Emil Trinkler

Emil Trinkler (born May 19, 1896 in Bremen , † April 19, 1931 in Bremen) was a German geographer and Asian researcher.

biography

Trinkler was the son of a tobacco merchant. Even as a schoolboy he dealt with geography problems. He attended secondary school, left it and completed a business apprenticeship in his father's company. In 1915/16 he was a soldier in the First World War. In 1917 he took his school leaving examination and since 1918 studied geography and natural sciences at the University of Munich . He received his doctorate in Munich in 1922 under Erich von Drygalski with The Problem of the Large Aging in the Pamir Regions with special consideration of the eastern and south-eastern parts .

In 1923/24 he worked for the Bremer Deutsch-Afghanische Compagnie AG in Afghanistan . From 1927 to 1928 he led a German expedition to Central Asia, the aim of which was topographical and geographical studies as well as ethnological and archaeological research. Their route led from Kashmir across the western Tibetan highlands to the northwestern Chinese Tarim Basin and the Taklamakan Desert. During the expedition, Trinkler developed a special interest in glaciology (glacier science).

After his return he published various books and writings based on his travel diaries, photos and handwritten watercolors, including the most informative for laypeople in In the Land of Storms . His archaeological collection is in the Überseemuseum Bremen .

Trinkler then lived in Berlin and died in a traffic accident on the way from Bremen to Bremerhaven in 1931.

His other expedition results, available as manuscripts , were edited and posthumously published by Hellmut De Terra (1900–1981), who took part in the expedition in addition to Walter Bosshard (1892–1975) ( Scientific results of the Dr. Trinkler's Central Asia Expedition , Berlin 1932). The Institute for Regional Geography in Leipzig holds around 300 papers, letters and documents from Trinkler, and the Deutsche Fotothek has a pool of around 600 expedition photos.

Honors

A street in the Bremen district of Radio Bremen has been named after him.

Works

• Tibet: Its geographical picture and its position in the Asian continent. Munich 1922
• The problem of the large agglomeration in the Pamir areas with special consideration of the eastern and south-eastern parts. Munich 1923
• Right across Afghanistan to India. Berlin 1927
• Afghanistan: A regional study based on the available material and personal observation. Gotha 1928
• The praise desert and the Lobnor problem based on the latest research. In: Journal of the Society for Geography in Berlin , 1929, page 353ff.
• In the land of storms: With yak and camel caravans through Central Asia. Leipzig 1930
• The land of the Dalai Lama. Berlin 1930
• Geographical research in western Central Asia and the Karakoram Himalayas. Berlin 1932

literature

• Hellmut De Terra: Scientific results of the Dr. Trinkler's Central Asia Expedition. Berlin 1932
• Hellmut De Terra: Preliminary report on the first geological research results of the German Central Asia Expedition. International Journal of Earth Sciences 1928, available at [1]

Web links

• Information on Emil Trinkler in the Deutsche Fotothek
• Newspaper article about Emil Trinkler in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .