Hermann Piening

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Hermann Piening (born July 3, 1888 in Altona , † February 13, 1968 in Hamburg ) was a German captain and inspector of the shipping company F. Laeisz .

Life

After attending primary and secondary school in Ottensen, Hermann Piening sailed on the sailing training ship Großherzgoin Elisabeth from 1903 to 1905 . In 1905 he hired as an ordinary seaman on the full ship Susanna and took part in one of the most famous Cape Horn circumnavigations in history. Due to unfavorable winds, the ship needed a full 99 days to circumnavigate, 80 of which were storms (10 and more Beaufort ). This passage is considered to be the longest documented circumnavigation of Cape Horn in maritime history.

From June 1909 he attended the Altona seafaring school and first graduated in March 1910 with the exam A 5, sea helmsman on long voyages, which he passed with distinction. In the same month he was hired by the Hamburg shipping company Laeisz. There he served - only interrupted by his conscription in the Imperial Navy - as 3rd officer on the Pechili and 2nd officer on the Parchim and the Ponape . In 1913 he was awarded the captain's license on the Great Voyage A6. After serving as 1st officer on the four-masted barque Pinguin , he served in the Imperial Navy during World War I. In 1919 he became the captain of the small, wooden barque Yildiz in the North and Baltic Seas. From April 1926 he served as chief officer on the four-masted barque Priwall , before he undertook two journeys to Chile from October 1926 as captain of the four-masted barque Beijing and from February 1928 navigated four times to Chile and back as captain of the four-masted barque Padua .

Between 1930 and 1936 Piening served as captain on fruit ships of the African Fruit Compagnie (AFC), a subsidiary of the Laeisz shipping company. Bananas were transported from Tiko in Cameroon to Hamburg. From 1936 to 1960 Piening was employed by the Laeisz shipping company as an inspector. In this function he testified, among other things, as an expert before the Lübeck Maritime Office on the sinking of the Pamir in 1957. In 1955 he was co-author and co-editor of a book about the shipping company Laeisz, which was published under the title The history of a shipping company .

A considerable part of Piening's travels consisted of the saltpetre voyage to Chile . He circled Cape Horn 23 times , including 12 times as a captain. In 1958 he received the Pour le Mérite medal from the International Brotherhood of the Kaphoorniers . Hermann Piening is buried in the Holstenkamp cemetery in Hamburg-Bahrenfeld.

Works

The story of a shipping company. Published with the assistance of Dr. Dr. hc Paul Rohrbach and the captains Hermann Piening and Fred Schmidt, Hans Dulk, Hamburg 1955.

literature

  • Walter A. Kozian: Catastrophic winter off Cape Horn in 1905 , in Deutsches Schiffahrtsarchiv 20, 1997. ISBN 3-8225-0396-7
  • The story of a shipping company. Published with the assistance of Dr. Dr. hc Paul Rohrbach and the captains Hermann Piening and Fred Schmidt, Hans Dulk, Hamburg 1955.
  • Jochen Brenneke: Windjammer . Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1968.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Joachim Nöh: Why 80 sailors had to die, in Hamburg Historisch - Die maritime Geschichte, Hamburger Abendblatt 2020, pp. 54-55.
personal data
SURNAME Piening, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German captain
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Altona
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 1968
Place of death Hamburg