Elsflether shipyard

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Elsflether Werft AG

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legal form Corporation
founding 1916
resolution 2019
Seat Elsfleth , GermanyGermanyGermany 
management Pieter Wasmuth (Chairman of the Supervisory Board)
Axel Birk (Chairman of the Management Board)
Number of employees 115 (average)
sales € 41.9 million
Branch shipyard
Website elsflether-werft.de
As of December 31, 2016

View of the Elsflether shipyard

The Elsflether Werft AG was a shipyard in Elsfleth . The shipyard was located on the Hunte just above the Huntes barrier at the confluence with the Weser . The company has now been dissolved.

history

Share for RM 100 in Elsflether Werft AG from November 1928

The shipyard was founded on October 2, 1916 by the shipbuilding engineer Franz Peuss as a stock corporation . The purpose of the business was shipbuilding and repair. The company opened on May 14, 1918. From 1920 to 1964 the focus was on the construction of new ships and a very wide range of new constructions was created.

After initially only repairs had been carried out, Elsflether Werft AG delivered a newbuild with a motor launch for the first time in 1920 . The twelve-meter-long ship went to a Danish shipping company and was given hull number 2 (hull number 1 was not assigned out of superstition). The next new buildings followed in 1921 and 1922 respectively, the steam loggers Mime and Fasolt for the Visurgis herring fishery in Nordenham . In 1922 the shipyard delivered six Penish and three Campine barges as reparations to Belgium and France. In addition, mainly barges and barges were built in the early 1920s , which went to Denmark, South America and Africa, among others. On September 2, 1924, several buildings in the shipyard were destroyed by a major fire. Reconstruction began that same year, so production only had to be briefly interrupted. From 1926 to 1928 the Bremen company A. Held received twenty vehicles, mainly freight and animal transport lighters, which were intended for export to Colombia . In addition, barges were also delivered to the Portuguese colony of Mozambique . In 1928, the shipyard built its first motorized tractor, the Ahrensburg .

In the 1930s, passenger ships , motorized goods ships for inland navigation , motor yachts , tour boats were built, torpedo boats and barrier breakers in World War II, and after the war Kümos , tankers , supply companies , patrol boats , container ships and buoy layers . The cruise liner Lili Marleen received international attention and was delivered to the Peter Deilmann shipping company in 1994 as the last new build in the shipyard with hull number 417 . A total of 275 newbuildings left the shipyard .

Bankruptcy 1994 and start-up

In 1994 the company had to file for bankruptcy. In 1996 the shipyard was re-established and restructured. The re-establishment took place under the name Elsflether Werft GmbH & Co. KG with the capital investment company Castor of the Hamburg shipping company Rohden, a long-term shipyard customer. Business activities were resumed with all 93 employees on the 150,000 m² shipyard area. Since then, the offers have included repair and conversion work on seagoing and inland waterway vessels as well as service work, provision of personnel at home and abroad and also revision work on nuclear power plants throughout Germany.

In 2008 the company was converted into a stock corporation . This was entered in the commercial register on December 3, 2008 as EW Elsflether Werft AG . The shipyard's shares were later transferred to the Sky Foundation, which became the owner of the shipyard.

In May 2017, the company leased the site of the former Lühring shipyard in Brake for 15 years in order to set up a branch there. The site is also to be used to set up a repair shop with up to two floating docks and a lift to circumvent draft restrictions at the parent shipyard in Elsfleth.

Restoration of the Gorch Fock and bankruptcy 2019

In 2016 the Elsflether shipyard was commissioned with the general overhaul of the Gorch Fock, which was commissioned in 1958 . Initially estimated at around 10 million euros , the costs for the complete restoration of the ship in the course of 2018 were estimated at a total of up to 135 million euros. At the beginning of January 2019, 69 million euros had already been spent on renovating the ship.

In January 2019, the Hamburg judicial authority dismissed the board of directors of the Sky Foundation, which owns the Elsflether shipyard. The board is accused of breach of duty to the detriment of the shipyard. The Hamburg public prosecutor's office started an investigation. An employee of the Wilhelmshaven naval arsenal is also being investigated on suspicion of corruption. He is said to have received money for contracts with the cooperation of the board of the Sky Foundation. In this context, the management of the shipyard was replaced at the end of January. The two new managing directors wanted to submit an offer to the Ministry of Defense for the final refurbishment of Gorch Fock in February 2019 . In February 2019 it was also announced that the Elsflether shipyard has had outstanding outstanding amounts in the tens of millions for several months. On February 20, 2019, the company filed for insolvency proceedings in self-administration . In mid-2019, the claims that are asserted in the insolvency proceedings were 36 million euros.

At the end of October 2019, the Elsflether shipyard was bought by the Lürssen shipyard . According to the creditors' committee, Lürssen paid EUR 3.57 million for the insolvent shipyard with 130 employees. In April 2020, Lürssen announced that it wanted to close the Elsflether shipyard in the same year because the location was not considered sustainable.

Elsflether Repair Werft GmbH, registered at the Bremen District Court HRB 19714, is now working at the former address of Elsflether Werft Am Tidehafen 3, 26931 Elsfleth.

Orders, conversions, shipyard equipment

View of the slipways from the land side
Halls and slipways from the water side

There is a framework agreement with DB AutoZug GmbH for the maintenance and implementation of the necessary repairs on the passenger ships to Wangerooge . 80 percent of the orders at Elsflether Werft come from the German armed forces.

