Klaus Vogel (captain)

Klaus (Anselm) Vogel (born 1956 in Hamburg) is a German historian and merchant sea captain who has been the founding chairman of the German sea rescue organization SOS Méditerranée since 2015.

After graduating from high school, Klaus Vogel went to sea on merchant ships, graduated from the Bremen University of Nautical Sciences (today part of the University of Bremen) and in 1981 acquired his “Patent auf großer Fahrt”.[1] From 1983 he studied history, philosophy and economics in Göttingen , Bielefeld and Paris. In 1995 he received his doctorate with the study 'Sphaera terrae - das mittelalterliche Bild der Erde und die kosmographische Revolution' ("Sphaera terrae - the medieval image of the earth and the cosmographic revolution")[2] at the University of Göttingen. In the same year he founded the “Göttingen Working Group for Interdisciplinary Research on Violence” with Manfred Cierpka. He was a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Rome and worked at the Max Planck Institute for History in Göttingen.[1] Since October 2000 Vogel has been sailing again, since 2005 as captain and since 2007 on container ships of the Hapag-Lloyd shipping company.[1] Since 2015 he has dedicated himself to the sea rescue of refugees in the Mediterranean.[1][3][4][5]

In 2016, he accepted the "Schwarzkopf Europe Award" on behalf of SOS Méditerranée.[6][7]

In 2020, together with Sophie Beau, he was recipient of an Aurora Humanitarian award.[8]

References
  1. Vortrag & Diskussion. Kapitän Dr. Klaus Vogel: Die Botschaft der Aquarius. Über SOS Mediterranee und die Verteidigung solidarischer Werte (tr. "Lecture & Discussion. captain dr Klaus Vogel: The message of Aquarius. About SOS Mediterranee and the defense of solidarity values"), 18. October 2018, www.mmg.mpg.de accessed 13 May 2019
  2. Sphaera terrae - das mittelalterliche Bild der Erde und die kosmographische Revolution (tr. "Sphaera terrae - the medieval image of the earth and the cosmographic revolution") ediss.uni-goettingen.de accessed 28 February 2023
  3. Emptying the sea with a spoon? Non-governmental providers of migrants search and rescue in the Mediterranean Eugenio Cusumano, January 2017 www.sciencedirect.com: "...Its establishment occurred thanks to the initiative of the sea captain Klaus Vogel..." accessed 28 February 2023
  4. Lampedusa in the Mediterranean – ‚Lampedusa‘ on Stage p. 145. Albert-Reiner Glaap, Anglistik, angl.winter-verlag.de, accessed 10 May 2021
  5. Ship captain to launch migrant sea rescue mission 21 October 2015 euobserver.com, accessed 10 May 2021
  6. SOS Méditerranée receives 2016 “Schwarzkopf Europe Award” for its rescue mission in the Mediterranean 14 November 2016 sosmediterranee.com, accessed 9 May 2021
  7. New Europeans wins the Schwarzkopf Foundation Europe Award 2019 "...SOS Méditerranée won the prize for their work with refugees in 2016." 19 September 2018 neweuropeans.net, accessed 10 May 2021
  8. 2020 Aurora Humanitarians announced 25 April 2020, www.aravot-en.am, accessed 9 May 2021
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