Emil von Wohlgemuth

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Emil von Wohlgemuth
Grave of Emil Edler von Wohlgemuth in the Vienna Central Cemetery . Legible inscription: “kuk ship of the line captain - born. Lemberg May 2, 1843 - d. Vienna January 27, 1896 "

Emil Edler von Wohlgemuth (born May 2, 1843 in Lemberg , † January 28, 1896 in Vienna ) was an Austrian naval officer and polar explorer.

Life

Emil von Wohlgemuth was born in Lemberg in 1843 as the son of the military cartographer Georg von Wohlgemuth. After graduating from the Fiume Naval Academy in 1859, he was retired as a provisional naval cadet, and was embarked almost permanently until 1866 with brief interruptions by land commands. In the war year 1866 he served as 2nd officer on the schooner Möwe in the area of ​​the Danube estuary and in the western Black Sea. From 1871 to 1873 he was on a long journey in East Asia with the Korvette Fasana . This was followed by a use in the naval section of the Ministry of War in Vienna and from 1876 to 1881 embarkations with trips in the Adriatic and the eastern Mediterranean.

After the International Polar Conference in St. Petersburg in 1881 as part of the First International Polar Year had decided to set up observation stations in the Arctic and Antarctic and Austria had been entrusted with the manning of the Jan Mayen station, Wohlgemuth was appointed head of the station. In the second half of 1881 he prepared the Arctic expedition in the Sea Arsenal of Pola . In the spring of 1882 he and his crew - five naval officers, a naval doctor and seven men - were brought to the island in the North Sea in almost three months on the transport ship SMS Pola , which was discovered in 1611 by the Dutch captain Jan Jacobs May van Schellinkhout. They reached it on June 27th and built a winter-proof shelter from prefabricated parts in Pola. For over a year - also during the polar night  - meteorological, geomagnetic and other observations were carried out. Attention was also paid to the frequent Northern Lights phenomena. Seawater studies were also carried out. Picked up again by the Pola , Wohlgemuth and his men arrived safely in Pola on October 26, 1883. Then he prepared his report.

From 1885 to 1887 he was assigned to serve Crown Prince Rudolf as the Kaiser's wing adjutant . From the end of July 1887 to March 1889 he was entrusted with the command of the Corvette Fasana , with which he carried out a trip to the Persian Gulf and East Asia. Then transferred to the War Ministry, where he headed the operations department, the coast description office and finally the naval control office. In 1891 he became the captain of the liner. He retired on October 1, 1894.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Malnig, 2007
personal data
SURNAME Wohlgemuth, Emil von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wohlgemuth, Emil Edler von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian naval officer and polar explorer
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Lviv
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 1896
Place of death Vienna