Bremen shipping companies

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Flagpole of Bremen shipping companies and inland boatmen on the Osterdeich

The Bremen shipping companies have traditionally been of great importance in the Hanseatic City of Bremen and the Maritime City of Bremerhaven with their location on the Weser and North Sea and the Bremen ports . A shipping company is a transport and shipping company in the field of sea and inland shipping .

Bremen was the location of several large shipping companies. The most important were the North German Lloyd (NDL) as well as the German steam shipping company "Hansa" and the Neptunreederei .

History of the shipping companies

Bremen whaling fleet around 1840, ship from Wätjen in the foreground

The shipping company FA Vinnen & Co. was founded in 1819 as the shipping company EC Schramm & Co. and is considered the oldest existing shipping company in Bremen. The older shipping companies include the shipping company Johann Lange Sohn's Wwe. & Co. from 1642, Cassel  & Traub from 1777, the shipping company Friedrich Schröder from the beginning of the 19th century, the shipping company DH Wätjen and Co. from 1821, the North German Lloyd (NDL ) from 1857 and the Bischoff shipping company from 1859.

16th to 18th century

According to the Seepassregister 1594/95, approx. 88 Bremen seagoing ships with a load capacity of 2,466 Bremer loads sailed annually, with the Holland trips with 38 ships and 846 loads dominating and the Baltic Sea trip with around 20 to 25 ships. In 1612 around 100 Bremen ships were already out at sea with around 3,140 loads. The Bremen Baltic Sea trade increased strongly around 1630 to 1647 and shifted to England and France after the coastal cities were in the Swedish customs area.
Due to the English / Dutch naval wars up to 1675 and the Elsflether Weserzoll , the Bremen fleet was reduced in 1658/59 to only 58 ships with 1835 loads and then grew continuously to 66 units and 3099 loads until 1673.
The Greenland voyage initially affected the Bremen shipowners until Bremen merchants founded two Greenland companies . After 1674/76, however, fewer ships were used in the cargo journey: 1685 with 46 and 1693 with 34 cargo ships. In 1702 the Bremen merchant fleet comprised 71 units with an average of 65 load per ship with 52 merchant ships and 19 Greenland drivers. The load-bearing capacity had more than doubled in the last hundred years.

The following inventory was registered as Bremen's ship inventory at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries:

year Ship inventory of which Bodmerei
1778 96 79
1797 140 82
1789 159 101
1801 177 106
1807 175 101
1815 118 68

Around 60% of the ships sailed in the Bodmerei , i.e. as ships under a loan agreement according to historical maritime trade law.

From 1778 to 1788, Bremen ships were sailing in Spain, Portugal, France, Great Britain, Ireland, Norway, Greenland and the countries bordering the Baltic Sea. With around 1,060 incoming ships, there were the ports of Liverpool (69), London (82), Bayonne (85), Bordeaux (318), Nantes (47), Archangelsk (51), Liebau (90), Riga (74) and Kalmar (38) significant and with around 1150 outgoing ships also Danzig (46), Memel (142), Wiborg (36) and St. Petersburg (21).

Whaling: In the 18th century, fishermen from Bremen also participated in the profitable whaling through Greenland trips. To this end, some merchants founded two Greenland companies , whose six ships "returned home with a rich blessing". In spite of drift ice , pack ice , violent northern storms and scurvy , 1,081 Bremen fishing vessels drove into the polar sea in the period from 1695 to 1798 . 22 ships remained at sea; most were crushed by the pack ice.

19th century

In the 1820s, 90 sailing ships were registered in Bremen. In 1880 the Bremen merchant fleet numbered 324 seagoing vessels, 68 of them  steamers . In 1884 there were 356 seagoing ships. With the conversion from sailing ships to steamers, the time of the typical merchant shipowners as partnerships came to an end. The high construction costs for steamships promoted the amalgamation of merchant shipping companies such as Meier, Wätjen, Vietor or Melchers, to shipping companies such as Norddeutscher Lloyd , the steam shipping company "Neptun" or the German steam shipping company "Hansa" in the period from 1857 to 1881 due to the increase in capital . Despite Bremen's entry into the Reich customs area in 1888, the dreaded disadvantages for trade and shipping did not occur. Bremen's economy was able to develop freely unhindered by restrictive customs barriers. 1883 began with the Weser regulation and 1885 with the construction of the free port (later called Europahafen ). Since 1885, the Reichspostdampferdienst has been subsidized by law and Norddeutscher Lloyd has been entrusted with the implementation of regular services with East Asia and Australia .

