Navigation school

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Navigation schools were in the 18th and 19th century German schools on which sailors of the merchant navy after a journey time of 33 months at the helm or captain could be trained.

history

The Altona Maritime School (see also: Navigation School (Hamburg) ) was founded in 1749 as the first public German navigation school. In 1756 the navigation school was founded in Szczecin. In 1782 a navigation school was founded in Emden.

In Lübeck the established company profit to transport activity in 1808, a navigation school in 1825 by the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck was acquired. As early as 1826, the Lübeck navigation school moved into its new building at the Kaisertor on the ramparts. State examination regulations regulated the acquisition of the helmsman's and captain's license , for example the announcement regarding the examination of taxpayers on Lübeck ships No. 14 of March 31, 1827 . The easternmost German navigation school was in Memel from 1829 to 1889. In 1846 the Grand Ducal Mecklenburg Navigation School was founded. The navigation school in Flensburg , the northernmost German state navigation school, was founded in the 1870s.

New training and examination regulations for German shipping were put into effect in 1925 by the Reich government . The name of the navigation school was changed to the seafaring school.

The seafaring schools in the Federal Republic of Germany were established in the countries with seafaring schools ( Bremen , Hamburg , Lower Saxony , Schleswig-Holstein ) by the agreement for the standardization in the field of the technical college of 30./31. October 1968 divided into the technical school area with the general name “Fachschule für Seefahrt” and the corresponding department of a technical college or as an independent university form with the name “Fachhochschule für Seefahrt”.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon, 6th edition Leipzig 1906, vol. 14, p. 474 ff.
  2. ↑ Festschrift 175 Years of the Lübeck Seafaring School
  3. ^ Archives of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
  4. ↑ Festschrift 175 Years of the Lübeck Seafaring School, 1983
  5. ↑ Meyers Enzyklopädisches Lexikon, Vol. 8, Mannheim 1973