BBG Bootsbau Berlin
| BBG Bootsbau Berlin GmbH
|
|
|---|---|
 |
|
| legal form | Company with limited liability |
| founding | 1890 |
| resolution | 2016 |
| Reason for dissolution | insolvency |
| Seat | Berlin - Köpenick , Germany |
| management | Adrian Schmid (Managing Director) |
| Branch | Boat building, rowing boats |
| Website | www.bbg-bootsbau.de |
The BBG Bootsbau Berlin GmbH was a shipyard in Berlin . After the Empacher shipyard, it was the second largest German shipyard for rowing boats .
Insolvency proceedings had been filed on January 30, 2016. Business operations have been continued by BBG Bootsmanufaktur Berlin GmbH since March 1st .
history
precursor
The first company, the Claus Engelbrecht shipyard , to which today's BBG can be traced back, was founded by Claus Engelbrecht in 1890 . At that time, in Zeuthen , just outside Berlin's borders , mainly sport boats were produced. Engelbrecht sold the Zeuthen shipyard in 1911 to Fritz Naglo , who took it over on July 1st. Engelbrecht established another shipyard with his sons at the location in Köpenick in 1926, where he actively supported them until his death in 1935. Pleasure boats were also manufactured there again. During the Second World War , various boats had to be built for the Navy. In 1945 the Engelbrecht shipyard was dismantled.
Model range of the Claus Engelbrecht shipyard
Information on the model range of the shipyards, compiled by the former director of the successor company, Yachtwerft Berlin, has been handed down. Construction drawings of the models produced did not survive the turmoil of World War II.
post war period
After the Second World War, shoes made of various plastics were manufactured in the shipyard , as the manufacturing facilities for boats were dismantled in the course of Soviet reparation claims and there was no need for sports boats. In 1949 boat building could be resumed, whereby the knowledge about various plastics gained in shoe production was helpful in the design of plastic boats. Since the Yachtwerft Berlin was the first manufacturer of such boats made of wood laminates, the demand was correspondingly high and new buildings had to be moved into on the Müggelspree , where the company's headquarters are today.
GDR time
In 1956 the Engelbrecht shipyard at the Berlin-Köpenick location was merged with the Friedrich-Brumm shipyard at the Berlin-Friedrichshagen location to form a state-owned company and renamed VEB Yachtwerft Berlin .
In addition to rowing boats (skiffs), other watercraft were also manufactured, e.g. B. cruising yachts and sailing dinghies. The dinghy cruisers built here were designed and constructed by Hartmut Rührdanz based on the cracks by Reinhard Drewitz. In addition, a series of torpedo boats of the Wiesel class for the People's Navy and some speedboats for the border police were created here .
In the 1970s, the so-called composite boats were developed, which achieved great fame and whose trademark is the gray outer skin made of plastic . The boats consisted of this same outer skin, which was pulled onto a wooden frame. Almost all national teams of the Eastern Bloc drove extremely successfully with these boats, so the GDR won 9 of 13 Olympic medals in Montreal in 1976 . The company was awarded the Order Banner of Labor Level I for these successes . In that year, the production of solid wood boats was also stopped.
Due to the increasing demand as a result of these successes, a large part of production was relocated to the states of the Eastern Bloc, as capacities were becoming scarce. The state sponsored the operation and better and better boats were developed and tested, at peak times two boats were produced per day.
In 1981, boats were exported to the Non-Socialist Economic Area (NSW) for the first time , especially to the Federal Republic of Germany .
After reunification
After the fall of the Berlin Wall , the Yachtwerft Berlin was converted into a holding company with the subsidiary GmbHs Werft Berlin , Yacht Berlin and Bootsbau Berlin on June 1, 1990 , while the former subsidiary VEB Oderwerft Eisenhüttenstadt was spun off as an independent company. The Berlin shipyard was taken over by the Association of German Inland Shipyards on August 17, 1993 , the Berlin part of which went bankrupt in February 2000. From the boat building Berlin went BBG Bootsbau Berlin GmbH forth. Those responsible decided that the built boats should wear the color red, “ because for us red symbolized strength, progressiveness and a striving to advance technical development. “(Quote from the BBG homepage).
At the end of January 2016, BBG Bootsbau had to file for bankruptcy. With effect from March 1st, production and employees were taken over by the newly founded company BBG Bootsmanufaktur Berlin GmbH , backed by a Swiss investor group from the boat trade sector. The production and repair of sport rowing boats is to be continued.
Individual evidence
- ^ Wilfried Horns: Shipyard Claus Engelbrecht in Zeuthen, later Köpenik. Yacht sport archives, November 15, 2005, accessed July 24, 2011 .
- ↑ Overview and history of VEB Yachtwerft Berlin. In: www.klassik-boote.de. Retrieved January 20, 2014 .
- ↑ Service ships of the Coastal Border Brigade. In: www.ddr-binnenschifffahrt.de. Retrieved July 24, 2011 .
- ↑ About the honor for the Olympic team of the GDR. Awarded high government awards. Honorary title "Hero of Work". In: New Germany . September 10, 1976, p. 4 , accessed on April 10, 2018 (online at ZEFYS - newspaper portal of the Berlin State Library , free registration required).
- ^ Dietrich Strobel, Günter Dame: Shipbuilding between Elbe and Oder: 1945–1992 . 1st edition. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1993, ISBN 3-7822-0565-0 .
