Atlantic-Rhederei F. & W. Joch
| Atlantic-Rhederei F. & W. Joch | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1919 |
| resolution | June 28, 2002 |
| Reason for dissolution | liquidation |
| Seat |
Hamburg Germany
|
| Branch | Maritime transport |
The Atlantic-Rhederei F. & W. Joch was a Hamburg shipping company. The shipping company founded in 1919 existed until 2001.
history
Founding time
The company was founded at the beginning of 1919 as Atlantic-Rhederei GmbH by the two naval officers Friedrich Joch and Georg von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff together with the two merchant ship officers Friedrich Frobeen and Christiano Bauscher. All four had left the Imperial Navy after the end of the First World War and were looking for a new job. On January 27th of that year the first ship, the three-masted schooner Hans , was acquired in Oldersum and in May another sailor, the Gertrud, was added. In 1920 ten sailing ships were already being looked after as correspondent shipping companies and the company also worked as a ship broker . On January 27, 1922, the founder's brother, Walter Joch, joined the shipping company. After the loss of Gertrud at the end of 1919 and the loss of Hans in December 1923, Atlantic-Rhederei did not acquire any more sailors.
Expansion and World War II
On the initiative of Friedrich Joch, the naval service in Hamburg put the two small tankers Wollin and Börsen as well as the Leichter Oder and Weser under the management of the Atlantic shipping company . Together with John T. Essberger , Friedrich Joch founded the Atlantic-Tank-Rhederei on December 23, 1924 , which Essberger continued to manage alone from April 1928. In the same year the founding members Frobeen and Bauscher resigned from the company, which then in a general partnership was converted and renamed Atlantic Rhederei F. & W. yoke. Since Friedrich Joch had broken his ties to the Atlantic-Tank-Rhederei, he took over together with Otto Stürken and Heinrich Günther the Hansa-Tank-Reederei GmbH founded in 1927 by Rudolf-August Oetker , Albert Oetker and Richard Kaselowsky , whereby the Atlantic-Rhederei as Correspondent shipper appeared. Through its activity in the chartering business and ship purchases and sales, the company built good relationships with the DW Kremer shipyards in Elmshorn and Lindenau in Memel. The Jochs acquired a hull from the latter in 1936 for the Hansa-Tank-Reederei , which was completed as the Admiral passenger ship . The Admiral was used on the Hamburg-Helgoland route and between Cuxhaven and Amrum, but was sold to the Navy in 1937 due to the losses incurred. On May 20, 1938, the Joch brothers founded Walter Joch & Co. KG and used it to handle the ship brokerage, freighting and ship sales business. Together with the Hansa-Tank-Reederei, the Jochs took over the Winnetou tanker and commissioned DW Kremer to build the new Unkas tanker , establishing a tradition of naming the ships after Indian tribes or Indian figures, which was maintained until the shipping company was dissolved. Until the beginning of the Second World War, the shipping company commissioned further tankers, but not all of them were delivered. At the beginning of the war in 1939, the company owned eight tankers with a total measurement of 20,580 GRT and suffered several ship losses during the war. As a reaction to the circumstances of the war, the Atlantic-Rhederei dealt with inland shipping and the tank storage business.
Renewed construction in the post-war period
After the end of the war, the Joch brothers separated, Friedrich Joch left the joint shipping company in 1950 and emigrated with his family to the United States, while Walter Joch began to rebuild the ship brokerage and later the shipping company. After Walter Joch had already invested half in the newly founded inland tanker shipping companies Tanker Company Neuss and Vereinigte Partenreederei Neuss-Hamburg in 1950 and 1953 , he put new seaworthy tankers under construction at Kremer and Lindenau. In 1955 the shipping company again had four ships with 9,944 GRT. Since Walter Joch had no heirs, he initiated a takeover of the Atlantic shipping company by the tug company Petersen & Alpers in the 1960s, which was completed in 1965. In 1968 the Joch brothers and Heinrich Günther decided to liquidate the Hansa-Tank-Reederei. In the same year twelve tankers with 11,522 GRT and 18,862 tons deadweight were operated by the Atlantic-Rhederei.
The last decades until the shipping company closed
The company temporarily managed a fleet of over 20 coastal tankers. In the years 1987 to 1992 all ships were flagged out and in 1993 the company was the last German tram-tank shipping company to outsource its own crew to Columbia Shipmanagement . In 1996, Towage & Marine Assistance was founded with the parent company Petersen & Alpers to offer ship assistance services in Klaipeda and the Baltic Sea. At the end of 2000, the Atlantic-Rhederei gave up its operation due to insufficient charter rates and sold the remaining tanker fleet of five product and chemical tankers by 2001. On June 28, 2002 the company was deleted from the commercial register.
literature
- Maria Möring: Atlantic-Rhederei F. & W. Joch, Hamburg, 1919-1969 , self-published, Hamburg, 1969
- It began in 1919 with a schooner ... In: Bruno Bock (Ed.): Seekiste . Vol. 13, No. 1 . Verlag Schmidt & Klaunig, Kiel January 1962, p. 35-36 .
- 50 years of Atlantic-Rhederei F. & W. Joch . In: Bruno Bock (Ed.): Seekiste . Vol. 20, No. 3 . Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford March 1969, p. 104-106 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Ian Lewis: German Tramp Owner cuts out national Crew , In: TradeWinds , June 25, 1993, p. 23.
- ↑ Page by Petersen & Alpers ( Memento of the original from May 16, 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.
- ^ Atlantic Rhederei ceases operations , In: Hamburger Abendblatt , September 21, 2000.
- ↑ entry in North Data
