title: Icebreakers of Germany
text: # Icebreakers of Germany
  
  The icebreakers of Germany include one large icebreaker, used for International polar research and dozens of smaller icebreakers that clear navigation channels of ice in Germany's territorial waters.
  
  | name | IMO / ENI number | launched | notes |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | Polarstern | IMO 8013132 | 1982 | a German research icebreaker of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven. |
  | Mellum | IMO 8301981 | 1983 | Multi-purpose vessel with icebreaking capabilities |
  | Neuwerk | IMO 9143984 | 1997 | Multi-purpose vessel with icebreaking capabilities |
  | Arkona | | 2004 | Multi-purpose vessel with icebreaking capabilities |
  | Görmitz | IMO 9339363 | 2004 | in 2010 she assisted in the northern Peenestrom, in the fairway to Hiddensee and Ost- and Landtief |
  | Schwedt | ENI 05041960 | 2010 | Breaks ice on the River Oder |
  | Stettin | | 1933 | Steamship, now a museum ship |
  | Eisbrecher I | | 1871 | One of the first European icebreakers |
  | Eisbrecher II | | 1877 | |
  | Eisbrecher III | | 1892 | |
  | Eisvogel | | 1960 | a 500-ton naval icebreaker, since 2010 Italian tugboat |
  | Eisbär | | 1961 | a 500-ton naval icebreaker, scrapped in late 1990s |
  | Kienitz | ENI 05027290 | 1958 | Breaks ice on the River Oder |
  | Hanse | | 1965 | Built in Finland, paid off in 1998 and lost after major fire |
  | Stephan Jantzen | | 1967 | Project 97P icebreaker built in Russia for East Germany, replaced by the Arkona in 2004 |
  | Max Waldeck | | 1967 | subjected to an experimental conversion in 1983 |
  | Hindenburg | | 1915 | sunk by a mine 1918. |
  | Kietz | ENI 05041970 | 2010 | Breaks ice on the River Oder |
  | Keiler | | 2011 | Operated by the Wasser und Schifffahrtsamt |
  | Frankfurt | ENI 05039960 | 2002 | constructed by Hitzler Werft for icebreaking duties on the Elbe River, Oder River, and canals in the former East Germany, operated by the Wasser und Schifffahrtsamt |
  | Steinbock | | 1935 | Operated by the Wasser und Schifffahrtsamt |
  | Widder | | 1949 | Operated by the Wasser und Schifffahrtsamt |
  | Stier | | 1951 | Operated by the Wasser und Schifffahrtsamt |
  | Freiburg | ENI 05042180 | 2012 | Operated by the Wasser und Schifffahrtsamt on the Rhine River; working vessel. |
  | Eisvogel | | 1942 | Operated by the Kriegsmarine and later Soviet Navy. Decommissioned in 1972. |
  | Eisbär | | 1942 | Operated by the Kriegsmarine and later Soviet Navy. Decommissioned in 1979. |
  | Castor | | 1941 | Operated by the Kriegsmarine. Sunk in 1945 but later raised by the Soviet Union. |
  | Pollux | | 1943 | Operated by the Kriegsmarine. Sunk in 1945. |
  