Robert Clauss

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Captain Clauss (1969)

Robert Daniel Clauß (born September 12, 1894 in Berga / Elster , † March 5, 1974 in Hanover ) was a German captain and Cape Hornier .

Life

Clauß circumnavigated Cape Horn a total of 35 times , including 15 times as a captain. From 1929 he was the captain of the F. Laeisz shipping company and was one of the last captains of tall ships to run their Flying P-Liner : first the Pamir , 1930/31 the Padua , then the Priwall and in 1935/36 again the Padua . From October 31, 1933 to January 6, 1934 he sailed the Priwall from Hamburg to Australia. He covered the distance from Lizard Point (Cornwall) to Spencer Golf in the record time of 62 days. Since then he has been considered a "seafaring legend". Under Captain Clauß the 4-pole served Bark Padua end of 1936 as a backdrop for the French feature film Mutiny on the Elsinore (Les mutinés de l'Elseneur) , directed by Pierre Chenal based on the novel by Jack London . After the Second World War, in the 1950s, Captain Clauss led various ships of the Weichsel Danziger Dampfschiffahrt-AG and the Nordische Reederei / Schiffahrts-AG, Kiel, such as the ships Elfriede , Adriana and Norderholm . These ships served the Great Lakes and West Africa , among others . Clauss was the last captain of the Passat . He brought the ship from Hamburg to Travemünde in 1959 , where it has been anchored as a symbol of the Baltic Sea resort ever since.

Clauß found his final resting place in the family grave in the cemetery in Moorrege (Pinneberg district).

  • Padua (1936)

  • MS Elfriede (1956)

  • Memorial plaque in Berga

Works

  • To Cape Hope to Australia. How we sailed the “Priwall” to Spencer Gulf in 64 days. In: Fred Schmidt (ed.): New captain reports. Verlag Reimer, Berlin, 1937, pp. 111-134. Reprinted in: Grube / Richter: Das große Buch der Windjammer , Hoffmann and Campe Verlag, Hamburg , 1976; Pp. 230–237 (travel report on the record trip of SS Priwall to Australia).

literature

  • Heinrich Hauser : The last sailing ships , 1930. (Travel report about a trip on the sailing ship Pamir under Captain Clauss)
  • Heinz Burmester: sailing school ships around Cape Horn , Verlag Gerhard Stalling AG, Oldenburg and Hamburg, 1976; 173 p. And photos including by Captain Clauss.
  • Peter Klingbeil: The sailing ships of the shipping company F. Laeisz, the Flying P-Liner , Ernst Kabel Verlag, Hamburg, 1st edition 159 pages, including trip reports from Laeisz captains, 1998, ISBN 3-8225-0472-6
  • Karl-Otto Dummer : four-masted barque Pamir , German Maritime Museum , Bremerhaven and Convent Verlag GmbH, Hamburg, 2001; Pp. 88–99 (With ambition and perfection to fame).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Flying P-Liner "Padua". Archived from the original on May 26, 2010 ; Retrieved July 2, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Greizer Heimatbote, 09/1979, Publisher: District Cultural House Greiz
  3. ↑ Kurt Gerdau : With God's help the "Priwall" of the "Padua" drove away. In: The world. December 24, 1999, accessed July 2, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Robert Clauß: Unusual conditions on the Padua , Cap Hornier's "Der Albatros", 28th year, issue 1 from 1983
  5. ↑ Woman on board. - The captain's daughter leads tourists across the Passat ( Memento from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Clauss, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Clauss, Robert Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German captain and Cape Hornier
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Berga / Elster
DATE OF DEATH March 5th 1974
Place of death Hamburg