Robert Rosentreter

Robert Rosentreter (born March 11, 1931 in Kuldīga , Latvia , German name: Goldingen ; † February 8, 2015 in Rostock ) was a German military journalist , frigate captain ret. D. and author of political and historical literature.

Life

In 1949/50, Rosentreter, who was born in Kurland , played actively as a runner at Union Bad Freienwalde when he was 18 years old . Rosentreter then studied in Leipzig , became a journalist in 1954 and then worked as an editor for the Mecklenburg Ostsee-Zeitung . From 1955 Rosentreter signed up as a professional officer in the People's Navy of the German Democratic Republic and became a military journalist. Together with Dieter Flohr , Robert Rosentreter published the Edition Marinekalender der DDR from 1983 to 1991 .

1984 doctorate Rosentreter at the Department of History of the University of Rostock to Dr. phil. and ended his officer career in 1990.

Member of FC Hansa Rostock since 1966 , Rosentreter was the club's press spokesman from 1991 to 1995 and became a club chronicler in 1996 . He was also active as chairman of the Rostock maritime society , a registered association that is responsible for educational and public relations work related to shipping, shipbuilding and the maintenance of maritime traditions in the Hanseatic city. Most recently he was an author and editor at Ingo Koch Verlag in Rostock.

Publications (selection)

• I serve in the People's Navy . Military publishing house of the GDR , Berlin 1975, DNB 36925791X (= NVA in words and pictures ).
• with Horst Westphal: Rebellion in Hell , Military Publishing House of the GDR, Berlin 1976, DNB 369257928 .
• with Dieter Flohr and Peter Seemann: Volksmarine on watch . Military Publishing House of the GDR, Berlin 1979, 1983 (2nd edition)
• About sailors and ships - From the history of seafaring . (= Rainbow Series ) Children's Book Publishing Berlin, 1979
• On the ideological influencing of the German youth in the interest of the imperialist German sea power policy 1897-1914 Dissertation at the University of Rostock 1984, DNB 850028043 .
• with Herbert Kalkofen: anti-submarine ships . Military Publishing House of the GDR, Berlin 1984, 1988 (2nd edition), ISBN 3-327-00466-8
• with Manfred Wessling: landing ships . Military publishing house of the GDR, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-327-00341-6
• Blue jackets in the November storm. Red sailors 1918/1919 . Dietz, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-320-01063-8
• FC Hansa Rostock. Soccer on the Baltic Sea . Suum Cuique, Reutlingen 1995, ISBN 3-927292-55-9
• In the swell of time. Four decades of the People's Navy . Koch, Rostock 2000, ISBN 3-935319-07-X
• Schonerbrigg GREIF ex WILHELM PIECK. A ship legend . Koch, Rostock 2001, ISBN 3-935319-25-8
• Armored cruiser Potjomkin. The ship - the uprising - the film . Koch, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-86436-012-1
• Undine aka Crown Prince. The dramatic story of a Rostock ship . Redieck & Schade, Rostock 2012, ISBN 978-3-942673-25-9
• Hanse time and Hanse Sail. From the maritime history of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . Hinstorff, Rostock 2004, ISBN 3-356-01043-3
• with Günter Simon: Always close to the wind. 40 years of FC Hansa Rostock . The workshop, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89533-504-5 .
• Type compass German warships: Auxiliary cruisers and commercial disruptors 1914–1918 , Motorbuch, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-613-03774-8 .

literature

• Lutz Mohr : Chronicler of the "Greif" died. A companion remembers the journalist and naval historian Robert Rosentreter . In: Ostsee-Zeitung , Greifswalder Zeitung. Year 63, No. 55 of March 6 (Friday) 2015, p. 10. 1 Fig.

Web links

• Literature by and about Robert Rosentreter in the catalog of the German National Library