13th Maritime Convention Berlin was marked on 12 November by the numerous events in memory of the opening of the Berlin Wall 30 years ago. Policemen had cordoned off the meadow in front of the Reichstag building for the first swearing in of recruits at this historic site since 2013. The Landesvertretung of Lower Saxony…

The Maritime Forum in the Capital (MHF) had invited to the British Embassy Berlin for the 11th Maritime After Work Club (MAWC) on Thursday, March 28, 2019. Under the auspices of the German Maritime Institute (DMI) and the NATO COE CSW (Center of Excellence for Operations in Confined and Shallow Waters), the topic “On the…

From January 9 to 10, 2019, the 59th Historical-Tactical-Meeting of the German Navy took place in Linstow near Rostock with more than 500 participants. In his welcome address, Deputy Chief of the German Navy, Vice Admiral Rainer Brinkmann, outlined the cause and purpose of the topic “Sea. War. Leadership as the basis of operational strategic…

The 12th Maritime Convention attracted representatives from politics, business, science and the military to panels and lectures at the State Representation Schleswig-Holstein in Berlin with the topic “Challenges to maritime spaces in times of change”. The organizers, the “German Maritime Institute” together with “Griephan” have managed to gather 162 maritime experts on the challenging issues…

The importance of maritime dependencies for Germany as a business location is an important factor for high-technology and export-dependent federal state “Baden-Wuerttemberg”. How can free, reliable maritime links be secured for global trade flows? What aspects of maritime security are to be found in the economic environment? What will the German Navy look like in the…