Arved Fuchs

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Arved Fuchs (January 2016)

Arved Fuchs (born April 26, 1953 in Bad Bramstedt ) is a German polar explorer and author . He became known through numerous television documentaries and photo reports.

Life

After finishing school, Arved Fuchs completed an apprenticeship with the merchant marine . He broke off the subsequent study of ship operating technology at the Flensburg University of Applied Sciences for an intermediate examination.

Since 1977 numerous expeditions have taken him mainly to arctic regions. In 1979 he first traveled to the west coast of Greenland . Fuchs' project in 1980 to reach the North Pole on foot initially failed; nine years later he was able to carry out this project successfully. In 1983 he crossed the Greenland Ice Sheet on the route of the Alfred Wegener Expedition of 1930 . Fuchs has owned the expedition ship Dagmar Aaen since 1989 .

He is one of the German ambassadors for the international UN Decade of Biological Diversity and a voluntary climate forest ambassador for the Climate Forest Foundation .

Arved Fuchs is not related to Vivian Fuchs , who is also known for polar cruises .

Expeditions (selection)

Arved Fuchs after returning from an expedition with his ship Dagmar Aaen in the Museumshafen Flensburg (2013)

In addition to a seventy-day crossing of Greenland by dog sled (1983) on the trail of the polar explorer Alfred Wegener and a winter circumnavigation of Cape Horn in a folding boat (1984), Fuchs undertook other expeditions. In 1989, Fuchs became the first German to walk to the North Pole on the international Icewalk expedition (to which Robert Swan also belonged) . In the same year another expedition led together with Reinhold Messner from the Patriot Hills Base Camp on the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf to the South Pole , and as a continental crossing to the McMurdo Station in Antarctica . In 1989, Fuchs became the first person to reach both poles on foot within just one year.

Since 1991 he has shifted his ambitions primarily to the water, converting the shark cutter Dagmar Aaen for trips to arctic regions, with which he has traveled many times since then - including around America (1995–1996), through the Northeast Passage (2002) and the Northwest Passage (1993 and 2003/2004). For the Nordostpassage, Arved Fuchs was able to document his own expedition in pictures thanks to the artistic support of the expedition painter and sailor Rainer Ullrich:

“The idea of ​​taking an expedition painter with you is not new, and it by no means came from me. Before the age of photography, the painter has always been an integral and essential part of an expedition team, and even later than you already photographed and filmed, the painting was chronicler usually there. Alexander von Humboldt , Julius Payer , Fridtjof Nansen , Georg Steller and James Cook , to name just a few names: They all drew themselves or had painters with them. If I haven't already taken an artist with me on previous expeditions, it is only because I haven't found one. "

In 1997/1998 the Arctic Passages expedition took place , where Fuchs among other things let a hot air balloon rise on Svalbard . Wintering of his ship Dagmar Aaen in Scoresbysund in East Greenland .

With a replica of an original lifeboat ( James Caird II ), he followed Sir Ernest Shackleton's historic rescue operation in 2000 by sailing through Antarctic waters to the island of South Georgia and then crossing it on foot. In 2007 Arved Fuchs handed the James Caird II over to the International Maritime Museum Hamburg .

On June 9, 2009, Fuchs started a new expedition to Northwest Greenland with the North Pole Dawn project . The 56-year-old set sail from Hamburg on the sailing ship Dagmar Aaen and planned to follow a historic expedition from 1881 to 1884 and to navigate new ice-free regions of the Arctic.

In the winter of 2012, a dog sled expedition followed along the northwest coast of Greenland. Two years later, three crew members climbed the highest mountain in Greenland, Gunnbjörn Fjeld, as part of the Pittarak expedition . In August 2015, Fuchs set off with the Dagmar Aaen on the Ocean Change expedition , which ran via the Cape Verde Islands , Guinea-Bissau and Brazil to Ushuaia . There, the circumnavigation of Cape Horn was successful in December .

Under a stone pyramid, Fuchs found a document from the Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition with Admiral Tegetthoff .

Honors

Publications

literature

  • Bernhard-Michael Domberg: Arved Fuchs: The authorized biography. Universitas, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-8004-1507-6 .
  • Rainer Ullrich: Sketches from the Northeast Passage - As an expedition painter with Arved Fuchs in the polar ice. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-7822-0887-0 .

Web links

Commons : Arved Fuchs  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Arved Fuchs, the polar adventurer . Planet Wissen , accessed March 19, 2014.
  2. ↑ List of ambassadors ( memento of January 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the UN Decade of Biological Diversity.
  3. ↑ List of Climate Forest Ambassadors from the Climate Forest Foundation.
  4. ↑ Diverse: Antarctica . lonely planet, 2008 ( excerpt from Google book search).
  5. ↑ Arved Fuchs in the foreword to: Rainer Ullrich: Sketches from the Northeast Passage. Hamburg 2004, p. 5.
  6. ↑ The adventurer fox starts new expedition to Greenland . focus.de, June 9, 2009.
  7. ↑ Arved Fuchs receives the Cross of Merit. In: kn-online.de. Kieler Nachrichten, October 4, 2017, accessed on October 4, 2017.
  8. ↑ Arved Fuchs, polar researcher, receives environmental award. In: sueddeutsche.de. Süddeutsche Zeitung , January 30, 2018, accessed on August 28, 2018.
  9. ↑ SEADEVCON Maritime Award - SEADEVCON. Retrieved on August 20, 2020 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Fuchs, Arved
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German adventurer and author
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Bramstedt