Felix Graf von Luckner Gesellschaft e.V.

The President of our company recently took a trip to the Baltic Sea. The goal was the Hanseatic city of Greifswald, where he gave a lecture on the “Sea Devil” Count Luckner in front of the local boatmen’s guild.

The next day he used the time to visit Stralsund, where in particular the former training ship of the Reichsmarine “Gorch Fock” (also called “Gorch Fock I”) was his destination. On deck and below deck there were many new impressions and with many pictures and ideas in mind, Maurer approached the homeward journey towards evening.

For the upcoming Luckner Stammtisch (Wednesday, 17.4.2019 from 18.00 clock in the Luckner Vault) Maurer will report in the context of a picture presentation on the recent visit and take a look at the exciting history of the training ships of the German Navy to make the lecture “round” .

The topic is of particular interest, as Count Luckner was the first commander of the newly established sailing training ship “Niobe” from March to September 1921, which was unfortunately lost in 1932 in a tragic accident.

The event is public, interested parties are welcome.

A donation of photos arrived from the USA

Whom the thanks may be, we pronounce it hereby!

Today, we received a letter with beautiful stamps (you can see them in the picture) of two photos which were supposed to have been taken in Portland, OR, USA in the 1920s. In any case, Luckner’s ship “Vaterland” (later: “Mopelia”) can be seen on this.

Unfortunately, there is no reference to a sender on the letter either inside or outside, so we would like to thank the unknown person who gave us this donation in a friendly way.

The donation is in good hands with us and will be preserved for posterity.

Again thank you very much!

On October 11, 2018, in France a new book has been published by Edition Paulsen. Inside of that book you will find biographies of 10o sailors such as Jules Verne, Thor Heyerdahl or Jaques Cousteau.

Ii is a time ago that the editor contacted our society because they wished to include a biography of Felix Count von Luckner. Even that fact is a small sensation as the content of the book mainly was focussed on sailors who stood in a relation to France themselves.

The President of our society, Matthias J. Maurer, offered to write the article on the Count himself, so he in the end did. On the book cover not the names of all sailors could be mentioned but the name of the “Sea Devil” now found his place just beside Heyerdahl and Cousteau!

The book was written in the French language and can now be purchased. It has a hard cover and will be delivered in an additional slipcase.

We can highly recommend that book to all who an read and understand French. If you wish, you can review the book in our office.

Following you will find a detail of the cover and an excerpt of the contents. After that we provide links to the editor and the opportunity purchasing the book.

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>>> HERE <<< the editor (Edition Paulsen) introduces the book

>>> HERE <<< you can buy the book (Amazon)

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An exhibition was opened in the station lounge of Halle (Saale) Central Station on October 30, where portraits of Halle personalities can be seen.

The paintings are paintings of the Halle artist Hans Joachim Triebsch, and as a basis, photographs of Peru John were taken.

All persons presented there have prepared a statement regarding the city of Halle.

Among these persons is also the president of our company, Matthias J. Maurer.

In this article you will find impressions of the exhibition as well as the statement with which Maurer vehemently advocates the finally due tribute of Felix Count von Luckner.

On Saturday, December 1, 2018, it’s time again. From 5.00 o’clock opens our small Christmas market in the courtyard at the seat of our company.

We look forward to the girls choir Halle-Neustadt, clown Lulo and the music club “Seeteufel” and of course to you, join us and join us in the upcoming advent season.

The city of Halle an der Saale has recently received its own “Fürstenzug”, so it was at least recently in the press to read, although a small wink is noted, because in terms of style and size, our hallesche execution is not the original in Dresden to compare.

Nevertheless, our city is a richer attraction richer, because here at the Neuwerk scenes and historical figures from the history of Halle are presented. So we find Cardinal Albrecht, Martin Luther and more recently Hans-Dietrich Genscher. We as von Luckner Society are particularly pleased that the end of the war in 1945 found a worthy presentation. Thanks to financial support from the membership of our society and an own contribution, we were able to participate in the financing of the great project.

The result of the entire system is something to be proud of, and we are already inviting all citizens of the city of Halle to take a look at the new tourist highlight of the city hall, it’s worth it.

On the two pictures on the left you can see the two artists Benjamin Klisch and Sven Gutzeit at work, so here you are creating “our” picture.

Traditionally, the church bells of Halle will ring for 10 minutes on 19 April at 10:55.

It is at this time the “peace bells of Halle”

The occasion is the commemoration of the largely peaceful end of the war in 1945, but the peace bells are always meant to send a message to today’s world, and a look at recent events in the Middle East shows that peace must always be fought over again and again unfortunately not self-evident.

The international Felix Graf von Luckner Society hereby invites the Halle residents to listen to the peace bells at the foot of the Marktkirche.

Incidentally, this year we are collecting for the renovation of the church and hereby express our gratitude for the many years of support with regard to our project of ringing the “peace bells of Halle”!

With wonderful weather we could open that excibition

Impressions of that day

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ONLY IN GERMAN AT THE MOMENT

Anläßlich der 100. Wiederkehr der legendären Fahrt der SEEADLER, welche in 1917 ihr Ende in einem heute zu Tahiti gehörendem Territorium nahm, gab die “Gesellschaft der Ozeanologie” (Société des Études Océaniennes) eine Erinnerungsschrift heraus mit umfangreichen Fakten, reich bebildert und sicher mit Arbeit und Energie hergestellt.

Diese in französischer Sprache abgefaßte Schrift sendete man unserer Gesellschaft zu unsere großen Freude zu. Mit gleicher Freude nahmen wir zur Kenntnis, daß wir in erwähnter Schrift eine Erwähnung fanden als der Verein, der sich das Gedenken an Felix Graf von Luckner und damit auch die Geschicht um die SEEADLER aufrecht erhält.

Die Schrift wird selbstredend ihren würdigen Platz in unserer Sammlung finden. Mit unserer Kontaktperson auf Tahiti wurde abgestimmt, daß wir in Verbindung bleiben, denn man hat dort Interesse an unserer Arbeit hier in Halle!

Today we have to express our deep thanks, but we do not know whom to thank.

The background is, that we received a big envelope containing a a large collection of items on the von Luckner issue, such as photos (some of them completely unknown for us!), newspaper articles and many things more. There was a writing enclosed explaing us, that the senders found the collection in an appartment at Kiel to be vacated. They were told to send these things to us and did like assigned.

Nowhere we could find an information on the sender, no name, no address at all.

So we decided to choose this way to express our deep thanks to those who donated this wonderful collection to us. We really hope that you will read this. Indeed the collection was preserved from being lost and will now be part of our collection. The items are in “good hands”.

Thank you once more, we very much appreciate your donation.

Matthias J. Maurer

President