Jørgen Stubberud
Jørgen Stubberud (born April 17, 1883 in Bekkensten, Svartskog in Oppegård , † February 12, 1980 in Oslo ) was a Norwegian carpenter who took part in the Antarctic expedition (1910-1912) of the polar explorer Roald Amundsen , in which people the geographic South Pole for the first time achieved.
Life
Jørgen Stubberud was born not far from the Uranienborg estate , which Roald Amundsen bought in 1908. From an early age he worked on his parents' farm and eventually learned to be a carpenter . Together with his two brothers, Stubberud was involved in renovation work on Uranienborg in 1909 . Amundsen then commissioned him to build a prefabricated expedition hut, which later served as the living quarters of the Framheim base camp . Stubberud successfully seized the opportunity to ask Amundsen to participate in the expedition. Amundsen had made his acceptance conditional on the permission of Stubberud's wife Sofie, which the latter left behind with two small children.
After the arrival of the expedition ship Fram in the Bay of Whales on January 14, 1911, Stubberud was involved in the construction of the expedition quarters and, together with Olav Bjaaland, was responsible for the maintenance and improvement of the ski and sledge equipment. In addition, he took part in the sleigh rides to set up depots with food and fuel supplies on the Ross Ice Shelf in preparation for the march towards the South Pole.
Stubberud was also part of the eight-person group who made the first hasty attempt to reach the Pole on September 8, 1911. Extreme temperatures of well below −50 ° C forced them to return to the base camp after reaching the depot at 80 ° south latitude. This retreat turned out to be chaotic and nearly cost Hjalmar Johansen and Kristian Prestrud their lives. Johansen's subsequent criticism of Amundsen for his inadequate expedition leadership saw Amundsen as undermining his authority and excluded Johansen from the later pole group. While Amundsen, Bjaaland, Sverre Hassel , Oscar Wisting and Helmer Hanssen set out on the successful South Pole March on October 19, 1911, Stubberud and Johansen, led by Kristian Prestruds, were commissioned to undertake exploratory marches to the Edward VII Peninsula and the Bay of Whales. In later years, Stubberud maintained his positive opinion of Amundsen, but admitted that Amundsen could have resolved the conflict with Johansen better.
After the expedition returned to Norway, Stubberud was involved in an advisory role in the construction of the expedition ship Maud , with which Amundsen crossed the Northeast Passage between 1918 and 1920 . He was actually supposed to take part in the expedition himself, but turned down Amundsen's offer due to health problems. After he had been involved in the construction of a dam on the Glomma River for the operation of a hydropower plant from 1921 to 1922 , he received a post at Norwegian customs through the mediation of the newspaper publisher Knut Domaas (1873-1959) , for which he was until his retirement in In 1950.
In the last years of his life, Stubberud lived in what was then the Oslo district of Romsås, where he mainly devoted himself to building ship models and died in 1980 at the age of 97 as the last member of Amundsen's South Pole expedition.
literature
- Roald Amundsen : The South Pole . Vol. I and Vol. II . John Murray, London 1912.
- Ragnar Kvam: In the shade . Berlin Verlag, Berlin 1998, ISBN 978-3-8270-0321-8 .
Web links
- Jørgen Stubberud . biographical information on the homepage of the Frammuseum (English)
- Jørgen Stubberud . Photo collection in the Digitalt Museum (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stubberud, Jørgen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Norwegian polar explorer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 17, 1883 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bekkensten, Svartskog, Oppegård |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 12, 1980 |
| Place of death | Oslo |