1938年—1939年德国远征西藏

1938年4月—1939年8月，一支德国远征队在西藏进行探险。此次远征由德国动物学家、党卫队军官恩斯特·舍费尔率领，并得到了党卫军领袖海因里希·希姆莱的赞助和党卫军附属组织祖先遗产学会的支持"Schäfer cannily had a letterhead printed. It read DEUTSCHE TIBET EXPEDITION ERNST SCHÄFER in large letters, then 'under the patronage of the Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler and in connection with the Ahnenerbe' in small letters" .。这是德国首支正式深入西藏并到达拉萨的远征队"They are the first official German expédition to enter Tibet and reach Lhasa, its holy city" .。

除舍费尔外，远征队成员还包括埃德蒙·格尔（Edmund Geer；技术人员）、恩斯特·克勞澤（昆虫学家、摄影师）、（地质学家）和（种族学家）"Everyone of the five German scientists was also an officer in the SS" ."Schäfer […] was a fastidious zoologist with a passion for Tibetan birds. […] . Ernst Krause was a botanist and entomologist; Karl Wienert was a geographer whose task was to measure variations in the earth’s magnetic field in the Himalayas; and Bruno Beger was an anthropologist who would spend his time in Tibet measuring the heads and bodies of its people" .。

探险队到达英属印度与锡金后，于1938年10月越过藏印边境，1939年1月19日抵达拉萨，并在那里停留了两个月。他们在拉萨郊外受到了國民政府蒙藏委員會咨议張威白的迎接Hsiao-Ting Lin, Tibet And Nationalist China's Frontier: Intrigues And Ethnopolitics, 1928-49,  : List of Nationalist Chinese Representatives at Lhasa. […] Technician of the Chinese wireless station in Lhassa. Served as acting representative."One of them would greet the humiliated Ernst Schäfer outside Lhasa five years later. His name was Chang Wei-pei, and he was said to be something of an oddball and an opium addict" .。队员们与西藏精英人士建立了良好的关系，其中包括摄政热振·图旦绛白益西丹巴坚赞"By now the expedition had spent more than two monts in Lhasa and they had become honoured guests and friends of the city's elite. […] By now the Germans were on very good terms with Reting" .。他们收集了大量的植物和动物，并进行了地磁测量以及民族学和人类学观察。

由于納粹德國的地缘战略和种族主义目标，此次探险的真正科学意义存在争议。

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Category:纳粹主义中的神秘主义
Category:纳粹党卫队
Category:纳粹德国研发
Category:从德国出发的远征队
Category:1938年西藏
Category:1939年西藏
Category:德国—西藏关系
Category:中華民國大陸時期與德國關係
Category:亚洲远征