Maritime School Lübeck

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Between 1808 and 1993, captains and helmsmen of the merchant navy were trained in the seafaring school in Lübeck for all sailing areas, including deep-sea and coastal fishing, to acquire the relevant certificate .

In 1969, the state government of Schleswig-Holstein arranged for the Lübeck Maritime School to be split up into the Maritime Department at the Lübeck University of Applied Sciences and the Lübeck Maritime College.

history

Building of the seafaring school over the remains of the Kaisertor around 1900
Access to the building of the former seafaring school Lübeck (2009)

The Lübeck Seafaring School was founded on April 5, 1808 at the instigation of the director of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities , Ludwig Suhl . The helmsman Johann Hinrich Sahn began teaching on July 27, 1808 as head of the school and as its first teacher with 17 helmsman students in a room provided by Mayor Mattheus Rodde in the Breite Straße . After about 20 years of practical seafaring, Sahn had previously been teaching seafarers the art of helmsmen as a private instructor for over 15 years.

For financial reasons, the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck took over the sponsorship of the navigation school in 1825, which on August 28, 1826 moved into the newly built "Building for the Educational Institute for Navigation" on the wall near the Kaisertor . The later town planning director Johannes Baltzer was in charge of the new construction of the seafaring school building as a building inspector around 1900 (see photo above).

In order to acquire their certificates of competency (patents), in the course of the development of the Lübeck Maritime School, technical facilities and courses were created in addition to the navigational training for merchant ship navigators, for deep-sea and coastal fishermen as well as for marine machinists and marine radio operators. Navigation courses for pilots of Lufthansa , which operated a sea ​​air base in the Lübeck district of Travemünde , were held. See also Decca navigation system under "Origins".

When the Hanseatic City of Lübeck lost its imperial freedom as a result of the Greater Hamburg Act , the Lübeck Seafaring School was subsequently named the Reich Seafaring School in Lübeck and incorporated into the division of the Reich Minister of Culture . The machinist training taken over at the school in 1905 had to be discontinued by order of the Reich Minister of Culture in 1938, as did the marine radio training introduced in 1927 a year later .

After the Second World War, in 1947, under the direction of the Maritime School Director Peter, the teaching operations, including marine radio training, which had been discontinued in 1942 due to the turmoil of the war, were resumed. The sponsorship of the Lübeck Seafaring School and ownership of the Seafaring School building passed to the State of Schleswig-Holstein . The division of the Lübeck Maritime School into the Maritime Department of the Lübeck University of Applied Sciences and the Maritime College at Kaisertor took place in 1969.

The instruction in the marine department to acquire the patent AG (captain on long voyage) was brought to a standstill by the fact that the state government of Schleswig-Holstein prohibited the admission of new students. The seafaring school, which is very respected in specialist circles and with shipping companies, was relocated to the Flensburg University of Applied Sciences on July 31, 1993 by decision of the state government against the vote of the school conference .

The listed building on the Wall housed the mathematical institutes of the University of Lübeck from October 1993 to November 2011 . In the meantime, the first police station in Lübeck was housed in the seafaring school, as the office in Mengstrasse was renovated. Since spring 2015 it has been used as accommodation for refugees.

literature

  • Ernst Krause, The Seafaring School in Lübeck 1808-1933: A look back at 125 years of existence of the Seafaring School Lübeck
  • 150 years of the Lübeck Seafaring School: Festschrift for the anniversary celebration of the Lübeck Seafaring School on September 19, 1958 in the premises of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities in Lübeck
  • Jörg Fligge : Lübeck schools in the "Third Reich": a study on education during the Nazi era in the context of developments in the Reich , Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2014, p. 703 ff.

Web links

Commons : Seefahrtschule Lübeck  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Festschrift 175 Years of the Lübeck Seafaring School
  2. ^ Antjekathrin Graßmann : Das neue Lübeck-Lexikon , Schmidt-Römhild, 2011
  3. ↑ Festschrift "175 Years of Lübeck Seafaring School"
  4. ↑ Festschrift "175 Years of Lübeck Seafaring School"
  5. ↑ u. a. Lübecker Nachrichten of May 7, 1969
  6. ↑ The Minister for Education, Science, Youth and Culture of the State of Schleswig-Holstein, correspondence on file number X 5
  7. ↑ Lübecker Nachrichten, August 24, 1993
  8. ↑ Press release from the Lübeck police
  9. ↑ Refugee accommodation: State provides additional properties ( memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) The Schleswig-Holstein State Parliament from February 11, 2015