Naval School Szczecin

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The Stettin Naval School was a provisional officer school of the Prussian Navy.

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In 1851 the sailing training ship SMS Mercur returned to Stettin from the first major foreign voyage of a Prussian Navy ship . The cadets were housed in the Frauentor barracks. In order to set up an officer's school, a house was rented on the Krautmarkt ( Rynek Warzywny in Polish - Lage ). The school opened on November 3, 1851.

The director of the school was Captain Johann Otto Donner . Captain Christian Amynt Liebe, who was taken over from the Schleswig-Holstein Navy , was assigned to him as the so-called director of studies . He gave lessons in artillery . A young navigation teacher Lehmann taught astronomy and nautical science . Shipbuilding taught the shipbuilder Weiß . Applied machine technology was taught by the Dutch engineer Jansen. The first lieutenant Galster taught fortress building and seamanship, English and French. The first naval school course ran in two parallel lecture halls (groups). This was possible because the ships were decommissioned in winter and the staff was available. The different educational backgrounds of the students and the sometimes poor performance of the teachers put a strain on the course of the lesson; but a start was made.

The navigation lessons were in bad shape; for the auxiliary officers - all of them qualified skippers and helmsmen - followed him impassively because they were exempt from the examination in this subject. And the older cadets in the same class learned the most in navigation from the private lessons of auxiliary officer Heinrich Koehler , who later became a rear admiral. For the final examination in the spring of 1852, special provisions had been issued. The naval department of the Prussian War Ministry had entrusted a commission with the acceptance . It had also determined that the result of the examination should determine the future seniority - a measure that was retained in the Prussian, later German navy until 1945. After this first “naval officer examination” in the history of the Prussian-German Navy, all course participants were commanded on board the existing ships for the duration of the summer.

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  1. ↑ The Multinational Corps North-East is located in today's Baltic Barracks .
  2. ↑ Love later became a teacher at the Naval Cadet Institute in Berlin . In 1867 he became director of the naval school in Kiel .