Siegfried Sauter

Siegfried Sauter (* 1916 in Degerloch ; † June 3, 2008 in Waiblingen ) was a German photographer and member of the German Antarctic Expedition 1938/39 .

Life

Siegfried Sauter attended the Hitler Youth flight school in Böblingen from June 1934 to April 1935 and was trained as a sailing pilot. He then joined the Air Force and became an aerial photographer there. After his service, he worked for Hansa Luftbild GmbH from 1937 . In 1938/39 he took part as an aerial artist in the German Antarctic Expedition under the direction of Alfred Ritscher . This expedition explored from the air with two Dornier Wal - flying boats an approximately 600,000 km² area that the name Neuschwabenland received. Together with flight captain Richardheinrich Schirmacher, he formed the crew of the Boreas flying boat and took around half of the 11,600 aerial photographs of the expedition. A rock ridge protruding from the inland ice was named Sauterriegel by the expedition leaders .

In 1955 Sauter married Gertrud Kienzle and subsequently took over his father-in-law's photo business, which he managed until the 1990s. He returned to Antarctica in 1989 when the documentary filmmaker Franz Lazi made a film about the 1938/39 expedition. Some of Sauter's recordings of his expeditions to the Antarctic were exhibited in the town hall of Waiblingen in 1994. In 2004 he gave the author Heinz Schön an interview about his experiences in the Antarctic, which was printed in the book Mythos Neu-Schwabenland .

Sauter was the last surviving member of the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39.

Fonts

As a photographer to the South Pole. In: Walther Heering (Ed.). Photo magazine April 1952. Bruckmann-Verlag, Munich.

Web links

Tom Krink: Myth at the end of the world . In: Arnold. Magazine for Schorndorf and the surrounding area from January 23, 2008
Staufer Kurier Volume 32, No. 34, p. 4: Obituary (PDF; 1.5 MB), accessed on February 11, 2016

Individual evidence

↑ Peter Berger: With the crane on the tail. Kolibri-Verlag 1965, p. 135
^ Karsten Brunk: Cartographic work and German naming in Neuschwabenland, Antarctica. German Geodetic Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Series E: History and Development of Geodesy - Issue No. 24, Part I. Frankfurt am Main. (PDF; 391 kB) 1986, accessed on June 17, 2020 .
^ Directory of German geographic names in the Antarctic. Version 2.14. 2014, accessed June 17, 2020 .
↑ Sauter bars in Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica
^ Heinz Schön: Myth Neuschwabenland. For Hitler at the South Pole - the German Antarctic Expedition 1938-1939 . Bonus, Selent 2004, ISBN 978-3-935962-05-6 , pp. 162-163 .

personal data
SURNAME	Sauter, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German photographer and polar explorer
DATE OF BIRTH	1916
PLACE OF BIRTH	Degerloch
DATE OF DEATH	June 3, 2008
Place of death	Waiblingen

[1] Peter Berger: With the crane on the tail. Kolibri-Verlag 1965, p. 135

[2] Karsten Brunk: Cartographic work and German naming in Neuschwabenland, Antarctica. German Geodetic Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Series E: History and Development of Geodesy - Issue No. 24, Part I. Frankfurt am Main. (PDF; 391 kB) 1986, accessed on June 17, 2020 .

[3] Directory of German geographic names in the Antarctic. Version 2.14. 2014, accessed June 17, 2020 .

[4] Sauter bars in Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica

[5] Heinz Schön: Myth Neuschwabenland. For Hitler at the South Pole - the German Antarctic Expedition 1938-1939 . Bonus, Selent 2004, ISBN 978-3-935962-05-6 , pp. 162-163 .