The colonial policy of the German Empire since the 1880s strengthened the Bremen shipping industry. In 1890 the Bremen sea fleet had 212 sailing ships and 130 steamers.

Magdalene Vinnen (1933), today: Sedov
Express steamer Bremen , 1931

20th century

When the First World War broke out , the Bremen merchant fleet had 446 ships with almost 1.5 million  GRT . The defeat led to the loss of Bremen's merchant shipping. Trade and shipping could gain in importance again after 1921. Around 1933, ships with around 1.3 million GRT of ship tonnage were in service for shipping companies in Bremen.

During and after the Second World War , the Bremen fleet suffered heavy losses due to war destruction, requisitions or reparations .

The Bremen fleet has been picking up speed again since the 1950s. At the beginning of the 1970s, competition in world shipping intensified. The share of German tonnage in the freight market fell. In 1970, NDL and HAPAG merged to form the major shipping company Hapag-Lloyd AG .

The container and containerization changed the way general cargo was transported by ship. In 1966 the first container ship docked in Bremen. The Neustadt ports were built in the 1960s, mainly for container ships. The Bremerhaven container terminal followed in the 1970s ; this made the port one of the largest container ports in the world.

In 1984 150 ships were still sailing under the Bremen flag . In Germany, a new shipping policy introduced in 1999 a specific “tonnage tax” and improved international competitive conditions. The German merchant fleet grew strongly.

In 2012, 41 Bremen shipowners used around 350 ships (= approx. 9% of Germany) with a gross tonnage of around 6 million GT.

In 2014, 30 Bremen shipowners deployed around 320 ships, of 3400 ships managed in Germany.

List of shipping companies from Bremen and Bremerhaven

Alphabetical list, current data from 2014
The non-Bremen shipping companies in the Bremer Rhederverein were added to the list.

Behind the name are the well-known letters that were used in the flag or in the chimney mark

Ahlmann Transport

The shipping company Ahlmann Transport KG existed from 1951 to 1974.

Alpha Ship

Alpha Ship GmbH in Bremen managed (2014) 17 container ships from around 1100 to 1800 TEU under the flag of the Marshall Islands .

Anglo-Eastern (Germany)

Anglo-Eastern (Germany), based in Bremen, is a subsidiary of the Anglo-Eastern Group from Hong Kong founded in 2008 and a member of the Bremer Rhederverein.

Aquila Maritime Transport

The Aquila Maritime Management, founded in 2005 by Erhard Koschorreck, operates bulk carriers as bulk carriers, multipurpose vessels and multi-purpose carrier (2014: Five ships).

Argo shipping company

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The Argo Reederei from 1896 to 2002, first Argo AG , 1936 Argo Reederei Richard Adler & Söhne , operated regular services to Great Britain and in early 1960 had a maximum of 35 ships and 53,442 GRT.

Atlas Levante Line

The Atlas Levante Line (ALL) from 1935 to 1967 was a liner shipping company in the Levant region, the eastern Mediterranean. Originated from the Hamburg German Levante Line (DLL) from 1889, which was majority owned by the two major German shipping companies, the Hamburg-America Line and the North German Lloyd . When it was spun off in 1935, ALL was founded in Bremen with eleven ships from North German Lloyd. In 1959 the DDG "Hansa" took over the majority of ALL. In 1967 ALL was taken over by the Hamburg Süd Group.

Shipping company Helmut Bastian

The shipping company Helmut Bastian from 1947 to 1989 first owned coasters, fish loggers and small container ships, then also gas tankers and freighters. In 1983 the fleet comprised around 80,000 dwt.

