Strączno
Strączno (german: Stranz) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Wałcz, within Wałcz County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland. Strączno is approximately west of Wałcz and east of the regional capital Szczecin Szczecin (, , german: Stettin ; sv, Stettin ; Latin: ''Sedinum'' or ''Stetinum'') is the capital and largest city of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in northwestern Poland. Located near the Baltic Sea and the German border, it is a major s .... Notable residents * Herbert Schröder-Stranz (1884–1912), German arctic explorer References Villages in Wałcz County {{Wałcz-geo-stub ...
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Herbert Schröder-Stranz
Herbert Schröder-Stranz (9 June 1884 – 15 August 1912) was a German officer and Exploration, explorer of polar regions. He led the German Arctic Expedition of 1912. Biography Schröder-Stranz was born at his family estate at Strączno, Stranz, West Prussia (modern Strączno, Poland), and later added the name of his birthplace to his family's name (Schröder is a common name in Germany). His original name was Herbert Schröder, but later he added Stranz to it to reflect his village's name. Schröder-Stranz joined the German Army (German Empire), German Army and was deployed in German South-West Africa, he later travelled the Russian Kola peninsula, where he began to plan an expedition to discover the Northeast Passage. In 1912 a preliminary expedition started aboard of the schooner ''Herzog Ernst'', a ship under the command of Alfred Ritscher and named after Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, the main sponsor of the project. The crew, among them the illustrator Christopher Rav ...
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