Stephan Jantzen

This cache will guide you through Warnemünde in the footsteps of a local hero: Stephan Jantzen – seaman, commander of the pilots and head of the DGzRS station Warnemünde. He was born in Warnemünde in 1827 and died there in 1913. As the captain of the "Johannes Keppler" he sailed around the world twice between 1856 and 1866. In 1866 he was voted commander of the Warnemünde pilots. During the next 30 years, he saved 80 lives together with the pilots of Warnemünde and twice experienced life-threatening situations himself. For his extraordinary braveness and altruism he received several awards, among others the Gustav Vasa Cross from the Swedish king and the Golden Medal for Noble Deeds from the Danish king.

We start off at Jantzen’s workplace, the station of the German Society for the Salvage of Castaways (DGzRS) at N 54° 10.880' E 012° 05.220'.
When did the DGzRS receive the maritime salvage cruiser VORMANN JANTZEN?
A = year

We move on to Jantzen’s home which is a DGzRS information center today. You find it at N 54° 10.902' E 012° 05.176'.
How many people did Jantzen salvage?
B = number of people

The next stop is the sculpture "Lotsenehrung" ("Tribute to a pilot"). It was made as a tribute to Jantzen by the sculptor Reinhard Dietrich in 1976. Its coordinates are N 54° 10.863' E 012° 05.136'.
In which direction do the figures look?
north => C = 1270
east => C = 1280
south => C = 1290
west => C = 1300

The last stage before the final is the grave of Jantzen and his wife in the Stephan Jantzen park at N 54° 10.615' E 012° 04.542'.
How many letters does the inscription at the base of the tombstone have?
D = number of letters

You can now find the final at N 54° D.(A-B-C+2)' E 012° 0(D-6).(A-B-C)/2+6'. Just in case the GPS is imprecise due to the trees I uploaded a spoiler photo. Please be gentle to the vegetation and camouflage the cache again.

Initially, the cache contains the following items:
log book
pencil
certificate for the first to find
unactivated coin (as a present for the FTF)
coin "Taz"
sea shells
USB stick

You may trade any item for any other item, even less precious items for more precious items. If everyone put something more precious in there, we'd soon have a cache full of diamonds and no one could trade anymore Please leave the log book and the pencil in the cache!

As a bonus you can visit an icebreaker named after Jantzen which has been in the city harbor of Rostock at N 54° 05.593' E 012° 07.863' since August 2009. If you have time you may join a guided tour – it’s worthwhile.

Happy hunting :-)