Eduard Dallmann

Eduard Dallmann ( born March 11, 1830 in Flethe, † December 23, 1896 in Blumenthal ) was a German explorer and polar explorer. With his travels he made ​​a major contribution to the knowledge of Antarctica.

Biography

Eduard Dallman father Eduard Dallmann senior (1786-1877) was an officer in the Hanoverian Uhlans and had bought after leaving an estate in Schwanewede. He married Lucia Deetjen (1799-1837) from Vegesack that came from a seafaring family. He sold the estate and soon moved into the barge skipper village Flethe on the lower Weser, where he found employment as Boniteur ( consultant) for the office Blumenthal.

With 15 years of Eduard Dallmann signed on as a ship's boy, aged 36, he already drove as captain and became the first Europeans, the Wrangel Island in the Arctic. As the whale population declined in the northern seas, Dallmann received by the German polar Navigation Company commissioned to investigate the 1872 built by Wencke shipyard in Geestemünde Auxiliarsegler Greenland, the Antarctic whale and seal populations. The Greenland was the first mechanized provided with auxiliary propulsion ship, which penetrated to just before the polar region (1873 /74). The commercial success of the whaling expedition was low and just covered the costs incurred, the discoveries, however, were significant. In pursuit of some whales the outstanding navigator discovered included the Bismarck Street (English Bismarck Strait), the Neumayer Channel, and the Kaiser- Wilhelm- island.

From 1877 to 1884, Eduard Dallmann involved in the extensive efforts to further economic development of Siberia, which have been made at this time. So he tried several times to bring goods from Europe to the mouths of the Siberian rivers Ob and Yenisei in order to record grain cargo and other Siberian products, which had been transported by barge to these sites. Through the ice conditions in the Kara Sea were from seven attempts Dallman only four successful so that the financier of the enterprises, the Bremen merchant, Ludwig Knoop decided to stop trading voyages to Siberia.

1884 Dallmann was on the steamer Samoa the maritime leader of the Finsch expedition to the north coast of New Guinea. On November 27, 1884 in the presence of Otto Finsch and Captain Eduard Dallmann on the so -called " flag Peninsula " hoisted the German flag in Finschhafen. Finsch made ​​in 1884 and 1885 with Eduard Dallmann five trips. They discovered on the island of New Guinea, the Friedrich- Wilhelm harbor, Prince Heinrich harbor and the Adolf and Finschhafen and the Empress Augusta River.

From 1887 to 1893 Dallmann explored in the service of Guinea - company of the northeast coast of New Guinea. Numerous archipelagos and Straits were named by him.

Married was Dallmann with Metta von Harten, who was also born in 1832 and died in 1882 in Flethe Hildesheim. His daughter Meta (1859-1936) married Louis Wieting (1850-1915) from Rönnebeck, who was also a well-known ship captain and a nephew of Dallmann. In his house in Long Street (now Captain Dallmann - road ) is Eduard Dallmann died 1896. Born in 1864 the son Eduard Dallmann emigrated to the USA in 1896 and has lived in New York.

Discoveries

Lower other things discovered and named Dallmann following locations:

Honors

  • In Antarctica, the Dallmannberge that Dallmannbucht of Brabant Island, the Dallmann Nunatak and the Dallmann Seamount bear his name.
  • The system operated by the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research at King George Iceland Dallmann Laboratory is reminiscent of the pioneer and explorer.
  • In Bremen - Blumenthal Captain Dallmann street was named after him and a fountain in the Old Market.
  • Similarly, the Dallmanhafen in New Guinea remembered him.
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