Arve Staxrud

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Arve Staxrud (in front with dog, 1913)

Arve Staxrud (born September 6, 1881 in Tingelstad , † April 4, 1933 in Røykenvik ) was a Norwegian officer, polar explorer and cartographer.

Life

He was the second of ten children of the farmer Ole Staxrud (1857-1910) and his wife Karoline Elisabeth Malene (1856-1923), née Fretheim. In 1898 he passed the exams that enabled him to attend university and embarked on a military career. He first visited the Krigsskolen in Kristiania , which he left in 1901 as the best of his year with the rank of prime lieutenant . In 1905 he graduated from Den militære Høyskole . In 1811 he was given command of the Nordenfjellser cycling and skiing company. In 1930 he was retired.

In 1906 Staxrud came to Spitsbergen for the first time as a cartographer on an expedition led by Gunnar Isachsen . The expedition was financed by Prince Albert I of Monaco , who also made his research vessel Princess Alice II available. Staxrud spent a total of eight summers on Spitzbergen, in 1910 again with Isachsen, then from 1910 to 1914 as well as 1919 and 1920. He led the Norwegian expeditions of 1911, 1912 and 1914 together with Adolf Hoel .

In the spring of 1913, Staxrud led the official German-Norwegian aid expedition for the distressed German Arctic Expedition . With reindeer and dog sleds he was the first to cross Ny-Friesland on the way from Adventfjord to Sorgebai and saved Hermann Rüdiger and Christopher Rave, who were waiting for help in a station house of the Swedish degree measurement expedition from 1900-1902 . He then set out a second time to look for the missing group around Herbert Schröder-Stranz - ultimately without success .

Familiar

Arve Staxrud married Kjerstine Kammerud (1892–1976) on June 29, 1916. The couple had the son Arve (1917–1995) and the daughter Elisabeth (1918–1981).

Arve's younger brother Olav Staxrud (1892–1960) was also a polar explorer.

Honors

For his services, Arve Staxrud was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Monegasque Order of St. Charles and the Commander's Cross First Class of the Duke of Saxony-Ernestine House Order.

The Staxrudfonna glacier plateau in Albert-I-Land is named after him.

Fonts

  • Arve Staxrud, Adolf Hoel: Results généraux de l'expédition norvégienne au Spitsberg (1911–1912). In: La Géographie. Volume 27, 1913, pp. 99-108 (French).
  • Arve Staxrud, Adolf Hoel: Results de l'expédition norvégienne au Spitsberg in 1914. In: La Géographie. Volume 30, 1914, pp. 277-279 ( digitized version ; French).
  • Arve Staxrud, Kurt Wegener : The expeditions to the rescue of Schröder-Stranz and his companions. Described by their guides. Reimer, Berlin 1914.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Adolf Hoel: Arve Staxrud on polarlitteratur.no, accessed on May 9, 2018 (Norwegian)
  2. ^ William James Mills: Exploring Polar Frontiers - A Historical Encyclopedia . tape 1 . ABC-CLIO, 2003, ISBN 1-57607-422-6 , pp. 263 (English, limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ↑ Hans Steinhagen : Researcher, adventurer, rescuer - the Spitzbergen expeditions by Kurt Wegener, Herbert Schröder-Stranz and Theodor Lerner 1912/1913 . In: Cornelia Lüdecke, Kurt Brunner (Ed.): From A (ltenburg) to Z (eppelin). German research on Spitzbergen until 1914. 100 years of the expedition of Duke Ernst II of Saxony-Altenburg (PDF; 31.8 MB). Neubiberg 2012 (= series of publications by the Institute for Geodesy , issue 88), pp. 47–58.
  4. ↑ Karsten Piepjohn: Path-time diagram of the Schröder-Stranz expedition and the Norwegian and German rescue expeditions 1912/1913 . In: Cornelia Lüdecke, Kurt Brunner (Ed.): From A (ltenburg) to Z (eppelin). German research on Spitzbergen until 1914. 100 years of the expedition of Duke Ernst II of Saxony-Altenburg (PDF; 31.8 MB). Neubiberg 2012 (= series of publications by the Institute for Geodesy , issue 88), pp. 59–68.
  5. ↑ Arve Staxrud + Kjerstine Kammerud on myheritage.no, accessed on May 9, 2018
  6. ↑ Olav Staxrud at Norsk Polarhistorie, accessed on May 11, 2018 (Norwegian).
  7. ↑ Arve Staxrud at Norsk Polarhistorie, accessed on May 11, 2018 (Norwegian).
  8. ↑ Staxrudfonna . In: The Place Names of Svalbard (first edition 1942). Norsk Polarinstitutt , Oslo 2001, ISBN 82-90307-82-9 (English, Norwegian).
personal data
SURNAME Staxrud, Swiss stone pine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian officer, polar explorer and cartographer
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Tingelstad
DATE OF DEATH April 4, 1933
Place of death Røykenvik