{"id":526,"date":"2012-04-20T12:55:27","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T10:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meerverstehen.net\/?p=526"},"modified":"2020-11-18T13:39:59","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T12:39:59","slug":"egv_bonn_completes_new_tradition_line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/egv_bonn_vervollstaendigt_neue_traditionslinie\/","title":{"rendered":"EGV \"Bonn\" completes new line of tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday 17 April 2012, the time had come: the German Navy's third task force provider (EGV) was christened Bonn in a festive ceremony. How important Tradition and identity<\/a> The fact that the baptism was performed by Hanne Hufschmidt, the wife of Bonn's Lord Mayor, with a bottle of champagne and the blessing \"I christen you \"Bonn\" and wish you and your crew a safe voyage at all times and always a hand's breadth of water under your sails.<\/em> Kiel,\" took place! The fact that more than 100 people from Bonn took the week off to attend the christening in Emden also speaks for the interest of the people and the city of Bonn in \"their\" ship. A new line of tradition was also completed.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The common practice for selecting ship names is as follows:<\/p>\n

The naming of naval units is generally based on geographical designations such as country, city and river names or numbers (Submarines<\/abbr>). Federal states, cities and municipalities can apply for a sponsorship, which is a prerequisite for the naming of the park.
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Critics accuse the navy of a kind of soulless City-Country-River<\/em> game when choosing names for their units. This leads to such unwieldy and emotionless names as North Rhine-Westphalia, <\/em>as planned for the second unit of the new frigate 125 of the Baden W\u00fcrttemberg<\/em>-class. The basic guidelines, which also apply to the naming of ships, are provided by the Tradition decree of the Bundeswehr<\/a> before. With the decommissioning of the guided missile destroyer L\u00fctjens, named after Admiral G\u00fcnther L\u00fctjens, in December 2003, the navy ended the tradition of naming its ships after people. This step seems logical in a post-heroic society.<\/p>\n

The choice of the name Bonn was therefore the right one for precisely these reasons, as it simultaneously concludes and completes the formation of a new, republican line of tradition: the three EGVs of the Berlin class are called Berlin<\/strong>, Frankfurt am Main<\/strong> and Bonn<\/strong>! We remember:<\/p>\n