Background
Herman Watzinger was born on 20 April 1916 in Wiesbaden, Germany.
Herman Watzinger was born on 20 April 1916 in Wiesbaden, Germany.
Norwegian Institute of Technology.
He was also was a Milorg member during the Second World War operation Polar Bear II, which was brought to Trondheim by Captain Leif Hauge. He moved to Lima, Peru, in 1950. On 25 September 1952 he was awarded the Orden al Mérito por Servicios Distinguidos by the Ministry of Foreign Relations of Peru.
On board the raft, where he was second in command, he was responsible for meteorological and hydrographic measurements.
After the Kon-Tiki expedition, he returned to Lima in 1970, where he worked as head of fisheries, projects and advisor in freezing techniques for WR Grace & Company and Atlas. Watzinger was also the head of a Norwegian-owned fish meal factory in Pisagua, northern Chile, with exports of fish meal to the United States. and Europe.
After that he became director of the Food and Agriculture Organization fishery Industries Division and later, of the Fisheries Department in Rome from 1970, and Deputy director general of the Food and Agriculture Organization (United Nations Food and Agriculture) in Rome, Italy. He graduated from the Norwegian Institute of Technology in hydrology and thermodynamics as his major.
He was the son of Adolf Watzinger, a long-time professor of mechanical engineering at the Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet university in Trondheim, Norway.
He died in Peru in 1986.
He then continued with doctoral studies at Norwegian Institute of Technology (Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet), which was cancelled because of World World War II, and applied for a job in the United States and sought a visa to the United States. He met Thor Heyerdahl in New York, where he was asked to participate in the construction of the Kon-Tiki raft and become a member of the expedition.