Georg Wilhelm Claussen (shipbuilder)

Georg Wilhelm Claussen (born January 23, 1845 in Bremerhaven ; † June 19, 1919 there ) was a German shipbuilder.

biography

The full ship Prussia with 5 masts was designed by Claussen

Family grave of Georg Wilhelm Claussen in the Lehe I cemetery in Bremerhaven

Claussen was the son of the freight forwarder Georg Wilhelm Claussen (1808–1869) in Bremerhaven. He trained as a carpenter at the Tecklenborg shipyard . From 1865 to 1869 he worked in the stronghold of iron shipbuilding in Scotland , where he worked as a draftsman and designer for the Caird & Company shipyard . In 1869 he resumed his work at Joh. C. Tecklenborg . In 1872 he became authorized signatory with Eduard Tecklenborg , in 1873 technical director and in 1876 a partner in the shipyard. He realized that it was necessary to switch to iron shipbuilding and that the company could not continue to grow on the Bremerhaven site that had been used up until then. In 1881 the company was therefore relocated to Geestemünde .

As technical manager, Claussen made the transition from a wooden to an iron ship - and to steel shipbuilding at the Tecklenborg shipyard. The last four- and five-masted steel barges were built near Tecklenborg . Claussen was of the opinion that, despite the higher speed of steamships, well-equipped sailing ships would be competitive on certain lines with the appropriate cargo.
From 1906 Eduard Tecklenborg and Claussen formed the board of directors of the shipyard, which was converted into a stock corporation in 1897 .

Georg Wilhelm Claussen was buried in the Lehe I cemetery in Bremerhaven. The large black granite tomb is adorned with a white figure of Jesus (coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 54.3 ″  N , 8 ° 35 ′ 50.9 ″  E ).

Honors

• Dr. Ing. E. h. of the Technical University of Charlottenburg
• Honorary Citizen of Geestemünde (1919)
• Honorary member of the Shipbuilding Society (STG)
• Claussenstraße in Geestemünde-Nord (access to the Tecklenborg shipyard / naval school)
• Memorial plaque on the researcher mile (2015)

literature

• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
• Benno Eide Siebs : Claussen, Georg Wilhelm. In: Historical Society Bremen, State Archive Bremen (Ed.): Bremische Biographie 1912–1962. Hauschild, Bremen 1969, p. 95 (column 2) to p. 96 (column 1).
• Benno Eide Siebs:  Claussen, Georg Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 264 ( digitized version ).
• Eike Lehmann: 100 Years of the Shipbuilding Society . Springer-Verlag, Berlin, ISBN 3-540-64150-5 , pp. 86 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Claussenstrasse

Web links

• The Tecklenborg shipyard on the website of the Historisches Museum Bremerhaven