Beluga Shipping

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The Beluga Shipping was founded in 1995 by Niels Stolberg founded. In 2010 she had 69  heavy lift carriers . In 2009 and 2011, the US investment company Oaktree Capital Management took over shares in the shipping company; In 2011 bankruptcy had to be filed. The company Hansa Heavy Lift , based in Hamburg, emerged from Beluga Shipping .

Shipping company Bischoff / Argo shipping company

The Bischoff shipping company from 1859 to 1899, founded by Johann Dietrich Bischoff with a tramp shipping company , which has also been using steamers mainly on the Baltic Sea since 1874. His son Friedrich Bischoff (shipowner) (1861-1920) sold most of his ships to the Argo Reederei, founded in 1896 . Today's GmbH at Argo manages three cargo ships.

Shipping company Carl Borm , (CB), Bremen

Bremen-Mindener Schiffahrts-AG

The Bremen-Mindener Schiffahrts-AG from 1939 to 1971 emerged from the merger of the Bremer Schleppschiffahrtsgesellschaft from 1886 and the Mindener Schleppschiffahrtsgellschaft with its headquarters in Minden . The shipping company had up to ten tugs.

Bremen-Vegesacker Fishing Society

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The Bremen-Vegesacker Fischerei-Gesellschaft (BV) was a logger fishery that existed from 1895 to 1969 and was at times the largest herring fishery in Europe with 68 loggers (1938).

Bremen ship management company

The Bremer Bereederungsgesellschaft (BBG) from 1970 currently manages 24 (2015) bulk carriers as MS Conti ships. Eight container ships were sold by 2015.

Bremen steamship line Atlas

Taken over by the German Levante Line in 1905

Bremer Lloyd shipping company

BremerLloyd, founded in Bremen in 1999 by Herbert Behrens, managed around 10 multi-purpose vessels in 2009; In 2014 there were six cargo ships .

Bremen shipping company

The Bremen shipping company Eilemann und Bischoff (E&B) was and is active in liner services for Scandinavia from 1951. The fleet comprised eight multi-purpose carriers in 2009 and six in 2014.

Towing, shipping and rescue company

The United Bugsier Steamship Company ( Bugsier ) was founded in Hamburg in 1866. Wilhelm Schuchmann had been running a ship brokerage and equipment company in Geestemünde since 1884 . In 1926, the majority of the shares in Hamburger Bugsier passed into the hands of the Schuchmann family. In Geestemünde, then Bremerhaven, part of the maneuvering business remained under the name of the company's founder Schuchmann. In 2009, today's Bugsier owned around 30 sea ​​and harbor tugs , the 600 ton sea ​​recovery crane Enak and three oil spill fighting vehicles .

Carl Büttner shipping company

The Carl Büttner Reederei (CB) was founded in 1856 by Carl Büttner (1821–1913) in Leer . In 1892 a branch was opened in Bremen, to which the headquarters were relocated in 1933. It was active in the bunker business after 1945 and with oil transports after 1960. In 2014 it operated ten oil tankers with a total of approx. 200,000 dw.

Steamship company "Neptune"

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The steam shipping company "Neptun" from 1873 to 1974 had a fleet of 76 freight steamers with 78,000 GRT and in 1939/40 even 87 ships with 149,000 GRT. It has been run as Sloman Neptun Schiffahrts-AG since 1973 .

Herm. Dauelsberg

The firm of Hermann Dauelsberg (D) was founded in 1857 in Bremen as a shipping agency in Emigrant area. Over 200 people were employed between the world wars. From 1868 to 1925 and then again in 1954, the company managed cargo ships. As of the current status (2014), the shipping company currently employs 14 container ships and four bulk carriers.

German Steamship Company "Hansa"

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The German Steamship Company "Hansa" from 1881 to 1980 initially served ports in Scandinavia and Russia . In 1913 it was the third largest German shipping company with 67 ships. In 1939 53 ships sailed to the Indian Ocean , the Persian Gulf , Spain, Portugal, North America, India and Africa. In 1956 44 Hansa ships sailed, including new heavy lift carriers ; a division that has been expanded.

German Society for the Rescue of Shipwrecked People

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The German Society for the Rescue of Shipwrecked People (DGzRS) was founded in 1865. It is based in Bremen. The rescue fleet comprises 60 rescue cruisers and lifeboats at 54 stations between the Ems and the Pomeranian Bay .

