Dieter Petram

Dieter Petram (born July 6, 1951 ) is a German entrepreneur from Bremerhaven .

education

Petram completed an apprenticeship as a yacht and boat builder and then began studying shipbuilding at the Bremerhaven University of Applied Sciences .

Entrepreneurial activity

In 2017, the Weser Kurier , together with its business partners, the Rönner family , described Petram as "people who have been shaping the shipyard scene in Bremerhaven for years".

Bremerhaven

Ship repair business

At the age of 21, Petram broke off his studies to take over his father's metalworking business in Lemwerder after the death of his father . A little later he began to acquire orders in the field of ship repairs and ship conversions in Bremerhaven . These were gradually expanded. This resulted in his first participation in Bredo Dockgesellschaft mbH , founded in 1986 , which had emerged from the dock operations of the former Seebeck shipyard . Here he gradually acquired the majority. In 1994, together with partners, he took over the former state-owned MWB Motorenwerke Bremerhaven and later shares in Rickmers-Lloyd Dockbetrieb GmbH & Co. KG .

Petram gradually created a shipyard network from the three repair yards Bredo, MWB and Rickmers-Lloyd. 2013 arose from the MET and Rickmers-Llyod the German Dry Docks AG , which in 2017 with the former Bredo and in Cuxhaven based Mützelfeldtwerft to a group of companies together, the legally independent company under the name Bredo Dry Docks act together on the market, so To be able to use synergy effects.

In July 2019, Petram sold all of its shipbuilding activities in Bremerhaven ( Bredo Dry Docks , German Dry Docks and German Ship Repair ) to the Rönner Group, but continued to own the company premises, which are rented or leased to the shipyards.

Ship new build business

In 2010 Petram joined the Bremerhaven-based Lloyd-Werft and gradually expanded his stake to a majority stake before he sold the shares to the Genting Group in 2015 .

Petram Stahl- und Wasserbau in Brake , which is also part of the Petram Group, was active in the new construction business. For example, the coaster “Zusanna” (1,150 tdw) was built there in 1982 .

property

In addition to his shipbuilding commitment, Petram is also active in the real estate sector in his home town of Bremerhaven . He is of the opinion that Bremerhaven does not have sufficient adequate housing. Petram's real estate portfolio includes a. the Bremerhaven golf course

Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania / Saxony-Anhalt

In the course of the privatization of the former GDR companies , Petram acquired two shipyards from the former GDR state owned by the Treuhandanstalt (THA): in 1993 the Elbewerft Boizenburg (EWB) and in 1994 the Roßlauer Schiffswerft . At a purchase price of 1 D-Mark, a total of around 450 million D-Marks flowed into subsidies and aid for the Elbe shipyard.

The Elbe shipyard filed for bankruptcy in 1997. The works council of the Elbe shipyard accused Petram of illegally pulling several million D-Marks out of the company. The then Mecklenburg- Western Pomerania Minister of Economics, Jürgen Seidel , saw no signs of Petram's criminal activities. In order to secure orders, the Elbe shipyard was granted a financial injection of 2.6 million D-Marks by the Treuhand successor organization, the Federal Agency for Unification-Related Special Tasks , for which the BvS wanted to take recourse to Petram.

Petram's involvement with the Elbe shipyard was the subject of investigation in 1998 by a parliamentary committee of inquiry whose task it was to clarify "how investment aid and subsidies could be used inappropriately and what responsibilities lay with the federal government and the THA / BvS". In the final report of the committee of inquiry it was found that "at no point in time" was there any reason to assume illegal capital withdrawals. "All entrepreneurial decisions of the shareholders and managing directors of EWB regarding a cooperation between EWB and the companies of the Petram Group would have been made even if they had not been related companies. The BvS found that EWB's difficulties were caused by management errors and the difficult situation in the shipbuilding industry. ”A monthly consultancy fee personally paid to Petram was also appropriate,“ as Petram provided both consulting services and in the acquisition area had been active ".

Petram sold the shipyard in Roßlau to the Rönner Group in the 1990s.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Commercial register at the Bremen District Court, HRB 5101
2. ↑ ^{a b} "Recognizing the opportunity in a crisis" , interview from October 9, 2018 with Petram on bremerhaven.de, accessed on July 6, 2019
3. ↑ ^{a b} "Neue Werften-Allianz" , Weser Kurier from January 11, 2017, accessed on July 6, 2019
4. ↑ Petram sells shipyard business to Rönner Group , Die Welt from July 24, 2019, accessed on July 30, 2019
5. ↑ Shipyard Monopoly on the Weser . In: Hansa , issue 9/2019, p. 60
6. ↑ "Recognizing the opportunity in a crisis" , ship data on balticshipping.com, accessed on July 10, 2019
7. ↑ Investor Petram wants to set an example in Geestemünde with a high-rise , on nord24.de from June 12, 2018, accessed on July 6, 2019
8. ↑ Have a coffee with: Dieter Petram , Business People Magazin, October 9, 2018.
9. ↑ Investor Petram buys the golf course in Bremerhaven , nord24 from July 4, 2018.
10. ^ Rescue maneuvers for the "small volcano case" , Der Tagesspiegel of June 1, 1997.
11. ↑ But shipbuilding comes to an end after 128 years , Neues Deutschland from February 17, 1994.
12. ↑ Die Treuhand: How an authority abolished an entire country , Author: Klaus Behling , Edition Berolina, ISBN 9783958415171
13. ↑ Control of Privatization - An Analysis of the Control Structures of the Privatization of the East German Shipyard and Steel Industry 1990–1994 , Author: Jörg Raab, Springer VS, ISBN 978-3-322-87340-8 , page 143
14. ↑ Grace period for Elbewerft Boizenburg , Der Tagesspiegel of August 14, 1997
15. ^ Elbewerft Boizenburg receives liquidity assistance from the BvS , Berliner Zeitung of May 27, 1997
16. ↑ Printed matter 13/10900 of the German Bundestag: Final report of the 2nd committee of inquiry, May 28, 1998, pages 282 ff.