The Galapagos Mistery, The Baroness and her Lovers
The Galapagos’ Baroness
Many people temporarily occupied Floreana Island, this place holds secrets that have not been solved.
The Baroness, as she called herself, arrived at the Galapagos Islands on Floreana Island on October 15, 1932 after learning in the European press of millionaires who usually sailed on to visit the first settlers.
The Baroness had an idea of building a luxury hotel that would receive the wealthy who in the future were attracted to visit this tropical paradise, so she announced it through the newspapers that this hotel would give it the name of Hacienda Paradiso.
History
It was the 1930s when Friedrich Ritter, a doctor from Berlin, and his lover Dore Strauch left their respective spouses and ventured to live on Floreana Island, looking for the solitude of that enchanted corner. At that time, the migration to the Galapagos Islands had only a few Ecuadorian government regulations, and several Europeans obtained permission to settle there. Shortly after their arrival, Mr. Ritter and Estruch discovered why their attempts to colonize Floreana failed, seeing little food and water. Because they were both vegetarians and therefore cannot fish or hunt. Instead of being distracted and reading something that the couple was passionate about, they had to work to survive by growing their own food, in the construction of houses, unfortunately they learned that as a couple they lack much to be compatible.
Their dream of loneliness and having an island for them soon disappeared with the arrival of the Wittmer family, they also came from Germany, they were named the Galapagos “Swiss Robinson Family". But the problems increased when soon after came the unusual threesome of Baroness Eloise von Wagner Bosquet and her two 'companions', including one Ecuadorian. Just two months after their arrival and two Europeans, the Baroness had the intention to build a hotel for millionaires that usually stopped by the islands.
From that moment the previously called "paradise" soon became a complete "hell". The three families could not get along and had constant confrontations for water that was not enough on the island, for territories and other matters. From one moment to the next there was a break between the “Baroness” and one of her lovers. This is how one day the Baroness's favorite lover and she disappeared from the island. There are confusing versions of what happened as well as rumors of murder, but in the end, their bodies were not found. Months later, his second lover leaves the island in a settler's boat, but he also disappears. Some argued that she boarded a boat to Tahiti with one of her lovers because she gave up on the plan for the hotel.
Another version and the one that would seem more logical is that La Baronesa was a very smart woman, but without money she used her seduction skills to enroll with European high society, as she needed money, the Japanese government offered her in exchange for traveling to the Galapagos with the excuse of the hotel; (for espionage services). Phillipson, one of his lovers, was a gigolo who has a deep relationship with the Baroness, he was the contact with the Japanese. Lorenz was a young man who was seduced by her charms and that the Baroness will treat him like her lover and employee to fulfill her needs. In addition, in the group they arrived with an Ecuadorian man who was hired in Paris to guide them in Galapagos. Let's add to this that Mr. Ritter cannot bear the presence of the baroness, because of this he did not lose the opportunity to discredit her with the press back in Europe.