Hans Ruser

Captain Hans Ruser

Hans Ruser (born June 2, 1862 in Burg auf Fehmarn , Germany ; † April 5, 1930 in Hamburg , Germany) was a German captain and polar explorer .

Hans Ruser was the youngest of eleven children of Ludwig August Ruser (1819–1897) and Maria Dorothea Erichsen (1821–1903). He was married to Annemarie Bruhn (* 1881). Hans Ruser was the captain of the Gauss during the German " Gauss Expedition " from 1901 to 1903 under Erich von Drygalski . For this achievement he was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle in 1904 by Kaiser Wilhelm II . He was a commodore of HAPAG and captain of the fatherland . Hans Ruser was friends with the general manager of HAPAG Albert Ballin . In the spring of 1919 he was appointed head of the German immigration authorities. Hans Ruser's last business trip was in March 1921 when the Bismarck, built for HAPAG, was transferred from Hamburg to Southampton , where it passed into the ownership of the White Star Line as Majestic . Before 1922 he bought himself a partner in the Wergans & Ahrens wine trading company founded in 1789.

Honors

Cape Ruser, located 49 ° 25 ′ 42 ″ S, 69 ° 54 ′ 51 ″ E on Kerguelen , (today Pointe Bass ) was named after Hans Ruser.

The pilot transfer ship built in 1964 in Cuxhaven was named Commodore Ruser in honor of Hans Ruser .

Trivia

Hans and Annemarie Ruser's son, who was born on April 4, 1905 in Hamburg, Dr. oec. publ. Hans Ruser, was sentenced to six months in prison for homosexuality in the Marienburg Trial in 1936 . However, the sentence was suspended against conditions.

The Gauss trapped in the ice on March 29, 1902. This photo taken from a tethered balloon is the first aerial photo in Antarctica.
The Fatherland as Leviathan

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Footnotes

↑ Pointe Basse on geonames.org, accessed August 11, 2017
↑ Gottfried Lorenz : The Marienburg process 1936. The end of a Hamburg homosexual bar . In: Töv, di schiet ik an: Contributions to Hamburg's gay history . LIT Verlag, Münster 2013, ISBN 978-3-643-12173-8 , pp. 88–101 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

personal data
SURNAME	Ruser, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German captain and polar explorer
DATE OF BIRTH	June 2, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH	Castle on Fehmarn , Germany
DATE OF DEATH	April 5, 1930
Place of death	Hamburg , Germany

[1] Pointe Basse on geonames.org, accessed August 11, 2017

[2] Gottfried Lorenz : The Marienburg process 1936. The end of a Hamburg homosexual bar . In: Töv, di schiet ik an: Contributions to Hamburg's gay history . LIT Verlag, Münster 2013, ISBN 978-3-643-12173-8 , pp. 88–101 ( limited preview in Google Book search).