German ocean shipping company

The Deutsche Ozean-Reederei (DOR) existed from 1915 to 1918 and was founded by North German Lloyd and Deutsche Bank for the sole purpose of using merchant submarines to bypass the British naval blockade

Dettmer shipping company

B. Dettmer Reederei (D) has existed in Bremen since 1947 and has a tanker fleet of 25 units (2014), suitable for the Western European canal area and Elbe traffic.

German Foundation Sail Training

The German Sail Training Foundation (DSST) managed the barque Alexander von Humboldt from 1986 and the Alexander von Humboldt II since 2011 .

Doggerbank sea fishing

The Doggerbank Seefischerei is based in Bremerhaven.

Rolf Faulbaum Reederei , (RF), Bremen,

Coasters and the Sielwall ferry operated in the 1950s .

Shipping company Eugen Friedrich

The shipping company Eugen Friederich (F) from 1917 was also active in the tanker business from the 1920s. In 1965, after the death of the founder and the sale of the ships, coasters were now used (1982: 14 Kümos). In 2009, six of our own multi-purpose freighters and other charter ships were in service in Germany and Sri Lanka .

Ferries from Bremen to Stedingen

The ferries Bremen – Stedingen (FBS) from 1993 owns the ferries Juliusplate , Berne-Farge , Lemwerder II , Rönnebeck , Vegesack and Lemwerder in the ferry traffic over the Weser between Bremen-Nord and Lower Saxony.

German Tanker Shipping

The German Tanker Shipping 1998 is the largest tanker company in Germany and 2010 had about 15 tankers carrying around 470,000 tonnes (dwt).

Hal över

The Hal över 1984 is a shipping company for passenger ships on the Weser. In 1984, as an association, it ensured the operation of the Sielwall ferry. In 2002 she took over the ships Oceana and Hanseat from Schreiber-Reederei .

Hansa Heavy Lift

The heavy lift shipping company Hansa Heavy Lift was founded in 2011 by the financial investor Oaktree Capital Management . The company, which moved to Hamburg in 2012, manages heavy lift ships.

Hansa Mare shipping company

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The Hansa Mare Reederei is a shipping company founded in 1992 and based in Bremen. By 2000 the shipping company had around twenty ships with a total capacity of 56,873 TEU. In 2012 there were still more than eight Panmax container ships with a total slot capacity of 32,202 TEU. Parts of the ship operations are carried out by the 50% shareholders Hanseatic Lloyd Reederei and the Schlüssel Reederei .

Hanseatic Lloyd shipping company

The 2001 Hanseatic Lloyd Reederei (HLL) in Bremen had 24 container ships and seven tankers in its fleet in 2009. In 2014 there were eleven container ships in the 4000 to 4700 TEU size class and two tankers. The shipping company is connected to the Hansa Mare shipping company in ship operations.

Hanseatic

Hanseatic Schifffahrt und Schiffsmanagement GmbH is part of the Bremer Lloyd Group.

Harren & Partner

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The Harren & Partner shipping group (H&P) from 1989, founder Peter Harren, works as a shipowner, but also manages foreign ships. The fleet (2017) consists of a total of 70 merchant ships, including heavy lift carriers , dock ships , tankers , bulk carriers and container feeders as well as heavy lift carriers.

Hempel Shipping

Hempel Shipping (HS), formerly RS Forschungs Shipping GmbH , was founded in 1995. It is based in Bremen and operated four research vessels in 2014.

Shipping company JFW Iken 6 Co.

Founded in 1831 by Senator Justin Friedrich Wilhelm Iken (1785–1866) , in the 19th century at times Bremen's second largest shipping company, managed by Engelbert Klugkist

Ister shipping company

The Ister Reederei was founded in 1956 by VÖEST and the Schlüssel Reederei and mainly used its ships in the North Atlantic. In 1987 the shipping company was completely taken over by the key shipping company.

