{"id":18047,"date":"2022-03-28T16:28:15","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T14:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/?p=18047"},"modified":"2022-03-28T16:28:21","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T14:28:21","slug":"change-of-command-on-the-gorch-fock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/kommandowechsel-auf-der-gorch-fock\/","title":{"rendered":"Change of command on the Gorch Fock"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Captain at sea Nils Brandt leaves the ship after almost 8 years<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span id=\"page90R_mcid4\" class=\"markedContent\"><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">On the coming<\/span><\/span><span id=\"page90R_mcid6\" class=\"markedContent\"><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\"> Thursday sees a change of command over the<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Sail training ship \"Gorch Fock\". The commander of the naval school<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">M\u00fcrwik, Flotilla Admiral Jens Nemeyer, hands over the responsibility from Captain to Captain.<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">See Nils Brandt to Captain Andreas-Peter Graf von Kielmansegg. An eventful era comes to an end when Nils Brand's pennant is raised at the naval base in Kiel. When the outgoing commander left on 2<\/span><\/span><span id=\"page90R_mcid7\" class=\"markedContent\"><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">8 June 2014 took command of Germany's \"ambassador in<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Wei\u00df\", he had no idea how long he would be commander and what a burden he would have to bear. <\/span><\/span><span id=\"page90R_mcid7\" class=\"markedContent\"><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Difficult waters followed for ship and crew. The<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">The repeatedly extended stay at the shipyard and the associated media and political attention became the biggest challenge<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">for the commander and his crew. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"page90R_mcid7\" class=\"markedContent\"><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">In the process, the actual goal, the <\/span><\/span><span id=\"page90R_mcid7\" class=\"markedContent\"><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">\"Gorch Fock\" ready for sea again<\/span> and to complete the training ship for the German Navy. But not for Nils Brandt, who with<span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\"> never gave up due to his personal commitment and passion. His firm <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Conviction of the necessity of this <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">training ship always kept him and his crew on course.<\/span><\/span><span id=\"page90R_mcid8\" class=\"markedContent\"> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">After exactly 2,834 days, the Bremerhaven native is now handing over command to his <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Successor. \"After almost eight years, I am leaving with a heavy heart, of course.<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">significantly longer than planned. On the other hand, there were phases in which I frequently<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">I asked myself why I should still be doing this. In the end, my crew<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">motivated again and again and my family, especially my wife, gave me great support.<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">supported.\" After 25,000 nautical miles on the \"Gorch Fock \", Brandt is thus exchanging his<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Commander's chamber in exchange for an office as head of teaching and deputy commander<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">at the<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Naval school<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">M\u00fcrwik.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"page90R_mcid10\" class=\"markedContent\"><\/span><span id=\"page90R_mcid10\" class=\"markedContent\"><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">For the new commanding officer, Captain Andreas-Peter Graf von Kielmansegg, it is<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">exactly the opposite.<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">As<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Group leader<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Operational training<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">and<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Evaluation<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">in the<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Naval Command, he is now swapping his desk for seafaring. Nevertheless<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">The planks of the sail training ship are familiar territory for him. As early as 1996 and 2004<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">He served as a divisional officer and first mate on the \"Gorch Fock\". In addition, he was from<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">2010 to 2012 Commander of the frigate \"Bayern\". <\/span><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kapit\u00e4n zur See Nils Brandt geht nach fast 8 Jahren von Bord Am kommenden Donnerstag wechselt das Kommando \u00fcber das Segelschulschiff \u201eGorch Fock\u201c. Der Kommandeur der Marineschule M\u00fcrwik, Flottillenadmiral Jens Nemeyer, \u00fcbergibt die Verantwortung von Kapit\u00e4n zur See Nils Brandt an Kapit\u00e4n zur See Andreas-Peter Graf von Kielmansegg. Wenn im Marinest\u00fctzpunkt Kiel der Kommandantenwimpel von [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":18078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"2normal","footnotes":""},"categories":[42,486,48,51],"tags":[2925,2923,2924,201,791,1829],"class_list":["post-18047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-headlines","category-schifffahrt-news","category-streitkraefte-news","tag-das-ausbildungsschiff","tag-das-segelschulschiff-gorch-fock","tag-die-deutsche-marine","tag-kapitaen","tag-kommandowechsel","tag-nils-brandt"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}