Caesar Wollheim shipyard

The Caesar-Wollheim-Werft was a shipbuilding company with an attached machine factory in Cosel (today Kozanów in Polish ), a former suburb of Wroclaw in Silesia . The shipyard belonged to the company Caesar Wollheim, shipyard and shipping company based in Wroclaw, a subsidiary of the Wroclaw trading house Caesar Wollheim . The trading house, which was founded in the middle of the 19th century by the Jewish merchant Caesar Wollheim (1814–1882), was mainly active in the coal wholesale trade. To transport the coal from the Silesian mines to Berlin, the trading company operated its own shipping company and built its own ships.

Brochure from the Caesar Wollheim shipyard

history

The shipyard was founded in 1901 as part of the shipping company. It was not until 1913 that the shipyard was organizationally separated from the shipping company. The shipbuilding company not only manufactured barges , wheeled and screw tugs , but also manufactured special vehicles, especially floating dredgers and tankers . The shipyard grew rapidly and the barges it produced were soon exported to Turkey, Russia, Brazil and East Asia. Branches were set up in Regensburg and Stettin- Stolzenhagen. Fish trawlers were also manufactured at the latter location . The headquarters in Cosel had two ship lifts and a gray foundry , a metal foundry and a forge with two hammers. Around 1,000 workers were employed there during the First World War. By 1921 the company had already produced 540 vehicles.

During the Great Depression from 1929 the shipyard had to limit itself to repairs. The company apparently suffered from the racial policy of the Third Reich and was finally shut down in March 1939.

Specialty

In 1907, two series of a total of 13 electrically powered brick transport ships with a load capacity of 200 t were built for a Berlin shipping company at the shipyard. These ships were used to supply Berlin with bricks for building houses.

In 1919 the shipyard delivered the first tugboat ( Switzerland ) for the newly founded Swiss Towing Association .

Ships preserved in museums

Johannes (1908)

Johannes , ex Schill (built in 1908), tractor, in Westzaan, the Netherlands
Helmut (built in 1925), tugboat, in the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven
Porta (year of construction 1925), bucket ladder excavator, in the LWL-Industriemuseum Altes Schiffshebewerk Henrichenburg
Crossen (built in 1928), floating gripper , in the LWL-Industriemuseum Altes Schiffshebewerk Henrichenburg

More ships

Johann Knipscheer XVIII (built in 1905), tugboat, first Basel driver on the Rhine; in service until 1945

literature

Wilhelm Treue : Caesar Wollheim and Eduard Arnhold. The history of a coal wholesaler from the middle of the 19th century to 1925. In: Tradition, magazine for company history and entrepreneurial biography, born in 1961, pp. 97–115.
Bernd Schwarz, Sigbert Zesewitz: Caesar Wollheim shipyard and shipping company Cosel near Breslau. Berlin 2011.

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Hans Renker: Steamship on the Rhine. The last wheel boats 1945–1967. Lautensack publishing house, Weiler bei Bingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-938184-06-6 .

[1] Hans Renker: Steamship on the Rhine. The last wheel boats 1945–1967. Lautensack publishing house, Weiler bei Bingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-938184-06-6 .