Even for those who are medium-oriented in the shipbuilding industry, this question seems provocative. What do you mean, "it will happen"? Hasn't he been alive for nearly 20 years? And if so, who in the city rightly regarded as a leading shipbuilding centre is more worthy of specified distinction? I will not answer the last question due to the fact that it goes beyond the expression of the column, and it is simply a pity for the place. The answer to the preceding question is short; unfortunately, it has not yet arrived.
I admit that I initially laid down the above fact on the foundation of the defence of the Gdańsk method environment, forced on the 1 hand by the progressive decline of the shipbuilding industry, on the another hand, by the necessity of regular and absorbing efforts to keep what was left of the shipyards and hundreds of cooperative plants. It may not have been adequate time and motivation to honor a prominent engineer, especially since another realities have arisen and now a prime minister in designation of merit worthy of being placed in the name of the street, square or roundabout are led, for example, by militants for “freedom and democracy”. The Gdańsk example is simply a roundabout Jack Kuronia and Tadeusz Mazowiecki – the leading representatives of the internationalist commune invited by the Gen. Mr Czesław Kiszczak – a communist criminal and a German safety agent, to the alleged circular Table.
I so considered it advisable to usage my position as a ‘ZUS scholarship holder’, exempt from regular professional duties and propose to the authorities Pomorskie Council of the Federation of technological and method Associations of the Chief method Organisation (further will be the FSNT-NOT PR) launch of its own actions to correct apparent misconceptions against a individual who could share not respective but respective patrons of Gdańsk streets with his actions.
As an electrical engineer, Prof. Dr. hab. inż. Jerzy Doerffer It was primarily associated with the improvement of an innovative fishing technology for the merging of ships, thanks to which our shipyards could build and sale vessels with a much larger tonnage. A akin nature – utilized in the construction of floating docks – was the method of segmental joining, successfully implemented in Gdańsk Repair Shipyard. Shippers besides callback prof. Doerffer's crucial contribution to the improvement of plastic vessels reinforced with glass fibre for marine rescue, fishing and Navy and the implementation of fresh ship repair technologies, consisting of a complete replacement of hull plating or extension.
After retiring in 1988, already as a erstwhile worker Gdańsk University of Technology – including in her position as rector in 1981-85 – he did not weaken his technological and organizational activity for a moment. In 1993 he founded the so-called. Shipboard Forumwhich he directed until 2003. He became among others an honorary associate Association of Polish Engineers and Engineers, doctor of honoris causa of the Gdańsk University of Technology and 5 another universities, and among many distinctions it is impossible to overlook as crucial as Commander's Cross with the Star of the Order of Polish Revival, First Degree State Prize, designation "For Merit to the Defence of the Country" and William Froude Gold Medal For outstanding achievements in ship technology. As you can see, then, the reasons for visiting the Gdańsk office of NOT and committing to the journalistic conflict for the street of the well-deserved prof. were more than enough.
I was incorrect on the spot. The organization did not forget its prominent member. PR FSNT-NOT with the request to give the "New Wałów" street the name of prof. Jerzy Wojciech Doerffer appeared almost 11 (say: eleven!) years ago. Unfortunately, to this day, it is unsuccessful. So I asked for copies of all the papers and changed the scenario; on the first initiative to make an effort to name the street "from scratch" to track the further fates of the undertaking that others had initiated much earlier.
Reading correspondence between NOT and the City Council of Gdańsk and the City Council makes the hands drop, and my belief that there is no specified simple matter, which the authoritative is incapable to lead to absurdity, gains additional confirmation. The first letter to the City Council of 14 July 2014 remains unanswered for 3 months. On 27 October of the same year, the president of the PR FSNT-NOT, Dr. inż. Jan Bogusławski send a letter to the president of the Council, Bogdan Oleszek expressing concern about the deficiency of consequence and renewing the request to support the request. president almost a year later, precisely 11 August 2015 answers that Gdansk City Council“as shortly as possible, he will take action to present a proposal to name the street or roundabout to commemorate prof. Jerzy Doerffer”. You could say – better late than never.
The president of J. Bogusławski, built with this assurance in a letter dated 21 September 2015, suggests that Prof. Doerffer as, among others, an icon of Polish shipbuilding, co-author of the successes of our shipyards and the builder of the masseur ss. “Silek“ he full deserves to be named not only by street or roundabout, but besides by the waterfront. Here is simply a circumstantial indication: the wharf Lead Islands, at which he moors, now as a muse-ship, the said "Solodek".
Another 5 months. On March 1, 2016, president J. Bogusławski answers Marek Bumblisthe president City Council Committee on Culture. It indicates that within the oldest part of Gdańsk, including the Ołowianka Island, the rule of preserving and at most restoring historical street names is applied. Hence an indication of 1 of the 2 roundabouts in Gdańsk-Osowa, where there are many streets with sea accents, starting with Zaruski, Kwiatkowski, Wendy and Teliga, and ending with Ship, Cumów, Bay or Szałupowa.
In the same case, on September 12, 2016, Mr Inż speaks. Anna Stelmaszyk – ŚwierczyńskaDeputy manager Maritime Office in Gdynia. As an engineer of education, who knows and respects the achievements of prof. Doerffer, the manager full supports and accepts the FSNT-NOT PR proposal and the proposed location on the "Ołowiance" but, unfortunately, the only authority entitled to name the quays in Gdańsk is the City Council.
