Helge Skappel

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Helge Sommerfelt Skappel
Born(1907-09-05)5 September 1907
Ringsaker, Norway
Died17 October 2001(2001-10-17) (aged 94)
Nøtterøy, Vestfold, Norway
SpouseGjertrud Lillian Nielsen
Military career
Allegiance Norway
ServiceNorwegian Resistance
Member1940-1945
Awards

Helge Sommerfelt Skappel (5 September 1907 – 17 October 2001) was a Norwegian aviator, photographer and cartographer. He was among the early aviation company owners in Norway, and later became known as a photographer in Widerøe from 1934 to 1975, except for four years during World War II when he was imprisoned in concentration camps for resistance work. He pioneered the use of aerophotogrammetry in Norway.

Pre-war life

He was born in

Norwegian Mapping and Cadastre Authority (then known as Norges Geografiske Oppmåling).[6]

World War II

During

Grini concentration camp in July 1941, as #353 of almost 20,000 prisoners. Viggo Widerøe was imprisoned as well, and they spent prison time in Åkebergveien from October to November 1941, before being shipped to Germany via Akershus Fortress.[7] He was imprisoned at Hamburg-Fühlsbuttel, and remained so until being saved by the White Buses at the war's end.[1]

His brother Vilhelm Skappel (1911–1992) was also a part of the resistance movement, but he fled to England in 1943. Like Helge, he worked with aerial photography, having started as early as 1930.

International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing for ten years.[9]

Post-war life

Skappel continued in Widerøe after the war. In 1946, he released the book Pionertid, "Pioneer Time", together with Viggo Widerøe, chronicling their time as pioneers of

Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition. The small mountain Skappelnabben was discovered and named after him.[1][10][11] In 1953 he made an advance to launch a program for economic mapping. This was his second advance; a proposal in 1937 led to some work being done by a committee, but it was hampered by World War II. Skappel's second advance led to a committee being formed in 1957, and economic mapping was eventually started by Norges Geografiske Oppmåling, however as late as in 1964. Skappel retired from the professional life in 1975.[2]

Skappel was decorated with the

HM The King's Medal of Merit, and was an honorary member of the national cartographic society. He lived in Nøtterøy in his later life, and died in October 2001, aged 94.[1][12]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Breivik, Jorunn (29 October 2001). "Helge Sommerfelt Skappel (obituary)". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). p. 9.
  2. ^ a b c d "Helge Skappel, en visjonær flypionér". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). 4 September 1997. p. 18.
  3. ^ Arnesen, Odd (1984). På grønne vinger over Norge (in Norwegian). Widerøe's Flyveselskap. p. 7.
  4. ^ Arnesen, 1984: pp. 8–9
  5. ^ Arnesen, 1984: pp. 10–11
  6. ^ Arnesen, 1984: p. 55
  7. ^ a b Giertsen, Børre R., ed. (1946). Norsk fangeleksikon. Grinifangene (in Norwegian). Oslo: Cappelen. p. 14. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  8. ^ Arnesen, 1984: p. 61
  9. ^ Krüger, C. C. (28 September 1992). "Vilhelm Skappel (obituary)". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). p. 9.
  10. ^ "Oppgavene løst i Antarktis". Verdens Gang (in Norwegian). 10 January 1952. p. 10.
  11. ^ "Skappelnabben Spur". Australian Antarctic Data Centre. Retrieved 15 November 2009.
  12. ^ "Helge Sommerfelt Skappel". geni_family_tree. Retrieved 7 February 2023.
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