassel (or Hassell) / Fides Von Hassel (or Hassel)

Posted: 16 Jun 2014 3:27PM GMT
Classification: Query
Estimado Gustavo,

Estoy leyendo varias crónicas de los viajes de Von Hassel en la Amazonía peruana y me interesaría saber más de él. ¿Sigue investigando sobre su historia? ¿Tiene nuevos elementos al respecto, tal vez alguna publicación?


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Dear Gustavo,

I'm reading some of Von Hassel's chronicles from his journeys in the Peruvian Amazon, I'd like to know more about him. Are you still investigating on Von Hassel? Do you have new elementes on this mater, maybe some publication?
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