Look around (shipping)
Under Arrange the job search is understood by sailors.
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Up until the first half of the 19th century, it was common in northern Germany (and especially in the Baltic Sea region) that coastal shipping , which at the time was peasant and also weather-dependent, ceased during the three winter months. During this time, skippers and crews came together in the various port places for the coming season to look around. In most port cities, there were specific meeting points for the meeting, such as harbor bars, a local shipping company or another known public place (in Wismar , for example, this was the Fastelabendmarkt). Depending on the location, certain rituals were observed when looking around, so it was common in Rostock for seafarers looking for work to stay between the Blutstrasse corner and the town hall on one side of the street and captains and helmsmen on the opposite side. In Warnemünde , an older and experienced sailor was sometimes commissioned to put the crew together. On the Baltic coast in particular, it was clear long before the next sailing time began who would go with which skipper on which ship.
With the decline in local small shipping towards the end of the 18th century and the growing importance of the less weather-dependent steam shipping at the beginning of the 19th century, the process of finding a new ship by looking around also disappeared. Other reasons for the decline in the survey were, on the one hand, the growing port cities , which attracted larger numbers of seafarers from outside, who met haymakers there , who acted as intermediaries between seamans and skippers, and later, on the other hand, the shipping companies that had their own hiring offices Established employment of seafarers.
The term Umschau is still used today. It can be found, for example, in the general collective bargaining agreement for German shipping, where it determines the time to be granted (and paid for) by the shipowner in which a crew member looks for another position.
literature
- Jürgen Rath: Rusks, salted meat and bunks . 1st edition. Köhler Verlag, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-7822-0892-7 .
- Andrea Kiendl, Paul Nagel: "Is there a chance?": The employment agency for seafarers in and around Bremerhaven . In: German Shipping Archive . tape 17 , 1994, ISBN 3-8225-0333-9 , pp. 215-238 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ General collective agreement for German shipping (MTV-See) of March 11, 2002, valid from July 1, 2002, last amended by the collective agreement of December 30, 2014, §32 (Umschau).