Hindenburg (ship, 1937)
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The Hindenburg built in 1937 (internally also called Hindenburg II ) was a motor lifeboat of the German Society for the Rescue of Shipwrecked People and was stationed on the North Sea island of Borkum . It was the successor to the Hindenburg built in 1925 and the last large motor lifeboat built in Germany before the Second World War . It was a 16.6 meter long teak boat with one propeller and a 200 hp diesel engine. It is considered the most advanced pre-war boat and was the first to have an enclosed wheelhouse.
It did not return from a mission on November 28, 1940 off the North Sea island of Borkum . Six men of the crew lost their lives with him.
history
On November 29, 1940, the Hindenburg received an emergency call from the German steamer Erika Fritzen , home port Emden . The boat did not return from this mission. The six rescue men all died under circumstances that were never cleared up. They were the foreman Hans Lüken, after whom the DGzRS named a rescue cruiser in 1969 , and the rescue men A. Meyenburg, G. Eltze, W. Glockmann, F. Ohlsen and A. Nolting - all from Borkum.
The protocol of the Maritime Office in Emden states: This lifeboat left on November 28, 1940 after receiving an emergency report at 12.30 p.m. and did not return. The boat could also not be found again due to the search that was carried out in the course of November 29, 1940 using naval vehicles and aircraft. On November 29th, a lifebuoy drove on the west beach of the island of Borkum, in which an unrecognized man kept himself, but went down in the surf until the ring was recovered . Apparently it was the motor man Willi Glockmann, who was later recovered. Two more lifebuoys, some boat hooks, two boards made of plywood, painted white with a large red cross, and a hatch cover from the wheelhouse are also powered .
Today it is assumed that a floating mine or wreckage floating under water were the cause of the accident.
Commemoration
In honor of the lifeguards who died at the Borkum rescue station, a memorial stone for the entire crew of the Hindenburg stands on a memorial site on Süderstrasse on the island of Borkum .
At this point there is another memorial stone for those who died in 1995 on the rescue cruiser Alfried Krupp , foreman Bernhard Gruben and machinist Theo Fischer. Later the two new rescue cruisers Bernhard Gruben and Theo Fischer were named after the two.
Individual evidence
- ↑ KR D 424 - Hindenburg II on luftwaffe-zur-see.de , accessed on July 6, 2020