Gauss expedition / crew list
The list contains all participants of the first German Antarctic expedition in 1901/03 as well as the crew of the station on the Kerguelen, which was operated at the same time . Unless otherwise stated, the participants were of German nationality. Six crew members of the expedition ship Gauß were dismissed in Cape Town at the end of November 1901 because of poor performance or at their own request, their names are not mentioned in the expedition report. The substitutes found for this are listed with the comment “from Cape Town”.
| Surname | task | Remarks | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scientific staff | ||||||
| Erich von Drygalski (1865–1949) | Expedition leader and geographer | Head of the Greenland Expedition of the Society for Geography in Berlin (1891-1893) | ||||
| Ernst Vanhöffen (1858–1918) | Zoologist , deputy expedition leader | Participant in the Greenland Expedition of the Society for Geography in Berlin (1891–1893) and the Valdivia Expedition 1898/99 | ||||
| Hans Gazert (1870–1961) | Expedition doctor and bacteriologist | experienced alpinist (first ascent of the Zugspitze from the Eibsee via the Bavarian Schneekar on June 29, 1895 and the Öfelekopf west summit in the Wetterstein Mountains in 1895); also carried out glaciological and meteorological studies during the expedition | ||||
| Emil Philippi (1871-1910) | Geologist and chemist | processed the sediment samples of the Valdivia expedition | ||||
| Friedrich Bidlingmaier (1875-1914) | Geophysicist and meteorologist | Observator at the geomagnetic station of the Munich observatory , developed a program for meteorological and geomagnetic observations, according to which the Antarctic expeditions of Scotland ( William Speirs Bruce ), Sweden ( Otto Nordenskjöld ), Argentina ( Horacio Ballvé ) and the British National Antarctic Expedition ( Robert Falcon Scott ) were able to collect comparable data | ||||
| Crew of the Kerguelen station | ||||||
| Emil Werth (1869-1958) | Station manager and botanist | extensive research trips to East Africa 1896–1898 | ||||
| Josef Enzensperger (1873–1903) | Meteorologist and Alpinist | numerous first ascents in the Alps: B. 1892 the Öfelekopf ( Wetterstein Mountains ) and 1894 the Kleine Halt in the Kaiser Mountains ; died of Beriberi during the expedition | ||||
| Karl Luyken (1874–1947) | Geophysicist | from 1900 employee of the Royal Meteorological and Geomagnetic Observatory in Potsdam | ||||
| Josef Urbansky (* 1877) | sailor | from the kaiserl. Marine (Seebataillon) on leave | ||||
| Georg Wienke (* 1876) | cook | was trained as a zoological assistant at the Museum für Naturkunde (Berlin) before leaving | ||||
| Crew of the Gauss | ||||||
| Hans Ruser (1862-1930) | captain | |||||
| Albert Stehr | Chief machinist | |||||
| Wilhelm Lerche | I. officer | |||||
| Richard Vahsel (1868–1912) | II. Officer | Captain of the research vessel Germany on the Second German Antarctic Expedition, died during this expedition | ||||
| Ludwig Ott | II. Officer | |||||
| Josef Müller ( Müller I ) | I. Boatswain | |||||
| Hans Dahler | II. Boatswain | from Cape Town | ||||
| August Reimers | I. carpenter | |||||
| Willy Heinrich | II. Carpenter and diver | |||||
| Georg Noack (* 1877) | Sailor and zoological assistant ( taxidermist ) | was formed at the Museum of Natural History in Berlin as zoological assistant and took the same position at the Second German Antarctic Expedition under Wilhelm Filchner part | ||||
| Max fish | sailor | from the kaiserl. Navy on expedition leave | ||||
| Karl Klück (* 1869) | sailor | on the journey home from Cape Town Schiffskoch, also took part in the Second German Antarctic Expedition in 1911/12 | ||||
| Albert Possin | sailor | from Cape Town | ||||
| Paul Björvig (1857–1932) | Ice pilot | Norwegian, took part in a North Pole expedition to Franz-Joseph-Land in 1898 , member of a German expedition to Spitzbergen under Ferdinand von Zeppelin in 1910 , participant in the Second German Antarctic Expedition in 1911/12 | ||||
| Daniel Johannsen | sailor | Norwegian | ||||
| Wilhelm Lysell | sailor | Swede, from Cape Town | ||||
| Lenart Reuterskjold | sailor | Swede, from Cape Town | ||||
| Curt Stjernblad | sailor | Swede, from Cape Town | ||||
| Paul Heinacker | Machine assistant | |||||
| Reinhold Marek | Machine assistant and blacksmith | |||||
| Emil Berglöf | Stokers and plumbers | from Cape Town | ||||
| Leonhard Müller ( Müller II ) | Stoker | |||||
| Gustav Bähr | Stoker | |||||
| Karl Franz | Stoker | |||||
| Reinhold Michael | Stoker | from Cape Town | ||||
| Wilhelm Black | Ship's cook | from Cape Town, also dropped out in Cape Town on the return journey | ||||
| August Besenbrok (* 1882) | steward | also took part in the Second German Antarctic Expedition in 1911/12 | ||||
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- Erich von Drygalski: To the continent of the icy south . Georg Reimer, Berlin 1904, p. 26-51 ( archive.org ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Robert Holzner: An archaeological investigation on Kerguelen, Sub-Antarctica - The ArchaeObs project - ( Memento of the original from August 8, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Polarforschung 78, pp. 55-66, 2008
- ↑ Robert Holzner: An archaeological investigation on Kerguelen, Sub-Antarctica - The ArchaeObs project - ( Memento of the original from August 8, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Polarforschung 78, pp. 55-66, 2008
- ↑ Ursula Rack: Socio-historical study on polar research based on German and Austro-Hungarian polar expeditions between 1868-1939. Ber. Polar u. Marine research 618, Bremerhaven 2010, p. 114
- ↑ Paul Bjorvig on www.polarhistorie.no (norweg.)
