Hans Heinrich Hattingh

Hans Heinrich Hattingh (c.1662 - 1729), otherwise known as Hans Hendrik Hattingh, was a German settler in the Dutch Cape Colony. He was a free burgher of the Dutch East India Company.

Life Hans Heinrich Hattingh was born in about 1662 in Speyer, Germany.

Upon immigrating to Southern Africa in 1692, he started farming at a place that would become known as La Motte. At this point, Hattingh married his first wife Marie de Lanoy. In addition to La Motte, he also owned the farms Goede Hoop and Lekkerwijn during this period. A number of years later, Hattingh was widowed. He then sold La Motte to Pierre Joubert, a Huguenot settler, who went on to name it after his ancestral home in France.

Hattingh later married Susannah Visser, a daughter of his fellow free burgher Jan Coenraad Visser and the Indian slave woman Maria van Negapatnam. During this marriage, he owned the Spier estate in Stellenbosch,

Hattingh had three children with his first wife, and ten with his second. He died in 1729. Counted amongst his descendants are the national politician Chris Hattingh, his daughter and fellow politician Juanita Terblanche, and the anti-Apartheid activist and clergyman Douglas Stephen Bax.