German Antarctic Expedition 1938/39 / crew list
The list contains all expedition members of the German Antarctic Expedition 1938/39 . If the participants have already taken part in previous polar expeditions, this is indicated under "Comments". Most of the crew members of the Schwabenland were previously active in the Atlantic service on this ship. As far as is known, all members were of German nationality.
| Surname | organization | task | Remarks | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scientific staff | ||||||
| Alfred Ritscher (1879–1963) | Navy High Command | Expedition leader | Participant in the Schröder-Stranz expedition 1912–13, naval pilot in the First World War | |||
| Ernst Herrmann (1895–1970) | High school teacher, Berlin | Geologist , deputy expedition leader | Private expeditions to Spitzbergen in 1937 and Greenland in 1938 | |||
| Herbert Regula (1910–1980) | German Seewarte | I. Meteorologist | On-board meteorologist on the catapult ship Westfalen 1933–34 | |||
| Heinz Lange (1908–1943) | Reich Office for Weather Service | II. Meteorologist, specialist in radiosondes | ||||
| Walter Krüger (1905–1948) | Reich Office for Weather Service | Meteorology assistant | Participant in the German Atlantic Expedition 1925–27 | |||
| Wilhelm Gockel (1908–) | Marine Observatory Wilhelmshaven | Meteorology assistant | ||||
| Erich Barkley (1912-1945) | Reichsanstalt für Fischerei , Institut for whaling | biologist | Seven months in Antarctic waters with the whaling ship CL Larsen 1937/38 | |||
| Leo Gburek (1910-1941) | University of Leipzig , Earth Magnetic Institute | Geophysicist | Two expeditions for the purpose of geomagnetic surveys to Spitzbergen in 1937 and 1938 (there he met E. Herrmann) | |||
| Karl-Heinz Paulsen (1909–1941) | University of Hamburg | oceanographer | Whaling season on Jan Wellem 1937/38 | |||
| Flying staff | ||||||
| Rudolf Mayr (1910–1991) | German Lufthansa | Pilot of the Dornier Passat flying boat | Pilot of the Dornier-Wal Perssuak on the Danish expedition to northeast Greenland and Pearyland April – June 1938 under Lauge Koch , later chief pilot of Lufthansa | |||
| Franz Preuschoff | German Lufthansa | Aircraft mechanic | Together with Mayr expedition to Northeast Greenland and Pearyland April – June 1938, later chief flight engineer at Lufthansa | |||
| Herbert Ruhnke (1904–1944) | German Lufthansa | Aeronautical operator | ||||
| Max Bundermann (1904–) | Hansa aerial view | Aerial artist | Participants of a NSIU expedition to Northeast Greenland in 1932, where he in 2109 aerial photographs from a Lockheed Vega made | |||
| Richardheinrich Schirmacher | German Lufthansa | Pilot of the Dornier flying boat Boreas | ||||
| Kurt Loesener | German Lufthansa | Aircraft mechanic | ||||
| Erich Gruber (1912–1940) | German Lufthansa | Aeronautical operator | ||||
| Siegfried Sauter (1916-2008) | Hansa aerial view | Aerial artist | ||||
| Occupation of the Swabian Country | ||||||
| Alfred Kottas (1885–1969) | German Lufthansa | captain | ||||
| Otto Kraul (1892–1972) | from Hamburg | Ice pilot | Whaling ladder on the Jan Wellem 1937/38 | |||
| Herbert Amelang | North German Lloyd | I. Officer, Deputy Commandant | ||||
| Josef Bludau (1889–1967) | North German Lloyd | Ship's doctor | ||||
| Karl-Heinz Röbke (1909–) | North German Lloyd | II. Officer | As a NSDAP member responsible for the “political reliability” of the expedition members | |||
| Hans Werner Viereck | North German Lloyd | III. officer | ||||
| Vincenz Grisar | North German Lloyd | IV. Officer | ||||
| Erich Harmsen | German Lufthansa | Ship radio manager | ||||
| Kurt Bojahr | German Lufthansa | Ship radio officer | ||||
| Ludwig Müllermerstadt | German Lufthansa | Ship radio officer | ||||
| Karl Uhlig (1885–) | North German Lloyd | Chief engineer | ||||
| Robert Schulz | North German Lloyd | II. Engineer | ||||
| Henry Maas | North German Lloyd | III. engineer | ||||
| Edgar Gang | North German Lloyd | IV. Engineer | ||||
| Hans Nielsen | North German Lloyd | V. Engineer | ||||
| Johann Frey | North German Lloyd | Engineering assistant | ||||
| Georg Jelschen | North German Lloyd | Engineering assistant | ||||
