Andreas Gondesen

Andreas Gondesen (born June 16, 1961 in Wees , fishing ) is a German electronics technician , model builder and shipping historian .

Life

After graduating from secondary school in Satrup in 1979 , Gondesen did an apprenticeship as a power plant electronics technician in Flensburg . With the German Navy since 1983 , he was trained and used in the fleet service squadron . He then completed a two-year advanced training course at the technical college for industrial electronics in Meldorf . From 1989 he worked for a machine factory in Hamburg for over two years as a service and commissioning technician worldwide. Since 1991 he has been working as an "Angeliter" in measurement and control and process control technology at Stadtwerke Flensburg .

shipping

Since his youth, he has been making models of historic sailing ships . The models are not built as standing models, but can sail remotely . He has been a member of the historical shipbuilding working group for decades. He is a founding member of the Minisail Classic .

Models

Four-masted barque 1:75 Pamir

Frigate 1:50 Constitution

Ship of the line 1:50 De Zeven Provinciën

Commercial ship type 1:50 Fleute

Five-masted full ship (under construction) 1:75 Prussia

For the German Maritime Museum he worked up the few remains of the Pamir .

Publications

• The four-masted barque Columbia from Bremen. In: The Albatross. Bulletin of the Cap Horniers. Vol. 50, Issue 3, 2005, ISSN  0516-5016 , pp. 93-100, PDF file; 1.93 MB .
• The last wheat sailors 1921–1949. In: Scientific yearbook of the German Maritime Museum. Vol. 28, 2005, ISSN  0343-3625 , pp. 239-266.
• The last Flying P-Liners. Pamir, Passat, their sisters and half-sisters from the years 1902 to 1926 (= writings of the German Maritime Museum. Vol. 69). Oceanum-Verlag, Wiefelstede 2010, ISBN 978-3-86927-069-2 , GoogleBooks

Web links

• Gondesen's website
• Pamir, a remote-controlled windjammer (1993) (PDF; 2.5 MB)
• Three days sleepless in a hurricane (FAZ, September 17, 2011)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Historical Shipbuilding Working Group
2. ↑ Minisail Classic
3. ↑ Remnants of the Pamir in the DSM
4. ↑ Book view .