Antje Herbst

Antje-Friederike Herbst (born February 1967 in Hanover ) is a German captain . She is one of the very few women in the captain's profession. Autumn became known nationwide through reports in the media .

Life

education and profession

After graduating from school, Antje Herbst completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter , but then decided on shipping and initially hired on a sailing ship . She worked for seven years on board traditional  sailors in the passenger voyage - initially as a "deckhand", later with a Dutch patent as a helmsman  - and mainly sailed the North and Baltic Seas . After receiving an exemption from the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH), she studied nautical science at the Maritime Department of the University of Wismar in Warnemünde and graduated in 2004 with a master's license .

She then drove as second and first officer , initially for a short time on a container ship and then in the area of heavy lift shipping . Since 2004 she has been employed by the Bremen-based project and heavy lift shipping company Beluga Shipping , which has been in insolvency proceedings since May 2011 and whose core business started in June 2011 from the newly founded Hansa Heavy Lift (HHL) of the US investment company Oaktree Capital Management was taken over.

Captain of the Beluga Revolution

The multi-purpose heavy lift carrier Beluga Revolution from Beluga Shipping (2010, off the Tunisian coast).

Fall took over in February 2009 as the first female captain of the Beluga fleet to 134.65  meters long multipurpose -Schwergutfrachter Beluga Revolution , the lead ship of the R-series of Beluga. The ship, built in 2005 by the Dutch shipyard group Volharding Shipyards for the Beluga Group , has a speed of 18  kn , a container capacity of 547  TEU and a deadweight of 10,536  dwt .

public perception

Antje Herbst is "the only German female captain of a heavy lift freighter" and one of only ten female captains on long journeys in Germany (as of 2012). Her special professional situation as a woman in a “purely male job”, in which “women are not normal”, met with national public interest, and there were numerous reports about Antje Herbst in national newspapers , magazines and specialist journals as well as on television .

2010 turned ZDF about them a TV - report that in the ZDF series ZDF.reportage shown and now further television as DW-TV , Phoenix , ZDFinfokanal and 3sat aired and sometimes repeated several times. She was portrayed in detail in print media and internet newspapers such as Badische Zeitung , FAZ.NET , Neues Deutschland and Weser-Kurier .

Movie

• The woman on the bridge. With a captain on a long journey. Report by Torsten Mehltretter, ZDF 2010, series ZDF.reportage , 30 minutes ( online information at 3sat ).

literature

• Antje Eilers: On the training situation of women in “male professions” - a study on nautical students at the University of Applied Sciences Bremen . Master's thesis in the field of sociology at the University of Bremen , Bremen 2008 (university thesis ; freely available online as digitized version).

Web links

• Interview with Antje Herbst in visigator - magazine for hessens best , issue 01/10, No. 10

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Page no longer available , search in web archives: "Beluga Revolution". Everything listens to their command . In: Deutsche Seeschifffahrt. Journal of the Association of German Shipowners , February 2010 edition, ISSN 0948-9002 , pp. 12–13; PDF file, 366.97 kB, accessed June 6, 2011.  
2. ↑ ^{a b} Krischan Förster: Page no longer available , search in web archives: "Seafaring is like an addiction for me". Antje Herbst is one of the few female captains on board a freighter. 42-year-old commands Beluga training ship . In: Weser-Kurier of August 18, 2009; PDF file, 157.96 kB, accessed June 7, 2011.
3. ↑ ^{a b} The First Lady at Sea. Interview with captain Antje Herbst, captain at the Bremen project and heavy lift shipping company Beluga Shipping . In: visigator - magazine for Hessen's best , Special Typisch Junge !? - Typical girls !? , Edition 01/10, No. 10, pp. 32-33; PDF file, 6.10 MB, accessed June 7, 2011.
4. ^ Krischan Förster: Bremer Reederei. Hansa Heavy Lift succeeds Beluga today . In: Weser-Kurier from June 1, 2011; Retrieved June 6, 2011.
5. ^ ^{A b} Hermannus Pfeiffer: The captain of the "Revolution" . In: Neues Deutschland from March 31, 2010; Retrieved June 6, 2011.
6. ↑ Hafencity Zeitung, March 5, 2012
7. ↑ Maiden voyage of a captain . In: Employee and customer magazine Blue Line - Beluga Magazin , issue 02 / '09, pp. 16-17.
8. ^ ZDF report. The woman on the bridge - with a captain on a long journey  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . On: DW-TV on December 29, 2010; Retrieved June 7, 2011.  
9. ↑ The woman on the bridge. With a female captain on a long voyage ( memento of the original from November 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . At: Phoenix from June 2011; Retrieved June 6, 2011.  
10. ↑ The woman on the bridge. (…)  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . At: ZDFinfokanal from March 9, 2011; Retrieved June 6, 2011.  
11. ↑ The woman on the bridge. (...) . At: 3sat on August 17, 2010; Retrieved June 6, 2011.
12. ↑ Rarity on the high seas: a woman as a captain ( memento of the original from February 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Badische Zeitung of December 24, 2010, p. 20; Printed in: Press Review No. 52/2010 ( Memento of the original dated February 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. the Hochschule Bremen , pp 17-19; PDF file, 8.52 MB; each accessed on June 7, 2011. 
     
13. ↑ Stephan Finsterbusch: Dream jobs (8). Where the palm trees bow . On: FAZ.NET from August 25, 2009; Retrieved June 6, 2011.