Hamburg Harbor Pilots Association
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Hamburg Harbor Pilots Association |
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| State level | Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg |
| position | Pilot Brotherhood |
| legal form | Public corporation |
| founding | July 1, 1981 |
| Headquarters | Hamburg-Waltershof |
| Authority management | Captain Tim Grandorff, 1st senior man |
| Servants | > 73 |
| Web presence | www.hafenlotsen.de |
The Hafenlotsenbrüderschaft Hamburg is a corporation under public law with its seat in the Lotsenhaus Seemannshöft on Bubendey-Ufer in Hamburg-Waltershof . The organization holds the monopoly for pilotage in the area of the Hamburg port . The Pilot Brotherhood is on duty around the clock every day . Around 30,000 pilot operations are carried out annually. Emerging ships with mandatory pilotage are first piloted up the Elbe by the pilots of the Elbe Pilots Association .
75 port pilots work in the organization; As is customary in Germany, port and sea pilots are without exception captains with patents for long voyages. 1. Senior man is Captain Tim Grandorff.
history
Until 1981, the Hamburg port pilots were employees of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg and were civil servants . Their duty, which was referred to as a watch , was carried out every twelve hours. Since this became too inflexible for the needs of modern seafaring , the Hamburg citizenship decided on July 1, 1981, at the instigation of the port industry, to spin off a corporation under public law based on the model of sea pilots, the Hamburg Port Pilots Brotherhood. It is next to the harbor pilots society Bremerhaven , one of two harbor pilots 'associations among the nine German pilots' associations.
The Hamburg Port Authority (HPA), Oberhafenamt and thus the port director is responsible for the supervision of the pilotage system in the Port of Hamburg . This is also where the Senate Commissioner for Piloting is located. The pilot candidate receives his appointment as a port pilot after passing the examination by the Oberhafenamt.
The history of pilots in the Port of Hamburg goes back to the 14th century. From 1656 onwards, Hamburg pilots needed official approval. The first port pilots in the state service of the Hanseatic city were stopped on April 29, 1858. During this time, the growth of the port and the increasingly complex port facilities had developed into a need for pilots who were exclusively responsible in the port of Hamburg. The port pilot station was set up in St. Pauli . In 1914, the port pilot station was relocated to Hamburg-Waltershof , where it is still located in the pilot house Seemannshöft today.
Web links
- Website of the Hamburg Harbor Pilot Association
- Video documentation "At home on the Elbe - the Hamburg port pilots" ( Hamburg 1 ; 11:18 min)
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.hafenlotsen.de History. Accessed May 2, 2016.
- ^ Franklin Kopitzsch , Daniel Tilgner (ed.): Hamburg Lexikon. 4th, updated and expanded special edition. Ellert & Richter, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-8319-0373-3 , p. 444.
Coordinates: 53 ° 32 '23.6 " N , 9 ° 52' 44.9" E