Harald Focke

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Harald Focke

Harald Focke (* 1950 in Bassum ) is a German author who has written publications on historical topics on Bassum, Sulingen and the history of shipping as well as textbooks.

Life

After graduating from high school in Diepholz in 1969 and studying history , German , political science and education in Hamburg , he taught history, German and politics at high schools in Hamburg and Sulingen. Until 2013 he worked as director of studies at the grammar school in Sulingen ( Lower Saxony ) and lives in Bassum. He is the editor and editor of the textbook series The Were Times (together with Dieter Brückner ) and was editor of the membership magazine of the German Society for Shipping and Marine History (DGSM) Der Signalgast . From 2014 to 2015 Harald Focke was a member of the board of the German Society for Shipping and Marine History (DGSM) .

Works

  • Friedrich List and the Southwest German emigration to America 1817–1846. In: Günter Moltmann (Ed.): German emigration to America in the 19th century. Social history contributions (= American Studies . Volume 44). Stuttgart 1976.
  • with Uwe Reimer: Everyday life under the swastika. How the Nazis changed the lives of Germans. An enlightening reader. Reinbek near Hamburg 1979.
  • with Monika Strocka: Everyday life under the swastika. Reinbek near Hamburg.
  • (Ed.): Our neighbor Poland. For the Polish Week 1981 in the Helene-Lange-Gymnasium. Hamburg 1981.
  • with Hermann Greve , Hilmar Kurth: When the synagogues burned. The Jewish pogrom of 9/10 November 1938 in Germany and in the Diepholz district. Its history and its consequences. Ed .: Working group regional history Syke. Sulingen 1988.
  • with Helmut Behrens, Walter Brackland: Bassum in the fifties. Pictures from town and country. Bassum 1990.
  • with Helmut Behrens, Walter Brackland: Those were the days. Our everyday life in the fifties. Bassum 1992.
  • with Roderich Heldt: Sulingen in the fifties. A picture walk. Bassum 1997.
  • with Helmut Behrens, Walter Brackland: With water and wind. Old mills in Bassum and the surrounding area. Bassum 1997.
  • Come with me on the Hansekogge! Ed .: German Maritime Museum , Bremerhaven, Berlin / Diepholz 1999.
  • Bremen's last liner. The large passenger ships of the North German Lloyd after 1945. Bremen 2002, ISBN 3-89757-148-X .
  • With the Lloyd to New York. Memories of the passenger ships BERLIN, BREMEN and EUROPA. Bremen 2004, ISBN 3-89757-251-6 .
  • In liner service on the Atlantic. New memories of the passenger ships Berlin, Bremen and Europe of the North German Lloyd. Bremen 2006.
  • with Jörn Buchholz: On Lloyd freighters. Memoirs 1957–1964. Bremen 2007.
  • Borgwards helicopter. Kolibri, the car of the skies. Carl B. - Auto-Geschichte (n), Volume 4. Kurz Verlag, Bremen 2014, ISBN 978-3-927485-84-6 .
  • with Ulf Kaack : The ships of the Reich and Kriegsmarine 1921–1945. GeraMond Verlag, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-86245-742-7 .
  • with Ulf Kaack: Eye Of The Wind - On the trail of a dream. Forum Verlag, Merching 2014, ISBN 978-3-86586-379-9 .
  • with Frank Scherer: passenger ships in Hamburg 1951–1969. Illustrated book. Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2015, ISBN 978-3954005857 .
  • with Dirk Peters: The Columbuskaje in Bremerhaven. Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2015, ISBN 978-3954005505 .
  • with Eberhard Nölke: The captain and his officers. Ship command on general cargo vessels. Oceanum Verlag, Wiefelstede 2016, ISBN 978-3-86927-407-2 .
  • with Helmut Behrens: Bassum in historical photographs. Illustrated book. Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2016, ISBN 978-3954007349 .

