Category: MOV

It finally worked out. After four general meetings that were postponed due to the coronavirus, a test by circulation procedure and an extraordinary general meeting by circulation procedure, the members of MOV met in Schortens on 9 October for an ordinary general meeting. This was preceded by a twilight drink on "Rees an Backbord" at the German Naval Museum in Wilhelmshaven on 8 October. The official part of the meeting centred on the complete re-election of the entire Executive Board, the Council of Elders and the auditors. The new board is younger overall and a good mix of active and retired members, young and old. Former Vice Admiral Wolfgang Nolting has stepped down after many years as Chairman and the move...

Dear members, dear participants of the General Assembly, we are currently receiving many enquiries at the office expressing concerns about the risk of coronavirus infection during our General Assembly on 8 and 9 October 2021. I can assure you that we are exhausting all possibilities to minimise the risk of infection as much as possible. In addition, the number of infections in Wilhelmshaven and "umzu" continues to decline. Attached is our hygiene concept, which supplements the hygiene guidelines of those responsible at the event venues. The following applies to the twilight pint in the German Naval Museum on 08.10.21 as well as to the general meeting on 09.10.21 and the bus transports...

Dear members of the Marine-Offizier-Vereinigung e.V., we made a serious mistake in the "Yellow Pages" of issue 9 of "marineforum". Those who have a birthday in September were already congratulated in issue 7-8 of "marineforum". This congratulation - almost a month in advance - has been customary for many years. As a result, the birthdays for October are also listed in the September issue. The mistake we have now made in the September issue is that we should have written "Birthdays in October 2021" instead of "Birthdays in September 2021" in the headline to the birthdays. The birth dates themselves are the dates of the...

Last week, the deputy envoy of the Kingdom of Thailand in Germany, Mrs Viphawan Benniman, presented a Gorch Fock model to the board of the Marine-Offizier-Vereinigung e.V., Mr Vice Admiral (ret.) Nolting. The 1:90 scale model was built by retired Admiral Samart Champirat of the Royal Thai Navy. Admiral Champirat underwent four years of German naval officer training with the X/70. As an expression of his gratitude to the navy, his crew mates and his attachment to the "Gorch Fock", it was his wish to give his ship to the MOV. The transport to Germany and on to Wilhelmshaven was organised by the Thai naval attaché, Captain...