Andreas Boßler

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Andreas Boßler also Bossler (born February 13, 1884 in Neckarsteinach ; † April 17, 1961 there ) was a German entrepreneur , ship owner and pioneer of white shipping on the Neckar . Together with his older brother Georg Boßler (* 1881, † 1946), he was in 1926 founder of Personenschiffahrt Gebr Bossler. , Whose sister and successor company, the Heidelberg Fahrgastschiffahrt Bossler oHG , now part of the white fleet of Heidelberg 's, at the present two his great-great-grandchildren are involved as shareholders .

origin

ancestry

Andreas Boßler was born as the youngest of six children of the ferry operator Jakob Friedrich I. Boßler (* 1851; † 1927) and the industrialist's daughter Sibylla Luise Götz (* 1854; † 1885). Through the maternal line he was a grandson of the inn owner , industrialist and multiple quarry owner Johann Friedrich II. Götz (* 1820, † 1892) as well as a direct cousin of the two shipping entrepreneurs, multiple quarry owner and founder of goods motor shipping on the Neckar Ludwig (* 1887; † 1955) ) and Jakob Götz (* 1890; † 1977).

His nephew was the entrepreneur Herbert Bossler (* 1907; † 1999). Andreas Boßler came from the Boßler family and was an agnate of the younger line of the sex . He was also a third cousin of the shipping entrepreneur and pioneer in inland shipping Werner Ludwig Boßler .

family

His wife, Johanna Bock (* 1885, † 1963), came from the Bock family, who had been interwoven with fishing and shipping in Neckarsteinach since 1646 and belonged to the old lineage of boatmen . With her he had five daughters and the son Karl Boßler (* 1912, † 1964).

His daughters married into various entrepreneurial families. The eldest daughter Elisabeth Boßler (* 1911; † 2005) married the gravel works owner and shipping entrepreneur Georg Fretter from Erfelden . Katharina Boßler (* 1914; † 2010) married the mayor of Schönau , Hermann Stumpf. Katharina's two sons were the founders of the Stumpf passenger shipping company in Heilbronn . The entrepreneur and ship owner Johanna Hanna Boßler (* 1920; † 2010) married the shipping entrepreneur, industrialist, managing director and partner of the Krieger group of companies , Heinrich Heiner Krieger, known as "the benefactor" and thereby connected with the logistics and building materials industrial family Krieger. The inland cargo ship Hanna Krieger I was named after her, followed in 1989 by the Hanna Krieger II . Lina Boßler (* 1926; † 2008), the youngest child of Andreas Boßler and Johanna Bock and also an entrepreneur and ship owner, was the wife of ship owner Heinrich Heilmann. The motor cargo ship Lina Heilmann was dedicated to her.

Entrepreneurship

Andreas Boßler learned the boatman's trade and, together with his father and three brothers, ran a commercial rental of boats and gondolas in Neckarsteinach. With his transport barge Starkenburg , he not only transported companies and people, but also standing stones and gravel. In 1921 he acquired his first passenger ship, the Viktor von Scheffel , which was in the service of the Bossler brothers' shipping company from 1926 to 1959 .

Company formation

House flag of the shipping company Gebr. Bossler, co-founded by Andreas Boßler, which was also used by the sister company Heidelberger Fahrgstaschiffahrt Bossler oHG, founded in 1968

In 1926, Andreas Boßler and his older brother Georg founded the company Personenschiffahrt Gebr. Bossler . The passenger ship he brought in first for this was the motor ship Viktor von Scheffel mentioned above . In 1927 the passenger ship Bligger von Steinach , built at the Ebert & Sons shipyard, was put into service. This was followed by the Alt-Heidelberg I motorized passenger ship , which went into operation in 1928. At the beginning of the 1930s, Andreas Boßler acquired four more ship units from another company. Among them was the Von Hindenburg , built in 1928 , which was owned by Karl and Herbert Boßler in 1938. The fleet thus comprised a total of seven passenger ships.

Together with his brother Georg, he belonged to the ranks of the pioneers in the business sector of white shipping in the Neckar area.

End of war

After the end of World War II, the fleet of passenger ships, which is owned by Andreas Boßler under the covered flag of the shipping company Gebr. Bossler was, nor the three engine passenger ships Viktor von Scheffel , Bilgger of Steinach and Old Heidelberg I . The units previously acquired from Gebr. Fischer remained with the US Army , have sunk or were sold to Speyer and Koblenz .

post war period

In 1952 the motorized passenger ship Alt-Heidelberg II was integrated into the fleet of the shipping company Gebr. Bossler . It was previously considered Lahn loyalty in the service of the company Heil & Co. in Balduinstein at the Lahn and solved the passenger ship Old Heidelberg I from which in turn & Co. to the company healing property. Thus, the passenger ship fleet of the Bossler brothers continued to comprise three ship units.

Andreas Boßler witnessed the first new ships built by the company he co-founded after the Second World War. These included the Bossler brothers' passenger ship in 1957 and the flagship MS Vaterland in 1960 , which after its completion was the largest passenger ship on the Neckar in terms of guest capacity.

The company he founded has been instrumental in tourism involved and tourism in Neckarsteinach and the surrounding area and recounted his lifetime by Andreas Boßler senior representatives from the fields of government and politics as well as from abroad to its guests.

Others

At the bow , the former name of the ship Andreas Bossler, welded into the ski jump , of the motorized goods ship currently in service under the name of Jolanda is still clearly recognizable

Andreas Boßler had together with his son Karl Boßler the motor cargo vessel A. & K. Bossler are in service, the ship type Karl-Vortisch ran on August 7, 1956 the shipyard Josef Braun GmbH in Speyer from the stack . He also owned the tugboat Gross Deutschland together with his son , which was used, among other things, as a warship and in this function was involved in the construction of the West Wall and then passed on to his nephew Herbert Bossler as Friedrich .

The motor ship Andreas Bossler , built in 1964 at the Gustavsburg shipyard , is dedicated to him. It was owned by his daughters Hanna Krieger and Lina Heilmann and chartered transports for the shipping company Gebrüder Krieger KG .

Two great-grandson of Andreas Boßler today hold 42 percent of shares in the Fahrgastreederei White Fleet Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG .

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Web links

Individual evidence

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  4. ↑ Dr. Hanns Heiman: Die Neckarschiffer - The situation of the Neckarschiffer since the introduction of the tugboat . tape 2 . C. Winter's Universitätsbuchhandlung , Heidelberg 1907, OCLC 491090143 , p. 433 ( digitized version ).
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  13. ↑ a b Birgit Sommer: "Mecklenburg" becomes "Liselotte". In: Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung . November 25, 2011, accessed July 1, 2018 .
  14. ^ Rheinschiffs-Register-Verband (Ed.): Rheinschiffs-Register / supplement . Weisbrod, 1938, ZDB -ID 609118-0 , corrections u. Changes in motorized passenger ships , p. 90 .
  15. ↑ a b Elisabeth Hinz: Neckarsteinach in the past and present . Self-published by Elisabeth Hinz, Neckarsteinach 2005, ISBN 3-936866-04-X , From Fährnachen to the White Fleet , p. 86 .
  16. ↑ a b Helmut Betz: Historisches vom Strom - The Neckarschiffahrt from the tow barge to the large motor ship . 1st edition. tape V . Krüpfganz, Duisburg 1989, ISBN 3-924999-04-X , p. 142 .
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personal data
SURNAME Bossler, Andreas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bossler, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Neckarsteinach
DATE OF DEATH April 17, 1961
Place of death Neckarsteinach