Christopher Rave

Christopher Rave (20 February 1881 – 13 January 1933) was a German painter, explorer of polar regions and professor.

In 1910, he experienced the accident of the German tall ship Preußen as a passenger, running aground close to Dover.

The voyage, under the command of Herbert Schröder-Stranz and Alfred Ritscher as captain of the ship Herzog Ernst, failed, and just seven out of fifteen crew survived.

In 1913, Rave published his experiences Tagebuch von der verunglückten Expedition Schröder-Stranz: mit Federzeichnungen vom Verfasser (Diary of the Failed Expedition of Schröder-Stranz).

His tomb, designed by his student Valentin Kraus from Munich, is in the Hamburg Ohlsdorf Cemetery.