Godmother of the Gorch Fock deceased
Ulli Kinau, born in 1944, was the niece of the seafaring poet Johann Wilhelm Kinau, whose pen name Gorch Fock became the namesake of the famous sailing ship class of Blohm & Voss Hamburg twice. As the 14-year-old daughter of brother and journalist Rudolf Kinau, who became famous through the radio series "Hör mal'n beten to", Ulli Kinau was allowed to christen the ship of the young German Navy. More than ten thousand people gathered for the occasion on 23 August 1958. She lived in Finkenwerder and was involved in seafaring all her life.
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