Ahlers shipyard
Oltmann Ahlers founded a shipyard in Elsfleth around 1815 , where around 10 wooden ships were built. Around 1840 Johann Diedrich Ahlers took over the shipyard from his father and built around 50 more wooden sailing ships here by around 1885 .
From 1800, many shipbuilding sites such as Oltmann Ahlers' were built in the Lower Weser region, as wooden sailing ships were in demand due to the division of labor and growing trade, especially for supplying Bremen. So, especially on the banks of the Lower Weser in Oldenburg, many businesses for the craft of wooden shipbuilding emerged as loadadiums or owned by individual boat builders . The ships built by Oltmann Ahlers were seldom larger than 100 loads until 1840 and were built for the shipowners in the vicinity. The predominantly built ship types were the Kuff and the Galiot with 20 - 50 loads.
After that, Johann Diedrich Ahlers also built larger and faster sailors here. As a type of ship then played brig , brigantine, schooner and the Bark an important role. The size fluctuated around 100 to 1000 loads. Around 60 ships were built at this shipyard by 1885, some of them for their own account. Most of the ships were delivered to Elsflether shipowners, such as JH Becker & Co, A. Schiff, C. Paulsen and JH Hustede.
The son of Johann Diedrich Ahler's son, Oltmann Johann Dietrich Ahlers, born in 1848, became director of the newly founded German steamship company "Hansa" in 1881 .
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