Haeger & Schmidt

Haeger & Schmidt GmbH
legal form	GmbH
founding	1887/1920
Seat	Duisburg-Ruhrort
management	Heiko Brückner (CEO), Per Nyström (CFO)
Number of employees	around 120
sales	around € 60 million
Branch	Shipping company, inland shipping, logistics
Website	www.haegerundschmidt.com

Motor ship Schwelgern in Cologne

Haeger & Schmidt is a shipping company in Duisburg-Ruhrort that specializes in goods transport with inland waterway vessels . It belongs to the Austrian Felbermayr Group

Founders and namesake are the German merchants Robert Haeger (born August 29, 1854 in Lennep ; † December 11, 1924 in Antwerp) and Carl Schmidt (born August 25, 1857 in Cologne-Mülheim ; † around 1921 in Cologne-Mülheim). The inland shipping company was founded twice: on January 11, 1887 as a partnership in the Belgian port city of Antwerp and, at the instigation of Rheinstahl , as a GmbH in Duisburg-Ruhrort on January 5, 1920 , after Haeger & Schmidt was dissolved by the Belgian government in 1918 as a result of the First World War and the property of the owners had been confiscated.

With its own fleet of over 100 ships, chartered ships and a large number of “house particles” , Haeger & Schmidt International GmbH transports more than 10 million tons per year on all European waterways and has locations in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Belgium and Poland and Switzerland. Haeger & Schmidt is a member of the Federal Association of German Inland Shipping and the ShortSeaShipping Inland Waterway Promotion Center .

Stations in the company's history

Haeger & Schmidt loading facilities in the Vinckekanal , Südhafen

Company headquarters from 1926: Haus Ruhrort (thousand-window house)

Haeger & Schmidt was founded in 1887 as a partnership in the Belgian port city of Antwerp. In 1920 it was re-established as a GmbH in Duisburg-Ruhrort. On the same day, the shares were transferred directly to a subsidiary of Rheinische Stahlwerke . The company initially operated regionally from its headquarters and established branches in canal ports in the mining region. In Gelsenkirchen z. B. existed from 1925 to 1975 the Gelsenkirchener Transport Gesellschaft mbH in the port of Gelsenkirchen , which specialized in the handling of mining supplies (pit wood) and building materials for reconstruction after the Second World War.

In 1967, Handelsunion AG , which has been part of Thyssen AG since 1960 (from 1969 Thyssen Handelsunion AG), acquired the company. Until the end of the 1990s, the large inland shipping companies were linked to the shipping industry in terms of ownership. However, Haeger & und Schmidt did not become a company shipping company either, but operated an independent, group-wide freight acquisition. Around 12.5 million tons of cargo were transported annually. Around 70 percent of this came from third-party transactions, while the owner company contributed the remaining 30 percent. Factory traffic, in particular ore freight transports from the coast to the Ruhr area, was continued by Thyssen AG with its Amsterdam subsidiary Verhaaven. From 1990, the group bundled its inland shipping activities in Haeger & Schmidt GmbH as a 100 percent subsidiary of Thyssen Haniel Logistic (THL).

In 1998, in the course of the upcoming merger of Thyssen AG and Krupp AG to form ThyssenKrupp AG, Thyssen AG sold its transport division Thyssen Haniel Logistic GmbH to the goods transport division SNCB Logistics of the Belgian railways NMBS / SNCB , because Krupp AG already had comparable facilities with Krupp Binnenschiffahrt AG Capacities. NMBS / SNCB initially bundled their freight transport companies in ABX Logistics , and from 2008 in the newly founded subsidiary Xpedys. The shipping division sold SNCB Logistics in the course of a restructuring after high operating losses. On January 1, 2013, the inland shipping and port logistics company was sold to the Austrian Felbermayr Group. Since 2017 the company companies Haeger & Schmidt International GmbH and H&S Container Line GmbH have been operating as part of the group under the name Haeger & Schmidt Logistics GmbH, the Belgian sister company RKENV accordingly under Haeger & Schmidt Logistics Belgium NV.

literature

Adolf Börtzler: Haeger & Schmidt GmbH: 75 years of Haeger & Schmidt; Antwerp, Duisburg-Ruhrort, Hamburg; 1887-1952 ; Verlag Schünemann, Bremen 1962 (copy in the State and University Library Hamburg )
Hans-Wilhelm Dünner: Haeger & Schmidt International is celebrating its tri-modal anniversary - 125 years at home on all transport routes . In: SUT shipping and technology . 1 (February), 2013, ISSN 2190-9911 , p. 92 ff .
Portrait Haeger & Schmidt, in: yumpu.com document archive, duisport GmbH, + search function
Haeger & Schmidt celebrates 100 years in the port of Duisburg-Ruhrort