Poet class
 Passenger ship Cecilienhof of the poet class 2007 in Potsdam
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The Dichter class is a series of eight large passenger ships that were built from April 1961 to the end of 1963 in the VEB shipyard "Edgar André" in Magdeburg- Rothensee in the GDR. The ships received the class designation due to the naming with mostly names of German poets.
history
The passenger ships were built as part of a series of eight ships in the state-owned shipyard named after Etkar André in Magdeburg . The ships are 52.87 meters long and 8.08 meters wide. The average draft is 1.26 meters. When they were put into service, they were driven by two motors from SKL Magdeburg. The passenger capacity was 725 people when it was put into service.
The first four ships in the series were intended for the White Fleet Berlin, based in the eastern part of the city in Treptow an der Spree . When planning the ships in 1960, special emphasis was placed on efficient catering on board in order to be able to offer comparable ships as a counterpart to the new restoration ships in the western part of Berlin. In April 1961 the VEB Fahrgastschiffahrt Berlin put the first ship of the poet class with the name Johannes R. Becher into service. He was followed in February 1962 by Friedrich Wolf , in April 1962 by Bertolt Brecht and towards the end of the same year by Heinrich Mann .
The shipyard delivered two more ships in this series to the White Fleet in Potsdam , the Sanssouci in 1962 and the Cecilienhof in 1963. The different ship names after castles of the Hohenzollern family are striking . The then management of the Potsdam company was able to enforce its negative attitude towards proposed names by government agencies and to give their ships names typical for Potsdam .
Two other sister ships are the activist , which was used in the city of Brandenburg an der Havel and the Erich Weinert for operation on the Elbe in the Magdeburg area. Seven of the eight ships in the class are still underway.
List of passenger ships
| image | Surname
upon commissioning |
ENI former GDR registration number |
Year of construction / place | Comments / converted / sold / whereabouts |
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Johannes R. Becher | P-187 | 1961 / Magdeburg-Rothensee | The type ship of the series with the construction number 2001, White Fleet Berlin, then from 1990 Mecklenburg Stern and Kreisschiffahrt GmbH Berlin, from 1997 on with the name for Oder-Haff Seetours Reederei Peters GmbH Ückermünde. The ship was sold to Lithuania via Poland in 2005 and sailed as Mecklenburg on the Memel with its home port of Klaipėda . From 2012 the ship was based in Riga (name unknown). Since 2017 as Wratislavia (internal reg. No. WR-01-230) in Breslau . |
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Friedrich Wolf | P-188 | 1961/62 / Magdeburg-Rothensee | Construction number 2003; White Fleet Berlin, then from 1990 Thuringia Stern und Kreisschiffahrt GmbH Berlin, from April 1999 onwards with the name for Oder-Haff Seetours Reederei Peters GmbH Ückermünde. Rebuilt in 2007 in Polish shipyard; since 2008 as the world's largest seal research station and laboratory ship GF Lichtenberg ; Berth at the Ostmole Hohe Düne seal station Rostock ; the ship no longer has engines and houses living rooms and laboratories for the scientists working there and is named "" Lichtenberg "after the German professor Georg Christoph Lichtenberg . |
 
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Bertolt Brecht | 05604820 P-189 |
1962 / Magdeburg-Rothensee | Construction number 2004; ex. Adler River (until 2005), ex. Saxony Anhalt (until 1998), ex. Bertolt Brecht (until 1990). White Fleet Berlin until 1990, then Saxony-Anhalt until 1998 Stern und Kreisschiffahrt GmbH Berlin, from March 1998 Adler River Insel and Halligreederei Paulsen. After the end of the butter trips to Hamburg, the shipping company sold SPMS used for harbor tours; has been called Classic River since 2005 ; resold to Prague and the ship was entered in the Czech shipping register on March 18, 2009. |
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Heinrich Mann | 05602510 P-192 |
1962 / Magdeburg-Rothensee | From 1990 onwards as a Saxon at Stern und Kreisschiffahrt GmbH Berlin. Removed from the fleet list in April 2014 and sold to Gelsenkirchen as a pirate on the move . |
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Sanssouci | 05609360 P-191 |
1962 / Magdeburg-Rothensee | First new building (hull number 2005) since 1945 for White Fleet Potsdam, sold in 1994, until 1998 event ship on Gröbenufer at Oberbaumbrücke in Berlin, 1998 Adler Queen Reederei S. Paulsen on the Oder, from 2005 Classic Queen Hamburg SPMS GmbH. In Prague since mid-2016. Conversion to the brewery and restaurant ship Pivovar with permanent berth. |
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Cecilienhof | 05607630 P-193 |
1963 / Magdeburg-Rothensee | Launched in Potsdam in 2011, sold to Moldova in 2012. New name Cecilie |
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activist | P-190 | 1961/62 / Magdeburg-Rothensee | Construction number 2006; from October 1990 Fritze Bollmann , White Fleet Brandenburg, owner Frank Mothes. 1997 modernized max. 300 pax. Sold to the Insel- und Halligreederei Sven Paulsen in July 1998. Used on the Oder from July 1998 to 2002 as an Adler Steamer and then until 2003 on the Upper Elbe. Sold to Prague on May 21, 2004 and travels as a Czechie on the Vltava. |
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Erich Weinert | 32101472 P-241 |
1963 / Magdeburg-Rothensee | 1994 sold to Prague, new name Európé . |
Special
The ships of the poet class were called luxury ships from the beginning and used for tours and special events. For tours and rentals there was a regulation of the fare that was completely new and unusual for the eastern part of Berlin and the GDR, namely the formation of a special price class for saloon and luxury ships that differed from those for the usual excursion or line ships clearly differentiated upwards.
The escape of crew members of the Friedrich Wolf caused a sensation, who in the early morning hours of June 8, 1962 brought the passenger ship from Treptow under heavy fire from GDR border soldiers to the entrance to the Landwehr Canal in the West Berlin district of Kreuzberg and there with their relatives as a whole 14 people disembarked.
Web links
literature
- Hans-Joachim Rook, Karola Paepke: Sailors and steamers on the Havel and Spree: highlights on Potsdam's shipping history . Brandenburgisches Verlagshaus, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-89488-032-5 .
- Dieter Schubert: German inland passenger ships. Illustrated register of ships. Uwe Welz Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-933177-10-3 .
- Kurt Groggert: Passenger shipping on the Havel and Spree. (Berlin contributions to the history of technology and industrial culture, vol. 10), Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-87584-253-7 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kurt Groggert: Personenschiffahrt on Havel and Spree , page 323
- ^ Website about the ship Wratislavia , (Polish) accessed on October 16, 2017
- ↑ Kurt Groggert: Personenschiffahrt on Havel and Spree page 324