Alfred Ritscher

Alfred Ritscher
Born(1879-05-23)23 May 1879
Bad Lauterberg, Prussia
Died30 March 1963(1963-03-30) (aged 83)
Hamburg, West Germany
Allegiance German Empire
Weimar Republic
Nazi Germany
Branch Imperial German Navy
 Reichsmarine
 Kriegsmarine
RankKapitän zur See
AwardsGrand Federal Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany(1959)
Other workled the Third German Antarctic Expedition

Alfred Ritscher (23 May 1879 in Bad Lauterberg – 30 March 1963 in Hamburg) was a German polar explorer. A Kapitän zur See in the Kriegsmarine, he led the third German Antarctic Expedition in 1938–39, which mapped the New Swabia (German: Neuschwabenland) territories of Queen Maud Land. Ritscher Peak and Ritscher Upland there are named for him.

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