Gustav Wolkau
Gustav Wolkau in Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg am Reiherstieg was a shipyard that was particularly known for its port and special vehicles.
history
Initially, boats were built at the Köhlbrand site, but when they got bigger, master shipbuilder August Wolkau moved to Reiherstieg in 1860 and expanded his business. From then on he built larger boats and small ships here. It emerged initially mainly Fischewer , many Light and barges .
Gustav Wolkau took over the business in 1892 and from 1900 also built tugboats for Hapag and Hugo Stinnes, among others . The shipyard repeatedly delivered passenger steamers and motorized launches for HADAG . The Woermann Line and the German East Africa Line received many surf boats and lighters that were used in Africa. By 1911, before the shipyard delivered its first steam tug, it had built around a thousand ships without their own propulsion as well as special and port vehicles. More steam tugs followed by the First World War , and during the war mostly repair orders were carried out.
After the World War, until the Great Depression in 1929, numerous newbuildings were delivered and then, until the mid-1930s, mostly existing ships were motorized and converted. A new field of activity before the Second World War was the first Kümos Anna-Marie (construction number: 1077) created in 1937 and 1939 for H. Dieckmann from Sanddamm and Marie-Ursula (construction number: 1083) for H. Jürgensen from Hamburg.
During the Second World War, parts for submarine construction were built at the shipyard, which now had four slips . In the first post-war period, the heavily destroyed shipyard had to be cleared up again, before new buildings were built in the early 1950s and another coaster, the Conrad (hull number: 1085), for the shipowner C. Schepers based in Haren on the Ems manufactured. In the period that followed, apart from a special tanker and port ferries for HADAG, the company concentrated on building barges and other port vehicles as well as the repair business. In order to further increase the capacity in the repair sector, the slipways of the former Frank'sche Werft were leased on a long-term basis in 1956 and incorporated into operation as Plant II .
The largest ships were built at the end of the 1950s, inland tankers with 999 t for Schulte & Bruns, which were surpassed by even larger inland tankers (1450 t) in the early 1970s. The lack of orders in the new building and in the short-term repair business led to bankruptcy and in April 1975 to the closure of the company. The shipyard remained family-owned until its closure in 1975, initially by August Wolkau, then by Gustav Wolkau and by Herbert Wolkau with his wife Ida.
gallery
Anna-Marie ,
№ 1077, built in 1937
Allegro ,
formerly Marie-Ursula ,
№ 1083, built in 1939
Conrad ,
№ 1085, built in 1952
See also
Web links
- 90 years of Gustav Wolkau - report in the Hamburger Abendblatt from September 27, 1950
- Three orders for G. Wolkau - report in the Hamburger Abendblatt from February 17, 1955
literature
- 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 .