Lübeck (F 214)

Ship class:	F122
Call sign / identifier:	DRAO / F 214
Type ship:	Bremen
Development / construction yard:	Nordseewerke , Emden (final equipment at Bremer Vulkan AG)
Construction numbers:	468/1059
Keel laying:	5th June 1987
Launch:	October 15, 1987
Commissioning:	March 19, 1990
Association membership	4th frigate squadron, Wilhelmshaven
For technical data, see: F122

The frigate Lübeck is the eighth and last commissioned ship of the Bremen class of the German Navy .

General

The frigate is named after the Hanseatic city of Lübeck . The godmother on October 15, 1987 was Rosemarie Knüppel, the wife of the then mayor of Lübeck, Robert Knüppel .

In 2007 the Lübeck was slightly damaged at the bow during a training voyage by a shot from its own on-board cannon in front of the Plymouth naval base .

In 2009/2010 the Lübeck was overhauled in Bremerhaven, in 2013 it was in Kiel for repairs.

The frigate pays regular visits to its godfather city Lübeck, for example in 2001 on the 600th anniversary of the foundation of the Lübeck Schiffergesellschaft . In March 2010, the crew celebrated the 20th anniversary of the frigate's commissioning with a thanksgiving service in the Jakobikirche in Lübeck, the fishermen's and seafarers 'church from the 14th century and the national seafarers' memorial.

Between 1990 and 2010 the Lübeck covered 570,000 nautical miles , took part in 43 missions, maneuvers and training trips and called at 124 ports in 38 countries.

On June 26, 2019, there was a fire on the E-Diesel X1, probably due to a defective injection pump. Two crew members were injured. Both were able to resume work after outpatient treatment in the hospital.

Calls

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  The frigate Lübeck (F 214) during the BALTOPS maneuver (2003)

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  Practice shot of a Sea Sparrow missile from Lübeck against the decommissioned destroyer Conolly during the UNITAS GOLD maneuver (2009)

The frigate Lübeck took part in several armed missions abroad by the Bundeswehr , including:

• 1994, 1995 and 1996: Participation in the embargo against the former Yugoslavia in the Adriatic ( NATO - Operation Sharp Guard )
• 2003–2004 and 2005–2006: Participation in Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) against international terrorism. In November 2005, as part of the OEF mission, Lübeck guided the cruise ship Germany through the Gulf of Aden to protect it against pirates .
• 2007: From July onwards, deployed as part of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon
• 2008: Participation in the Standing NATO Maritime Group 1 (SNMG 1) from August 21, routine exercises in the Black Sea , with demonstrative NATO presence off the Georgian coast during the Caucasus conflict between Georgia and Russia . Other participants: USS Taylor (FFG-50) , Blas de Lezo (F103) and ORP Gen. K. Pulaski (272) .
• 2009: Participation in the UNITAS exercise . The Lübeck fired at the decommissioned destroyer USS Connolly (DD-979) with two anti-aircraft missiles of the type RIM-7 Sea Sparrow .
• 2011: Deployment in a NATO Standing Maritime Group , temporarily detached due to the NATO operation Unified Protector on the occasion of the civil war in Libya , then returned to NATO command for Operation Active Endeavor .
• 2011/12: After leaving Wilhelmshaven on November 18, 2011, deployed in Operation Atalanta in the Horn of Africa ; participating in the liberation of 15 Indian seamen from the hands of pirates. Then from the beginning of 2012 maneuvers with the South African Navy and return through the South Atlantic, arriving in Wilhelmshaven on April 20, 2012.
• Autumn 2014: In action at Operation Atalanta in the Horn of Africa . During this mission, the Sea Lynx helicopters had to be dispensed with because they were not “ready to fly” due to deficiencies.
• On August 21, 2017, the Lübeck, under the command of frigate captain Matthias Schmitt, left her home port Wilhelmshaven to relieve the frigate Brandenburg from the Standing NATO Maritime Group 2 (SNMG2) in the Aegean Sea . The replacement took place on the first weekend in September in the port of Souda on Crete. As part of NATO's activities in the Aegean Sea, SNMG 2 is helping to create a picture of the situation for the Greek and Turkish coast guards and the European border protection agency FRONTEX in the Aegean Sea, among other things . On October 30, 2017, the Lübeck crew handed over responsibility in the operational area to the crew of the task force supply company in Frankfurt am Main and returned to their home port on November 10, 2017 after 3 months in action.
• On August 6, 2018, the Lübeck, under the command of frigate captain Christoph Sallermann, left her home port of Wilhelmshaven to replace the frigate Bavaria with the Standing NATO Maritime Group 2 (SNMG2) in the Aegean Sea . On August 14, 2018 in Souda, Greece, responsibility in the operational area was transferred from the frigate Bavaria to the frigate Lübeck. Since then, this has also served as the flagship of the Task Group Commander, Captain Volker Blasche .

