Heinrich Seelheim (15 August 1884 – 18 December 1964) was a German geographer and diplomat, who was a member of Wilhelm Filchner's Second German Antarctic Expedition in 1911–13.[1] In 1910, to gain polar travel experience, he participated with Filchner and others in a trial expedition to Spitsbergen.[2] He was in charge of the first leg of the Antarctic expedition, between Germany and Buenos Aires, while Filchner remained in Germany. Seelheim resigned from the expedition in Buenos Aires, because of disputes with the ship's captain, Richard Vahsel.[2] After the First World War, Seelheim entered the diplomatic service, and was subsequently German consul in Winnipeg, Canada,[3] and Yokohama, Japan.[4]
Seelheim joined the Nazi Party in 1934. While in Canada, he wrote reports about other Nazis in Canada and supported the Canadian Nazi movement, as did the German Federation of Canada (German: Deutschen Bund Kanada) and the German Newspaper for Canada (German: Deutsche Zeitung für Canada).[5]
References
edit- ^ Hornik, Helmut; Lüdecke, Cornelia (2–3 June 2005). Wilhelm Filchner and Antarctica. 1st SCAR Workshop on the History of Antarctic Research, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. p. 57. Archived from the original on 1 November 2020. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
- ^ a b Mills, William James (2003). Exploring Polar Frontiers: A Historical Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, CA; Denver, CO; Oxford, England: ABC-CLIO. p. 228. ISBN 1-57607-422-6.
- ^ Wagner, Jonathan F. (1981). Brothers Beyond the Sea: National Socialism in Canada. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. ISBN 0-88920-096-3. (unpaginated)
- ^ Chapman, John (2011). Ultranationalism in German-Japanese Relations, 1930-1945. Folkestone: Global Oriental. p. 23. ISBN 978-1-906876-24-1.
- ^ Schreiben des Staatssekretärs und Chef der Reichskanzlei vom 8. Juli 1935 zitiert in: Clemens Jochem: Der Fall Foerster: Die deutsch-japanische Maschinenfabrik in Tokio und das Jüdische Hilfskomitee Hentrich und Hentrich, Berlin 2017, S. 30, ISBN 978-3-95565-225-8.
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