Navigation school (Hamburg)

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The former navigation school at the St. Pauli Landungsbrücken
Portal of the navigation school on St. Pauli

The navigation school was a teaching facility for aspiring captains in Hamburg .

history

Gerloff Hiddinga founded the first state navigation school in Hamburg on October 1, 1749 , thereby laying the foundation for the German nautical school system . The Hamburg Admiralty wanted to improve the theoretical navigation skills of prospective or already experienced captains. The school was in Hiddinga's apartment in the churchyard of Sankt Katharinen . Astronomy, mathematics, physics, languages ​​and drawing were taught. From 1785 the Patriotic Society of 1765 also offered its own lessons. Hiddinga's successor, who died in 1766, was Jan Juriaan Fruchtnicht , who, like Hiddinga, was Dutch. Fruchtnicht published a small guide for nautical instruction, "De kleine Zeemans Wegwyzer of the Kunst der Stuurlieden", 1755 [1]

In 1808 final exams were introduced for the first time. During the time of the occupation by Napoleon's troops, there were no classes. The manual of the shipping school appeared in 1819 , as there had not been a detailed textbook in German up to now. After the Hamburg Senate obliged tax people to pass a tax man's examination on January 1, 1827, the number of pupils increased significantly. One of the directors was the hydraulic engineer Reinhard Woltmann , author of the "Handbuch der Schiffahrtskunde". Woltmann also stood up for Charles Rümker as his successor, who took up this office at the beginning of the winter semester, but already accepted the observatory position at Thomas Brisbane to set up the Paramatta observatory in Australia the following year. On Woltman's recommendation, Daniel Braubach was appointed to replace Rümker .

The navigation teacher Arthur Breusing was briefly a guest at the Hamburg navigation school in 1858 on the way from Danzig, Grabowo (Stettin) and Lübeck to Bremen to the navigation school there.

In 1905 a new building was erected nearby, which today houses the German Weather Service . For a long time the school was subordinate to the shipping and port deputation .

After the end of the Second World War , German shipping was initially no longer allowed. This requirement was soon abandoned by the Allies. A short time later the navigation school merged with the Altona seafaring school on the Rainvilleterrasse . The separate locations were merged in the building on the Altona balcony . In 1979 the school attended by 700 students was affiliated to the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences . In 1988 the radio officer training was discontinued; In 1996 technology and nautical engineering were merged and included in the training to become a ship operations officer for deck and engine, and the maritime department was dissolved. The training was carried out by the Institute for Ship Operation, Maritime Traffic and Simulation (ISSUS), which stopped training on September 30, 2005.

Well-known teachers and head of the navigation school

  • Gerloff Hiddinga (1749–1766)
  • Daniel Braubach (1767–1828), navigator, pedagogue, director of the navigation school (from 1821)
  • Carl Rümker (1788–1862), astronomer, 1819–1820 teacher at the navigation school
  • Carl Theodor Bernhard Niebour (1825-1915), navigation teacher and director of the navigation school (1863 to 1900)
  • Friedrich Bolte (1860–1940), navigation teacher and director of the navigation school (1901 to 1925)
  • Otto Steppes (1882–1984), navigator, seafaring school director, director of the navigation school (1925 to 1948)
  • Hermann von Morgenstern (1941–2012), captain, lecturer at the seafaring school

building

building

The brick building of the former navigation school in the Hamburg-St. Pauli above the northern bank of the Elbe was built between 1903 and 1905 according to plans by Albert Erbe . The facades of the building, which is kept in the style of the Dutch Renaissance, are decorated with cartouches with name entries, which are intended to commemorate deserving geographers, explorers and cartographers . The building is used today by the German Weather Service .

Web links

Commons : Navigation School Hamburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The first name “Jan Juriaan” is of Dutch-North Frisian origin and is “Johann Jürgen” in German: Volkert F. Faltings (Ed.): Friesische Studien III . Contributions from the Föhrer Symposium on Frisian Philology from 11.-12. April 1996, p. 128
  2. ↑ Eighth chapter: Admiral Karpfanger In: J. Friedrichsohn: Geschichte der Schiffahrt , Hamburg 1890, S. 118, digitizedhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3D~IA%3Dbub_gb_3i-gYWR8o8MC~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3Dn127~ double-sided%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D
  3. ↑ Hamburg Society for the Dissemination of Mathematical Knowledge: Handbuch der Schiffahrtskunde for use in navigation schools, also for self-teaching of prospective helmsmen , with a complete collection of the most indispensable seaman's boards. Perthes and Besser, Hamburg 1819, (see discussion )
  4. ↑ Quotation: "The reason for this book was primarily the fact that the highly honorable higher authority ... also wanted to introduce the German language instead of the previous Dutch", Handbuch der Schiffahrtskunde ... , preface , 1819, S. III.
  5. ↑ XXXVIII. Publicandum on the examination of the helmsmen to be admitted on Hamburg ships. In: Johann Martin Lappenberg : Collection of the regulations of the Freyen Hanseatic City of Hamburg , regulations of 1825, 1826, Volume 9, Johann August Meißner, Hamburg 1827, p. 175, digitizedhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3DkadDAAAAcAAJ~IA%3D~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3DPA175~ double-sided%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D
  6. ↑ Günther Oestmann : A Bremen navigation teacher on a "trip abroad" - Arthur Breusing's visit to the navigation schools in Prussia, Lübeck and Hamburg in 1858 , in: Gudrun Wolfschmidt (ed.): "There is no special way to geometry for kings" - Festschrift for Karin Reich . Algorismus, Heft 59, Augsburg 2006, pp. 357-370 (= studies on the history of mathematics and natural sciences, edited by Menso Folkerts ).
  7. ^ Gudrun Maurer: Legendary places in Hamburg . Via Reise Verlag Klaus Scheddel, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-935029-53-7 , page 95
  8. ^ Franklin Kopitzsch , Daniel Tilgner (ed.): Hamburg Lexikon. 4th, updated and expanded special edition. Ellert & Richter, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-8319-0373-3 , p. 488.
  9. ↑ Navigation school - end after 255 years Hamburger Abendblatt online January 9, 2006. Accessed January 10, 2015
  10. ↑ Hamburg discontinues captain training Die Welt online from August 27, 2001. Accessed on January 10, 2015.
  11. ^ Ralf Lange : Architecture in Hamburg - The great architecture guide . 1st edition. Junius Verlag, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-88506-586-9 , p. 84-85 .

Coordinates: 53 ° 32 '47.9 "  N , 9 ° 57' 59.6"  E