Klaus Vogel (captain)
Klaus (Anselm) Vogel (* 1956 in Hamburg ) is a German historian and captain who has been the founding chairman of the German association of the sea rescue organization SOS Méditerranée since 2015 .
After graduating from high school, Klaus Vogel went to sea on merchant ships, graduated from the Bremen University of Nautical Sciences (today part of the University of Bremen ) and in 1981 acquired the “patent on a long voyage” (see certificate of proficiency ).
From 1983 he studied history, philosophy and economics in Göttingen , Bielefeld and Paris .
In 1995 he did his doctorate with Sphaera terrae - the medieval image of the earth and the cosmographic revolution at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen . In the same year he founded the “Göttingen Working Group for Interdisciplinary Research on Violence” with Manfred Cierpka . He was a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Rome and worked at the Max Planck Institute for History in Göttingen.
Since October 2000 Vogel has been sailing again, since 2005 as captain and since 2007 on container ships of the Hapag-Lloyd shipping company .
Since 2015 he has dedicated himself to the sea rescue of refugees in the Mediterranean.
Web links
- Profile @ koerber-stiftung.de (with video)
- Portrait @ freitag.de ( Friday )
- Interview @ dw.com ( Deutsche Welle )
Remarks
- ↑ a b c d Lecture & Discussion. Captain Dr. Klaus Vogel: “The message from Aquarius. About SOS Mediterranee and the Defense of Values in Solidarity ”October 18, 2018 , accessed May 13, 2019
- ↑ Sphaera terrae - the medieval image of the earth and the cosmographic revolution (dissertation available as PDF)
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| SURNAME | Vogel, Klaus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Vogel, Klaus Anselm (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German historian, captain and sea rescuer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1956 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |