Die erste deutsche Südpolarexpedition und die Flottenpolitik unter Kaiser Wilhelm II.

• Main Author: Lüdecke, Cornelia
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: German
• Published: Deutsches Meeresmuseum 1992
• Subjects: Antarctic; Drygalski; Kaiser-Wilhelm-II.-Land; Neumayer; South Pole; The Antarctic; Wilhelm II Land; Antarc*; Kaiser Wilhelm II land; South pole
• Online Access: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/23765/; https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/23765/1/Luedecke_Erste-deutsche-Suedpolarexpedition.pdf

In 1898 during the speech at his habilitation, Erich von Drygalski talked on the task of research at the South Pole. He stressed the importance of a German South Polar expedition in the context of the initial stages of the German naval prestige. In 1895, a Commission of South Polar Research had alre...