Ernst Herrmann (explorer)

Ernst Herrmann (born September 24, 1895 in Berlin , † June 7, 1970 in Osnabrück ) was a German geoscientist, explorer and travel writer.

Life

After participating in the First World War , in which he was badly wounded, Herrmann began studying geology, mineralogy, geography and physics in Berlin in 1917. In 1923 he received his doctorate with the work on twin adhesions of rock-forming plagioclase and was then employed first as a volunteer assistant in the Mineralogical-Petrographic Institute, then as a teacher at the Fichte-Gymnasium in Berlin.

Cable laying by forced laborers in Ostend (1941) during the German occupation of Belgium, photo by Herrmann

Parade of captured French Somua S-35 and Hotchkiss H-38 tanks with German tank soldiers on a boulevard (1941) during the German occupation of France, photo by Herrmann

Group of Jews with Jewish stars on a street in Minsk (1941) during the German occupation of Belarus, photo by Herrmann

In the following years Herrmann took part in numerous expeditions, for example to Central Sweden (1924), Norway (1925), Santorini (1925/26), Iceland (1926, 1931, 1934), Lapland (1928 and 1929), Italy (1932, 1936, 1939), Switzerland and Iceland (1933), Spitzbergen (1937) and Greenland (1938). In 1938/39 he was the deputy head of the German Antarctic Expedition . Since the 1930s he has given lectures about his travel experiences, published articles in the press and radio, as well as several books of his own.

During World War II Herrmann was on both the Western and Eastern Fronts .

After the end of the war he took up a teaching position as a lecturer in geography in Bederkesa in 1946 , then in 1948 as a lecturer in geography at the Celle University of Education ( Adolf-Reichwein-Hochschule Celle , since 1953 in Osnabrück ). In 1961 he retired. Herrmann is the namesake for the Herrmann Mountains in Antarctica.

estate

In April 1996 one of his two daughters transferred Ernst Herrmann's picture bequest to the German Federal Archives . In the course of archiving, documents (diaries, correspondence, manuscripts, etc.) were also added to the estate. With a term from 1906 to 1985, it measures 1.2 meters (as of November 2007) and is located in Koblenz.

Fonts

Mountains and people in Lapland. Berlin 1932.
Glaciers and volcanoes. Berlin 1934.
The midnight lands. Berlin 1935.
Vikings of our time: Nansen, Amundsen, Sven Hedin. Berlin 1937.
Paths to the North Pole. Discovery story. Braunschweig 1940.
German researchers in the Southern Ocean. Berlin 1941.
With the Fieseler stork into the Arctic Ocean. Berlin 1942.
The Arctic Ocean - the Mediterranean of tomorrow. Berlin 1943.
Nansen, Fridtjof: On snowshoes through Greenland, new ed. v. Ernst Herrmann. Berlin 1943.
The poles of the earth. Berlin 1950.
The Vulkan's workshop. Berlin 1963.
The Southern Cross in the sky, edited by Hellmut Kotschenreuther. Berlin 1973.

Web links

Commons : Ernst Herrmann - Collection of images, videos and audio files

personal data
SURNAME	Herrmann, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German geographer, explorer and travel writer
DATE OF BIRTH	September 24, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	June 7, 1970
Place of death	Osnabrück