Gebr. Wiemann

The company Gebr. Wiemann operated a shipyard, iron foundry and machine factory in Brandenburg an der Havel from 1867 to the 1940s .

The site of the former Wiemann Brothers shipyard in Brandenburg an der Havel August 2011 with the historic harbor.

Company badge on the steam engine of the tug Gustav

Its for purse seine fishing

history

The company was founded on March 1st, 1867 by Carl Wiemann as a small locksmith's shop in Brandenburg. On July 1, 1877, the founder's brother, cloth maker Wilhelm Wiemann, joined the company as a partner. The shipyard, now trading as Gebr. Wiemann , was mainly concerned with the construction of inland vessels for the local brick industry, but also with the construction of small seagoing vessels. Extensive repairs were also carried out on ewers and inland vessels at the shipyard . In its heyday, around the beginning of the First World War, the company employed around 500 people, making it one of the larger German shipbuilding companies. Even if the main business field was smaller and inland vessels, a number of coastal freighters were built between the world wars. After the end of the Second World War , the company was incorporated into the VEB Volkswerft "Ernst Thälmann" . On October 1, 1946, the shipyard began building new Black Sea Seine ships and delivered corresponding plans to the VEB shipyard "Edgar André" in Magdeburg , which began building ships of the same type the following year. From 400 employees in 1948, the number of employees increased to 2200 by 1954. In 1962, however, the government decided to stop the shipyard because of the cramped location in the city, the lack of a rail connection and to increase the workforce urgently needed in the VEB Stahl- und Walzwerk Brandenburg . The design office was initially continued as a research and development center of the VEB shipyard "Edgar André" and then served to develop shipbuilding rationalization tools. The formerly affiliated Plaue section was taken over by VEB Schiffsreparaturwerften Berlin.

In about 15 years up to 1962, 367 ships were built in the shipyard, including 291 ocean-going vessels such as Seiner , Logger , Cutter and Sea Tugs .

^*) His are fishing vessels for purse seine fishing ; his English: purse seine.

The shipyard's ships (selection)

