Hansa Stavanger
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The Hansa Stavanger was a German container ship . The ship was owned by the shipping company "HANSA STAVANGER" , which belongs to the Leonhardt & Blumberg shipping company in Hamburg . The Hansa Stavanger was built in 1997 at the Guangzhou Wenchong Shipyard in the Chinese city of Guangzhou . The ship was 170 m long, had a total load capacity of 20,526 t and could take 1,645 containers on board.
On February 5, 2013, the “Ship Scrapping Blog” reported that the ship had arrived in Alang (India) to be scrapped. It was previously renamed Pearl .
Abduction off the Somali coast in 2009
Somali pirates hijacked the ship on April 4, 2009 about 400 nautical miles off the coast of Somalia , ( 3 ° S , 46 ° E ) on the way from Jabal Ali in the United Arab Emirates to Mombasa in Kenya , where it was on April 5, 2009 would have arrived. On April 10th, 2009 the Hansa Stavanger Daressalam , the largest city in Tanzania, should call at. Five of the 24 crew members on this voyage were Germans, including the captain and other officers. According to the maritime magazine Morskoj Bulletin – Sowfracht, there were also Russian citizens on the Hansa Stavanger. A marine engineer came from Kaliningrad , two other crew members from Saint Petersburg . The team also included two Ukrainians , two Filippinos and 12 Tuvaluans . The cargo ship transported containers with Asian goods worth several million dollars . It was abducted by pirates on April 6, 2009 in the direction of the port of Harardheere , around 400 km north of the Somali capital Mogadishu .
The prosecutor Hamburg initiated proceedings against unknown persons on April 6 of 2009. The authority investigated on suspicion of an attack on maritime traffic. The public prosecutor commissioned the Federal Criminal Police Office with the investigation.
According to reports of the news magazine Der Spiegel on April 9, 2009, had crisis staff of the Foreign Office planned a violent liberation after the hijacking. An advance command of GSG 9 , the anti-terror unit of the German Federal Police , had already been transferred to Kenya. According to Focus magazine , the action did not take place because of a dispute over jurisdiction between the Federal Ministry of the Interior and the Federal Ministry of Defense . The navy claimed the command. Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble contradicted this : The liberation of the German hostages was a matter for the Federal Police and thus the GSG 9. Der Spiegel reported that the operation had failed because the pirates brought the container ship too quickly to their base in the Bay of Harardheere on the Somali coast .
The German frigate Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania was also not used against the pirates. She came within sight of the Hansa Stavanger, but had to turn away after the pirates threatened to kill the crew of the freighter.
The Hansa Stavanger, which anchored in Harardheere alongside other captured ships on April 7, 2009, was monitored from a safe distance by the frigate Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. On the same day, the pirates reportedly called the shipping company and demanded a ransom in the millions.
On the night of April 11, 2009, the pirates on board the Hansa Stavanger made an attempt with the entire crew to support the pirate friends who were holding the American captain of Maersk Alabama hostage in a lifeboat. The German freighter set course for the scene. After several hours of searching, the pirates broke off their action because, according to their own statements, they almost got lost while looking for the lifeboat. The Hansa Stavanger and its crew returned to Harardheere.
In response to the storming of the yacht Tanit on April 9, 2009 by the French Navy and the armed liberation of the captain of Mærsk Alabama by the American Navy on April 12, 2009, 20 of the 24 sailors were brought to the Somali mainland on April 17, 2009 , four crew members remained on board the freighter.
On the night of April 18, 2009, following mediation by tribal elders and humanitarian groups, the hijackers brought the 20 crew members who had been abducted ashore back on board the ship, which was now anchored around nine nautical miles from the port city of Hobyo .
At the beginning of May 2009 it became known that the planned liberation action of GSG 9 by the Federal Police had now been finally canceled. The reason given by the federal government's inter-ministerial crisis team was that the risk for the hostages and the police officers was too high. By the time they were relocated at the end of April 2009, more than 200 emergency services from GSG 9 had embarked with six helicopters on site on the American helicopter carrier and amphibious assault ship USS Boxer and were ready to carry out the planned rescue operation .
On July 3, 2009, the master wrote in an email that the crew had no water, food or medicine. Many crew members are ill and the crew is emotionally and physically exhausted, and the pirates shot over their heads and once their eyes were gummed up. Because the pirates kept making new demands, the ransom negotiations were difficult. For three weeks, the contact between the perpetrators and the shipping company was completely interrupted. From July 3, 2009, negotiations were resumed.
On August 3, 2009, the pirates left the freighter after the shipping company and the kidnappers agreed to pay a ransom of $ 2.75 million . Negotiators dropped the money from an airplane. Accompanied by the German Navy, the Hansa Stavanger reached the port of Mombasa on August 8, more than four months after the planned arrival. The five German crew members returned to their homeland on August 11th.