Shipping company F. Laeisz

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The Hamburg shipping company F. Laeisz (FL) has been based in Bremerhaven as a subsidiary since 1996. In 1825 Ferdinand Laeisz founded a trading company in Hamburg and from 1839 until the 20th century the shipping company had 86 sailing ships, the Flying P-Liner . Today the shipping company operates container ships, bulk cargo, gas and car carriers with over 2 million dwt. Six research ships, including the Polarstern , are operated in Bremerhaven .

Shipping company Johann Lange

The shipping company Johann Lange, then Johann Lange Sohn's Wwe. & Co. from 1642, existed as a shipping company and trading company until the 20th century and as a trading company until after 1960 ( Teha Textilhandel ).

Liberty One Shipmanagement

Liberty One Shipmanagement GmbH & Co. KG (L), founded in Bremen in 2011, manages 10 multi-purpose freighters (2014).

Lomar Germany

Lomar Germany ( Lomar Shipping London from 1976) with its headquarters in Bremen is a subsidiary of the international Libra Group , founded in 2003, based in London / New York / Beijing. Today (2014) it managed around 60 ships as bulk carriers, container ships, refrigerated container ships , offshore ships, LPG liquid gas tankers as well as product and chemical tankers .

Merkur GmbH , (M), Bremen

North German Lloyd

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The North German Lloyd (NDL) 1857-1970 was Bremen's largest shipping company, in 1907 with 93 Seedampfern, 51 coastal steamers, 53 riverboats and 900,000 GRT tonnage the biggest German shipping company, and in 1939 with 70 ships (including the Bremen , Europe and Columbus ) and other small vehicles with a total of 604,990 GRT and 1960/70 with 47 seagoing vessels and 391,313 GRT. In 1970, the NDL merged with the Hamburg-American Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft (HAPAG) to form Hapag-Lloyd AG .

Ocean Food

The Ocean Food in Bremerhaven existed from 1997 to 2009 and used up to one trawler as a factory ship in deep-sea fishing .

D. Oltmann

The ship brokerage founded by Diedrich Oltmann (O) in Brake in 1871 was also active in Bremen from 1892. As a shipping company, the Transocean Passenger Service , later Transocean Tours , and between 1965 and 1987 a seaside service with u. a. the Roland operated from Bremen to Heligoland . The first freighter came in 1969. In 1989 all ships were sold and in 1992 Bernd Rogge dared to start over. Between 2009 and 2014, the fleet was reduced from five to two container ships.

Shipping company H. Parchmann & Co.

existed only from 1956 to 1962 with up to nine ships until Helmut Parchmann had to file for bankruptcy.

Plantours & Partner

Plantours & Partner has a cruise ship.

JC Pflüger & Co shipping company , Bremen

Shipowner was u. a. Carl Friedrich Pflüger. The 19th century shipping company was also based in San Francisco . She was connected to the merchant and shipowner Hinrich Hackfeld and his wife Marie Hackfeld-Pflüger . The flag showed the red Hanseatic cross in a white field with upper and lower red stripes.

Rass shipping company

The shipping company Rass (R) was founded in 1961 by Captain Ludwig Rass. It is based in Bramstedt (Hagen in Bremen) and in the Bremen Rhederverein. In 2014, the fleet comprised five container ships, each with 970 TEU .

RF research shipping

The RF Forschungsschiffahrt (RF) from Bremerhaven was founded in 1975 and operated four research vessels in 2009.

Rickmers shipping company

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The Rickmers shipping company from 1842 was founded in Geestemünde in 1834 as a shipyard, from 1842 it was expanded to become a shipping company. She went to East Asia on a scheduled service . In 1984 the shipping activities were combined in the Rickmers Holding in Hamburg. In 2010 this holding company had 113 ships worldwide with 4,648,573 dwt / 349,657 TEU.

Rigel Schiffahrts GmbH & Co KG (R)

A branch of Rigel Reederei GmbH in Leer that operates chemical / oil tankers.

Roland-Linie Schifffahrts GmbH , (R), Bremen

Sander Bereederungsgesellschaft Bremen, Am Wall

It existed until the mid-1980s and operated around 25 ships. The shipping company flag was the Bremen flag with the initials DS in a lying diamond.

Key shipping company

The key shipping company in Bremen, founded in 1950, managed (2014) 17 container ships on behalf of and under the flag of the Hansa Mare shipping company .

