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Felix von LucknerWe occasionally send e-mail newsletters. If you'd like to join the list click here:  English language newsletter.

September 19, 2008

Fund raising appeal for saving SEETEUFEL

August 8, 2008

Latest news concerning the SEETEUFEL

July 31, 2008

We need your HELP !!!

February 29, 2008

We received a donation of Ms. Hildegard Poelmann from Ahlen.
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February 22, 2008

Yesterday the new von Luckner room has been officially opened by the members.
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December 24, 2007

Prof. James Bade from Auckland / New Zealand visits Halle

August 17, 2007

Visit to Kiel: Streets named Luckner, Seeteufel and Seeadler; a memorial dedicated to the Count.

April 23, 2007

From now we can accept donations and payments via PayPal. It is easy and free.

April 17, 2007

This note is to inform you that we successfully opened our little exhibition at the Old Marketplace in Halle.

April 4, 2007

You receive dear members, with this post two invitations

  1. To the annual general meeting of the society together with planned agenda.
  2. To the inauguration of our shop-window exhibit in the old market.

March 23, 2007

The Count von Luckner year 2006 is over, but that does not mean, that we are intending to rest for a long time, we allowed ourselves a short time of breathing deeply, preparing new actions in the background, and about the results of them you will learn in near future.

November  30, 2006

Lecture - Sea Eagle Saturday, December 2, 3 p.m

October 20, 2006

Visit of Prof. Katsuhiko Miyoshi, a member from Japan. Mr. Miyoshi was here from 15th to 16th of September. We visited the "von Luckner places" in Halle, met with the Japanese-Geman-Society and in the evening we had a meeting in the von Luckner room in the Schenke am Ochsenberg, sushi was served in a Kimono.

September 25, 2006

At the moment we are offered a part of the assets of Count von Luckner. It is a huge amount of things. It would be great to have these things for our planned museum or for exhibitions, a really unique chance! We need your help.

June 16, 2006

Today we want to report on a number of highlights of the Count von Luckner Year 2006. We celebrated the count's 125th birthday in a dignified way. The events started on June 8, 2006 at 9 a.m. with the opening of special post office at the Franckesche Stiftungen.

May 30, 2006

Around August 12, 2006, there will be a Count von Luckner weekend in Halle.

May 19, 2006

In one of my last newsletters I mentioned that there would be some good news to be told.  One of them is that the German Mail decided to honour the Count this year !!!

May 1, 2006

Commemoration meeting at Ohlsdorf Cemetary in Hamburg on the occation of the 40th anniversary of the Count's death.

April 13, 2006

Today we pause in commemoration for Felix Count von Luckner, because exactly 40 years ago he died in Malmö/Sweden. On April 28, he was buried in Hamburg at Ohlsdorfer Cemetary. Many people followed him bowing before this upright man.

April 3, 2006

Invitation to Hamburg. Enclosed you will find some information about our plans in the Count von Luckner year 2006.

April 2, 2006 - The voting in the town counsil of Halle concerning the application to honour the Count.

Briefly: we got bad news. The majority again refused to honour Felix Count von Luckner! We got 25 No and 18 Yes votes.

March 4, 2006 - We lost a loyal member

Some days ago Blaine Pardoe had a really historic lecture. Historic, because Count von Luckner himself had a lecture at the same place, the same day, just 76 years ago. On February 3, 1930 the Count spoke at the Bulldog Studios, Old Beacon High School, and was exactly the place where Blaine Pardoe spoke to an audience of more than 100 persons, great!

February 10, 2006

Some days ago Blaine Pardoe had a really historic lecture. Historic, because Count von Luckner himself had a lecture at the same place, the same day, just 76 years ago. On February 3, 1930 the Count spoke at the Bulldog Studios, Old Beacon High School, and was exactly the place where Blaine Pardoe spoke to an audience of more than 100 persons, great!

February 1, 2006

The Count von Luckner Year 2006 has started. Welcome to this year and best wishes from Halle / Germany!

December 23, 2005

Merry Christmas!!!

December 2, 2005

We got the ship !!

November 29, 2005

There is a model of the ship Seeadler for sale on eBay.

November 18, 2005

General meeting of the Felix Count von Luckner Society, Wednesday, November 23, 2005

November 4, 2005

A big square in Halle near the main station is being reshaped at the moment. All together 42 figures of local history are on view. Among the figures - you will guess it - you can find Felix Count von Luckner.

October 4,  2005

In order to help promote the work of our society and the Count we recently had an article published in the Masonic Magazine’s premiere issue. Blaine Pardoe lectures on Count von Luckner and the book, The Cruise of the Sea Eagle.

