Second German Antarctic Expedition / crew list
The list contains all participants of the Second German Antarctic Expedition 1911/12 under the direction of Wilhelm Filchner . Unless otherwise stated, the participants were of German nationality.
| Surname | task | Remarks | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scientific staff | ||||||
| Wilhelm Filchner (1877–1957) | Expedition leader, geographer and geodesist | Expedition experience as leader of a Tibet expedition (1903–1905), leader of the pre-expedition to Spitzbergen in 1910 | ||||
| Erich Przybyllok (1880–1954) | Geomagnetic and astronomer | Employee of the Prussian Geodetic Institute in Potsdam | ||||
| Erich Barkow (1882–1923) | meteorologist | Participant in a pre-expedition to Spitzbergen in 1910 | ||||
| Wilhelm Brennecke (1875-1924) | oceanographer | South Sea expedition with the research vessel Planet 1906/07 | ||||
| Fritz Heim (1887–1980) | geologist | |||||
| Felix König (1880–1945) | alpinist | Austrians, 1910 expedition to West Greenland, planned an Austrian expedition to the Weddell Sea in 1914 | ||||
| Crew of the research ship Germany | ||||||
| Richard Vahsel (1868–1912) | captain | at the First German Antarctica Expedition . officer II of the research ship Gauss , while the expedition is likely to syphilis died | ||||
| Alfred Kling (* 1882) | Navigator in the scientific staff, officer on watch from South Georgia | only joined the expedition in Buenos Aires , from December 19, 1912 captain of Germany ; became I. Officer of the Seeadler in the First World War | ||||
| Ludwig Kohl (1884–1969) | Ship's doctor | left the expedition in Grytviken to recover from appendectomy | ||||
| Wilhelm von Goeldel (* 1881) | Ship and expedition doctor | |||||
| Wilhelm Lorenzen | I. officer | |||||
| Johannes Müller († 1941) | Watch and Navigator Officer | The Johannes-Müller-Kamm and the Müller Ridge were named after him | ||||
| Walter Slossarczyk (1887–1911) | III. Officer and Telefunken Officer | Suicide in South Georgia after contracting syphilis in Buenos Aires | ||||
| Conrad Heyneck | engineer | |||||
| August Besenbrok (* 1882) | Chief Steward | also took part in the First German Antarctic Expedition in 1901/03 | ||||
| Gustav Dreyer | Ship carpenter | |||||
| Adolf Schwabe | I. Boatswain | |||||
| Louis Schalitz | II. Boatswain | |||||
| Ernst Müller | Machine assistant | |||||
| Wilhelm Simon | II. Machinist | |||||
| Johann Ludwig Johnsen | Sailmaker | |||||
| Georg Noack (* 1877) | Sailor and zoological assistant ( taxidermist ) | was trained as a zoological assistant at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin and took part in the First German Antarctic Expedition in this role | ||||
| Karl Klück (* 1869) | cook | participated as a sailor in the First German Antarctic Expedition 1901/03 | ||||
| Fritz Boettcher | sailor | |||||
| Paul Björvig (1857–1932) | sailor | Norwegian, took part in a North Pole expedition to Franz-Joseph-Land in 1898 , 1901/03 ice pilot of the First German Antarctic Expedition, 1910 member of a German expedition to Spitsbergen under Ferdinand von Zeppelin | ||||
| Kurt Hoffmann | sailor | |||||
| Morten Olaisen | sailor | Norwegian | ||||
| Karl Anton Olsen | sailor | |||||
| Paul Wolff | sailor | |||||
| Fritz Engemann | Stoker | |||||
| Karl Johannes Schulze | Stoker | |||||
| Hermann Selle | Stoker | |||||
| Johann Wilken | steward | |||||
| Karl Zänker | Ordinary seaman | later a sailor | ||||
| Franz Krause | Cabin boy | later ordinary seaman | ||||
Heinrich Seelheim (1884-1964), the chief scientist on the first section of the journey to Pernambuco , Willi Ule (1861-1940), a geographer and limnologist , who was also only on board on the first section of the journey to Pernambuco and was not listed as a participant in the expedition report Hans Lohmann (1863–1934), who was on board as a marine biologist and zoologist until Buenos Aires.
swell
- Wilhelm Filchner: To the sixth continent . Ullstein, Berlin 1922, p. 8-11 .
- Reinhard A. Krause: For the centenary of the German Antarctic Expedition under the direction of Wilhelm Filchner, 1911–1912 (= polar research . Volume 81 (2) ). 2011, p. 103-126 ( awi.de [PDF]).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ursula Rack: As if the Weddell Sea were not big enough: two explorers and one challenge in 1914 , Antarctic Magazine, 32/3 (2014), pp. 33-34
- ↑ 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.)