Schreiber shipping company

The Schreiber-Reederei from 1923 to 2002 was initially an inland shipping company, which has carried out harbor tours since 1926. Well-known ships after 1949 were the Deutschland , the Weserstolz , the older Oceana and the Hanseat , with which the liner shipping from Bremen to Bremerhaven was also operated.

Friedrich Schröder shipping company

The shipping company Friedrich Schröder existed at the beginning of the 19th century. In 1816 she had the first steamship built by a German shipbuilder, Die Weser .

Shipping company W. Schuchmann , (S), Bremerhaven

In 1884 Wilhelm Schuchmann founded a ship brokerage and equipment company in Geestemünde and soon expanded the company into a shipping company. In 2004 the company was merged with the Bugsier shipping company.

Senator Lines

The Senator Lines in 1985 with capital participation by Bremen, came in 1997 through a majority shareholding to Hanjin Shipping in Seoul ( South Korea ) and was dissolved in 2009.

Sloman Neptun Schiffahrts AG

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The Sloman Neptun Schiffahrts AG from 1879; In 1793 the Sloman shipping company was owned by Rob. M. Sloman founded in Hamburg. In 1973 she took over the Bremen-based Neptun shipping company, which was founded in Bremen in 1873. It operates around twenty ships (as of 2008), whose main field of activity is gas fueling.

Team Ship Management

Team Ship Management was founded in Bremerhaven in 2005 and operated seven multi-purpose freighters in 2009.

Franz Tecklenborg shipping company

The sailing ship shipping company based in Bremen was active in freight and emigrant shipping. In 1894 all ships were sold and the shipping business was discontinued.

Arnold Thyselius

The Arnold Thyselius Reederei (AT) was based in Bremen.

Transocean cruises

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The Transocean Cruises from 1954 was active in the liner service in the passenger shipping. In the 1980s, Transocean Tours was an agent for various shipping companies and tour operators . The Astor has been driving the company since 1997, the Astoria since 2002 , the Arielle from 2006 to 2008 and the Marco Polo since 2008 . In 2009 the company had to file for bankruptcy and is now with Premicon  AG with a cruise ship .

Overseas shipping company

The Übersee-Reederei (Ü), founded in Geestemünde in 1921, consisted of max. four ships by 1931.

Union shipping company

The Union Commerce and Navigation Company mbH transported mainly tropical fruit from Central America to Bremerhaven and was also involved in the trade in tropical fruits. It was founded in 1936 by Gustav Scipio (1872–1949). Since 1993, these services have been mainly served by Chiquita's white ships, the Great White Fleet (GWF).

Unterweser shipping company

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The Unterweser Reederei AG (URAG) from 1890 was founded as the Unterweser Tugboat Company (SGUW) in Bremen and renamed Unterweser Reederei Aktiengesellschaft in 1922. In 1891 she owned eight tugs, in 1912 already 29 tugboats and around 50 barges, in 1953 over 18 tugs, in 2004 around 20 tugs and in 2013 around 18 tugs, two anchor-handling tugs and an offshore supplier ; current seat: Bremerhaven.

Vinnen - shipping company

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The FA Vinnen & Co. shipping company (V) of 1819 was the company EC Schramm & Co. founded. It is the oldest existing shipping company in Bremen. Initially, the main focus was on the transport of tobacco. In 1909 Adolf Vinnen took over the shipping company and renamed it FA Vinnen & Co. in 1911. The sailing ship fleet was expanded with eight four-masted barques by taking over the Hamburg shipping company Alster . After 1945 she started tramping and in the 1970s she worked in the liner service to West Africa . Today she manages eleven container ships from 1000 to 2800 TEU.

Wätjen - shipping company

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The DH Wätjen and Co. from 1821 to 1919, was the world's largest private sailing ship cruise line. By 1858 she had 18 sailing ships with 14,200 GRT. Were transported u. a. Cotton and petroleum. In 1896 she was involved in the establishment of the Bremer Vulkan shipyard and machine factory in Vegesack .

Weser ferry Bremerhaven – Nordenham

The Weser ferry Bremerhaven – Nordenham has served a ferry connection from Bremerhaven to Nordenham since 1910 . The two ships are each designed for 300 people and around 150 meters of vehicles.