September 26,  2005

We now have more than 100 members from 14 nations.

September 7, 2005

Recently the US National Archives lecture series invited Blaine Pardoe to discuss his book on Count Felix von Luckner.  There were 40 individuals in attendance including the German Naval Attaché to the US Government.  The response to the story of Count von Luckner was outstanding.

August 17,  2005

We are sorry to say that one of our members has forever left us. Dr. Ernst-Werner Schulze deceased some days ago.

June 9,  2005

Today it is the 124th birthday of Count von Luckner. This is the reason for our meeting today from 6 p.m. on (our time) in the "Schenke am Ochsenberg". As you will remember we opened a Count von Luckner room there in April which we will use today to celebrate the Count's birthday.

June 2,  2005

Opening of the exhibition "The end of World War II in Halle - The Timberwolves - Halle (Germany) - Felix Count von Luckner.".  The opening took place on May 4.

May 3, 2005

Tomorrow, May 4 in the late afternoon (6 p.m.) we are going to open our exhibition about the end of the war in Halle. The name will be "The Timberwolves - Halle (Germany) - Felix Count von Luckner"

April 21, 2005

The exhibition "The Timberwolves - Halle (Germany) - Felix Count von Luckner" was presented on April 15. We are going to open that exhibition officially on May 4 and will inform you about that event afterwards. In general we can say that these recent days were most successful ones for our society. We were in the media (TV, radio and newspaper) and could ask the town of Halle for honoring the Count officially now. Our society became more popular and we are very optimistic if we look to the future.

 

April 15, 2005

Time to inform you about the opening of the "Count von Luckner Room" in the pub "Schenke am Ochsenberg" at Kröllwitz.

April 12, 2005

We would like to inform you that tomorrow, Wednesday, April 13, 2005 in the evening we are going to open a "Count von Luckner room" in a pub in Halle.

April 8, 2005

Wednesday we had at the restaurant "Schad" in Halle our "Count von Luckner Evening", you were informed about that some days ago.

April 6, 2005

There is a new book available about the Count. It is "The Cruise of the Sea Eagle" by Blaine Pardoe, a member of our society.

March 18, 2005

There was a question concerning the address of von Luckner's home in Halle, and the answer could be of interest for all.

March 8, 2005

We intend to open an exhibition on April 15. It will be "The Timberwolves - Halle / Germany - Felix Count von Luckner" and contains photographs telling the story of 1945 and introducing the participants. For the first time this exhibition was presented at Barby/Elbe in October last year.

January 26, 2005

On behalf of the von Luckner Society and also myself I wish you all the best for the year 2005 !! Halle is going to have a celebration ceremony on April 17, the day the German troops got withdrawn to the southern part of the city. They will invite the Timberwolf veterans and others. We are planning to accentuate the role of Count von Luckner with an exhibition or something like that

December, 24 2004

A Member’s Visit and Impressions of Halle

December 9, 2004

We pepared an exhibition on "The Timbewolves - Halle (Germany) - Felix Count von Luckner" with about 70 photos at Barby, a small town located in Saxony-Anhalt between Halle and Magdeburg on the river Elbe.

October 5, 2004

This is just to inform you that we now have 50 members from 8 nations.

October 1, 2004

In this newsletter I wish to inform you about our first SOUVENIR! It is a ceramics relief showing the home of Count von Luckner in Halle. The house is the place where the Count lived during World War II with his mother and is still standing and can be seen at our website.

July 8, 2004

On Tuesday, July 6, 2004 in the "Franckesche Stiftungen" (their director is a member of our team) there was a "Count von Luckner evening" with four lectures about the Sea-Devil. This evening was organized by the "Society for the history of the town of Halle" and the room was overcrowded!

July 4, 2004

Yesterday the United States celebrated their 228th Independence Day, congratulations America!!! Some days ago, on July 1st , the Consul General of the USA, Mr. Fletcher M. Burton, celebrated this day here in Halle in our local town hall.

June 9, 2004

June 9 is von Luckner's birthday, registering the society, and a new bank account.

May 25, 2004

Support from the U.S. Consular General, Mr. Fletcher Burton

May 24, 2004

We are very happy to say that we have received our first donations from abroad including: two signed von Luckner prints from 1926.

May 23, 2004

An auction that ended today offered several things of the estate of Count von Luckner. Auctions will be an important way to add to our collections.

March 5, 2004

About our goals.

April 30, 2004

We learned of a medal made by the Concord Society in Philadelphia. On one side you could see the ship Concord used by German immigrants in the past to go to the United States, at the rear you could see the ship "Vaterland" of Count von Luckner.

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