Martin Berger (captain)

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Martin Berger (born July 15, 1898 in Posen , † January 19, 1978 in Bremen ) was a German captain and nautical instructor.

Life

Martin Berger drove as a cadet on the Prinzess Eitel Friedrich to sea from 1913 to 1916 and acquired the certificate of proficiency for marine radio 1st class. On May 22, 1917, he passed the examination to become a navigator on a long voyage (A5) at the seafaring school of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen with distinction and bonus . Towards the end of the First World War he served on minesweepers of the Imperial Navy .

After the November Revolution he was an independent businessman for three years . From 1922 he was second mate on the five-masted Susanne Vinnen and first mate with North German Lloyd . In 1925 he passed the test to become a captain on a long journey (A6) with distinction. From October 1928 he taught full-time at the Maritime School in Lübeck . In March 1929 he switched to the seafaring school in Bremen. During the Second World War he served as a major in command of the ships and boats of the Air Force . In Norway, he was in command of the Tromsø sea air base .

At the end of 1946 he was again a teacher at the Bremen Seafaring School , which he headed from 1951 to 1963 as the Upper Seafaring School Director. During his tenure, the Bremen Seafaring School was rebuilt with its branch in Bremerhaven. Erected according to the latest nautical, technical and educational findings, the two schools set the trend for new nautical training centers in Germany and abroad. Bremen had the first radar simulator on the European continent. Berger also introduced new subjects for the prospective captains, which concerned living together on board and the business aspects of shipping. He was one of the founding members of the German Society for Positioning and Navigation . His successor in Bremen was Karl Terheyden . He died at the age of 80 and was buried in a niche in Osterholz . The tomb no longer exists.

Works

  • with Johannes Müller and Joseph Krauss: Müller-Krauss - Handbuch für die Schiffsführung , Verlag Julius Springer, Berlin, 1938, doi: 10.1007 / 978-3-642-47638-9 .
  • with Joseph Krauss and (from 1970) Karl Terheyden: Müller-Krauss - Handbuch für die Schiffsführung , Volume I, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Göttingen, Heidelberg, 1950, 1955, 1956, 1959, 1961, 1970.
  • with Joseph Krauss and (from 1968) Karl Terheyden: Müller-Krauss - Handbuch für die Schiffsführung , Volume II, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Göttingen, Heidelberg, 1955, 1959 ( doi: 10.1007 / 978-3-662-28627-2 ), 1962, 1968.
  • Compilation and explanation of the provisions on social security for seafarers .

Editor and editor

  • Der Seewart, nautical magazine of the German Seewarte .
  • Nautical exercise collection .

Honorary positions

  • Assessor from the Seeamt and Oberseeamt
  • Judge at the German Maritime Arbitration Court
  • Chairman of the German Nautical Association in Bremen
  • Federal Commissioner for Maritime Education
  • Maritime transport advisory board of the Federal Minister of Transport

Honors

literature

  • Captain Martin Berger † . Schiff & Hafen , command bridge, volume 3/1978, 30th year, p. 283.
  • Christof Marcus, Dieter WF Schoppmeyer: 200 years of seafaring school in Bremen . Hauschild, Bremen 1999. ISBN 3-89757-007-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary and obituary in the Weser-Kurier from January 21, 1978 (Bremerhaven City Archives)
  2. ↑ 150 years of Lübeck Maritime School. Festschrift for the anniversary celebration on September 19, 1958 in the premises of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities in Lübeck
  3. ↑ See also Tromsø Airport, Skattøra
  4. ^ Library of the University of Bremen
  5. ↑ Die Schaffermahlzeit  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.schaffermahlzeit.eu  
  6. ↑ Command bridge, bulletin of the Association of German Captains and Ship Officers eV (VDKS), Volume 42, Number 3, March 1965, p. 100
personal data
SURNAME Berger, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German captain and nautical instructor
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Poses
DATE OF DEATH 19th January 1978
Place of death Bremen