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They days began to blend into one another. Kurt and Alfred already talked privately about what they were going to do after Lindenberg. Kurt was negotiating (quietly) for a job as assistant at the Physikalischer Verein in Frankfurt. Meanwhile, Alfred was seriously considering making a move at the same time.
=== Polar expedition (2) ===
On 23 March 1906, Alfred was in the headquarters building at Lindenberg, reading the Tägliche Rundschau, a major daily newspaper from Berlin. His eye fell on a telegraphic notice about the Mylius-Erichsen expedition. Christensen had made good on his promise. It announced that Mylius-Erichsen had collected sufficient sponsor and the Danish government had indeed decided to match the funds. The article also contained the following astonishing paragraph : "Outside of the Danish members of the expedition, it is likely that Dr. phil. A. Wegener of Germany will take part as physicist and meteorologist and Dr. phil. Baron von Firicks from Russia as geologist. However, the negotiations with these two scholars have not been concluded."
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