State Maritime School Cuxhaven
| State Maritime School Cuxhaven | |
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| The seafaring school from the Elbe | |
| type of school | Vocational school |
| founding | 1836 |
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At the sea dike 36 |
| place | Cuxhaven |
| country | Lower Saxony |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 53 ° 52 '30 " N , 8 ° 41' 50" E |
| carrier | City of Cuxhaven |
| Teachers | 18 (2015) |
| management | Rudolf Rothe |
| Website | www.seefahrtschule-cuxhaven.de |
The State Maritime School in Cuxhaven is a maritime school in Cuxhaven . The technical school is located directly on the Grimmershörnbucht behind the dike; the outside of the building is reminiscent of a modern ocean-going ship. The state of Lower Saxony is responsible for this .
Training offer
The seafaring school offers both nautical and technically oriented courses. There are no costs for the students to attend school.
Nautical / fishing technical school education
A course " Certificate of Competence for all sailing areas and without restrictions" (4 semesters) and a course "National Navigator" (1 semester) are offered. The training takes place in accordance with the framework conditions of national and international regulations (e.g. STCW law of the International Maritime Organization). The training ends with a certificate of competency as a navigational watch officer , so that the graduates are given the certificate of competency as " captain for all sailing areas" after the prescribed period of experience . Practical training modules such as driving a ship in the ship handling simulator , on the radar simulator, exercises on the radio simulator and in the seamanship laboratory are integrated into the timetable .
Equipment, faculty
The equipment of the nautical department includes ship handling simulators, liquid cargo, radar and radio simulators. In ship operation technology, students are trained in the thermal power laboratory on real systems such as diesel engines and steam turbines. In addition, they are also prepared for their later work with the help of ship engine simulators.
The Cuxhaven Maritime School employs full-time teachers and lecturers who have acquired the major nautical and / or technical certificate and have been at sea in responsible positions as captains or ship officers. As a state institution, the Maritime School does not charge any course fees, only costs for books and copies are incurred.
history
The port city of Cuxhaven has been important both as a starting point for piloting activities and as a berth for seagoing ships since the 14th century. Therefore, a nautical training opportunity for the pilots and for the seamen of the ships lying in the winter harbor was sought at an early stage .
The basis for such an educational institution was created in 1826 by the teacher Rensch, who gave navigation lessons in a house near the port. In addition to navigation , the subjects algebra , trigonometry and geometry were on the schedule at that time. In 1835 it was an important concern of the then rector of the high school in Danzel, due to serious lack of knowledge on the part of pilot students and drivers, to establish a navigation school. Through targeted instruction, they should be taught to help themselves and to be of service to others in their preparations for attending the Hamburg Navigation School , which has existed since 1749 . At that time, this preparatory course was a necessary part of the theoretical nautical training. The students were not taken to the exam in closed classes, but were addressed separately in individual and group lessons. Thanks to intensive cooperation and independent preparation and follow-up of the material, it was possible to shorten the navigation school time individually; the difference between private preparation and teaching was therefore still not very pronounced. The attempt of the bailiff Meier in 1836 to make the school a state institution did not succeed, it remained a private school with state support. Since 1863, at the suggestion of the bailiff Kirchenpauer, the seaman candidates have been prepared by the teacher Remm for attending the Hamburg navigation school in a two-year course with two hours a week. These lessons only took place until the beginning of the 1970s, but were then taken up again in 1912/13 by a teacher from the Hamburg school.
The new and final impetus for the reopening of the Cuxhaven Seafaring School came from the fishing industry , when the city began to rapidly develop into one of the most important German fishing ports with the establishment of the sea fish market . Between 1908 and 1926 the number of fish steamers based in Cuxhaven rose from twelve to one hundred, which brought with it a steady increase in the seafaring population active in the fishing industry and thus an ongoing need for nautical and technical patent holders. In the twenties, the desire to reopen the seafaring school became more and more urgent, especially since the examination regulations of 1925 also described private preparation for a nautical examination as insufficient. School attendance became compulsory for all patents from A 2 and B 2 onwards. In 1928, Meinken, the director of fisheries at the time, managed to arrange for a branch of the Hamburg seafaring school to be set up in Cuxhaven by the seafaring school director Otto Steppes on behalf of the Hamburg deputation for trade and commerce . The full-time teacher, Captain Lindemann, alternated between a B 2 / B 4 and a B 5 course. For a long time Friedrich Winckler was responsible for the additional lessons in health.
After the death of Captain Lindemann, Captain Kiesewetter, at that time a teacher at the Hamburg Seafaring School, was commissioned in 1935 to carry out the nautical courses in Cuxhaven. Thanks to his efforts and relationships, the school has made some improvements in terms of facilities and accommodation. First he succeeded in setting up a second course, so that a helmsman course and a captain course could be offered at the same time. After the affiliation of the Cuxhaven seafaring school to the one in Wesermünde , Captain Kumm from Wesermünde was transferred to Cuxhaven as the second teacher in 1937. Since then, the then director in Wesermünde, Captain Dittmer, has carried out the tests. In addition, in 1938 the school was given its own premises on the sea dike with a clear view of the Elbe estuary. The outbreak of war put an end to this development. During the following years the lessons were continued with a course by Captain Kumm, but all the material was lost.
In 1949 Captain Kiesewetter rebuilt the school with the help of the Cuxhaven fishery, and together with Captain Brockert from Leer he was able to offer two courses at the same time until he retired in 1953. Under his successor as headmaster, Captain Wiese, the expansion of the school continued. In the following five years, numerous teaching aids and devices for technical navigation were purchased and the staff was expanded to six teachers, so that five different courses could be offered in shift lessons. Nevertheless, only a part of the numerous applicants could be accepted for a course. The shortage of young nautical workers in fishing and cargo shipping continued. By converting the previous post of headmaster to a director post, the school achieved independence in November 1959, also with regard to examinations. The focus of the training program in the first post-war years was mainly on fishing patents. Although two helmsman courses were held at the same time at times, the lack of nautical patent holders in deep-sea fishing has not yet been remedied. In 1958 and 1959, the new school building, which had been planned since 1953, was erected on the site of the former Fort Grimmershörn, which put an end to decades of makeshift accommodation with lack of space and shift lessons. From now on, the technical training took place in numerous special rooms, which enabled very practical lessons, especially in the subjects of nautical science and seamanship. The space was completed by a maneuvering basin for self-propelled model ships and a small planetarium.
The new ship manning and training regulations from 1970, the regulations on the establishment and operation of technical schools for seafaring from March 15, 1974 of the Lower Saxony Ministry of Education and the Lower Saxony Education Act from 1975 set new standards and led to an expanded range of study and training courses .
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Individual evidence
- ^ Hans Schröder : Danzel (Heinrich Friedrich) . In: Lexicon of Hamburg writers up to the present . tape 1 . Perthes-Besser & Mauke, Hamburg 1851, OCLC 165098711 , p. 632–633, no. 723 ( facsimile on the website of the Hamburg State and University Library [accessed on April 17, 2015]). Facsimile] on the pages of the [[Hamburg State and University Library] ( memento of the original dated November 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
