Kieler Woche : "Sail Out"
The commander of Flotilla 1, Flotilla Admiral Sascha Rackwitz, had invited guests to observe the departure of the sailors from aboard the tender "Rhein".
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Category: DMI
New framework guidelines for overall defence
For a long time, Minister Pistorius appeared to be a lone voice in the wilderness when he called in public for war readiness and higher defence spending. The rest of the government and large sections of politics did not seem to be interested. Now, however, there has been a cabinet decision that extends far beyond the Ministry of Defence. On 5 June, the Federal Government issued new overall defence framework guidelines. Minister Pistorius presented them to the press together with his colleague from the Ministry of the Interior, Nancy Faeser. More important than the details of the content of this 57-page document is how it came about in the first place. For the first time in 35 years,...
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Change at the top of the DEUTSCHE MARITIMEN INSTITUT e.V. (DMI)
At the DMI's general meeting on 19 April 2024 in Wilhelmshaven, the board was newly elected. Flotilla Admiral Christian Bock was replaced as Chairman by Flotilla Admiral Sascha Helge Rackwitz. Christian Bock has led the DMI since 2018. During his six-year term of office, the marineforum.online website was designed on his initiative and went online on 1 January 2021. In a very short time, marineforum.online developed into a successful platform. The portal now achieves an enormous reach of up to 60,000 hits per month, with three quarters of a million hits in 2023, the portal made a significant contribution to the formation of maritime opinion in Germany. The users from...
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New "BREMER DIALOGUE" format
PRESS RELEASE "BREMER DIALOGUE" MARITIME SECURITY AND NAVY 2035+: ON THE WAY TO "MULTI-DOMAIN OPERATIONS" The first Bremen Dialogue took place on 13 March 2024 at the invitation of the Chairman of the Executive Board of the German Maritime Institute Flotilla Admiral Christian Bock and the initiator and host Rheinmetall Electronics GmbH. The new format creatively promotes communication between maritime associations, industry and the Bundeswehr with the aim of improving mutual understanding. The aim was to discuss fields of action for integrated maritime security with a view to the NATO concept of multi-domain operations. The focus was on the question of what needs to be done in order to be able to fulfil the...
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Interview with Rolf Martens, founding member of the DMI and first editor-in-chief of marineforum
Maritime Convention Of course, one person could not be missing at the 16th Maritime Convention under the motto "50 years of the German Maritime Institute": Rolf Martens, founding member of the DMI and first editor-in-chief of marineforum. He is the last living founder of the institute, a contemporary witness who still remembers exactly why the DMI was founded back then: "When we founded the institute 50 years ago, it was not a spontaneous foundation. It was something we had been thinking about for several years. We wanted to create a circle that would deal with maritime issues in an overarching way." With the founding of the German Maritime Institute -...
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