Heinrich Seelheim, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 15-Aug-1884
Place of Birth: Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Date of Death: 18-Dec-1964
Profession: politician
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About Heinrich Seelheim
- Heinrich Seelheim (15 August 1884 – 18 December 1964) was a German geographer and diplomat, who was a member of Wilhelm Filchner's Second German Antarctic Expedition in 1911–13.
- In 1910, to gain polar travel experience, he participated with Filchner and others in a trial expedition to Spitsbergen.
- He was in charge of the first leg of the Antarctic expedition, between Germany and Buenos Aires, while Filchner remained in Germany.
- Seelheim resigned from the expedition in Buenos Aires, because of disputes with the ship's captain, Richard Vahsel.
- After the First World War, Seelheim entered the diplomatic service, and was subsequently German consul in Winnipeg, Canada, and Yokohama, Japan.
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