Mathias Jonas
Mathias Jonas (born April 6, 1961 in Rostock ) has been Secretary General of the International Hydrographic Organization ( IHO ) since 2017 . His professional activity is strongly influenced by the introduction of computerized navigation systems into shipping.
Life and work
Jonas grew up in his native Rostock and began his professional career in 1977 with an apprenticeship as a fully qualified seaman with the Deutfracht Seereederei Rostock (DSR). From 1982 to 1987 he completed a degree in shipbuilding engineering at the Maritime Engineering School in Warnemünde-Wustrow and worked there as a research assistant after completing his studies. He received his doctorate in 1992 on the subject of "Maneuver simulation and maneuver identification for maneuver planning in ship command" at the University of Rostock .
From 1991 he worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Ship Operations, Maritime Traffic and Simulation (ISSUS) in Hamburg and contributed to the development of the first prototypes of networked navigation systems. After moving to the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency in Hamburg in 1994 , he was initially responsible for the technical certification of electronic sea chart systems. In 2004 he moved to the nautical hydrography department in Rostock, which he took over as head in 2009. Vice-President of the higher federal authority since 2014, Jonas ran for the post of Secretary General of the organization at the IHO plenary meeting in April 2017. After his election, he started work on September 1, 2017 at the IHO headquarters in Monaco.
Jonas has been married since 1987 and has two sons.
Offices and academic activities
| 2001-2009 | Chairman of the IHO Colors & Symbols Working Group |
| 2012-2017 | IHO's Hydrographic Standards & Services Committee |
| 2006-2015 | Deputy head of the German delegation to the “Safety of Navigation - NAV” subcommittee of the International Maritime Organization - IMO |
| 2009-2010 | Chairman of the Baltic Sea Hydrographic Commission |
| 2014-2016 | Chairman of the IC-ENC Steering Committee, Taunton, Somerset, UK |
| 2001-2016 | Lecturer in "Electronic Nautical Chart", HafenCity University Hamburg |
| 2007-2010 | Lecturer in "Marine Geoinformation Systems", University of Neubrandenburg |
| Since 2017 | Lectureship "Basics and Applications of Hydrography", World Maritime University Malmö, Sweden |
Specialist literature
- Horst Hecht, Bernhard Berking, Mathias Jonas, Gert Büttgenbach (2001), Lee Alexander (2011): The Electronic Chart - Fundamentals, Functions, Data and other Essentials - A Textbook for ECDIS use and Training. Geomares BV, Lemmer, The Netherlands, 2001, 2006, 2011, 2017
- Mathias Jonas (Ed.): 150 Years of Official German Hydrography 1861–2011. Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency, Hamburg and Rostock 2011
- Mathias Jonas, Wolfgang Kresse and David M. Danko (editors): Electronic Navigational Charts for Ship Operations at Sea. Springer Handbook of Geographic Information, Springer Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg 2012
Web links
Individual evidence
https://www.bsh.de/SharedDocs/Pressemitteilungen/DE/Text_html/html_2017/Pressemitteilung-28-04-2017.html?nn=1753012 (last accessed February 4, 2019)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jonas, Mathias |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German hydrograph |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 6, 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rostock |