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Alfred Wegener was born in Berlin on 1 November 1880, the youngest of five children, to Richard Wegener and his wife Anna. His father was a theologian and teacher of classical languages at the Joachimsthalschen Gymnasium [ 6 ] and Berlinisches Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster .
The German Greenland Expedition (German: Deutsche Grönlandexpedition), also known as the Wegener Expedition, was an expedition to Greenland in 1930–1931. It was led by German scientist Alfred Wegener (1880–1930), who had previously taken part in two other ventures to Greenland.
Queen Louise Land and neighbouring areas NASA picture. Alfred Wegener in the Borg station during the 1912-1913 winter.. The Danish Expedition to Queen Louise Land, also known as the Danish expedition to Queen Louise Land and straight through Greenland’s ice sheet (Danish: Danske ekspedition til Dronning Louise’s Land og tværs over Nordgrønlands indlandsis), as well as Danish North ...
1912 – German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift. [24] 1929 – King Alexander of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes suspends his country's constitution (the January 6th Dictatorship). [25] 1929 – Mother Teresa arrives by sea in Calcutta, India, to begin her work among India's poorest and sick people. [26]
He named it after German scientist Alfred Wegener (1880–1930), who had taken part in the 1906–08 Danmark Expedition and the 1912–13 Danish Expedition to Queen Louise Land led by J.P. Koch. Wegener died in 1930 on the Greenland ice sheet during the Wegener Expedition led by himself.
Fritz Loewe took part in the preparatory trip of the German Greenland Expedition led by Alfred Wegener in 1929. Working together with Ernst Sorge he became familiar with the newly-developed seismic procedure of measuring ice thickness. [3] In 1930-1931 he went back to Greenland to join the main expedition as a glaciologist.
Alfred Wegener (1880–1930), German geologist who originated the theory of continental drift; Kapitänleutnant Bernhard Wegener, commander of German submarine U-27, killed in one of the two Baralong incidents in 1915
Ernst Sorge was a member of Alfred Wegener's expedition. Together with Johannes Georgi he stayed in Eismitte from July 1930 to August 1931. Fritz Loewe stayed from October 1930 to May 1931. Sorge hand-dug a 15 m deep pit adjacent to his subterranean snow cave, which served as living quarters during the seven-month-long overwintering.