Hajo Ortil

Hans Joachim "Hajo" Ortil (10 January 1905 - 12 July 1983) Ortil was a German FKK naturist, photographer, and teacher. During WWII he made seculars against the Hitler regime and was imprisoned. He ran a youth club in the summers called the Pirates an outdoors scouting and boating club for youth.

The Hanseatic Pirates were, a naturist youthful canoeing club from Bremen, Germany. The club always included boys and girls. The group travelled extensively as far as taking holidays from the Arctic Circle to the Mediterranean. Ortil was adored by his students who visited him yearly in his old age. He says he never had problems with any of his campers.

He was a teacher of English and physical education in a Gymnasium (upper secondary school) in Bremen. Ortil studied English and Physical Education in Göttingen. In 1932 he completed his doctorate in English with a thesis about George Berkeley und die englische Literatur.

Hajo published a photobook Pan and Ortil's canoe pirates 1960

Ortil released a number of photo projects including a number of books published by - Hellas Ewig unsre Liebe. FKK.Helios. (1958., 1958)^[1] - Amazonen. In Sonne und Baltenwind. (1955., 1955)^[1] - Das Waldriff im Meer.(1956., 1956)^[1] - Noch sprudeln die Quellen Arkadiens (1958., 1958)^[1] - Hellas ewig unsere Liebe - Sonderausgabe der Monatszeitschrift Helios.(1958)^[2] - Das Waldriff im Meer. Idyllische Kajakfahrten in die Felsen- und Inselwildnisse Dalmatiens (1956)^[2] - Und Pan lebt doch! Wir fanden ihn an den Heide- und Weidesäumen der Hase und Ems. - Noch sprudeln die Quellen Arkadiens. Sonderausgabe der Zeitschrift Helios. - Es brausen Bura und Mestral. - Noch sprudeln die Quellen Arkadiens [1] : Lauf, Zitzmann [2] : Published by Lauf bei Nürnberg, Rudolf Zitzmann Verlag, 1956

There were 800 pirates in the course of time