So we're going back to the beginning, which is fundamentally to... zero. On November 22, 2016, PR president FSNT-NOT, this time in the individual of Prof. dr hab. inż. Bożenny Kavalec – Pietrenko in a letter to the president of the City Council of Gdańsk B. Oleszka confirms the consistent position of the Gdańsk Associations associated with the Federation on maintaining the first proposal with the wharf and the “Soldier” in Ołowika as an optimal place to honour prof. Doerffer. There is besides an additional argument in favour of the Maritime Office in Gdynia and the belief that the City Council "will full support our efforts".
However, the PR president of FSNT NOT did not receive a answer from the City Council chairman. The Vice president of Gdańsk delivered it Wiesław Bielawski by education – attention! – engineer architect after Gdańsk University of Technology. In a letter of February 10, 2017, he mentioned restrictions on street names in the area Main and Old Town But taking into account the outstanding merits of prof. Jerzy Doerffer for the shipbuilding industry, he proposed to give the name of the designed street on the site North Port, located north-east of the existing prof. Witold Andruszkiewicz, an global expert in port economics and shipping, author of, among others, the concept of construction of a North Port for 150 000 tonnes ships. 1 can say – not only that the vicinity is noble, it and the sea water close much more than on Osowa.
How easy to imagine this proposal was accepted with unmistakable joy and appreciation. The FSNT-NOT PR expressed both feelings in a letter dated March 17, 2017 ensuring that this proposal would urge to the City Council. On the occasion, Vice president Bielawski was asked to support efforts to name 1 of the Gdańsk trams after prof. Doerffer. I have seen specified a tram respective times "in the city" so it should be assumed that this request has been made.
As promised, as early as March 23, 2017, prof. Bożenna Kawalec – Pietrenko has sent a re-letter to the president of the City Council, in which she accepts the location indicated by Vice president Bielawski and hopes for kindness in finalising the proposed initiative. However, this letter remained without any reaction from Mr Oleszek. Similarly, like a letter in the same case... a year and a half later, precisely on October 12, 2018. The next 1 was gone, due to the fact that the recipient 2 months later said good-bye to his function and presently does – if you can say so – only for the Private Councillor.
Casus Oleszek confirms my private but full verifiable explanation about bachelor's or master's diplomas alleged social sciences based on the solid foundation of Marxism and Leninism. Conscious of the disability of their education, and especially of his – nomen omen – social usefulness, they prosecute a career in public activity, and erstwhile they scope any level of power here, they will respond to the accumulated complexes, among others, by ignoring the nonsubjective achievements and merits of better educated and more talented people.
The ex-president of the City Council of Gdańsk for 5 consecutive word (2001 – 2018) can do as a model in this respect. Only at the age of 61, in the eighth year of leadership of the Council he was able to boast his diploma in European Studies in Gdansk Atheneum College, a university which – let's put it mildly – is hard to number among the reputable. Thus, it may be possible that the effort to make 1 of Gdańsk's streets a patron of a prof. of habilitated engineer, in addition to the 1 recommended by an equally titled person, could have worked on a bachelor's degree from European studies like a red cape per bull.
After Oleszek headed the City Council Agnieszka Owczak, Master of Economics and Management University of Gdansk. It would seem that it would not take long for a specialist in managing the backlog left behind by her predecessor. Unfortunately, it took and occupies still, and not very effective. On 11 February precisely this year, I asked the City Council for information on the current destiny of the application to honour prof. George Doerffer. So I called the president. Her secretary took the call. Margaret Soja But there were no specifics. I just found out that uncovering an interesting proposal requires further waiting, which lasted until 4 March. I was then informed that the application had reached Department of Geodesy of the Municipal Office. They didn't make me wait that long. On the same day, they confirmed that I was both curious in the application and others concerning the names of fresh streets were addressed to the Gdańsk branch Institute of National Memory, which checks candidates for patrons mainly for their possible cooperation with PRL peculiar services.
After a fewer days of waiting, I learned that all "Patronacky" applications were sent to the IPN office in Warsaw, specifically – to Offices for Commemoration of Combat and Martyrdom. Next weeks of calling and yet on Monday, March 24th. Artur Zawadka, the chieftain of the abovementioned Office informs that the application for prof. Doerffer was given a affirmative opinion and will shortly be sent to the Faculty of Geodesy of the UM in Gdańsk. The further procedure is to forward papers to the City Council and wait for the vote on the proposal to be put on the agenda during the session, surely not the immediate one. In short, nothing is yet settled.
I assure you, I will wait. In the 1980s and 1990s, I was more than 20 kilograms younger, and I had a alternatively protracted physiology, akin to any greyhound or doberman. And yet in a coastal press environment, I was called "Buldog." This nickname came from the fact that I erstwhile took the subject to the end, regardless of their final or alleged pressures. I assure you, it will be akin this time.
Henryk Jezierski
Photo. Public domain
(05.05.201025)
P.S.
What a meaningful point to the above text; in 2005 prof. Jerzy Doerffer received St. Wojciech's Medal – honorary discrimination awarded for outstanding achievements and merits beyond the borders of the region and the state. It's admitted by the City Council of Gdańsk.
H. Jez.
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