District Councilor Küster
 The Landrath Küster 2009 in Köhlfleet Hamburg
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The Landrath Küster with the identification HF 231 is the oldest still running Finkenwerder deep sea cutter.
history
Construction and early years
At the end of 1888, the sea fishermen Heinrich and Hinrich Wulf from Hamburg-Cranz awarded the construction contract for the construction of a new Finkenwerder deep-sea cutter , after the district administrator of the Jork district , Heinrich Küster, had granted them an interest-free Reich loan of 7,000 marks to build a deep-sea fishing vessel. The one and a half Master with wooden hull was then at the end of 1888 in a construction period of around three months as Landrath clerk at the shipyard of Hinrich Sietas created in Cranz and delivered on 26 March 1889 its clients. The first call sign of the vehicle with the fishing number P C. 12 (P C. for Prussian Cranz ) was "KPDS". Insurance for the new Landrath Küster building to the value of 15,000 marks for the ship and a further 1,000 marks for the equipment is provided by the insurance company for the insurance of fishing vessels to Cranz (Elbe) . After the Wulf brothers never appeared at the Jork District Court despite repeated requests to appear in person , as they were always fishing at sea, the ship was registered on February 18, 1890 under the registration number 926 at the Royal District Court of Harburg / Elbe.
Further active use
After the ship had been sold in equal parts to the two from Finkenwerder, Georg Dreyer and Jacob Rudolph Friedrichs, on April 23, 1901, they registered the cutter in the Hamburg ship register under SSR 2686 and moved the home port of the cutter , indicated at 11,800 Marks Cranz to Finkenwerder. HF 231 (HF for Hamburgisch Finkenwärder ) became the new fishing symbol on June 7, 1901 . The sea fisherman JP Friedrichs received an interest-free Reich loan of 5,000 marks and bought the ship on September 23, 1903.
After further changes of ownership, the Landrath Küster was operated from 1926 to 1958 by the sea fisherman Rudolf Joh. H. Reimers from Finkenwerder. In order to be able to fish in the North Sea in winter, Reimers equipped the ship with a first auxiliary engine and a wheelhouse. A new measurement certificate dated June 22, 1928 identifies the ship as a sailing ship with an auxiliary engine (engine: HMG engine, 25 HP). In 1934 a more powerful 85 HP HMG engine was installed. In the war years from 1939 to 1945 the compulsory cutter was used by the Navy. HF231 was used for mine fishing in the Baltic Sea and later on the French Channel coast. The wooden mast was lost during the necessary modifications. Soon after the war, a 3-cylinder MaK diesel engine with 90 hp was installed, followed in 1957 by a 120 hp Deutz diesel.
Under its next owner Hans Brodersen, who registered the cutter in Cuxhaven in 1960 under the number NC 440, the ship experienced its last time as an active fishing vessel until 1970 . In 1970 the federal government paid a scrapping premium as part of a capacity adjustment, whereupon the cutter was taken out of commercial fishing.
As a traditional ship
After the decommissioning, the Landrath Küster was taken over by the Deutsche Marine-Jugend eV , continued to be used under the name Freddy Quinn and later Phönix and later sold on to the Netherlands. 125,000 guilders are said to have been invested there before the ship was bought again by the German side for 5,000 DM.
The ABM -träger Altonaer Jugendarbeit eV acquired the ship and restored it from 1991 to 1996 at the former Lührs shipyard in Tollerort . An essential feature of these fishing vessels, the Bünn , a fish room filled with fresh water, in which the catch could be transported alive, was also restored.
The carrier association Altona Youth Work eV was meanwhile in bankruptcy , after which the carrier association Jugend in Arbeit eV took over the project. Finally took place on 31 May 1996, the launch of the largely completed hull. The original completion was followed on May 14, 1997, the entry in the ship register under the number SSR 18 251. On May 23, 1997 the first exit finally took place. Since then, the Friends of the Hochseekutter Landrath Küster association has been operating the Finkenwerder cutter, which has been part of the Hamburg Maritime Foundation since 2002 .
