Barbara Massing

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Barbara Massing (born May 31, 1960 in Düsseldorf ; † March 27, 2017 in Bremen ) was a German captain . She drove container ships of the fourth generation and was one of the few women in the captain's profession. She was a nautical member of the Seafaring House in Bremen. As such, in 2004 she was the first woman to take part in the traditional Bremen Schaffermahlzeit , the history of which goes back to 1545.

Life

Barbara Massing grew up with two brothers in a civil servant family. The family moved to Bremen in the mid-1960s . Barbara Massing graduated from high school at the Bördestraße school center in Bremen. Then she completed an apprenticeship as a sailor , which was a prerequisite for a nautical degree at the time. She acquired her sailor's letter from the Bremisch-Hamburgische Reederei Leonhardt & Blumberg . She studied from 1981 to 1984 at what was then the University of Nautical Sciences in Bremen (today University of Bremen ) and then went to sea as a second officer .

The house flag of the Leonhardt & Blumberg shipping company

Since 1989 she has been working again for the shipping company Leonhardt & Blumberg and took part in 1990 as first officer in supply trips for Australian research stations in the Antarctic on the polar supply ship Icebird ; the ship was built in 1984 by the Heinrich Brand shipyard in Oldenburg and has been looked after by Leonhardt & Blumberg since 1989. Since 1991 she has been driving for the shipping company as a captain, as it is called in the qualification diploma. In 1994 she was “the only German female captain of a container freighter”. In 2006 she was one of only six German female captains worldwide (as of 2006), in 2009 one of only five in Germany (as of 2009). Until her retirement at Leonhardt & Blumberg, Barbara Massing drove fourth-generation Panamax container ships with a length of 292 meters and a loading capacity of 4,565  TEU . She was at sea for up to eight months each year.

After starting her studies in the 1981 winter semester, Massing joined the Tritonia Nautical Comradeship , which was founded in 1889 and is thus the oldest student association in Bremen. The Tritonia Bremen also took women since an amendment in 1976; the first "active female fellow ", as the association describes the female student members, joined in 1978.

After Massing became a captain, she checked the statutes of the Haus Seefahrt Foundation , a social welfare institution in Bremen that has existed since 1545 and supports old seafaring members and their relatives. She found that the inclusion of a woman with a captain's license is not separately regulated in the traditional statutes of the foundation and is therefore not excluded. In 1996 she was accepted as a seafaring member of Haus Seefahrt and thus the first woman in its centuries-old history. Then she took part for the first time in 2004 as a regular guest at the Schaffermahlzeit, which is organized annually by Haus Seefahrt and is considered "the oldest continuing, annually repeated fraternal meal in the world". Barbara Massing's participation in the renowned traditional event, which up until then had been contested exclusively by men - “a woman at the table for the first time in 460 years” - was viewed as a “sensation” and met with national interest; it was reported on, among other things, on television and in the press .

Barbara Massing was a long-term member of MTV Nautilus , an association founded in 1987 to maintain maritime traditions in Bremen- Vegesack , which among other things maintains several ships as cultural monuments. On the club's traditional ship BV 2 Vegesack , a 35-meter-long sailing logger , she went as a skipper or as a crew member, for example at the Kieler Woche . But she was also an avid cyclist. In the 1990s she crossed the Australian continent all by herself on her vacation.

Barbara Massing died on March 27, 2017 in Bremen. Her wish was a burial at sea . As creator of the skippers (so-called captain's creator), she took part in the 473rd Schaffermahlzeit on February 10, 2017.

literature

Web links

Commons : Barbara Massing  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituaries in the Weser-Kurier
  2. ↑ a b c d Tina Groll: Women in men's jobs. "Women on the high seas are not normal". Die Zeit (www.zeit.de), August 18, 2009, accessed on February 22, 2010 .
  3. ↑ a b c Iris Graaf-Burkert: Captain Barbara Massing. A woman finds her way in a male domain. (No longer available online.) In: frauenseiten.bremen. Bremen.de, October 16, 2009, formerly in the original ; Retrieved February 22, 2010 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.bremen.de
  4. ↑ Robin Burns: Just tell them I survived! Women in Antarctica . Allen & Unwin , Crows Nest / New South Wales (Australia) 2001, ISBN 1-86508-382-8 , p. 18 (English).
  5. ↑ Barbara Massing is the only German female captain of a container ship. Three marriage proposals in 16 years ( Memento from February 10, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  6. ↑ 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, University of Bremen , Bremen 2008, p. 16 (see also literature).
  7. ↑ A woman at the blackboard for the first time in 460 years. In: Bremer Schaffermahlzeit. Schaffer meal without women. Radio Bremen , February 5, 2010, archived from the original on March 12, 2010 ; Retrieved February 22, 2010 .
  8. ↑ Premiere: A woman at the Schaffermahl. (No longer available online.) District newspaper Syke (syke.mzv.net), February 13, 2004, p. 3 , formerly in the original ; Retrieved February 25, 2010 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / syke.mzv.net
  9. ↑ Tom Levine: "Mrs. Captain, Gentlemen" . In: Berliner Zeitung , February 16, 2004
  10. ↑ Eckhard Stengel: Goodbye men's club! Sensation at the Schaffermahl. In: The Parliament No. 12-13. German Bundestag , March 15, 2004, archived from the original on August 30, 2005 ; Retrieved February 22, 2010 .
  11. ↑ "Break-in" into a male domain? (PDF; 1.1 MB) (No longer available online.) In: Das Logbuch, No. 57. Maritime Tradition Vegesack Nautilus e. V. (MTV Nautilus), 2004, p. 8 , formerly in the original ; Retrieved on February 23, 2010 (Easter 2004).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.vegesack-maritim.de
  12. ↑ See the "with a premiere" starting the second speech of the third Schaffer, Berend Erling: "For the first time Schaffermahlzeit has a Schafferin!" In: [1]  ( page no longer available , searching web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; see also the obituary by Haus Seefahrt Bremen in: Weser-Kurier , April 8, 2017, p. 20; There is also the obituary of friends, companions and drivers from the sailing logger BV 2 Vegesack and from the MTV Nautilus .@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.schaffermahlzeit.de  
personal data
SURNAME Massing, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German captain
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 2017
Place of death Bremen