German Nautical Association

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German Nautical Association
of 1868 eV
(DNV)
purpose Promotion of shipping and maritime affairs
Chair: Captain Christian Suhr
Establishment date: April 14, 1868
Number of members: approx. 4200
Seat : GermanyGermany Hamburg
Website: www.dnvev.de

The German Nautical Association of 1868 eV (DNV) is the umbrella organization of the regional nautical associations on the North and Baltic Seas and promotes all matters of general interest in shipping , shipbuilding , port management and the maritime environment. The seat of the association is Hamburg .

history

There were already nautical associations when the German Nautical Association was founded on April 14, 1868 in the Berlin "Hotel d'Hambourg". With the supra-regional merger in Germany, which is characterized by many independent principalities and cities, upcoming shipping problems in Germany should be dealt with with one voice and subject to professional advice. Initially, the addressees were the North German Confederation and, from 1871, the German Reich , to which topics about safety on board and on the shipping lanes, about ship's crew, general technical questions, the investigation and tracking of accidents and other things were presented and represented. The views on this were often quite different , especially in the principalities of the time and in the Hanseatic cities .

At the time of its founding, there were eleven sailing or nautical organizations, five of which were represented by delegates in Berlin, and ten nautical associations or societies that had sent five representatives. Two years later, the German Nautical Association consisted of seven boatmen's associations and five old nautical associations. Branch associations of the DNV in Brake , Kolberg , Leer , Lübeck and Rendsburg were added . The oldest member associations included the Stettin Nautical Society, founded in 1845 as a Schiffergesellschaft , and the Memel Nautical Society , which was founded around the same time.

The specific reasons for uniting nautical, i.e. shipping, interests in the 19th century included a. four topics that were discussed at the two-day inaugural meeting:

  • In the middle of the 19th century, the principle that flotsam belonged to the finder was often still in force . This then led to unpleasant consequences for the people who were still clinging to the flotsam and who could be viewed as the finder's serfs . This had already changed with the establishment of the German Society for Rescue of Shipwrecked People in 1865, but there was a general plea for a new stranding order and this topic was discussed at the first meeting of the newly founded German Nautical Association in 1868.
  • Another topic was the criminal prosecution and investigation of accidents in the shipping industry, which until now have only been dealt with by judges with no knowledge of shipping. The German shipping world no longer wanted to accept this and therefore demanded special sea dishes.
  • In 1868 it was also about the position of the captain, namely the "right to navigate a ship". The main reason for this was the different legislation in the maritime states of the North German Confederation. In 1868 it was demanded that anyone who had provided evidence "that he is qualified for this office" must be permitted to operate a German ship. Over the decades, however, the subject of ship management has repeatedly moved the nautical associations and prompted them to comment. The responsibility of the leader of a ship is an essential aspect for safety on board and at sea and therefore for people.
  • A fourth topic at the charter dealt with the establishment of a place from which documents for safe navigation could be obtained. This had already been created with the founding of the North German Seewarte by Wilhelm von Freeden in the same year. In 1868 the delegates agreed to accept this facility, to accompany it professionally and to support it.

Chairperson

Period Chairman
1868-1869 Consul Captain K. Beurmann, Bremerhaven
1869-1873 Dispatcher Captain Heinrich Tecklenborg , Vegesack
1873-1874 Professor Dr. Karstens, Rostock
1874-1875 Commerce Councilor John Gibsone, Gdansk
1875-1877 Consul JG Lund, Hamburg
1877-1884 Commerce Councilor John Gibsone, Gdansk
1884-1903 Secret Commerce Councilor August Sartori , Kiel
1903-1919 Secret Commerce Councilor August Schulze, Oldenburg
1919-1922 Consul, Senator Carl Dimpker , Lübeck
1922-1931 Shipowner Carl Holm, Flensburg
1931-1935 Director Th. Ritter, Hamburg
1935-1953 Shipowner Herbert Amsinck, Hamburg
1953-1968 Consul Lothar Bohlen, Hamburg
1968-1979 Shipowner Hans-Edwin Reith, Hamburg
1979-1984 Shipowner Erich Ebers, Hamburg
1984-1990 Professor Dieter Ulken, Hamburg
1990-1996 Graduate in business administration Gerd Trulsen, Hamburg
1996-2008 Shipowner Frank Leonhardt, Hamburg
2008-2011 Professor Dr. Dr. hc Peter Ehlers , Rostock
since 2011 Shipowner Frank Wessels , Emden from 2020 Kapt. Christian Suhr, Hamburg

membership

The nautical associations are communities of individual members and corporate members to whom the sea is a particular concern. The individual members include a. Captains , pilots , ship officers , ship brokers , naval officers , maritime experts or those otherwise associated with shipping. Corporate members, such as B. Shipping companies , shipyards , authorities or shipping agencies.

In 1870 the then chairman, the Bremen captain Heinrich Tecklenborg, discussed the meaning and value of membership in a nautical association in the magazine HANSA . He referred to the benefits that could be drawn from the negotiation minutes and memoranda of the district associations. In addition, it was possible, as he called it, to participate in “a great national work”. Of course, the members could not expect any direct material advantage, because the German Nautical Association could neither increase the freight nor reduce the wear and tear on the ships and equipment, but still indirectly bring about an increase in income from shipping. The DNV chairman included the improvement of buoys, beacons and pilots , the abolition of regionally-related shipping taxes , the establishment of branch stations for the maritime control, the improvement and simplification of legislation in maritime matters and the establishment of maritime courts.

societies

Nautical associations in DNV are:

