Alfred (ship, 1913)
 Reconstruction drawing of Alfred from 1994
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The Alfred is a German Besanewer with home port of Greifswald .
history
The ship was built under the hull number 417 at the van Diepen shipyard in Waterhuizen in the Dutch province of Groningen . Construction began on December 28, 1912. In May 1913 the ship was delivered as Helene to H. Schröder from Dornbusch for 8,100 marks . The extract from the shipyard's order book shows that the ship was delivered including “masts, trees , gaffs , stove, shrouds and water barrel”. In 1926, the ship still bore the name Helene in a survey certificate ( distinctive signal KMJW). In 1928 the ship ran as a motor sailer Grete (U-Signal KMJW, shipowner J. Rademacher), as can be seen from a driving license from the See-Berufsgenossenschaft . A Deutz diesel engine with 25 hp was installed as early as 1926 and was renewed in 1943. In 1930 Johann Rademacher from Mehedorf near Bremervörde sold the Grete to the fuel dealer Ernst Hilgendorf from Groß-Stepenitz . He already used the ship as Alfred in the Stettin trip. Since 1936 Ernst Hilgendorf's son Alfred has been on the ship, whose name it got when his father bought it in 1930.
On March 5, 1945, the last 55 inhabitants of Bad Stepenitz fled on Alfred from the advancing Red Army. The escape route went over the Papenwasser to Ziegenort (now Trzebiesz), the Oderhaff, the Peenestrom and then the Peene up to Malchin and Neukalen. The ship stayed there for a year until the Peene was navigable again after the Wehrmacht had destroyed the bridges.
This escape story was recreated in a project "JOURNEY IN TIME - Escape to Alfred 1945 - Remembrance 2010", funded by the Socioculture Fund and the Greifswald Citizens Harbor, calling at all the ports of that time and inviting interested parties to lectures and videos on Alfred. The "reenactment" of this escape began in May 2007 with the journey from Greifswald to Stepnica / Poland. There was also a meeting with former German residents of Stepenitz and with Polish citizens. In August the journey on the Peene, from Anklam via Loitz and Demmin to the Kummerower See, to Neukalen and Malchow was continued. Sustainable encounters with the former witnesses of this escape and their descendants, as well as interested residents, took place in each port. On March 5, 2011 the final event of the project was held in the Pomeranian State Museum in Greifswald with over 200 interested parties. The 45-minute video documentation “Time travel with ALFRED 1945 - 2010” by Manfred Dietrich also took place there.
The project was initiated by Liselotte Berendt's family, who lived in or near Greifswald, who remembered her grandmother's stories and brought the story to the ship owner and his wife.
Liselotte Berendt died on the last day of the “ZEITREISE” trip, on August 16, 2010, three days after her 97th birthday.
The Hilgendorfs opened their freight business with Alfred in Anklam in 1946 and kept the ship in freight service until 1952.
Alfred Hilgendorf lived in Boock near Löcknitz after 1992 , in the last few years in Heiligenhafen and was an honorary member of the Museum Port Greifswald. He died on July 15, 2012 at the age of 88.
It has been handed down from him that in the harsh winter of 1946 the ship was an icebreaker on the Peene, together with other ships, transporting coal for the university clinics from Jarmen to Greifswald. Alfred Hilgendorf drove the ship together with his parents until 1952 in the Bodden and Haff cruise. Some port calls are documented in the port books of Lauterbach / Rügen and Greifswald.
In 1956, the ship was in Anklam launched . There it was discovered by Wolfgang Rudolph in 1957/1958 and entered into his register under the number 2/127. He described the condition of the ship and a. with: "... swords : two ... mast: no, but still 2 (!) mast koker (until 1926 BM, bu 56 GM). Bowsprit : none (until 1935). Rigging: (formerly: K, F, GrS, BS) until 1956 jib and mainsail . Painting: hull black, railing light blue, Luksüll dark red, roof brown red, ... "
In the following years, Wolfgang Rudolph tried to keep this Ewer , which was original in many details . In 1969 the ship was rescued from being scrapped by selling it to the National Research and Memorial Sites Weimar , and Else Hilgendorf as the owner (Alfred fled to the West in 1952, her husband Ernst died in 1962) with 1500 Marks from the GDR achieved a very good one Price (twice the monthly wage of a skilled worker). As a result, Alfred was put ashore together with three other old ships in Seedorf / Rügen in February 1970 and used as a workshop ship in the Association of Holiday Home Ships. As a result of this use, the alterations to the ship were minimal and many of the original details were preserved.
Restoration and current use
After the reunification of Germany , Reinhard Bach from the museum harbor Greifswald recognized the new opportunity for these ships, negotiated with the successors of NFG Weimar and was able to transfer three of the ships to new owners for 1 DM. The condition of the ship was only tolerably good above the horizon, the floors were rotten through. The Alfred could not swim. Reinhard Bach found in Roland Aust, Pirola Hamburg, the man who drew Alfred a new soil on the reed plan in Seedorf. In 1995 the Alfred and Tjalk Christian Müther (also Greifswald Museum Harbor) were able to return to their element.
The restoration of the still existing old Deutz machine was not possible, so a new machine, a Russian 120 HP diesel engine ( KrAZ-214 , Detroit license) from Peenemünde NVA stocks was installed. The old machine was secured as a museum piece at Rolli Reeckmann on Liddow / Rügen and can now be viewed in the Ewer Käte in front of the port authority in Ralswiek / Rügen. In 1996 Hinrich Meyer joined Alfred as a co-owner . Subsequently, the ship was kept roadworthy in detail by derusting / preserving in the ship and welding. In 1996, the owner community decided to install a 17 m large mast. H. Meyer has held Alfred alone since 1997. When rigging and painting many kilograms were over 50 blocks, circa 1000 m rope, red lead and color on or in the ship. As a jib boom and gaff, the stems of the Hissøy shark cutter , which has since been sawed, could be reworked.
On July 18, 1997, the Alfred was able to leave her berth in the museum harbor Greifswald on her own.
In 2000, the Alfred brought two new bells for the church in Greifswald-Wieck on her first freight trip in almost fifty years. The bells were loaded onto the Alfred from the Condor museum crane (built in 1910) in the Greifswald museum harbor and shipped to Wieck with church flags, a trombone choir and Pastor Altemüller-Klas
In the meantime, Alfred is completely rigged again with mizzen mast and sails, with five berths, pantry and toilet, and every year he goes to the Christian Müther commemorative trip with asthma sufferers.
Individual evidence
- ↑ port book Lauterbach / complaints City Archives Greifswald Acc.3 / 99 no. 6
- ^ From history ( Memento of March 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), Besanewer Alfred.
- ↑ Details in the journal Piekfall No. 62 (1997)
- ↑ Details from Michael Sohn: Old Ships 3/95