Commanders

No.	Surname	Beginning of the term of office	Term expires	Remarks
01.	Frigate Captain Ullrich Becker	Commissioning	September 25, 1992	Military skipper since July 1, 1989 in building instruction and instruction
02.	Frigate Captain Waldemar Benke	September 25, 1992	February 24, 1995
03.	Frigate Captain Karsten Schneider	February 24, 1995	July 21, 1997	later Rear Admiral and Chief of Staff Naval Command
04th	Frigate Captain Henning Straus	July 21, 1997	July 23, 1999
05.	Frigate Captain Eckhard Bödeker	July 23, 1999	August 23, 2002	later commander of the Naval Operations School
06th	Frigate Captain Jürgen zur Mühlen	August 23, 2002	June 25, 2004	later Rear Admiral and department heads used in naval command
07th	Frigate Captain Rüdiger Solf	June 25, 2004	July 14, 2006
08th.	Frigate Captain Marco von Kölln	July 14, 2006	July 18, 2008
09.	Frigate Captain Martin Wilhelm	July 18, 2008	August 13, 2010
10.	Frigate Captain Martin Ruchay	August 13, 2010	2nd October 2013
11.	Frigate Captain Peter Christian Semrau	2nd October 2013	October 2nd, 2015
12.	Frigate Captain Matthias Schmitt	October 2nd, 2015	November 30, 2017
13.	Frigate Captain Christoph Sallermann	November 30, 2017	26th September 2019
14th	Frigate Captain Mathias Rix	26th September 2019

See also

• List of ships with the name Lübeck

Web links

Commons : Lübeck  - Collection of Images

• The frigate Lübeck on marine.de
• Friends of Frigate Lübeck e. V.
• History of the frigate Lübeck on the side of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Frigate Lübeck celebrates its 20th birthday ( Memento from August 3, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), In: HL-live from March 18, 2010
2. ^ Frigate "Lübeck" shoots itself down. In: Welt online. May 14, 2007. Retrieved September 19, 2017 . 
3. ↑ German frigate shoots itself. In: Spiegel online. May 14, 2007. Retrieved September 19, 2017 . 
4. ^ Letter from the commandant Martin Wilhelm. ( Memento from March 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) February 11, 2010 (PDF; 65 kB).
5. ^ Frigate Lübeck ends visit to her godfather city. In: Travemünde Current. November 25, 2008. Retrieved September 19, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Timo Gruber: Frigate LÜBECK - Twenty years in the service of the Navy. In: marine.de. Bundeswehr, March 18, 2010, archived from the original on October 21, 2014 ; accessed on October 16, 2014 . 
7. ^ After a pirate attack: German frigate protects ZDF "dream ship". In: Hamburger Abendblatt. November 22, 2005, accessed October 16, 2014 . 
8. ^ Caucasus conflict: Merkel calls for a Georgia summit without Russia. In: Spiegel online. August 23, 2008, accessed October 16, 2014 . 
9. ↑ German Navy Pictures of the Week: US destroyer oldie sunk: "Lübeck" and "Saxony" shoot sharply. Marine Press and Information Center, May 7, 2009, accessed September 19, 2017 . 
10. ^ "Lübeck" again under NATO command. In: Wilhelmshavener Zeitung. March 29, 2011, p. 1.
11. Jump up against the hurricane and bureaucracy . In: Wilhelmshavener Zeitung. October 4, 2013, p. 3.
12. ↑ "Don't lose the fun and humor." In: Wilhelmshavener Zeitung. November 19, 2011, p. 9.
13. ↑ Matthias Gebauer: Cracks at the stern: Half of all German naval helicopters are broken. In: Spiegel online . September 22, 2014, accessed October 16, 2014 . 
14. ↑ Frigate “Lübeck” joins the NATO operations unit. August 21, 2017. Retrieved September 19, 2017 . 
15. ↑ Relief is here - frigate “Lübeck” is the new flagship. September 4, 2017. Retrieved September 19, 2017 . 
16. ↑ "Frankfurt takes over baton from Lübeck". In: http : //www . Einsatz.bundeswehr.de . PIZ Operations Command, November 2, 2017, accessed on August 13, 2018 . 
17. ↑ Over 700 hours more on the clock Frigate “Lübeck” returns from the Mediterranean. In: http://www.marine.de . PIZ Marine, November 10, 2017, accessed August 18, 2018 . 
18. ↑ Frigate “Lübeck” is leaving for SNMG 2. In: http://www.marine.de . PIZ Marine, August 6, 2018, accessed August 13, 2018 . 
19. ↑ Frigate “Bayern” hands over the steering wheel to frigate “Lübeck”. In: http : //www . Einsatz.bundeswehr.de . PIZ Operations Command, August 15, 2018, accessed on August 16, 2018 . 
20. ↑ Wolfgang Harnack: The destroyer flotilla of the German Navy from 1958 to today . Koehler Verlagsgesellschaft, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-7822-0816-1 , p. 154 .
21. ↑ Andreas Jacobsen: General data of the "F214". In: https://jabietz.de/ . Retrieved August 2, 2018 . 
22. ↑ Change of command: battle with cyclones and bureaucracy. In: Wilhelmshavener Zeitung. October 4, 2013, accessed August 2, 2018 . 
23. ↑ Change of command on the frigate "Lübeck". In: https://www.presseportal.de/ . PIZ Deutsche Marine, September 9, 2015, accessed on August 2, 2018 . 
24. ↑ Change of command on the frigate "Lübeck". In: https://www.presseportal.de/ . PIZ Deutsche Marine, November 27, 2017, accessed on August 2, 2018 . 
25. ↑ https://www.presseportal.de/pm/67428/4383230 Change of command on the frigate "Lübeck"