Armement Deppe

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Armement Deppe SA , also Compagnie Nationale Belge de Transports Maritimes , was a Belgian shipping company and existed from 1863 to 1984.

history

The Antwerp company was founded by Adolf Deppe, who was born in Lippstadt in 1834 . From 1857 Deppe had worked for L. Hautermann & Cie, which worked as a trading house and agency. Deppe married Amélie Hautermann and founded the shipping company Armement Adolf Deppe in 1863 . The company built various steamship lines. After the death of the shipping company founder Adolf Deppe in 1887, his widow Amélie Hautermann ran the shipping company until her death in 1895 and later her three nephews Henri Gerlinger, Christian Scheidt and Louis Scheidt (Adolf's sister Elisa Deppe was married to Christian Scheidt Senior). Under the new management, the shipping company was financed by the Banque d'Anvers and the German-Argentine grain trading company Bunge & Born (from which today's company Bunge Limited emerged ) and geared towards the line trip to Central and South America, which includes railway facilities and Exported building materials and brought wheat to Belgium as return freight. For this purpose, the subsidiary Compagnie Royale Belgo-Argentine (CRBA) was founded in 1906 together with the Hamburg businessman Hermann F. Menzell . In the same year the company was renamed Armement Adolph Deppe . Louis Scheidt, born in 1866, died in 1929 and Christian Scheidt, born in 1880 - he changed his name to Sheid after the First World War - headed the company as Chairman of the Supervisory Board until his death in January 1940.

At the beginning of the First World War, the company operated 42% of the Belgian merchant fleet with 35 steamers, making it the largest Belgian shipping company. In the following four years of the war, almost two thirds of the aid supplies from the US Commission for Relief were transported to Belgium by Armement Deppe. A subsidiary founded in 1919 was the shipping company Compagnie Sud-Atlantique Belge , which was active in fruit shipping until 1935. In 1926/27, of the total of 150 ships in the Belgian merchant fleet with a total of 476,609 gross registered tonnes, 38 ships with a measurement of 122,634 gross registered tonnes were sailing for Deppe and its subsidiaries.

In 1937 Armement Deppe founded the shipping company Compagnie Navale d'Afrique du Nord (CNAN) in Le Havre, which took over the ships Saint-Paul , Saint-Michel and Saint-Thomas from the French shipping company Société Navale de l'Ouest (SNO) and in Renamed Maroc , Congo and Syrie . The Syrie was hit on June 11, 1940 during an air raid on the port of Le Havre and sank on June 13. In 1943 the CNAN was dissolved again.

In 1960 Armement Deppe was taken over as the second largest Belgian shipping company by the Compagnie Maritime Belge (CMB) but continued to operate, with the Compagnie Royale Belgo-Argentine being incorporated into Deppe. With the purchase of five bulk carriers between 1963 and 1970 the company turned to tramp shipping for the first time . Together with the liner shipping companies Johnson Line, Compania Naviera Marasia, Compania Sud-Americana de Vapores, Hapag-Lloyd, Lineas Navieras Bolivianas, Nedlloyd, Pacific Steam Navigation Company and Transportes Navieros Ecuatorianos, Armement Deppe founded the Eurosal consortium for the in the 1980s Regular service between Europe and South America, but was merged with the CMB on January 1, 1984 and thus dissolved.

The shipping company's office at 8 Bordeauxstraat in Antwerp still exists today.

literature

  • André Lederer: L'expansion belge outre-mer et la Compagnie maritime belge, Koniklijke Academie voor Overzeese Wetenschappen , Brussels, 1977

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Inventory van het Onroerend Erfgoed - Dens, Pieter Jan August
  2. ↑ Jurisprudence de Port d'Anvers , G. Dubois, 1899, p. 187.
  3. ^ A b André Mommen: The Belgian Economy in the Twentieth Century , Routledge, London, 1994, p. 57ff.
  4. ^ Hansa: Deutsche Nautische Zeitschrift , 66th year, 1929, p. 1478.
  5. ↑ Hansa: Deutsche Schiffahrtszeitschrift , Volume 77, 1940, p. 176.
  6. ↑ Bart de Groof: En los deltas de la memoria: Bélgica y Argentina en los siglos XIX y XX , Leuven University Press, 1998, p. 95.
  7. ↑ Bulletin d'Information et de Documentation , Banque Nationale de Belgique, Vol. III, No. 5, November 26, 1927, p. 147.
  8. ↑ De inventoryis van het Bouwkundig Erfgoed - Armement Deppe ( Memento of the original from January 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / inventaris.onroerenderfgoed.be