Germany (ship, 1942)
 The Germany in the industrial port of Königs-Wusterhausen.
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The passenger ship Deutschland was built in 1942 as a steamship at the Winkler brothers' shipyard in the rural municipality of Kalkberge on the Rüdersdorfer waters .
history
With the beginning of the Second World War , especially in Berlin, all motor ships were shut down in order to save fuel. A modest excursion traffic could initially be maintained with steamers, but these trips also decreased more and more and were finally stopped. Many ships now served semi-military purposes. They were used as fire boats , living and transport ships for forced laborers or office ships. The Air Force Treasury claimed, among other things, Germany (built in 1930) owned by the Winkler shipping company. This steamship, a sister ship of the Tempo , was built in the family's own shipyard in Kalkberge for their own account. It was approved for 330 passengers and was assigned to the Speer transport fleet. During the retreat of the Wehrmacht , the ship was blown up and sunk on the Dnepr .
The shipyard Gebr. Winkler received the approval to build a tug to replace the lost ship . The keel was laid in the autumn of 1941 and the launch was in the spring of 1942. The originally planned drive by a diesel engine could not be implemented. But the shipyard had the from the yard of the Gebr. Wiemann built in Brandenburg tractors Oskar Wankel III -developed triple-expansion steam engine . This steam engine developed around 250 hp . The ship was never used as a tugboat. At the end of the war it was in Berlin's Westhafen , where it was used as a residential ship.
On the instructions of the authorities of the Soviet sector of Berlin, it had to be transferred to the eastern part of the city. After extensive renovation work in Kalkberge, the Deutschland returned to service as a passenger ship in 1950. It was used in particular from the Jannowitzbrücke to destinations on the Oberspree and Dahme . In the spring of 1953 the Gebr. Winkler company relocated with Germany to Berlin (West). The commitment in the western sectors provoked resistance from the long-established entrepreneurs in the west of the city, so that the Berlin Senate had to intervene.
The ship
The hull was originally built using rivets. During the numerous renovations, a large part of the hull was re-welded. The superstructures, initially partly made of wood, were changed several times. The steamer chimney was removed during the conversion to a motor ship. The Germany was from 1953 to 1957 with a then-length of 37.54 meters, a width of 6.68 meters and a maximum capacity of 500 passengers, the largest passenger ship in the western part of Berlin. It was still powered by the steam engine. It was not until 1962 that the ship of the company, now called Reederei Winkler, was converted to diesel propulsion. After the sale in 1997, the Malz shipyard was converted. In 1997, the chimney was rebuilt on the ship as a dummy in order to approximate the former ship's silhouette. The ship has been used as a fixed restaurant ship on Lake Tegel since 2004 . The last known owner is the shipping company M. Bethke, Berlin.
The ship has been lying in the southwestern end of the industrial port of Königs Wusterhausen since 2009 at the earliest and 2012 at the latest (comparison on GoogleEarth). It is buoyant but outwardly in poor condition.
literature
- Dieter Schubert: German inland passenger ships. Illustrated register of ships. Uwe Welz Verlag Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-933177-10-3
- Kurt Groggert: Passenger shipping on the Havel and Spree . Berlin contributions to the history of technology and industrial culture, Vol. 10, Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-7759-0153-1
- Dieter and Helga Schubert: Passenger shipping in Berlin . In the series: pictures of shipping . Sutton-Verlag , Erfurt 2007, ISBN 978-3-86680-120-2
