20 October, 2017

Fritz Gottlieb Zapffe


Fritz Gottlieb Zapffe was a Norwegian polar explorer.

He was the son of painter Carl Johan Zapffe and Caroline Wilhelmine Hansen. He was married to Gudrun Wessel (1870-1950) on August 19, 1897. Zapffe participated in Roald Amundsen's North Pole Expedition in 1925 as a sanitary man and a deputy manager.

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