West Bank sea fishing

Westbank Seefischerei GmbH from Bremerhaven owned a factory ship in 1996.

XSM Cross Ship Management

XSM Cross Ship Management GmbH, Bremen, has two container ships.

Shipping company Horst Zeppenfeld

The shipping company Horst Zeppenfeld (Z) from Elsfleth was founded in 1971 and operated ten ships around 2000 and one container ship in 2014. She is a member of the Bremen Rhederverein.

Well-known shipowners were or are

In alphabetical order

  • Johann Achelis (1799–1869), who managed his own schooner in 1832.
  • Oltmann Johann Dietrich Ahlers (1848–1910), from 1881 to 1910 with DDG “Hansa” .
  • Richard Bertram (1904–1979), from 1937 member of the board and from 1942 chairman of the board of the NDL.
  • Johann Dietrich Bischoff founded his shipping company in 1859.
  • Friedrich Bischoff ran the Bischoff shipping company until 1899.
  • Friedrich Busse (1835–1898) was a fish wholesaler in Geestemünde, but also a shipowner for fishing vessels.
  • Carl Philipp Cassel (1742 or 1744– 1807) was a captain, merchant and shipowner since 1777 and is considered a pioneer of Bremen's East Asia trade.
  • Eduard Crüsemann (1826–1869), founder and 1857–1869 first director of the NDL.
  • Otto Dettmers (1892–1986), member of the board from 1938, 1940 to 1942 general director of the NDL
  • Rudolph Firle (1881–1969), 1933–1944 general director of the NDL
  • Ernst Glässel (1878–1950), 1926 deputy on the Lloyd board, 1931–1932 board member of the NDL
  • Peter Harren, 1989 founder of the Harren & Partner shipping group
  • Emil Hartmann (1927–2007) was the founder of German Tanker Shipping (GT) in 1998 .
  • Philipp Heineken (1860-1947); 1909–1920 general director, 1920–1933 chairman of the supervisory board of the NDL.
  • Hermann Helms (1868–1942), from 1881 to 1942 with DDG "Hansa" .
  • Hermann Helms (shipowner, 1898) , from 1922 to 1969 with DDG "Hansa" .
  • Hermann Helms (shipowner, 1928) , from 1958 to 1980 with DDG "Hansa" .
  • Johannes Kulenkampff, board member from 1932, board member of the NDL from 1942 to 1968
  • Johann Lange (1775–1844) was mainly a shipbuilder with a shipyard from 1805 in Vegesack, but also later a shipowner in the emigration business with four sailing ships.
  • Alfred Lohmann (1870–1919), wholesale merchant and one of the founders of the German Ocean Shipping Company (DOR)
  • Johann Georg Lohmann (1830–1892), 1877–1892 director of the NDL
  • Hermann Henrich Meier (1809–1898), founder and 1857–1888 first chairman of the supervisory board of the NDL
  • Christoph Hellwig Papendieck (1839-1891) Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the steam shipping company "Hansa"
  • Andreas Rickmers (1835–1924), founder of the Rickmers Reederei , later ran the rice business.
  • Peter Rickmers (1838–1902), founder of the Rickmers Reederei , predominantly managed the shipping company and shipyard in Bremerhaven in the group of companies.
  • Rickmer Clasen Rickmers (1807–1886), founder of shipyard in 1834 and shipping company in 1866
  • Wilhelm Rickmers (Willy) (1844-1891), founder of the Rickmers shipping company , later ran Rickmers Reismühlen.
  • Wilhelm Anton Riedemann (1832–1920), pioneer of tanker shipping; As a freight forwarder for the oil business, he founded a shipping company in Geestemünde, which had the full ship Andromeda converted into the first tanker at Joh. C. Tecklenborg in 1885.
  • Karl-Heinz Sager (1931–2011), from 1969 member of the board at Norddeutscher Lloyd , Hapag-Lloyd and Senator Lines .
  • Otto Wilhelm August Schreiber (1884–1967) founded his shipping company in 1923, which u. a. Carried out harbor tours.
  • Friedrich Schröder (1775–1835) had the first steamship built by a German shipbuilder, The Weser .
  • Wilhelm Schuchmann (1858–1943) founded his ship brokerage and equipment company in Geestemünde in 1884. In 1926 he and his family share the majority of today's towage, shipping companies and salvage company in Hamburg, in Bremerhaven and Hamburg as Bugsier the tractor, Bergung- and offshore operates operation.
  • Gustav Scipio (1872–1949) founded the Fruchthandel Gesellschaft Bremen in 1902 and the Union shipping company in 1936 , which existed until the 1990s.
  • Franz Stickan (1887–1953), from 1925 to 1953 director of DG "Neptun"
  • Carl Joachim Stimming (1876–1931), 1921–1931 General Director of the NDL
  • Franz Tecklenborg (1807–1886), founder of the Joh. C. Tecklenborg shipyard and shipowner in Bremen
  • Adolf Vinnen (1868–1926) took over the shipping company from his father in 1909.
  • Christian Heinrich Wätjen (1813–1887) worked for DH Wätjen and Co. from 1837 to 1887 .
  • Diedrich Heinrich Wätjen (1785–1858) worked for the shipping company DH Wätjen and Co. from 1821 to 1858 .
  • Heinrich Wiegand (shipowner) (1855–1909), 1889 consultant, 1892 to 1899 director and 1899 to 1909 general director of the NDL
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Wencke (1806–1859), shipbuilder and shipowner in Bremerhaven
  • Bernd-Artin Wessels (* 1941), Union Reederei , partner in Scipio GmbH & Co. KG and CEO of Atlanta AG .

