Julius Preuss

Julius Preuss

Julius Preuss (also Preuss) (born March 16, 1885 in Elsfleth ; † September 10, 1954 in Bremen ) was a German navigator and director of the Bremen Maritime School.

biography

Preuss was the son of a navigation teacher. He attended the upper secondary school in Oldenburg . After that he was a cabin boy and cadet on training ships of the North German Lloyd (NDL). After attending a nautical school, he acquired a captain's patent in 1908 . He served as an officer on several ships for the NDL until 1912. From 1912 he was a senior teacher at the Bremen seafaring school . At the same time he taught from 1912 to 1913 on a training ship of the NDL. During the First World War he was appointed as a nautical instructor at the Mürwik naval school near Flensburg . In 1918 he returned to the Bremen Seafaring School. From 1925 to 1928 he was director of the Lübeck Maritime School .

As successor to Carl Schilling , he was appointed headmaster of the Bremen Maritime School in 1928. He belonged to the German School Ship Association and was its chairman. From 1924 to 1933 he was a member of the Lodge Zum Ölzweig . He was therefore suspended as headmaster by the Nazis in 1936 and retired in 1937.

After the Second World War , on April 1, 1946, Preuss was again headmaster of the Bremen Seafaring School as a professor and chief maritime director. The school held its first lessons in barracks on Bürenstrasse and Hermann-Böse-Strasse and moved into the school on Elsflether Strasse in 1949. The Bremerhaven Maritime School , initially as a department of the Bremen School, was re-established by him in 1947. He remained director of the nautical school until July 1951.

In 1950 he took over the chairmanship of the school ship association again and held this office until his death. He was active in various other associations related to seafaring.

literature

• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .