Germany: Lloyd Werft Appoints New Head of Department

The one joined Lloyd Werft from Bremer Vulkan in 1985 while Lloyd blood has run in the veins of the other for three generations. Horst Brüschke (65) was Chief Purchasing Officer at Lloyd Werft Bremerhaven for 27 years. He retired on March 31st and his successor was already known. Friedrich “Fiete” Norden (43), previously Senior Project Manager and from April 1st responsible for the yard’s important Purchasing/ Materials Management Department, has grown up with the yard.

His grandfather and father both worked at Lloyd Werft in leading positions.

The career paths of both Horst Brüschke and Friedrich Norden have been almost identical. Brüschke trained as a machine fitter at Bremer Vulkan before becoming an industrial engineer and then project engineer before moving to Lloyd Werft in 1985 as head of the Purchasing/Materials Management Department. His successor, Friedrich Norden, trained as an industrial mechanic at Lloyd Werft between 1989 and 1991 and then moved into the academic sector as a careers teacher before being drawn back to Lloyd Werft in 2002. There he started again as a cost estimator in the project department and in 2006 became Project Head responsible for large prefabricated units and conversions.

All four dock ships in the “Combi Dock” series were built under Norden’s leadership. In 2011 he was also the project head for the conversion of the dock ship “Blue Giant” into the special offshore vessel “OIG Giant 11” and most recently was also responsible for the conversions of the cruise ships “Amadea” and “Albatros”.

Norden says that keeping up the family tradition at Lloyd Werft is just a “by product”, but Lloyd Werft Managing Director Rüdiger Pallentin declares “they all have Lloyd Werft in their blood”. Friedrich Norden’s Grandfather Friedrich “Fiedel” Norden was Managing Director of the yard up to 1973 at a time when it was still the NDL Shipyard. His son Friedrich was Project Head until his sudden death in 1994 and, among other things, made big contributions to the big “QE2” and “Norway” projects. His son Friedrich is in turn continuing the tradition in the third generation and, after being Project Head, is now becoming Chief Purchasing Officer at Lloyd Werft.

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Source: lloydwerft, April 10, 2012