Artur Stollé

Artur Stollé (born November 19, 1872 in Cologne-Mülheim , † 1934 in Koblenz ) was a German geologist and mountain assessor.

Life

Stollé initially studied at the Kaiser Wilhelms University of Strasbourg and the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg . He was active in the Corps Suevia Strasbourg (1893) and in the Corps Suevia Freiburg (1895). As an inactive , he moved to the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , the Bergakademie Berlin and the Technical University of Aachen . He then entered the Prussian civil service and became a mountain trainee in 1899 and a mountain assessor in 1905. In 1906/07 he went on a year and a half study trip to America , Asia and Africa . In 1908/09 Artur Stollé was a member of the German-English New Guinea border expedition , the expedition leader was the zoologist and anthropologist Leonhard Schultze . Stollé took part as a geological and mining expert. In 1910 he was assigned to the German-Dutch New Guinea border expedition , which was also under the direction of Leonhard Schultze. In 1912/13 he took over the leadership of the Empress Augusta River Expedition to explore the Sepik . It was financed and organized by the Reich Colonial Office , the Prussian Ministry of Spiritual, Educational and Medical Affairs (which also included the Berlin museums) and the German Colonial Society . Characterized as a secret mountain ridge , he died at the age of 62.

Web link

• Heinrich Schnee (Ed.): German Colonial Lexicon . Volume III, p. 411, Leipzig 1920 Artur Stollé, Deutsches Kolonial-Lexikon online

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 101 , 68; 36 , 496
2. ↑ Thomas Menzel: The Imperial Navy and the Kaiserin Augusta River Expedition 1912/13 ( Memento of the original from January 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Federal Archives (accessed August 13, 2011)