Gustav-Koenigs-Schiff

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The type of ship Gustav Koenigs is one of five after the Second World War as a self-drive developed types of ships of the German inland navigation.

history

In the time after the Second World War, a large part of the units destroyed or damaged in the war had to be replaced in German inland navigation. To this end the Technical Committee took Central Association of German inland waterways his interrupted during the war back to work and developed in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Transport different to certain channel dimensions adapted standard ship types . The self-propelled committee (a subcommittee of the technical committee), under the leadership of chairman Ernst Weber, continued the interrupted pre-war work on the further development of the Dortmund-Ems canal boat , which measures 67 meters in length, 8.2 meters in width and 2.5 meters The draft was based on depth. In collaboration with the shipyard owner Theodor Hitzler whose concern was the typing of inland waterway vessels, the engineer Friedrich Kölln, who took over the design, and engineer helmet the Hamburg Ship Model Basin , who led the towing tests, the self-propelled Committee developed the type of Gustav Koenigs Ship. The ships were built as dry freighters and tankers and were canal-accessible. The carrying capacity of the ships was between 600 and 1000 tons. Over the years, many Gustav Koenigs ships were motorized more strongly and lengthened to around 80 meters, which increased the loading capacity to around 1200 tons.

Naming

The Gustav Koenigs ship was named after Gustav Koenigs . From 1909 to 1917 Koenigs was a government assessor and councilor in Blumenthal , Düsseldorf and Nauen and from 1920 a secret councilor in the Prussian Ministry of Public Works. From 1920 he headed the transport department in the Reich Ministry of Transport and worked there as State Secretary for inland shipping. For his services he received an honorary membership in the Central Association of German Inland Shipping .

literature

  • H. Burmester: The German inland navigation in the course of modern technical development . In: Journal for Inland Shipping . Vol. 84, No. October 10 , 1958, p. 393-401 .
  • Heinz Rudolph: "Gustav Koenigs" type motor cargo ships for West German shipowners . In: Shipbuilding Technology . Vol. 9, No. 7 , July 1959, p. 364-368 .