Erich Etienne

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Erich W. Etienne (born February 24, 1915 in Leipzig , † July 23, 1942 in Longyearbyen , Norway ) was a German geophysicist , polar explorer and pilot .

Life

Etienne studied geophysics in Exeter and Leipzig before going to the University of Oxford as a Cecil Rhodes scholarship holder in 1934 . He then took part in the British "Oxford University Greenland Expeditions" of the "Oxford University Exploration Club" in 1936 and 1938. In 1939 he received his doctorate under Ludwig Weickmann at the University of Leipzig .

During the Second World War , Etienne became a pilot and flight meteorologist in the German Air Force . From autumn 1940 he was assigned as a weather service assessor and meteorological advisor to the weather investigation squadron 5 ( Drontheim-Værnes ). His doctoral supervisor Weickmann had previously been appointed chief meteorologist for Air Fleet 5 . In September 1940 Etienne was a member of the crew of a Heinkel He 115 with the squadron identification S4 + BK of the 2./506, which was to explore and capture the Norwegian Jan Mayen Island as part of Operation Jan Mayen . In Spitsbergen in 1941/42 he led an air force weather group under the code name company Bansö .

Erich Etienne was shot down on July 23, 1942 during a reconnaissance flight over Svalbard's capital Longyearbyen.

Publications

  • 1940. Expedition report of the Greenland expedition of the University of Oxford 1938. Publications of the Geophysical Institute of the University of Leipzig, Series 2, Vol. 13.
  • 1940. Geophysical work on a Greenland expedition. Borna-Leipzig.

literature

  • Hans G. Macht: Erich Etienne (on the tenth anniversary of his death on July 23, 1952). In: Polarforschung 22, 1/2, 1952, pp. 197-198.
  • Rudolf Schütze, Werner Schwerdtfeger: Weather fliers in the Arctic. 1940-1944. Stuttgart 1989.
  • JC Sugden, PG Mott: Oxford University Greenland Expedition, 1938. In: Geographical Journal , Vol. 95, no. I, 1940, pp. 43-51.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kurt Ruthe : The Greenland Expedition of Oxford University in 1938 (PDF; 686 kB). In: Polarforschung 11 (1), 1941, pp. 1-6.
personal data
SURNAME Etienne, Erich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Etienne, Erich W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pilot, geophysicist and polar explorer
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH July 23, 1942
Place of death Longyearbyen