Karl Feucht

German flight mechanic and polar explorer

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Karl Feucht (1925)

The polar flight - left to right, Omdal, Riiser-Larsen, Amundsen, Dietrichson, Feucht and Ellsworth

Karl Feucht (24 December 1893 - 30 June 1954) was a German flight mechanic and polar explorer. In 1925 he was one of two mechanics aboard the two Dornier Wal flying boats in which Roald Amundsen, Lincoln Ellsworth and Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen made a failed attempt to reached the geographic North Pole by air, starting from the island of Spitzbergen.

Life

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Born in Heimerdingen, now part of Ditzingen, his parents were the builder Christian Feucht (1856–1929) and his wife Wilhelmine (1863–1954).^[1] He died in Friedrichshafen. His wife Maria died in 1945. The couple had three children, Richard, Wilhelm and Gertrud.^[1]

Bibliography

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(in German) Herbert Hoffmann: Karl Feucht – Pionier der Luftfahrt und Polarflieger aus Heimerdingen. In: Dijou. Nr. 9, 6/2012, S. 10 (PDF; 5,31 MB).