In addition to a 420 m long quay, the shipyard has three slipways and four cranes . Ships with a maximum length of up to 105 m and a maximum width of up to 14.9 m and a maximum weight load of up to 2,150 t can be processed here.

In 2014, after an investment of around 3½ million euros, the new assembly hall, 120 m long and 25 m wide, was inaugurated, in which the metalworking shop , pipe workshop, lathe shop and shipbuilding workshop moved.

The roof of the hall has now been covered with solar cells for sustainable power generation. The silting of the port basin on the shipyard side was also one of the necessary environmental measures. Since the silt was contaminated with tributyltin hydride from the ship's paint, it was disposed of in special landfills. Further renovations, renovations and modernizations were carried out on the offices, the dormitory, the shipyard streets, parking and storage areas.

Construction list

New buildings (selection)

  • Pippilotta (schooner, delivered in 1933 as herring logger Erika )
  • Weser (tender, delivered in 1962)
  • Mellum (multi-purpose ship, delivered in 1983)
  • Siderfly (cargo ship, delivered in 1984 as Borgfeld )
  • Bredstedt (patrol ship, delivered in 1989)
  • Lili Marleen (cruise ship, delivered in 1994)

Repairs and modifications (excerpt)

Musicals at the Elsflether shipyard

Between 2001 and 2006, theater performances took place at the Elsflether shipyard in the summer months. The idea for this came from Elsfleth's captain and shipowner Horst Werner Janssen . The performances were staged in cooperation with the Oldenburg State Theater .

Were listed

photos

  • Barge on the launching trolley

  • Shipyard pier with the Altmark residential ship and Hegemann IV suction dredger

  • Wood workshops

  • Mechanical engineering workshop

  • Training workshop

literature

  • Jens Schmeyers, Susanne Wiechmann: 100 years of Elsflether shipyard . Carl-Schünemann-Verlag, Bremen, 2016, ISBN 978-3-96047-003-8 .
  • Reinhart Schmelzkopf: The Elsflether Werft AG In: Strandgut 45: Materials for shipping history , self-published / Schmelzkopf, Cuxhaven 1999, pp. 117-136.
  • Horst Adamitz: tides of shipping . Verlag H. Saade, Bremen, ISBN 3-922642-09-8 .
  • 100 years of shipping, shipbuilding, ports . Shipping publishing house "Hansa", Hamburg 1964.

Web links

Commons : Elsflether Werft  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Gorch Fock" renovation: Board of Elsflether Werft AG dismissed , Weser-Kurier, January 30, 2019. Retrieved on February 1 of 2019.
  2. ↑ Annual financial statements as of December 31, 2016 in the eBundesanzeiger
  3. ↑ Announcement of the Oldenburg District Court HRB 202754 on May 9, 2019
  4. ↑ Jens Schmeyers, Susanne Wiechmann: 100 years Elsflether Werft , Carl-Schünemann-Verlag, pages 158-168.
  5. ↑ Jens Schmeyers, Susanne Wiechmann: 100 Years Elsflether Werft , Carl-Schünemann-Verlag, page 105.
  6. ↑ Success as a specialist in urgent cases , Die Welt (accessed on March 8, 2011)
  7. ↑ Evelyn Eischeid: The last ship is called “Retirement” , Nordwest-Zeitung , November 26, 2011, accessed on October 24, 2016.
  8. ↑ Torsten Wewer: Kurz is already dreaming of Gorch Fock , Nordwest-Zeitung, May 13, 2017, accessed on February 28, 2018.
  9. ↑ Peter Kleinort: Elsflether shipyard expands to Brake . Daily port report , February 27, 2018.
  10. ↑ Gorch Fock: Elsflether Werft seeks insolvency under self-administration. buten and inside . Radio Bremen , February 19, 2019, accessed on February 20, 2019 .
  11. ^ Frank Behling: Elsflether Werft files for bankruptcy. Kieler Nachrichten , February 20, 2019, accessed on February 20, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Krischan Förster: "Gorch Fock" brings Elsflether Werft into bankruptcy. ( Memento from February 20, 2019 in the Internet Archive ) Hansa - International Maritime Journal , February 20, 2019.
  13. ↑ Insolvency: Elsflether Werft is self-administered. NDR, May 2, 2019, accessed on May 5, 2019 .
  14. ^ Matthias Gebauer, Hubert Gude: Final discount . In: Der Spiegel . No. 25 , 2019, pp. 39 ( online - June 15, 2019 ).
  15. ↑ Florian Schwiegershausen, Friedemann Kohler: Bremen Lürssen shipyard buys "Gorch-Fock" renovators. Weser-Kurier, October 28, 2019, accessed on October 28, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Eckhard-Herbert Arndt: Elsflether Werft: Lürssen pays 3.5 million euros . Daily port report of October 29, 2019, p. 3
  17. ↑ Elsflether shipyard closes this year. NDR, April 8, 2020, accessed April 8, 2020 .
  18. ↑ Announcement of the Bremen District Court HRB 19714 HB on December 3, 2019
  19. ^ Felix Frerichs: The captain disembarks , Nordwest-Zeitung, September 21, 2011, accessed on October 24, 2016.
  20. ↑ Jens Schmeyers, Susanne Wiechmann: 100 Years Elsflether Werft , Carl-Schünemann-Verlag, page 122.
  21. ↑ NWZ online, Things are looking up again at Elsflether Werft , March 16, 2019, accessed on December 15, 2019

Coordinates: 53 ° 13 ′ 37 ″  N , 8 ° 27 ′ 45 ″  E