Hellmut Hintermeyer

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Hellmut Hintermeyer (born April 30, 1918 in Mannheim ; † January 5, 2017 in Schongau ) was a German seafaring historian and writer .

Life

Hintermeyer grew up in Munich , where he spent a lot of time at the Kleinhesseloher See . At first he limited himself to floating self-made boats there, but at the age of 16 he was already sailing as a companion on rental boats on the Tegernsee . He successfully completed a degree in mechanical engineering . In 1947 he moved to Schongau to temporarily take over his uncle's car business. During this time he bought a dilapidated folding boat , which he equipped with a bed sheet as a sail. He then spent many weekends sailing on the Ammersee . In 1948 he finally took sailing lessons in Dießen and in 1955 another teaching unit followed on the Baltic Sea with a subsequent exam in Glücksburg (see Quellental (Glücksburg) ). Equipped with a sailing license , Hintermeyer took part in a sailing trip to Norway and a regatta around Heligoland . As a result, he developed the desire to go on sea voyages himself and bought a Hansa dinghy in Lemwerder near Bremen that had a small cabin . Only three years later he bought a boat from the Waarschipwerft , which he fitted out himself. He then completed an apprenticeship to obtain a sailing license for long coastal voyages. As a skipper , he now undertook his first independent sailing trip on the Baltic Sea. In 1970 he acquired the Lake Constance skipper's license and bought a motorized, ocean-going yacht from the Vega company . With this he successfully participated in driving competitions of the cruiser division of the DSV . In 1980 he became a co-owner of a "Scalar 28".

Late writing career

Since 1981 Hintermeyer has been writing articles on nautical topics for the magazine Der Blaue Peter of the German High Seas Sports Association and books. The first appeared under the title Klar zum Seetörn . He dealt intensively with the topic of maritime history and, among other things, took part in a North Sea trip in 1995 with the Norwegian barque " Statsraad Lehmkuhl ". At the age of 80 he finally ended his active sailing life. In 1998 his second book Schiffskatastrophen was published , in which he reports on accidents from the age of the large sailing ships and shows possible causes and backgrounds. More books followed despite his advanced age.

Fonts (selection)

Hintermeyer became known through his articles in specialist journals and as a seafaring historian.

  • with Barbara von Damnitz: Ready for the sea trip. Planning, equipment, practice. (= BLV-Bordpraxis. 9.) BLV-Verlagsgesellschaft, Munich / Zurich 1981, ISBN 3-405-12431-X .
  • Shipping disasters. From the Spanish Armada to the sinking of the Pamirs. Pietsch, Stuttgart 1998 ISBN 3-613-50308-5 .
  • The sea was her home. Great captains and explorers. Pietsch, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-613-50354-9 .
  • Mysterious sea sunsets, superstitions, phenomena, legends. Pietsch, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-613-50308-5 .
  • Spectacular rescue from distress. Hauschild, Bremen 2004, ISBN 3-897-57243-5 .
  • They sailed for power. From the beginnings of seafaring to modern times. SVG Service Verlag, Lübeck 2007, ISBN 978-3-981-18290-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The seafaring was his topic - Hellmut Hintermeyer in memory. In: Der Blaue Peter , March 2017, p. 24
  2. ↑ Getting to the bottom of the mysteries of the seas. on merkur-online.de, accessed on August 27, 2014.
  3. ↑ a b When a sailor takes up his pen. on merkur-online.de, accessed on August 27, 2014.
  4. ↑ Ship disasters on spiegel.de, accessed on August 27, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Hintermeyer, Hellmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German maritime historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH 5th January 2017
Place of death Schongau