German-Soviet Alai Pamir Expedition

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The German-Soviet Alai-Pamir-Expedition (also German-Russian Alai-Pamir-Expedition ) was carried out in 1928 by the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and the Emergency Association of German Science . In addition to the scientists, four mountaineers from the German and Austrian Alpine Club also took part. The five-month expedition to the Alai valley and the Transalai in the Pamir was under the overall direction of Nikolai Petrowitsch Gorbunow and the organizational direction of Willi Rickmer Rickmers , the deputy head of the expedition was geodetic and cartographer Richard Finsterwalder .

Research work

The Soviet side was responsible for mineralogy , petrography and geodetic - astronomical research, the German side for geology , surveying and mapping , glaciology and language research .

For the mapping of the area 400 photogrammetric recordings ( geographic measurements ) were made. Among other things, the Fedchenko glacier , the world's longest glacier outside the polar regions, was measured for the first time .

Alpinism

On September 25, 1928 Karl Wien , Eugen Allwein and Erwin Schneider succeeded in the first ascent of the 7134  m high Lenin Peak, at that time the highest climbed peak on earth.

Attendees

The German and Soviet sides each provided eleven expedition members. With helpers, porters and interpreters, a total of 65 men, 160 horses and 60 camels took part in the expedition.

  • Soviet side:
    Belajew (astronomer), IG Dorofejew (topographer), Nikolai Gorbunow (headline), KW Isakow (geodesist), Nikolai Korschenewski (geographer), Alexandr Nikolayewitsch Labunzow (mineralogist), Michalkow (geophysicist), Reichardt and Sokolow (zoologist) , Dmitrij Ivanovich Shcherbakov (geologist and head), RR Zimmermann (meteorologist) and, as holiday visitors, Otto Schmidt , Nikolai Krylenko , Jelena Rosmirowitsch and Dr. Rossels.
  • German side:
    Eugen Allwein (doctor and mountaineer), Hans Biersack (topographer), Philipp Borchers (mountaineer), Richard Finsterwalder (photogrammetry), Franz Kohlhaupt (doctor and mountaineer), Wolfgang Lentz (linguist), Ludwig Nöth (geologist), William Frederick Reinig (animal researcher), Willi Rickmer Rickmers (leader), Erwin Schneider (mountaineer), Karl Wien (student of physics and mountaineer).

literature

  • Willi Rickmer Rickmers: Alai! Alai! Work and experiences of a German-Russian Alai-Pamir expedition. Brockhaus-Verlag, Leipzig 1930.
  • Heinrich von Ficker (Ed.): Scientific results of the Alai-Pamir expedition, 1928. 6 volumes, Reimer, Berlin 1932.
  • Karl Wien's diary entries
  • The Pamir Expedition in 1928
  • Walter Schmidkunz : The Alai Pamir Expedition. In: Communications of the German and Austrian Alpine Club , Volume 54, No. 10, 1928, pp. 175–180. Digitized version (PDF, 40 MB)
  • Reports on the expedition from Rickmers, Borchers / Vienna and Finsterwalder. In: Journal of the German and Austrian Alpine Association , Volume 60, 1929, pp. 59–160. Digitized
  • The Alai (Pamir) Expedition 1928 (= German research - from the work of the Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen Wissenschaft , issue 10). Siegismund, Berlin 1929.
  • The Alai-Pamir Expedition (1928) as an international cultural policy. In: Franziska Torma: Turkestan Expeditions - On the cultural history of German research trips to Central Asia (1890-1930). Transcript, Bielefeld 2011, plus Diss. Univ. Munich, ISBN 978-3-8376-1449-7 , pp. 181-188.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Erwin Schneider: Pik Lenin 7130 m, September 25, 1928. In: XXV. Annual report of the Academic Alpine Association Berlin 1927/28 , Berlin 1928, pp. 35–41. Digitized version (PDF, 3.8 MB)