Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency of Germany

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Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency
- BSH -

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State level Federation
position Higher federal authority
Supervisory authority Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure
founding 1868 as "North German Seewarte"
Headquarters Hamburg and Rostock
Authority management Karin Kammann-Klippstein, President and Professor
Servants 885
Budget volume EUR 103.9 million (2019)
Web presence www.bsh.de
BSH at the Hamburg-St. Pauli, Bernhard-Nocht-Strasse

The Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency ( BSH ) is a German higher federal authority with offices in Hamburg and Rostock with around 800 employees.

history

Emblem of the former German Hydrographic Institute

It has its historical roots in the North German Seewarte founded by Wilhelm von Freeden . Since 1868 this had been preparing individual sailing instructions based on nautical and meteorological observations. After the Second World War , the German Hydrographic Institute ( DHI ) , founded in 1945, took over these tasks.

In 1990 the DHI was merged with the Federal Office for Ship Surveying (BAS) to form the BSH. With the unification of the two German states , the Sea Hydrographic Service (SHD) of the GDR , formerly part of the People's Navy , was incorporated on October 3, 1990.

tasks

The Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency is a maritime service partner for shipping, business and the marine environment. The responsibilities are regulated , among other things, in the Maritime Tasks Act. As a higher federal authority, it belongs to the portfolio of the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure and has a wide range of tasks:

The BSH is represented in many national and international bodies.

fleet

The BSH manages five work ships for its work at sea . The BSH fleet consists of:

Message in a bottle collection

The library archive of the BSH contains what is probably the largest collection of messages in a bottle in the world (approx. 660 letters from the period 1864 to 1933).

literature

  • Mathias Jonas: 20 years of the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency in Rostock . In: Hansa , Heft 8/2010, ISSN  0017-7504 , pp. 184-191
  • BSH wants to make shipping safer, more environmentally friendly and more efficient . In: Hansa , issue 2/2011, pp. 46–48
  • Mathias Jonas: 150 years of official German hydrography . In: Schiff & Hafen , issue 10/2011, ISSN  0938-1643 , pp. 20-23
  • 2011 - a year dedicated to offshore wind energy . In: Schiff & Hafen , issue 2/2012, pp. 14–15
  • Michael Meyer: New flag law: BSH controls the use of funds . In: Daily port report from January 16, 2013, pp. 1–2 (report from the press conference on the 2012 BSH balance sheet)
  • Environmental protection and offshore wind energy in the focus of the BSH . In: Schiff & Hafen , issue 3/2014, ISSN  0938-1643 , p. 71

Web links

Commons : Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. press release. In: Internet presence. Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency, November 1, 2018, accessed on November 12, 2018 .
  2. Federal Budget 2020 - Section 12 - Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure. Federal Ministry of Finance, accessed on August 27, 2020 (overview of positions / positions on pages 252-254).
  3. Bundeshaushalt.de: www.Bundeshaushalt.de. Retrieved October 23, 2019 .
  4. Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (ed.): 25 years of the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency in the reunified Germany 1990–2015 . Festschrift. Hamburg / Rostock 2015 (16 pp., Bsh.de [PDF; 10.5 MB ; accessed on November 13, 2018]).
  5. Data backup in focus . In: Schiff & Hafen , issue 2/2010, pp. 16-17
  6. Wolfhart Fabarius: BSH issues certification for equipment. Private providers accept approval on January 1st . In: Daily port report of December 23, 2015, p. 2
  7. Thomas Dehling, Wilfried Ellmer: Twenty years of sea surveying since reunification . In: Hydrographische Nachrichten , Issue 93, 2012, ISSN  1866-9204 , pp. 16-20
  8. We will restructure ourselves. Interview with Monika Breuch-Moritz by Anne-Katrin Wehrmann. In: Hansa , issue 5/2017, pp. 90–91
  9. www.bsh.de: Research, survey and wreck search ships ( Memento from August 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on February 21, 2011.
  10. Eckhard-Herbert Arndt: BSH farewell to the Hamburg “KiKa” . In: Daily port report from October 23, 2013, p. 2.
  11. BSH research ship in service for 25 years ( memento from November 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ).
  12. www.bsh.de ( Memento from June 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Message in a bottle. Accessed February 21, 2011.


Coordinates: 53 ° 32 '47.9 "  N , 9 ° 58' 4"  E