Port Director
A port director is the head of a department responsible for the port, infrastructure and traffic within an authority. All major sea and inland waterway ports in the world have a port director who represents the interests of a port internally and externally and who is responsible for the commercial and economic aspects.
Hamburg
After the Second World War, there was a port commissioner in Hamburg until 1949, which on April 1, 1949 was converted into a port operations management in the port and shipping department. The first port director was the previous senate commissioner and director of Hamburger Hafen- und Lagerhaus AG, Ernst Plate . The most famous port director was Karl-Ludwig Mönkemeier . He had the official title of head of the port and shipping port directorate in the economic authority. He held this position from 1968 to the end of 1986. His name is inextricably linked with the development of the Port of Hamburg into a modern universal port. His short-term successor was Jörg Rommerskirchen . He was followed by Hartmut Seidewinkel , who tragically died on August 1, 1988 during a business trip. The Hamburg port director also heads the Oberhafenamt there .
Karlsruhe
Patricia Erb-Korn has been the first sole port director in Germany since 2010. She is responsible for the Karlsruhe Rheinhafen.
See also
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- Abendblatt Historical Archive No. 37 of March 28, 1949
- Abendblatt Historical Archive article / 1008849