Publications in the Niederdeutschen Heimatblatt

  • The last maiden voyage of a Bremen liner. 50 years ago the KUNGSHOLM became the EUROPA of Norddeutscher Lloyd . In: Men from Morgenstern , Heimatbund an Elbe and Weser estuary e. V. (Ed.): Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt . No. 792 . Nordsee-Zeitung GmbH, Bremerhaven December 2015, p. 1–2 ( digital copy [PDF; 2.2 MB ; accessed on September 10, 2019]).
  • The first containers came to the Weser. 50 years ago, the tin boxes triggered a transport revolution in Germany . In: Men from Morgenstern, Heimatbund an Elbe and Weser estuary e. V. (Ed.): Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt . No. 796 . Nordsee-Zeitung GmbH, Bremerhaven April 2016, p. 3–4 ( digitized version [PDF; 739 kB ; accessed on July 30, 2019]).
  • Serious fire ends HANSEATIC's career. A defective fuel line was the undoing of the Cuxhaven liner in New York . In: Men from Morgenstern, Heimatbund an Elbe and Weser estuary e. V. (Ed.): Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt . No. 800 . Nordsee-Zeitung GmbH, Bremerhaven August 2016, p. 1–2 ( digitized version [PDF; 7.2 MB ; accessed on July 23, 2019]).
  • “The ITALIA slid up white as a swan”. The Home Lines New York Liner first came to Cuxhaven 65 years ago . In: Men from Morgenstern, Heimatbund an Elbe and Weser estuary e. V. (Ed.): Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt . No. 807 . Nordsee-Zeitung GmbH, Bremerhaven March 2017, p. 1–2 ( digitized version [PDF; 5.9 MB ; accessed on July 17, 2019]).
  • The last general cargo ships from Bremen. Friesenstein class was an expensive wrong decision by North German Lloyd . In: Men from Morgenstern, Heimatbund an Elbe and Weser estuary e. V. (Ed.): Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt . No. 813 . Nordsee-Zeitung GmbH, Bremerhaven September 2017, p. 1–2 ( digitized version [PDF; 3.4 MB ; accessed on July 13, 2019]).
  • Just a short guest appearance in Bremerhaven. HEIN MÜCK came too late for the Wangerooge service of North German Lloyd . In: Men from Morgenstern, Heimatbund an Elbe and Weser estuary e. V. (Ed.): Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt . No. 820 . Nordsee-Zeitung GmbH, Bremerhaven April 2018, p. 2 ( digital copy [PDF; 8.5 MB ; accessed on July 5, 2019]).
  • Under steam and sail from the Weser to New York. The first BREMEN of the NDL started on its maiden voyage 160 years ago . In: Men from Morgenstern, Heimatbund an Elbe and Weser estuary e. V. (Ed.): Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt . No. 822 . Nordsee-Zeitung GmbH, Bremerhaven June 2018, p. 1–2 ( digitized version [PDF; 5.7 MB ; accessed on June 21, 2019]).
  • Water salute for HAMBURG am Steubenhöft. 50 years ago, the cruise ship handed over to the German Atlantic Line in Cuxhaven . In: Men from Morgenstern, Heimatbund an Elbe and Weser estuary e. V. (Ed.): Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt . No. 831 . Nordsee-Zeitung GmbH, Bremerhaven March 2019, p. 1 ( digital version [PDF; 3.3 MB ; accessed on June 15, 2019]).
  • The death trip of BERLIN. Four men went overboard in the hurricane . In: Men from Morgenstern, Heimatbund an Elbe and Weser estuary e. V. (Ed.): Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt . No. 837 . Nordsee-Zeitung GmbH, Bremerhaven September 2019, p. 1 ( digital copy [PDF; 2.5 MB ; accessed on October 10, 2019]).

Web links

Commons : Harald Focke  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulf Kaack: “Conveying knowledge in a well-founded, but entertaining way”. Harald Focke is an author, co-author and editor of various books. His passion is undoubtedly seafaring . In: District newspaper Syke . November 24, 2012, ZDB -ID 2279582-0 ( digital copy [accessed on September 10, 2019] In: Lloyd Klassik Kontor website. ).
personal data
SURNAME Focke, Harald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author
DATE OF BIRTH 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Bassum