Nikolai Alexander von Transehe

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Nikolai Alexander von Transehe ( American English : Nicholas de Transehe ; Russian : Николай Александрович фон Транзе ; born February 6, 1886 in Vladivostok ; † December 27, 1960 in Summit , New Jersey ) was a Russian naval officer, polar researcher and employee of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

Russian naval officer and polar explorer

Arctic Ocean

Nikolai Alexander von Transehe joined the Imperial Russian Navy in 1902 . So he followed his father, who had also served in the Navy. As a midshipman , Nikolai Alexander was transferred to the 5th Imperial Fleet in 1905 and was baptized by fire in the Russo-Japanese War (1904/05). After a few subsequent assignments, he returned to his old naval formation in 1909 as a lieutenant at sea . After further training courses at the War School in Kronstadt near Saint Petersburg , he served on a destroyer for the first time and was transferred to the Siberian Flotilla from the Baltic fleet in which he had previously served . In 1910 he was assigned to the first officer (presumably as first lieutenant at sea) on a destroyer and then to the battleship Andrei Pjerwoswanny . After completing the special training to become a mine officer for torpedoes , he was promoted to mine officer of the 1st rank ( captainleutnant ) in 1912 . From February 27, 1912 to October 1, 1915 he was assistant to Boris Wilkizki , the chief of the " Hydrographic Expedition of the Northern Arctic Ocean ". In 1912 he took part in the expedition to the Arctic Ocean on board the icebreaker Taimyr , on which hydrographic surveys were carried out in the Bear Islands , the southern and western coasts of the Lyakhov Islands and the coast of Buor-Khaya Bay. After serving as a mine officer on the destroyer Grozny , in 1914/15 he again took part in the hydrographic expedition on the icebreaker Waigatsch and the first crossing of the Northeast Passage from east to west. A group of two small islands discovered in the process was named after him. In the meantime, he was Commissioner for the construction of the first Russian submarine under the direction of Tsar Nicholas II. In the First World War he was on the destroyers Retiwy (1916) and Molodjezky used (1916-1917), most recently as commander of the destroyer Molodjezky and became the Promoted to sea captain of the Imperial Russian Navy. At the end of the First World War he was dismissed from service in 1918 by a decree of the Council of People's Commissars . In 1919 he fought in the “ White Army ” on the northern front against the Bolsheviks .

Immigration to the USA

His first country of refuge was Sweden in 1920 , then he moved to Norway and worked in coal mines on Svalbard . In 1923 he immigrated to the United States of America and worked for five years as an Arctic expert with the American Geographical Society . He was a collaborator on the Byrd Antarctic Expedition and the first overflight of the South Pole by Bernt Balchen and worked with Richard Evelyn Byrd . He then published a photo book and a book on the "Hydrographic Expedition of the Arctic Ocean". From 1928 to 1934 he was President and Chief Engineer at “De Bothezat Impeller Company”, a large American company for helicopters and aircraft . Immediately after World War II , he was appointed chief expert in the Eastern Central Intelligence department at the CIA . In 1956 he retired and lived in New York City .

Awards

In recognition of his military services, he was awarded the Russian Order of St. Stanislaus 3rd Class in 1914. In 1915 he received the Russian Order of St. Anna, 3rd class, for his services on the Arctic expeditions . He also received four Russian medals of honor between 1910 and 1914 in recognition of his services. For his services at the CIA, he was American US with the Medal for Merit decorated .

Origin and family

Coat of arms of the noble family Transehe

Nikolai Alexander came from the Sackenhof and Neu-Wrangelhof line of the German-Baltic noble family Transehe-Roseneck . His father was the Imperial Russian captain of the navy Carl Alexander Caprian von Roseneck (1857-1922). Nikolai married Anna Nellie Jaffe (* 1889, † 1955 in Washington, DC ). Their only child was their daughter Thaisia ​​(* 1911; † 2001 in Juno Beach (Florida) ), who was married to Charles Rives Skinker, Jr.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ William Barr: A Tsarist Attempt at Opening the Northern Sea Route: The Arctic Ocean Hydrographic Expedition, 1910-1915 . In: Polar Research . tape 45 , no. 1 , 1975, p. 51-64 (English). hdl : 10013 / epic.29422
  2. ↑ The commission has been restructured and renamed repeatedly over the decades. In 1926 it was renamed to Technical Office No. 4, in 1932 to Central Design Office for Special (Underwater) Shipbuilding No. 2 and in 1937 to Central Design Office No. 18. ( Рубин (конструкторское бюро) )
personal data
SURNAME Transehe, Nikolai Alexander von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Transehe, Nicholas de; Транзе, Николай Александрович фон (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian naval officer and polar explorer
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Vladivostok
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1960
Place of death Summit , New Jersey