Gerhard Rose (captain)

Gerhard Rose (born October 29, 1906 , † September 13, 1978 in Wustrow ) was a German captain and author of several standard works on shipping .

Life

Gravestone of Captain Gerhard Rose in the Fischland cemetery in Wustrow

Rose worked on a sailing ship from the age of 17 and, after attending the Wustrow Seafaring School, acquired the patent for the Great Voyage in 1932 . With this training he went as a nautical officer and captain on various steam and sailing ships. After marrying Edith Misch, he worked as a civilian employee in the Air Force . In the course of the reopening of the seafaring school, he switched back to his original branch and taught nautical and seamanship. In addition to his teaching activities, he wrote several standard works, partly as the head of an authors' collective , such as the three-volume work Seemannschaft . From 1964 to 1970 he went to sea again as a captain for the German shipping company Rostock . His grave is in the Fischlandfriedhof in Wustrow.

Works (selection)

• Gerhard Rose: Stability and Trim of Sea Ships . Fachbuchverlag Leipzig, Leipzig 1952
• Gerhard Rose: Stability and Trim of Sea Ships . Fachbuchverlag Leipzig, Leipzig 1958
• Gerhard Rose, Walter Homburg, Walter Steinfatt, Adolf Zinn: Nautical collection of tasks . Fachbuchverlag Leipzig, Leipzig 1954
• Gerhard Rose: Seemannschaft Volume 1.Transpress Publishing House for Transport, Berlin 1960
• Gerhard Rose: Seamanship Volume 2 - Ship Service and Ship Safety . Transpress Publishing House for Transport, Berlin 1961
• Gerhard Rose: Seamanship Volume 3 - Maneuvers and cargo service . Transpress Publishing House for Transport, Berlin 1963
• Gerhard Rose: Nautical panels . Transpress Publishing House for Transport, Berlin 1976

literature

• Kurverwaltung Ostseebad Wustrow (Hrsg.): Kulturpfad - Ostseebad Wustrow . 1st edition. Klatschmohn Verlag Druck + Werbung, Bentwisch 2008, p. 44 .