Surname Establishment (re-establishment) Individual members Corporate Members
Bremen Nautical Association 1869 (1905) 220 66
Bremerhaven Nautical Association 1868 (1920) 211 38
Nautical Association Brunsbüttel 1960 299 48
Cuxhaven Nautical Association 1969 563 28
Nautical Association in Emden 1869 (1957) 569 159
Flensburg Nautical Association 1872 (1967) 172 17th
Hamburg Nautical Association 1868 294 45
Kappeln-Schlei Nautical Association 1988 67 8th
Kiel Nautical Association from 1869 1869 165 0
Lübeck Nautical Association 1870 344 38
Nautical Association Neustadt / Holstein 1996 34 0
Nautical Association of the Lower Elbe 1968 92 7th
Lower Saxony Nautical Association 1865 114 19th
Nautical Association of North Friesland 1869 (1971) 86 12
Rostock Nautical Association 1870 (1990) 68 21st
Sassnitz-Rügen Nautical Association 1991 40 3
Stralsund Nautical Association 1868 (1990) 47 6th
Vogelfluglinie Nautical Association 1978 110 17th
Nautical Association Wilhelmshaven-Jade 1960 215 58
Wismar Nautical Association 1991 32 2

Corporate Members

Corporate members of the DNV are:

activity

The shipping parliament

In the years up to the First World War, the German Nautical Association was known as the "shipping parliament". At the time of the uniform maritime structure in Germany, there was hardly any development in the German maritime sector that was not initiated, advised and brought into parliamentary work by the German Nautical Association.

Under the long-term aegis of the Kiel shipping man Consul August Sartori, the nautical community made a detailed and supportive commitment in 1872 with the plans to build a canal between the North and Baltic Seas that could be used by large ships . The nautical associations saw an economic improvement and greater safety for navigation between the two seas.

German Maritime Days

After World War factual issues and questions of navigation focused mostly on the 1909 first German with the Association Seeschiffer clubs Germans Seeschiffahrtstagen treated and advised specific questions in commissions. On the two-day Maritime Shipping Days, as before at the DNV Association Days, high-ranking representatives of the Reich government and the political parties were present, who took decisive knowledge from the discussions and deliberations for parliamentary work.

During the time of National Socialism , this communication option was rigorously ended. The German Nautical Association and its member associations became a compulsorily administered organizational element of the NSDAP , in which the until then freely elected bodies in the regional nautical associations had to be determined by the DNV and accepted by the party. Nevertheless, it was possible to discuss the essential maritime issues and it is not least thanks to the personality of the Hamburg shipowner Herbert Amsinck as chairman that a basis for professional advice was retained for the personnel in German shipping. The DNV was unable to continue its work until the first days of 1945, when all documents were destroyed in a bomb attack.

After the end of the Second World War, the work of the DNV ceased entirely and it was not until 1954 that a new beginning began on the initiative of the nautical associations in Bremen, Bremerhaven, Hamburg and Lübeck, which had been active again for several years, and at the request of the then head of the now responsible maritime department in the Federal Ministry of Transport . It was agreed that the German Nautical Association will always be approached for comments when the federal states are asked about maritime topics.

The Standing Technical Committee

With the new start, the technical commissions also resumed their advisory work. The renaissance in shipping and ship technology required an intensive consideration of the diverse topics. At the end of the 1960s, the work became so extensive that it could no longer be managed by the commissions that met sporadically, and for this reason the Standing Technical Committee was created in 1971 and finally established with a revised statute in 1972. The committee originally consisting of 8 representatives from the maritime industry has meanwhile grown to around 80 delegates from the nautical associations and corporate members. The technical committee meets monthly and mostly in Hamburg and decides in the working groups prepared statements on current maritime topics. The templates are incorporated into current considerations on issues relating to shipping, shipbuilding, port management and the maritime environment at national and international level.

The work of the Standing Committee of Experts is a continuous process in which technical and interdisciplinary struggle for objective positions, with the aim of bringing the questions and problems of the maritime community into the consciousness of decision-makers and offering practical suggestions and solutions free of particular interests.

In addition to the German Shipping Days, the “Nautical Evenings” held in the federal capital since 1990 and the “Maritime Dialogues” held in Bonn since 2002 serve to convey the questions and the results. Once a year the Standing Committee of Experts is a guest at the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development to discuss current topics and ideas directly. In addition, results are published in publications or on the DNV homepage.

Events

With lectures on maritime topics (usually monthly), the nautical associations help to ensure that the presentation of shipping in Germany is made public.

Once a year, the nautical associations invite you to a “nautical meal” and thus promote understanding between seafarers, port service providers, politicians and the press by bringing everyone involved around the table.

DNV honorary award

Since 1991, the German Nautical Association has been setting standards for the care of young talent with the award of the DNV Prize of Honor. Initially it was named after deserving members of the Standing Technical Committee. Up until 2003, the best German seafaring schools of the year were honored, and in 2004 the Schleswig-Holstein Seafarer's School on the Priwall in Lübeck-Travemünde for the excellent training of young seafarers. In 2005, two ship engineers were awarded a certificate and a monetary amount for first-class study results for the first time. This was followed by a graduate of the seafaring department from Rostock-Warnemünde and the nautical AFZ training center Rostock GmbH in Marienehe .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.dnvev.de/?sp=der-dnv
  2. ↑ http://www.dnvev.de/?sp=dnv-geschichte
  3. ↑ a b Nautical Associations. German Nautical Association, accessed on January 21, 2016 .
  4. ^ The chairmen since 1868 . In: DNV calendar 2008/2009 . S. 56 .
  5. ^ Corporate Members. German Nautical Association, accessed on January 21, 2016 .
  6. ^ Members of the Standing Technical Committee. German Nautical Association, accessed on January 21, 2016 .
  7. ^ DNV honorary award