- Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Rettung Schiffbrüchiger
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Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Rettung Schiffbrüchiger 
DGzRS logoFormation 29 May 1865 Legal status Charity Purpose/focus Saving lives at sea Headquarters Bremen Region served North Sea
Baltic SeaStaff 185 Volunteers 800 Website dgzrs.de The Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Rettung Schiffbrüchiger or DGzRS (literally translated: "German Society for the Rescue of Shipwrecked", but more commonly referred to in English as the German Lifeboat Institution or GLI) is responsible for Search and Rescue in German territorial waters in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea, including the Exclusive Economic Zone.
The headquarters and the Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre of the Society are located in Bremen. It was founded in Kiel on 29 May 1865. It owns 61 lifeboats at 54 stations, 185 employed crew members and 800 volunteers. The Society has about 2500 engagements every year. Up to 2005, it rescued approximately 72,000 persons. In 2004 it saved 368 lives, rescued 837 persons from critical situations and carried out 343 medical transports.
Like the comparable British and Dutch organizations, the DGzRS is entirely financed by membership fees, private donations and legacies.
Writer and honorary member Nikolai von Michalewsky has immortalized the DGzRS in his series of science fiction novels by taking it as the model for his "Independent Society for Saving Spacewrecked".
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Name Station Special 46-m-Class Hermann Marwede Helgoland 44-m-Class Wilhelm Kaisen Sassnitz 36-m-Class SK 32 under construction 27.5-m-Class Berlin Laboe Hermann Helms Cuxhaven Alfried Krupp Borkum Vormann Steffens Hooksiel Arkona Warnemünde Bremen Großenbrode 23.3-m-Class Minden List (Sylt) Vormann Leiss Amrum Nis Randers Maasholm Vormann Jantzen Reserve (Baltic Sea) Hannes Glogner Reserve (North Sea) 23.1-m-Class Hermann Rudolf Meyer Bremerhaven Hans Hackmack Grömitz Theo Fischer Draßer Ort Bernhard Gruben Norderney 20-m-Class Eiswette Nordstrand Eugen Greifswalder Oie SK 33 Büsum Christening outstanding Gallery
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SK John T. Essberger, one of the large 44m-class cruisers of the DGzRS
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SK Hermann Marwede, the only one of the large 46m-class cruisers of the DGzRS
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The Marwede at sea
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SK Berlin, a 27m-class cruiser of the DGzRS, and a SeaKing helicopter of the German Navy
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SK Herman Helms, a cruiser of the 27m-class
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SK Vormann Jantzen
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S&R boat Eltje
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SK Minden in the port of Sylt island
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Commemorative stamp honoring the DGzRS's 100th anniversary (issued in 1965)
See also
- German Federal Coast Guard
- Royal National Lifeboat Institution
- Koninklijke Nederlandse Redding Maatschappij
- Société Nationale de Sauvetage en Mer
- Sociedad de Salvamento y Seguridad Marítima
- Redningsselskapet
External links
Categories:- Sea rescue organisations
- Organizations established in 1865
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