The first post-war steel vessel built at the Warnowerft in Rostock/Warnemünde
(East Germany) in 1951, launched on May 26, 1951 and christened the
"Wilhelm Pieck" for the first president of the German Democratic Republic,
commissioned as sail training ship on August 2, 1951.
Homeported in Rostock until 1954, when she was moved to Greifswald-Wieck,
operated by the "Gesellschaft für Sport und Technik" (GST) of the GDR
Has been used as a training ship for 40 years; in that time she sailed
about 112.000 sm and has trained around 7.000 young people in nautical
skills, longest voyage to the Black Sea in 1957 where she called the
ports of Constanta, Odessa, Varna and Gibraltar. Took part in the 1974 Operation Sail in Gdansk.
1990 participation in the 1st German-German sailing meeting in Wismar, In February 1991 given to the Hanseatic town Greifswald as owner,
renamed the "GREIF", since then she is the flagship of Mecklenburg/Pomerania,
operator is the "See- und Tauchsportzentrum Greifswald". Overhaul in the shipyard in Rostock in 1991 sponsored by the foundation "Pamir-Passat-Stiftung" and money of town Greifswald.
As member of the STA Germany she participates sailing meeting, 1991
Hanse Sail Rostock, 1992 visit in Kotka/FIN on the occasion of the
Cutty Sark Tallships Race and in Bremerhaven to the final event of
the international Columbus-Regatta, frequent guest of the Hamburg
habour birthday, Kiel Week and Hanse Sail Rostock.
Sucessful participation in regattas during the Hanse Sail Rostock,
she won the races 1994, 1995, 2001, winner of the "Hiorten"-Regatta
1997 from Karlskrona to Rostock.
Germany 2005 SG?