Education
Leo Gburek attended the Volksschule and Oberrealschule in Beuthen.
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Career
In 1929 he began a study of geophysics at the University of Leipzig. In the summer months of 1937 and 1938 he took part in expeditions to Spitsbergen, where he undertook geomagnetic surveys. Due to his polar experience Gburek was selected in October 1938 to join this expedition.
His responsibilities included geomagnetic measurements on the Antarctic continent.
A group of rocky elevations on the ice sheet was named by the expedition leader Gburekspitzen (Gburek Peaks). At the beginning of World World War II Gburek was conscripted and served as a weather observer in the Luftwaffe in weather reconnaissance squadron Wekusta 1 / Ob.dL. In January 1941, his plane was shot down over the Shetland Islands during a reconnaissance flight and he was killed, aged 30, during the crash landing at Vaasetter, Fair Isle.
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There he met Ernst Herrmann, who was also a member of the third German Antarctic Expedition led by Alfred Ritscher.