prefix	Surname	Construction year	former name	Remarks / scrapped / rebuilt / sold / whereabouts	image
DS	Lina Marie	1901		Built as a fish transport steamer. The cargo hold is divided by longitudinal and transverse bulkheads and is flooded through passages below the water line, which supplied the fish transported alive with fresh water.
DS	North star	1902		Coal-fired triple expansion steam engine, length: 26.37 m; Width: 5.25 m; Use as a passenger ship, approved for 50 passengers. Brandenburg on the Havel.
DS / MS	porpoise	1904		two-cylinder steam engine / marine diesel engine of the type SKL 8 NVD 36
DS	Annemarie	1906		Built for the shipping company Weisse & Schmidt, Tiefwerder.
DS	Wera	1907		Built for Otto Busch, Spandau.
MS	Cupid	1907	ex. Polecat (until 1940); ex. Niederbarnim (until 1958);	Conversion from DS to MS 1958 in Berlin, former Lessing Bridge berth , later the wreck was a few years old near the north bank of the Teltow Canal in Berlin-Grünau (formerly gravel loading point), since 2012 berth in the Brandenburg Niederhavel , from 2015 in the silo canal , former concrete plant, before 1945 Opel factory in Brandenburg . At the beginning of September 2015 it became known that the ship would be canceled.
DS	Gustav	1908	Auguste	underway in Potsdam Haveldampf-Schiffahrt
DS	Seima	1908	ex. Erwin (until 1928); ex. Martha-Frieda (until unknown); ex. Freedom (until 1947)	Operational, last known owner: Deutsche Binnenreederei AG
DS	Fortuna	1909	ex. Max (1909 until unknown); ex. Migard (1928 until unknown); ex. Coincidence (1937 until unknown); ex. Helgoland (1943 to 1974)	The steam tug is now dry as a museum ship on the bank of the headwater of the Henrichenburg ship lift in Waltrop .
DS	Fountain	1910
DS	Luise	1910		The Luise with the construction number 121 has a water displacement of 40 tons. The steam engine has been replaced by an IFA S 4000-80 HP four-cylinder four-stroke diesel EM 4-20 engine. She is 16.5 m long, 3.8 m wide and has a draft of 1.4 m. Luise is owned by the Historischer Hafen Brandenburg ad Havel e. V. and is moored in front of their former equipment quay of the Wiemann shipyard in Brandenburg an der Havel.
DS	August	1910		The steam tug is now a museum ship on the banks of the Haren-Rütenbrock Canal in the Maritime Museum in Haren (Ems) .
DS	Elbe	1911		Last river steam icebreaker in Germany, in use as a passenger ship with approval for 150 people. Built for the Prussian Elbe River Administration, deployed on the Upper Elbe, in service until 1972. Is operated today by the Förderverein Dampfeisbrecher Elbe eV. Double expansion steam engine with 230 HP. Two-flame tube boiler Christiansen and Meyer Hamburg built in 1930. Length of ship 30.30 m, width 6.50 m, draft 2.10 m
MS	Reinickendorf	1914	ex. Werner (until 1922); ex. Tirpitz (until 1945); ex. Rheingold (until 1959); ex. Seehaupt (until 1972);	Conversion to MS in 1959; momentum Reederei Bethke Berlin
DS	Sachsenwald	1914		Tugboat with passenger transport; Technical monument; Triple expansion steam engine; Length: 25.00 m; Width: 5.50 m; Draft: 1.10 m; 220 hp
MS	Uwe	1914	Furstenberg	Build number 180; Cargo steamer; 3cyl triple expansion steam engine; Length: 52.30 m; Width: 6.65 m; Draft: 2.70 m; 220 hp. 1975 rammed by cargo ship on the Elbe, wreck residues lie at Blankenese on Strand.Position of the wreck 53 ° 33 '32 "  N , 9 ° 47' 18"  O coordinates: 53 ° 33 '32 "  N , 9 ° 47' 18"  O
DS	Poseidon	1925	Snow white	The 32 m long and 5.8 m wide Poseidon was built in 1925 for the Kieck shipping company. One year after it was put into service, the Stettiner Oderwerke set up a closed deck saloon, which enabled 500 passengers to operate in winter. In 1958 the Poseidon was one of six passenger steamers that were still in operation in Berlin (West). On June 15, 1969, the Poseidon , which was then owned by the Winkler shipping company, was rammed by a Hamburg tanker in the Sacrower Enge on the Havel . Of the 145 passengers on board, 43 were injured. The Poseidon was so badly damaged that the shipping company had the wreck scrapped.
DS	Saaleck	1925		Owner: Saale-Schiffer shipping company; Length: 40.28 m; Width: 5.25 m; 280 hp; 1945 handed over to the Soviet Union.
DS	pilot	1928		Fendel and Fendel, Niederheimbach, on the move
MS	Cross ace	1929		Conversion from DS to MS 1957/58; Renovation 1982 in Haren (Ems); momentum Reederei Roderich Wolff Berlin
MS	box	1936		Icebreaker, 45 GRT, 120 t, 21.5 m long, 5.3 m wide, 375 HP, 10.5 kn, Company Sea Lion, 1945 to GB
DS	Andreas	1944		Currently (2015) not operational, historic port of Berlin.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Prefixes of ship names
2. ↑ Steamship
3. ↑ Shipping in Potsdam ( Memento of the original from December 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Beautiful Luise back home! Tugboat from 1910 for Brandenburg rescued Prussian Landbote from April 29, 2013
5. ↑ The August tugboat was launched 100 years ago . Report in the "Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung" from August 2nd, 2010
6. ^ R. Wolff shipping company

Web links

Commons : Gebr. Wiemann  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• The Wiemann shipyard in Brandenburg an der Havel
• Picture of the shipyard with a short description
• Extensive collection of data on the shipyard and Wiemann ships

literature

• Dr. Ing.Sympher , Secret Builder Soldan (Ed.): The water management of Germany and its new tasks . Volume I. Verlag von Reimar Hobbing, Berlin 1921, p. 318 .
• Gert Uwe Detlefsen: From the ewer to the container ship. The development of the German coasters . Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1983, ISBN 3-7822-0321-6 .
• Andreas Westphafen: Steamships in Germany - The last witnesses of an era . Bremen 2003, p. 95.