The Soul of Kiel (11)

My quest for the soul of Kiel brought me to the Stadtmuseum yesterday, where an ancient standard with the city insigna is displayed. Although I'm warned of the grumpy character of the population, this still looks like a welcoming smile to me. The Holstein nettle leaf radiant, the black boat a mouth. Does it have to do with the port function, by its nature always open to the outside world?

I'm wondering what methods to use in my research and final presentation:

And did one more marine drawing. Ships galore here!

Plus this:

The man with the Hollywood prototype 'evil German' features is in fact an important figure in the antifascist resistance dubbed Rote Kapelle. Harro Schulze-Boysen was born in Kiel, and in the 30's editor of the liberal-socialist paper Der Gegner (couldn't find copies of it from that period, this one's from 1920). During the war he led a double life as Luftwaffe officer but was caught and hanged in 1942.
There is a street named after him.