Louis Wieting (captain, 1850)

Louis Wieting (born August 7, 1850 in Rönnebeck ; † June 5, 1915 ) was a German captain and pioneer of shipping in Siberia .

biography

Gravestone in the cemetery of the Ev.-ref. Parish in Bremen-Blumenthal

Wieting was a son of Captain Louis Wieting (1819-1883). His wife was Margarethe Wieting, b. Dallmann (1859–1936), daughter of captain and polar explorer Eduard Dallmann .

Between 1865 and 1868, Wieting gained his first seafaring experience on the sailing ships Adler and Gauss . Like his uncle, the emigrant captain Heinrich Wieting , he sailed between Bremen and North America. He then took a voluntary one-year nautical exam.

In 1872/73 he served as a volunteer in the Imperial German Navy .

The industrialist Ludwig Knoop entrusted the captain Eduard Dallmann with the nautical implementation of the project for a trade connection between Bremen and Siberia. Wieting was initially a helmsman under the direction of his future father-in-law Eduard Dallmann. 1878-1884 he was the sole responsible skipper of the steamer Moskwa and Dallmann in the northern Arctic Sea and on the Yenisei . In the following years Wieting drove as captain and chief officer for the steamship company "Neptun" and the German steamship company "Hansa" .

literature

• Peter-Michael Pawlik: From the Weser to the world , Ernst Kabel Verlag 1993, ISBN 3-8225-0256-1 .
• Horst Gnettner: Bremen sailors in Siberia . Johann Heinrich Döll Verlag, Bremen 1993, ISBN 3-88808-201-3 .