Steamship company for the Lower and Middle Rhine

Company share (1836)

The company's headquarters at Berger Ufer 1 in Düsseldorf

Postcard of the DGNM Drachenfels with the mountain of the same name (1916)

The steam shipping company for the Lower and Middle Rhine ( DGNM ) was a stock corporation founded in 1836 with its headquarters in Düsseldorf . The company operated steamboat shipping on the Rhine between Mannheim and Rotterdam. The company was listed on the stock exchange in the 19th century and merged with the Cologne-Düsseldorf Deutsche Rheinschiffahrt .

history

The Aktiengesellschaft Dampfschiffahrts-Gesellschaft für die Nieder- und Mittelrhein zu Düsseldorf was granted a license on September 22, 1836 for an indefinite period. Daniel von der Heydt was one of the founders . The share capital had a nominal value of 550,000 thalers and was divided into 2,750 shares of 200 thalers each. The share was listed on the Cologne stock exchange. In 1868 the company had gross income of 303,000 thalers with a net profit of 71,000 thalers.

In 1853, the company merged with the Prussian-Rhenish Steamship Company, founded in 1826, to form a joint venture to coordinate regular services. In terms of company law, the companies remained separate for the time being. This merger forms the origin of today's Cologne-Düsseldorf Deutsche Rheinschiffahrt AG.

Long-term director of the company until his death was the engineer Karl Dietze (1824-1896).

Company headquarters

The company's management building, which no longer exists today, was located at Berger Ufer 1 (after 1945 Mannesmannufer) in Düsseldorf. The house built by Klein & Dörschel in 1898 was listed in a contemporary publication by the Düsseldorf Architects and Engineers' Association as an example of "commercial buildings for special branches of business".

The caretaker's apartment and registry were located in the basement. The registry was connected by a staircase to the large office on the main floor. In addition, the meeting room for the board of directors and the offices of the two board officials were also to be found on the main floor. The director's apartment was on the upper floor.

The main viewing side of the corner building with a bay tower faced the Rhine. The building, clad with a clinker brick facade, was in the historicist style of the Nordic Renaissance . The architectural divisions were made "in free Renaissance forms of sandstone".

Web links

Early documents and newspaper articles on the Steamship Society for the Lower and Middle Rhine in the 20th Century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .

Individual evidence

^ Prussian Steamship Corporation . In: Zeitschrift für Kapital und Rente , 6th year 1870, p. 45.
^ Anton Bettelheim (Ed.): Biographisches Jahrbuch und Deutscher Nekrolog. Volume 3, Georg Reimer, Berlin 1900. (Appendix "List of Deaths 1896", X. (Architects and Engineers), Column 82)
^ ^A ^b Architects and Engineers Association in Düsseldorf (ed.): Düsseldorf and its buildings. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, p. 354. (Reprinted by Grupello-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1990, ISBN 978-3-92823400-9 .)

History of passenger shipping on the Rhine

[1] Prussian Steamship Corporation . In: Zeitschrift für Kapital und Rente , 6th year 1870, p. 45.

[2] Anton Bettelheim (Ed.): Biographisches Jahrbuch und Deutscher Nekrolog. Volume 3, Georg Reimer, Berlin 1900. (Appendix "List of Deaths 1896", X. (Architects and Engineers), Column 82)

[AIV_354-3] A ^b Architects and Engineers Association in Düsseldorf (ed.): Düsseldorf and its buildings. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, p. 354. (Reprinted by Grupello-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1990, ISBN 978-3-92823400-9 .)