Jahresbericht Nr.11/1956 
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D. Summary 
GENERAL DEVELOPMENT OP THE D.H.I. DURING 1956 
The general situation for the Deutsches Hydrographisches Institut (DHI) 
in comparison to the preceding year, has not become any more promising. With 
almost the same running budgetary means for the individual departments the 
number of the staff gave rise to anxiety. Being small already, considering 
the growing claims on them, the staff was further reduced by some of the 
members having changed over to other employers owing to the growing demand 
of ship's officers in the German Merchant Marine; others having been called 
in to active service; still others having been pensioned off or are suffering 
from longlasting illness. The gaps caused hereby could only partly be closed 
by employing substitutes requiring a somewhat lengthy period of time to get 
familiarized with the work to be done. Por the departments concerned the loss 
in members of the staff amounted to about 14 per cent. 
In spite of the situation mentioned above it was possible, however, to 
issue the nautical publications with the usual regularity. As to the Sailing 
Direction Work which was mostly affected by these incidents, serious delays 
in the publication of new editions and supplements became inevitable. Efforts 
are being made to bring the back-work into regular order during the forth 
coming year. 
One sailing direction was published as new edition, another one is in the 
press. In the case of 12 further sailing directions obsolete supplements were 
substituted by new ones. As new edition appeared, as in former years, the 
publications "Minengefährdete Gebiete" (comprising all seas), "Minengefahr und 
Zwangswege in der Nordsee", and "Winterbetonnung der deutschen.Küstengewässer 
1956/57". Por the monthly Pilot Charts of the North Atlantic Ocean, being 
almost out of print, a new edition is prepared, containing minor corrections. 
The Monthly Pilot Charts and the Sailing Directions for the Indian Ocean, 
which are entirely out of print, are being completely revised in cooperation 
with the Seewetteramt, 
In order to keep pace with the recovery of the Merchant Marine, the week 
ly edition of the "Nachrichten für Seefahrer" together with their enclosures 
"Zwangswege" and "Deckblätter" to the "Leuchtfeuerverzeichnis" had again to be 
increased by 350 to 2 950 copies. Moreover, the navigational warning service 
disseminated numerous urgent notices via the shore radio stations or hy broad 
casting stations. 
All volumes of the German List of Lights issued last year were replaced 
again after a period of one year by new editions. Prom the areas not yet cover 
ed, Part X (west side of the Pacific) is being compiled and will presumably 
appear at the beginning of 1957.