Horst Werner Janssen

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Horst Werner Janssen (born September 16, 1933 in Südgeorgsfehn , † October 19, 2017 in Elsfleth ) was a German captain and shipowner .

Life

Janssen was born in 1933 in Südgeorgsfehn in East Frisia . His parents ran an inn and a farm there.

Janssen began his maritime career in April 1948 at the age of 14, together with his twin brother Adolf, as a cabin boy on board the three-masted schooner Hertha Johanne . After completing his training, he went back to the Elsflether Seafaring School with his twin brother in 1954 to get the captain 's license. In 1955 he received the A-5 patent (“helmsman on a long journey”), and in 1958 the A-6 patent (“captain on a long journey”). In the same year he went into business for himself and founded a shipping company in Elsfleth that operated the coaster Visurgis (Latin for " Weser ") , which was bought in the Netherlands . In 1969, three years after the first container ship, the Fairland , called at a German port, he had his first container ship built at the Elsflether shipyard , which was delivered in 1970 and was once again launched as a Visurgis .

On April 4, 1979, Janssen took over the chairmanship of the Lower Saxony Nautical Association from 1865, an office he held until April 2017. With the end of his activity as chairman he was appointed honorary chairman of the association.

Janssen got involved voluntarily and as a sponsor in the shipping industry and in Elsfleth. In the early 1980s, for example, he campaigned for the gaff schooner Ariadne to be brought to Elsfleth as the training ship Grand Duchess Elisabeth . The school ship association “Großherzogin Elisabeth” e. V. founded, whose president Janssen became. In the 1990s it was also thanks to his commitment that the seafaring school in Elsfleth, a department of the then Oldenburg University of Applied Sciences since 1971 , could be maintained. Janssen made the " Elsfleth House " available to the Maritime Museum of the Oldenburg Lower Weser , in which a department of the museum was opened in March 2010. The Wempe clock, which recalls the beginnings of the watch manufacturer Wempe , and the Seemannsbrunnen at Nicolai-Platz, clock and carillon at "Haus Visurgis", which houses a restaurant that the Nautical Comradeship Visurgis zu Elsfleth as Club premises, the preservation of the historic crane on the quay, which Janssen bought from the company Nordenhamer Transport-Beton after it had ceased operations in Elsfleth, the Graf Anton Günther sculpture in front of the Heye pen, the ship models in St .-Nicolai-Kirche, which Janssen donated, and the jetty on the Hunte in Elsfleth.

Awards

literature

Remarks

  1. ↑ Elsewhere, his age at the beginning of his seafaring career is given as 15 years.
  2. ↑ Elsewhere there is talk of four new buildings, the first of which was named Amanda after its sister .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frank Binder: Mourning the shipowner Janssen , THB - Deutsche Schiffahrts-Zeitung , 23 October 2017.
  2. ↑ Hans-Carl Bokelmann: Captain and shipowner Horst Werner Janssen died. Nordwest-Zeitung , October 20, 2017, accessed on October 26, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Evelyn Eischeid: Cabin boy becomes captain and patron. Nordwest-Zeitung, September 14, 2013, accessed October 26, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Horst Werner Janssen will be 70 years old ( Memento from October 27, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), Schiff & Hafen , September 16, 2003.
  5. ↑ a b c Georg Jauken: Chairman of the Nautical Association hands over office after 38 years - Janssen leaves the bridge. Weser-Kurier, April 19, 2017, accessed on October 26, 2017 .
  6. ^ The honorary president Horst Werner Janssen. School ship association Grossherzogin Elisabeth e. V., accessed on October 26, 2017 .
  7. ^ Chronicle of the Grand Duchess Elisabeth. School ship association Grossherzogin Elisabeth e. V., accessed on October 26, 2017 .
  8. ↑ History of the Department of Maritime and Logistics. Jade College , accessed October 26, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Wempe. Maritime Museum of the Oldenburg Lower Weser e. V., accessed on October 26, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Evelyn Eischeid: From the Black Duke to the Wempe watchmaker. Nordwest-Zeitung, September 2, 2017, accessed October 26, 2017 .
  11. ^ History of the house. Restaurant & Hotel Kogge, accessed October 26, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Harbor crane. Maritime Museum of the Oldenburg Lower Weser e. V., accessed on October 26, 2017 .
  13. ↑ Wolfgang Bednarz: NTB crane becomes a former. Nordwest-Zeitung, October 24, 2007, accessed October 26, 2017 .
  14. ^ Count Anton Günther rides through Elsfleth. Nordwest-Zeitung, October 20, 2008, accessed October 26, 2017 .
  15. ↑ Ship models. Ev.-Luth. Church district Wesermarsch, accessed on October 26, 2017 .
  16. ↑ St. Nicolai Church. City of Elsfleth, accessed October 26, 2017 .
  17. ↑ Marco Seng: A great honor for Horst Werner Janssen. Nordwest-Zeitung, April 12, 2006, accessed October 26, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Janssen, Horst Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German captain and shipowner
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH South Georgsfehn
DATE OF DEATH 19th October 2017
Place of death Elsfleth