AC de Freitas & Co.

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AC de Freitas & Co. was a trading company and shipping company in Hamburg .

history

Four-masted barque SSS "Beethoven" (1904 - 1914 missing)

The trading company and shipping company AC de Freitas & Co. was founded in 1835 by Augusto Constantino de Freitas (1809–1881) in Hamburg. From small beginnings with sailing ships that carried goods for their own account, a remarkable company emerged. Around 1879 steamships replaced the small fleet of sailing ships. Regular service to the Adriatic Sea began in 1884 and to southern Brazil and Argentina in 1892 .

For HAPAG , of which he was General Manager from 1899 to 1918, Albert Ballin bought the 14 steamers employed in the South American trade in 1900. The end of the shipping company came in 1911 with the sale of the six steamers used in the Mediterranean to the German Levante Line . In the same year, the two large sailing school ships Beethoven and Mozart had to be sold. The trade in goods was continued under the name of Augusto de Freitas GmbH.

At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, the company also acted as an agency for the largest Hungarian shipping company, Adria in Transleithanien, based in Fiume (today: Rijeka ) .

literature

  • Gottfried Lintzer: AC de Freitas & Co - Kaufmannsreeder , Norderstedt 2010, ISBN 978-3-8391-5759-6 .
  • Arnold Kludas : The history of the HAPAG ships, Volume 1 , Bremen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89757-341-3 . (Pp. 204–212)
  • Paul Günther 1891–1991 , Gert Uwe Detlefsen, Bad Segeberg 1991, pp. 11–14

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