Erinnerungen an ein halbes Jahrhundert deutscher Meeresforschung

Abstract

As founding director of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, as well as the Centre for Tropical Marine Ecology in Bremen, the author has made a significant contribution towards the development of Bremen/Bremerhaven as a scientific research location. As an observer and co-creator of German marine research in the past decades, the author describes from a biographical point of view the development of institutes and cooperations as well as the deployment of research ships from the 1950s into the new millennium.