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
''SOS Méditerranée'' is a European, maritime-humanitarian organization for the rescue of life at sea, currently operating in the Mediterranean sea in international waters north of Libya. The organization chartered the ''Aquarius'' and more rece ...
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
The University of Bremen (German: ''Universität Bremen'') is a public university in Bremen, Germany, with approximately 23,500 people from 115 countries. It is one of 11 institutions which were successful in the category "Institutional Strategi ...
) and in 1981 acquired his “Patent auf großer Fahrt”.
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"'') at the
University of Göttingen
The University of Göttingen, officially the Georg August University of Göttingen, (german: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, known informally as Georgia Augusta) is a public research university in the city of Göttingen, Germany. Founded ...
. In the same year he founded the “Göttingen Working Group for Interdisciplinary Research on Violence” with . He was a fellow of the
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
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in Rome and worked at the in Göttingen.
Since October 2000 Vogel has been sailing again, since 2005 as captain and since 2007 on
container ship
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s of the
Hapag-Lloyd
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History
The company was formed on September 1, 1 ...
shipping company. Since 2015 he has dedicated himself to the sea rescue of refugees in the Mediterranean.
In 2016, he accepted the "Schwarzkopf Europe Award" on behalf of SOS Méditerranée.
In 2020, together with
Sophie Beau Sophie Beau is a French humanitarian. She is the co-founder and general manager of SOS Méditerranée. She lives in Marseille.
Biography
Sophie Beau was born in Tours.Aurora Humanitarian award.
In 2023, Klaus Vogel made an acceptance speech for the Right Livelihood Award 2023, made to the European search and rescue organisation SOS Mediterranee.
Körber Foundation
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der Freitag
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Deutsche Welle
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