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Hildebrandt, Richard, 1843-1911

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Personal name headingHildebrandt, Richard, 1843-1911
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See alsoOfficer of: Grönland (Yacht)
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Officer of: Hansa (Schooner)
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Associated placeGreenland
Arctic regions
LocatedBerlin (Germany) Charlottenburg (Berlin, Germany)
AddressFasanenstrasse 23 Berlin Germany
Birth date1843-11-29
Death date1911
Place of birthMagdeburg (Germany)
Place of deathBaden-Baden (Germany)
Field of activityNaval art and science Discoveries in geography Scientific expeditions Shipwreck survival Photography Municipal government
AffiliationDeutsche Nordpolar-Expedition (1st : 1868) Deutsche Nordpolar-Expedition (2nd : 1869-1870) Grönland (Yacht) Hansa (Schooner) Germany. Kriegsmarine Germany. Reichsmarineamt Charlottenburg (Berlin, Germany). Magistrat
Profession or occupationNavies--Officers Germany. Kriegsmarine--Officers Explorers Photographers Municipal officials and employees
Corvette captain
Found inZweihundert Tage im Packeis, c1997: p. 9 (first mate Richard Hildebrandt, of the ship Hansa, Ostgrönland-Expedition, 1869-1870) p. 329 (1843-1911)
Deutsche Nordpolar-Expedition (2nd : 1869-1870). Die Zweite Deutsche Nordpolarfahrt unter Führung des Kapitän Karl Koldewey, 1873-1874, v. 1, page XII ("In dankbarer Anerkennung sei hier der Künstler gedacht, deren Talent und Fleiss unser Werk so ausgiebig geschmückt hat; also der Expeditionsmitglieder ... Richard Hildebrandt ...) page XXXI (in list of crew of the expedition ship Hansa: "1. Offizier: Richard Hildebrandt, 26 Jahre alt, aus Magdeburg"; also a member of the 1868 [1st] expedition) page 56 (Hildebrandt photographed the Hansa repeatedly from nearby ice floes, but neither the plates nor the photographic apparatus could be salvaged when the ship sank) page 79 (footnote to title of chapter 6: "Von Kapitän Hegemann mit Beiträgen vom ersten Offizier R. Hildebrandt, Dr. Laube und Andern") passim ("Herr Hildebrandt")
Digiporta website, May 9, 2020 (As first mate of, respectively, the Grönland and the Hansa, participated in the first and second German Arctic Expeditions, 1868 and 1869-1870, afterwards officer in the German Imperial Navy to 1893, then in the Reichsmarineamt Berlin; life dates: 29.11.1843-1911; place of birth: Magdeburg; place of death: Baden-Baden)
   <http://www.digiporta.net/index.php?id=354856990>
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, May 9, 2020 (Hildebrandt, Richard; gender: male; years of activity: 1869-1899; occupation: explorer (Forschungsreisender); place of activity: Berlin)
Fasanenstrasse 23, 2014, via Google Snippet View, May 9, 2020: page 11 (on July 13, 1911, the Magdeburgische Zeitung published a special supplement on the death of the retired corvette captain Richard Hildebrandt. He had died a month earlier, at the age of 68, in Baden-Baden)
Literaturhaus Berlin website, May 9, 2020 (in history page for the organization's headquarters at Fasanenstrasse 23, Berlin: "In 1889, Louise, the daughter of ... Hermann Gruson, married Richard Hildebrandt. Richard was a corvette captain who had taken part in the first two German expeditions to the North Pole and would later become deputy mayor of Charlottenburg. Gruson gifted the couple a neoclassical house inspired by suburban Italian villas as a wedding present. The house was located in Fasanenstrasse ... Richard and Louise Hildebrandt, who remained childless, moved into the villa in November 1890. The couple had a large circle of friends and family, and the house developed a reputation for being open and hospitable. Visitors included officers, admirals, scientists and artists ... Richard Hildebrandt died in Baden-Baden in 1911")
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