He lücht is an expression used in Hamburg

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s in port of Hamburg.

Overview

The first HADAG harbour tours started in 1921. he tour guides often told anecdotes and stories. When the boats were regularly coming close to workers in the harbour, these denounced the tour guides with the call "he lücht" as liars.
The call changed into a name for the whole profession mid of the 20th century. The first written source is the Hamburg dictionary of 1956.

External links

• Jörn Hinrich Laue: Hamburger Port tour (German)

Further reading

• Daniel Tilgner: Kleines Lexikon Hamburger Begriffe. 6 Auflage, Ellert & Richter Verlag, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-8319-0190-2, S. 66–67.
• He lücht! — Tühnkram im Hafen., Hamburger Abendblatt
  Hamburger Abendblatt
  The Hamburger Abendblatt is a daily newspaper in Hamburg, Germany, published by Axel Springer AG. The paper used to appear Monday through Saturday only, but since 29 October 2006 it has also published a Sunday edition to compete with the Hamburger Morgenpost's introduction of a Sunday edition...
  
  , 25 June 2002.