Movie
Andy Wolff filmed the hijacking of the ship in 2012. The film The Captain and His Pirate was awarded the Youth Jury Prize at DOK Leipzig in 2012 and the DEFA Foundation Prize at the Max Ophüls Film Festival in 2013 .
literature
- Krzysztof Kotiuk: Happy Easter Hansa Stavanger: 121 days in the hands of pirates . Delius Klasing, Bielefeld 2010, ISBN 978-3-7688-3129-1 .
- Frederik Euskirchen: The kidnapping of the MS Hansa Stavanger, 04.04.09 - 03.08.09, experience report and considerations . edition winterwork, 2012, ISBN 978-3-86468-101-1 .
Footnotes
- ↑ a b c Equasis home page. Retrieved April 26, 2013 .
- ↑ a b Germanischer Lloyd: Register online . Archived from the original on April 25, 2013. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 18, 2013.
- ↑ Ship demolition report 5/2/2013 . In: Shipp Scrapping Blog . Retrieved February 18, 2013.
- ↑ No author details (April 4, 2009) Container Ship Hijacked, Maritime Security Center on the Horn of Africa (MSC-HOA) of the EU NAVFOR-Somalia ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed March 6, 2009, English)
- ^ Marlies Fischer (April 5, 2009) Hamburg freighter kidnapped by pirates. Hamburger Abendblatt (accessed March 6, 2009).
- ↑ a b reuters (July 20, 2009) FACTBOX-Ships held by Somali pirates KyivPost (accessed March 6, 2009).
- ^ Matthias Gebauer (April 5, 2009) Pirates hijack German freighter off Somalia Der Spiegel (accessed March 6, 2009).
- ↑ a b RIA Novosti (April 6, 2009) Also Russians on a captured German freighter - huge pirate booty RIA Novosti (accessed April 6, 2009)
- ↑ (no author details) На борту Hansa Stavanger трое граждан России и двое - Украины ( memento from April 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Morskoj Bulletin – Sowfracht (accessed March 6, 2009).
- ↑ Bernd Musch-Borowska (August 4, 2009) There will be a big festival ( Memento from August 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Tagesschau (accessed July 4, 2009)
- ^ Matthias Gebauer (April 6, 2009) Pirates kidnap German freighters to Somalia Der Spiegel (accessed April 6, 2009)
- ↑ lno / HA (April 6, 2009) Hijacked freighter: Hamburg prosecutors investigate Hamburger Abendblatt (accessed April 6, 2009)
- ↑ a b c d amz (April 9, 2009) GSG 9 should storm kidnapped "Hansa Stavanger" Der Spiegel (accessed April 10, 2009)
- ↑ a b no author details (May 2, 2009). Berlin stops liberation campaign by GSG 9 Der Spiegel (accessed May 2, 2009)
- ↑ a b c dpa (April 10, 2009) GSG-9 deployment fails due to a dispute over competence Focus (accessed April 10, 2009)
- ^ Marc Engelhardt (April 11, 2009). Pirates start aid operation for accomplices ( Memento from April 12, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Tagesschau (accessed April 11, 2009)
- ↑ no author details (April 17, 2009). Pirates kidnap seamen to Somalia ( memento from April 20, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Tagesschau (accessed April 17, 2009)
- ↑ no author details (April 20, 2009) Canadians must release Somali pirates (accessed April 20, 2009)
- ↑ a b Captured "Hansa Stavanger": Pirates mistreat kidnapped sailors Der Spiegel , July 4, 2009 (accessed July 4, 2009)
- ↑ Clemens Höges, Andreas Ulrich and Matthias Gebauer (August 3, 2009) Pirates release kidnapped "Hansa Stavanger" Spiegel Online (accessed August 3, 2009)
- ↑ cf. Freighter hijacked by pirates in safety at focus.de, August 8, 2009
- ^ "Hansa Stavanger": Seafarers back in Germany . ndr.de. August 11, 2009. Archived from the original on September 19, 2009. Retrieved on February 18, 2013.
- ↑ Andreas Ulrich: Geisel documentary "The captain and his pirate": Give the gangster your last shirt , Spiegel Online, December 28, 2012. Retrieved on April 25, 2013.
- ↑ The captain and his pirate ( memento from June 30, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), Festival Großes Fernsehen, Landesanstalt für Medien Nordrhein-Westfalen. Retrieved April 25, 2013.
- ^ "The captain and his pirate" successful at the Max Ophüls Prize ( Memento from July 1, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), Kinozeit, WDR, February 26, 2013. Accessed April 25, 2013.
