Heinrich Lorenz (captain)
Heinrich F. Lorenz (* 1898 in Bad Munster am Stein ; † July 14, 1966 in Bad Munster am Stein, now part of Bad Kreuznach ) was a captain of the North German Lloyd (NDL) in Bremen .
biography
Lorenz had the usual training for a career in civil shipping. After attending the nautical school and acquiring the nautical patent A6, he went early as a nautical officer for the shipping company Norddeutscher Lloyd. In the 1930s he was an officer on the passenger ship Bremen . In World War II he was a naval officer. His first wife Alice Lorenz (Alice June Lofland) was an American dancer who was arrested during the war for espionage for the United States and imprisoned in a concentration camp with daughter Marita until the end of the war in 1945. After the war, Lorenz, like many seamen, first had to find employment on land, including removing rubble from destroyed houses in his home town of Bremerhaven or as an employee of his second wife, an American journalist.
From 1948 he was back with Lloyd as the captain of a seaside resort ship , the Wangerooge . Then he led the general cargo ship Lahnstein , then the refrigerated ship Lichtenstein . In 1954 he became captain of the NDL's Berlin liner , a ship that was then the flagship of the German merchant fleet. The Berlin drove between Bremerhaven and New York and Canada, but was also used for cruises. The importance of the relatively small Berlin with 18,600 GRT for Germany's self-esteem was demonstrated by the visit of Federal President Theodor Heuss , Berlin's Mayor Willy Brandt and Wilhelm Kaisen as President of the Bremen Senate in 1958. During a cruise in 1959 Lorenz met Cuba's head of state in Havana Know Fidel Castro . His daughter Marita Lorenz , who had accompanied him, later reported in a book Dear Fidel about the romance between her and Castro, which was also rumored in the press. The Berlin command held Lorenz held until 1959.
From 1959 to 1960 he was in command of the new German flagship, the fifth Bremen . This 32,336 GRT ship also sailed on the transatlantic route and sometimes as a cruise ship. In 1960 he retired from active service.
Honors
- In 1961 Lorenz Schaffer attended the traditional Bremen Schaffermahlzeit .
- In 1965 he became an honorary citizen of his home community Bad Münster am Stein.
- The house where he was born - now a hotel - is called Haus Lorenz and is located on the Kapitän-Lorenz-Ufer street named after him in Bad Münster am Stein-Ebernburg.
literature
- Hartmut Bickelmann (ed.): Bremerhaven personalities from four centuries . A biographical lexicon. Bremerhaven 2002, p. 181 f.
- Harald Focke : In the liner service on the Atlantic. New memories of the passenger ships BERLIN, BREMEN and EUROPA of the North German Lloyd . Hauschild Verlag , Bremen 2006, ISBN 978-389757-339-0
- Harald Focke: Bremen's last liner . Hauschild Verlag, Bremen, 2002, ISBN 3-89757-148-X
- Dirk J. Peters (Ed.): The North German Lloyd . Verlag Hauschild Verlag, Bremen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89757-360-4
- Marita Lorenz / Wilfried Huismann: Dear Fidel - My life, my love, my betrayal , List Verlag, Munich 2001, ISBN 3471780793
Individual evidence
- ↑ Command bridge, bulletin of the Association of German Captains and Ship Officers (VDKS), year: 42, no .: 5 from May 1965, p. 171 under awards: “Captain Heinrich Lorenz, one of the most famous Lloyd captains, became an honorary citizen of his home town Bad Münster am Stein .... He was awarded the honorary citizenship certificate for his services to the international reputation of German passenger shipping. "
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lorenz, Heinrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lorenz, Heinrich F. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German captain |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1898 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bad Munster am Stein |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 14, 1966 |
| Place of death | Bad Munster am Stein |