Streets

In Bremen and Bremerhaven many streets were named after shipowners, among others

  • in Bremerhaven
    • the Bussestrasse in Geestemünde
    • Lohmannstrasse between Wiegandstrasse and H.-H.-Meyer-Strasse at Kaiserhafen I.
    • the H.-H.-Meyer-Strasse at Kaiserhafen I
    • the Lohmann dike north of the zoo by the sea
    • the Rickmersstrasse in Bremerhaven- Lehe
    • Wiegandstrasse at Kaiserhafen I.

Bremer Rhederverein

The Bremer Rhederverein was founded in 1884 on the initiative of the Bremen Chamber of Commerce as the "Association of shipowners of the Lower Weser area" by shipowners from Bremen and the Lower Weser region and has had its current name since 1918. Shipowner Hermann Henrich Meier from NDL was the first chairman of the association. The founding members included Meier u. a. the tanker Wilhelm Anton Riedemann, shipowner Christoph Hellwig Papendieck from the "Hansa", Johann Diedrich Bischoff, Johann Hermann Niemann from the "Neptun", Johann Friedrich Wessels and Victor Marcus , syndic of the Chamber of Commerce, later mayor of Bremen.

In 1907 the Central Association of German Shipowners , later the Association of German Shipowners, was founded as an association of older local shipowners' associations.

In 1984, 100 years after it was founded, the Bremer Rhederverein had 22 members and in 2014 there were 25 shipowners.

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  1. ↑ Hartmut Müller: Investigations on the Bremen shipping company in the 17th century . In: Bremisches Jahrbuch . Volume 53, 1975, pp. 94ff.
  2. ↑ Hartmut Müller: The sailing areas of the Bremen shipping companies at the end of the 18th century . In: Bremisches Jahrbuch . Volume 56, 1978, p. 41 f.
  3. ↑ Hartmut Müller: The sailing areas of the Bremen shipping companies at the end of the 18th century . In: Bremisches Jahrbuch . Volume 56, 1978, pp. 43 to 50.
  4. ↑ Schaffermahlzeit ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2015 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 / www.schaffermahlzeit.eu
  5. ↑ Günther Hörbst: The economy demands quick help for shipowners . In: Weser-Kurier of October 5, 2012, p. 21. In 2012, Bremer shipowners employed around 1,000 people on land and around 7,000 on board.
  6. ↑ Peter Hanuschke: Amazingly robust shipowners. Conclusion at the Rheder evening: Bremen is still an attractive shipping location . In: Weser-Kurier of March 16, 2014, p. 27.

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