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Klaus Vogel (captain)

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Klaus (Anselm) Vogel (born 1956 in Hamburg) is a German historian and merchant sea captain who has been the founding chairman of the German sea rescue organization SOS Méditerranée since 2015.

After graduating from high school, Klaus Vogel went to sea on merchant ships, graduated from the Bremen University of Nautical Sciences (today part of the University of Bremen) and in 1981 acquired his “Patent auf großer Fahrt”.[1] From 1983 he studied history, philosophy and economics in Göttingen, Bielefeld and Paris. In 1995 he received his doctorate with the study 'Sphaera terrae - das mittelalterliche Bild der Erde und die kosmographische Revolution' ("Sphaera terrae - the medieval image of the earth and the cosmographic revolution")[2] at the University of Göttingen. In the same year he founded the “Göttingen Working Group for Interdisciplinary Research on Violence” with Manfred Cierpka [de]. He was a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Rome and worked at the Max Planck Institute for History [de] in Göttingen.[1] Since October 2000 Vogel has been sailing again, since 2005 as captain and since 2007 on container ships of the Hapag-Lloyd shipping company.[1] Since 2015 he has dedicated himself to the sea rescue of refugees in the Mediterranean.[1][3][4][5]

In 2016, he accepted the "Schwarzkopf Europe Award" on behalf of SOS Méditerranée.[6][7]

In 2020, together with Sophie Beau, he was recipient of an Aurora Humanitarian award.[8]

In 2023, Klaus Vogel made an acceptance speech for the Right Livelihood Award 2023, made to the European search and rescue organisation SOS Mediterranee.[9]

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  1. ^ a b c d "Vortrag & Diskussion. Kapitän Dr. Klaus Vogel: Die Botschaft der Aquarius. Über SOS Mediterranee und die Verteidigung solidarischer Werte" [Lecture & Discussion. captain dr Klaus Vogel: The message of Aquarius. About SOS Mediterranee and the defense of solidarity values] (PDF). www.mmg.mpg.de. 18 October 2018. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
  2. ^ "Sphaera terrae - das mittelalterliche Bild der Erde und die kosmographische Revolution" [Sphaera terrae - the medieval image of the earth and the cosmographic revolution]. ediss.uni-goettingen.de. Retrieved 28 February 2023.
  3. ^ Cusumano, Eugenio (2017). "Emptying the sea with a spoon? Non-governmental providers of migrants search and rescue in the Mediterranean". Marine Policy. 75: 91–98. doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2016.10.008. hdl:1887/67775. Its establishment occurred thanks to the initiative of the sea captain Klaus Vogel...
  4. ^ Albert-Reiner Glaap. Lampedusa in the Mediterranean – 'Lampedusa' on Stage. Anglistik, angl.winter-verlag.de. p. 145. Retrieved 10 May 2021.
  5. ^ "Ship captain to launch migrant sea rescue mission". euobserver.com. 21 October 2015. Retrieved 10 May 2021.
  6. ^ "SOS Méditerranée receives 2016 "Schwarzkopf Europe Award" for its rescue mission in the Mediterranean". sosmediterranee.com. 14 November 2016. Retrieved 9 May 2021.
  7. ^ "New Europeans wins the Schwarzkopf Foundation Europe Award 2019". neweuropeans.net. 19 September 2018. Retrieved 10 May 2021. ...SOS Méditerranée won the prize for their work with refugees in 2016.
  8. ^ "2020 Aurora Humanitarians announced". www.aravot-en.am. 25 April 2020. Retrieved 9 May 2021.
  9. ^ Gahr, Rebecca (5 October 2023). "The Alternative Nobel Prize for SOS Mediterranee". SOS HUMANITY. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
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