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After the company Holzauge (code name) was the weather station companies bass player in the Second World War, one of the last attempts of the Navy , on Greenland , a weather station of the Armed Forces in the Arctic to build (Aug. 1943 - June 1944). This was followed by the Edelweiß and Zugvogel companies .

history

At the end of August 1943, under the direction of the meteorologist Heinrich Schatz , a weather team left the Norwegian port of Narvik with the former fishing steamer Coburg . Separated from its escort submarine by a storm, the Coburg was caught in pack ice at the 77th parallel about 80 nautical miles off the coast of East Greenland . The ship made only a few hundred meters a day with ice bursts and was now supposed to work as a floating station. In October, the Coburg managed to penetrate through a gap in the ice almost to the coast of Shannon Island . They remained there permanently stuck and got list . Meanwhile, meteorological observations continued uninterrupted.

In the meantime the weather station was targeted by American radio operators on Jan Mayen . On April 22, 1944, a sledge patrol attacked the German troop. During the fight, the military leader of the expedition, Lieutenant Zacher, fell. The Germans were able to repel the attack and continue their work for another six weeks. On June 3, 1944, a German flying boat brought the weather party back to Norway. In October the Americans found the abandoned wreck of the Coburg and the remains of the weather station.

literature

  • Wilhelm Dege , William Barr: War North of 80 - The Last German Arctic Weather Station of World War II. University of Calgary Press, Calgary 2003. ISBN 1552381102
  • Heinrich Schatz: The COBURG disaster in the ice off Shannon on 18.-19. November 1943. In: Polarforschung, Vol. II, 1950, pp. 336–338.

Other Wehrmacht weather stations in the Arctic

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Coordinates: 75 ° 19 ′  N , 17 ° 48 ′  W