Carl Philippi

Carl Philippi (born May 9, 1843 in Frankfurt am Main , † June 21, 1906 in Magdeburg ) was a German shipowner active in inland shipping .

career

Philippi lost his parents at an early age and then came to Dresden , where, after completing his commercial training, he took up a position as authorized signatory in the renowned shipping company Lüder & Tischer. On April 28, 1875, the owner of the company, the Secret Commerce Councilor August Friedrich Lüder, appointed him head of the small shipping company "Freight Shipping Company in Dresden" (FSG) founded in 1871. There it quickly became clear to him that freight transport on the Elbe was far too cumbersome and time-consuming. The reasons for this were the lengthy customs inspections in Hamburg and on the Saxon-Bohemian or German-Austrian customs border in Schandau, as well as the many landing stages that had to be approached. So he had Elbe ships in Hamburg only loaded with cargo destined for Dresden, which considerably shortened the travel time.

On September 18, 1877, the stock corporation " Kettenschleppschiffahrt der Oberelbe " (KSO) founded by the engineer Ewald Bellingrath in 1868 acquired the FSG (including its small repair yard established in Übigau in 1873 ), which then went into liquidation and on January 1, 1878 became part of the KSO rose. Philippi became deputy director of the KSO.

One of the innovations promoted by him and Bellingrath was the introduction of freight compartments that could be locked in accordance with customs regulations, thereby avoiding the time-consuming customs inspections associated with unloading and loading at the border customs offices in Hamburg and Schandau. Philippi also acted successfully to the advantage of the Elbe boatmen with regard to various costs traditionally charged to them. So he put an end to the practice common in Dresden until 1878 that the skippers could only pay for their services 8 to 14 days after delivery of the goods and the waybill, and he introduced the payment of freight when the waybill was handed over. In order to settle disputes arising from this, he set up arbitration courts with representatives from trade and shipping. From 1879 , a court case he was running about the deterioration in the quality of grain during river transport ended the often unjustified claims due to the natural deterioration in the quality of grain loads. He also succeeded in shifting various ancillary costs from the boatmen to their customers, such as B. the unloading costs and the costs of delivering and loading the freight from ocean-going vessels to Elbe ships and vice versa. In addition, he was intensively involved in the creation of orderly legal relationships for inland navigation, such as the drafting of the inland navigation regulations and the law on the private law relationships of inland navigation and rafting, and in 1893 as a member of the expert commission for the assessment of the draft of the inland navigation law.

After the KSO had taken over the "Elb-Dampfschiffahrts-Gesellschaft in Dresden" in October 1881 and the "United Hamburg-Magdeburger Dampfschiffahrts-Compagnie" on January 1, 1882, it was renamed "Ketten - Deutsche Elbschiffahrts-Gesellschaft" and Philippi became a member of their board. After Bellingrath's resignation as its general director , Philippi was appointed general director of the "chain" on January 1, 1903. In April 1903, he was the long-time chairman of the “Licensed Saxon Shipmen's Association” and was given the title of “Royal Councilor of Commerce”.

When the "chain" merged into the "United Elbe Shipping Companies" on January 1, 1904, Philippi resigned as general director and was instead appointed to the supervisory board of the new company.

He died, a member of the Royal Prussian Elbe Shipping Commission, on June 21, 1906 in Magdeburg during an electricity trip organized by the commission.

Footnotes

1. ↑ The shipyard was then considerably expanded and upgraded and became a leading inland shipbuilding facility in Germany with around 1200 employees.

literature

• Yearbook of the Shipbuilding Society , Seventh Volume , Springer-Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg, 1906, pp. 93–96 (Reprint ISBN 978-3-642-47096-7 ; eBook ISBN 978-3-642-47334-0 )
• Carl Jahnel & Carl Philippi: The licensed Saxon boatmen's association in the years 1846–1895. Festschrift for the 50th anniversary celebration on January 3rd, 1896. Dresden, 1896.