German sailing ship office

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The German Glider-Kontor GmbH was a pool of sailing ship - cruise lines for the processing of reparations .

After the end of the First World War , the German Reich had to pay reparations. This also included all sailing ships owned by the company's own shipping companies, provided they were larger than 1,600 GRT. The Reparations Commission negotiated the distribution of the ships to the victorious powers.

Since the beginning of the war in 1914, 57 German sailing ships have been detained in Chile. After the end of the war, these ships had to be brought back to Germany so that they could be handed over to the Allies . The German shipowners managed to have these ships manned by German crews in order to sail them back to Europe. The steamer Lucie Woermann of the Woermann Line and the four-masted barque Priwall of the F. Laeisz shipping company brought seafarers from Germany to Chile to manned the sailors.

The sailing ships interned in Chile were loaded again with Chile nitrate , which the German shipowners were allowed to ship to Europe on their own account.

Shareholder

  • F. Laeisz, Hamburg with the four-masted barques Pamir , Parma , Passat , Beijing , Perkeo , Petschili , Pola , Pommern , Ponape and Priwall and the full ships Pelikan and Pinnas
  • GJH Siemers & Co. , Hamburg with the four-masted barques Edmund and Herbert
  • Knöhr & Burchard Nfl., Hamburg with the four-masted barque Jersbek , the barque Osterbek and the full ship Tarpenbek
  • HH Schmidt, Hamburg with the four-masted barques Carla, Henriette and Lisbeth and the full ships Marie and Mimi
  • Reederei AG from 1896, Hamburg with the four-masted barques Oceana, Olympia, Onda and Ophelia and the full ships Omaha and Ostara
  • FA Vinnen & Co. , Bremen with the four-masted barques Barthold Vinnen and Magdalene Vinnen 1
  • Carl Joh. Klingenberg , Bremen with the full ship Hansa ex Wellgunde , this ship was in Hamburg at the end of the First World War

literature

  • The albatross. Issue 3, 1977, ISSN  0516-5016 , p. 62.
  • Hans Blöss: Citizen of the oceans and seas. From cabin boy to captain and pilot. Schmidt et al. Klaunig, Kiel 1968.
  • Arnold Kludas (Red.): Stalling's maritime yearbook 1975/1976. G. Stalling, Oldenburg 1975, ISBN 3-7979-1857-7 .
  • Hans Warns: The strange journey of the sailor “Herbert”. From 1914 to 1921. Edition Temmen, Bremen 1992, ISBN 3-86108-119-9 .
  • Frederick D. Wilhelmsen: Omega. Last of the Barques. Newman, Westminster MD 1956.

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