| Heinz Siewert | North German Lloyd | Engineering assistant | ||||
| Herbert Bruns (1908–) | Atlas works | Electrical engineer | ||||
| Karl-Heinz Bode | North German Lloyd | electrician | ||||
| Herbert Bolle | German Lufthansa | Foreman | ||||
| Wilhelm Hartmann | German Lufthansa | Catapult leader | ||||
| Alfred Rücker | German Lufthansa | Air camp manager | ||||
| Franz Weiland | German Lufthansa | Flight mechanic | ||||
| Axel Mylius | German Lufthansa | Flight mechanic | ||||
| Wilhelm Loin | German Lufthansa | Flight mechanic | ||||
| Willy Stein | North German Lloyd | Boatswain | ||||
| Richard Wehrend | North German Lloyd | I. carpenter | ||||
| Alfons Schäfer | North German Lloyd | II. Carpenter | ||||
| Heinz Hoek | North German Lloyd | sailor | ||||
| Jürgen Ulpts | North German Lloyd | sailor | ||||
| Albert Weber | North German Lloyd | sailor | ||||
| Adolf Kunze | North German Lloyd | sailor | Took as a sailor in the Second German Antarctic Expedition 1911/12 under Wilhelm Filchner part | |||
| Karl Hedden | North German Lloyd | sailor | ||||
| Eugen Klenck | North German Lloyd | sailor | ||||
| Fritz Jedamezyk | North German Lloyd | sailor | ||||
| Emil Brandt (1900–) | North German Lloyd | sailor | ||||
| Kurt Ohnemüller | North German Lloyd | sailor | ||||
| Alfred Peters | North German Lloyd | Ordinary seaman | ||||
| Alex Burtscheid | North German Lloyd | Deck boy | ||||
| Karl-Heinz Meyer | North German Lloyd | Lodging boy | ||||
| Walter Brinkmann | North German Lloyd | Warehouse keeper | ||||
| Dietrich Witte | North German Lloyd | Engine keeper | ||||
| Erich Kubacki | North German Lloyd | Engine keeper | ||||
| Walter Dräger | North German Lloyd | Engine keeper | ||||
| Karl Olbrich | North German Lloyd | Auxiliary boiler attendant | ||||
| Georg Niemüller | North German Lloyd | Auxiliary boiler attendant | ||||
| Friedrich Mathwig | North German Lloyd | cleanser | ||||
| Ferdinand Dunekamp | North German Lloyd | cleanser | ||||
| Erwin Steinmetz | North German Lloyd | cleanser | ||||
| Herbert Callis | North German Lloyd | cleanser | ||||
| Helmut Dulatschow | North German Lloyd | Backschafter | ||||
| Otto Sieland | North German Lloyd | I. Cook | ||||
| Fritz Troe | North German Lloyd | II. Cook | ||||
| Gottfried Thole | North German Lloyd | Cook's mate and baker | ||||
| Ferdinand Wolf | North German Lloyd | Cook's mate and butcher | ||||
| Hans Buettner | North German Lloyd | Kitchen boy | ||||
| Willi Reeps | North German Lloyd | I. Steward | ||||
| Wilhelm Malyska | North German Lloyd | steward | ||||
| Rudolf Stawicki | North German Lloyd | steward | ||||
| Willi Fröhling | North German Lloyd | Exhibition steward | ||||
| Johann van de Logt | North German Lloyd | Exhibition steward | ||||
| Rudolf Burghard | North German Lloyd | Exhibition steward | ||||
| Rolf Oswald | North German Lloyd | Fair boy | ||||
| Johann Bates | North German Lloyd | Fair boy | ||||
| Other employees | ||||||
| Herbert Todt (1911-2003) | Employee of the expedition from 1938 to 1941 | Secretary of the expedition | ||||
| Ilse Uhlmann (1916–1997) | Expedition employee | secretary | later wife of Alfred Ritscher | |||
swell
- Alfred Ritscher: Scientific and aeronautical results of the German Antarctic Expedition 1938/39 . Koehler & Amelang, Leipzig 1942, p. 26-28 .
- Cornelia Lüdecke, Colin Summerhayes: The Third Reich in Antarctica. The German Antarctic Expedition 1938-39 . Erskine Press and Bluntisham Books, Eccles and Huntingdon 2012, ISBN 978-1-85297-103-8 , pp. 221-224 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Official website of the Lufthansa Group ( Memento of the original dated December 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Short biography Preuschoff
- ^ Cornelia Lüdecke, Colin Summerhayes: The Third Reich in Antarctica. The German Antarctic Expedition 1938-39 . Erskine Press and Bluntisham Books, Eccles and Huntingdon 2012, ISBN 978-1-85297-103-8 , pp. 34 .
- ^ Ernst Herrmann : German researchers in the southern ocean. Safari-Verlag, Berlin 1941, pp. 98-99
- ↑ Obituary in the journal Polarforschung (PDF; 269 kB)
