Otto Fulst

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Otto August Friedrich Fulst (born May 6, 1865 in Linden ; † May 1945 in Köslin ) was a German nautical instructor.

Life

Fulst went to the Leibniz Realgymnasium in Hanover and graduated from high school there. He studied mathematics and natural sciences in Leipzig, Berlin and Göttingen from 1885 to 1889 before serving in the foot artillery in 1889/90. In 1890 Fulst received his doctorate in Göttingen with a geometrical-analytical work. On October 1, 1891, Fulst took up a position as a teacher at the Bremen Seafaring School and from 1901 to 1905 he taught at the Hamburg Navigation School. In 1905, Fulst took up a position as Reich Inspector for maritime skipper and navigator exams in Berlin as a colleague of Carl Schrader . In addition to this task, he became a consultant for the Prussian navigation schools in the Ministry of Trade and Industry, where he initiated a reorganization of the navigation school system. In 1923 he took over the position of Schrader, who had retired. From 1925, Fulst was Reich Commissioner for Maritime Schools. He retired in 1931, but continued to work on the editing of numerous publications. Fulst lived in Berlin until the Second World War, lost his apartment due to the events of the war and moved to Köslin, where he died in May 1945 under unexplained circumstances.

Otto Fulst was the author or co-author of numerous nautical textbooks. Among other things, he continued Arthur Breusings Nautische Tafeln as Fulst Nautische Tafeln

Fonts (selection)

  • Four-digit nautical tables , 1897, M. Heinsius Nachf., Bremen
  • Azimuth table , 1898, M. Heinsius Nachf., Bremen
  • Nautical Tasks , 1898, autographed, later published by Eckardt & Meßdorff, Hamburg.
  • with Heinrich Meldau , Carl Schilling (editor): Arthur Breusing: Steuermannskunst , Leipzig 1909, Bremen 1924.
  • with Heinrich Meldau Nautical Tasks , Eckardt and Messtorf, Hamburg 1910, Dingwort Verlag, Hamburg Altona.
  • with Meldau, Schilling Nautische Tafeln , 1923, 1929 (also Breusings Nautische Tafeln 1917).

literature

  • Otto Steppes : On the hundredth anniversary of Dr. Otto Fulst , in: Hansa, magazine for shipping, shipbuilding, port. Schiffahrt-Verlag "Hansa", Hamburg, 1965., pp. 1834-1836.

Individual evidence


personal data
SURNAME Fulst, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fulst, Otto August Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German navigator and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Linden trees
DATE OF DEATH May 1945
Place of death Koslin