Hans Jacob Jebsen

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Hans Jacob Jebsen (born June 27, 1921 in Kiel ; † May 4, 1979 Aabenraa ) was a German shipowner and entrepreneur .

life and work

Hans Jacob Jebsen grew up in Aabenraa and attended the German grammar school there, in order to complete an apprenticeship at the Oldenburg-Portuguese steamship shipping company in Hamburg after having passed the Abitur . During the Second World War, another shipping training followed at the shipping office Hans Petersen & Co in Gdansk . After completing his apprenticeship, Jebsen studied economics at the University of Hamburg . He experienced the end of the war and the German occupation of Denmark at home in Aabenraa. In 1947 he traveled with his cousin Arwed Peter Jessen on the motor ship Manchuria of the Danish shipping company Det Østasiatiske Kompagni (East Asiatic Company) to Hong Kong , where, after a brief familiarization period, he took over the management of the Hong Kong department of Jebsen & Co. until his older brother Michael Jebsen moved the company's headquarters back from Shanghai to Hong Kong in 1950 and took over management of the company. In the following years, the two Jebsen brothers and Arwed Peter Jessen took turns in the management. The shipbuilding and shipping operations were essentially the responsibility of Hans Jacob Jebsen. He supervised the completion of the new ships Clara Jebsen and Kaethe Jebsen , which had been commissioned at the Nobiskrug shipyard in Rendsburg, and were launched and tested in the home port of Aabenraa in 1959. The Jebsen shipping company had its last new ship, the Carl Offersen , built in 1966 at the Rickmers shipyard in Bremerhaven, and here, too, planning and supervision were in the hands of Hans Jacob Jebsen. In 1969 Hans Jacob Jebsen moved back to Aabenraa, where he managed the planning and construction of the new buildings for the shipping company M. Jebsen in his hometown. In addition, the focus of his activities was on supporting the Hong Kong company's representations in the western industrialized nations. Hans Jacob Jebsen was his first wife Juliane Grün, widowed Ahlmann . From this marriage comes Hans Michael Jebsen , the current owner and CEO of Jebsen & Co. He had four children with Doris Heckmann, whom he married for the second time, the sons Christian and Markus and the daughters Amelie and Irmela. Hans Jacob Jebsen made his last trip to Hong Kong in 1978. At the end of the year he returned to Aabenraa, seriously ill. He died in May of the following year 1979. Following the family tradition, Hans Jacob Jebsen campaigned intensively for the interests of the German minority in North Schleswig and, in the absence of his brother Michael, as deputy chairman, took care of the interests of the Knivsbergsberg Society . The development of the German school system in North Schleswig was also very important to him.

swell

  • Nekrolog in Deutscher Volkskalender Nordschleswig, year 1980, p. 116

literature

  • Emma von Hassel: Michael Jebsen. The life of the ship owner Michael Jebsen and the chronicle of his ancestors. Self-published, Aabenraa 1953
  • Adolf von Hänisch: Jebsen & Co. Hong Kong - China trade through the ages 1895–1945. Self-published, Aabenraa 1970
  • 100 years of the Knivsberg Festival . Special supplement. In: Der Nordschleswiger - The German daily newspaper in Denmark , 49th volume, No. 133 from June 11, 1994
  • Dieter von Hanselmann, Jebsen & Co. LTD, Hong Kong: the company's history from 1945 to the present, self-published, Aabenraa 1989,
  • Harboe Kardel : Knivsbergfeste-Knivsbergspiele. 1971
  • Nis-Edwin List-Petersen : Jugendhof Knivsberg. Educational facility of the German Youth Association for North Schleswig. Husum Printing and Publishing Company, 1982
  • Jürgen Ostwald (ed.): The Knivsberg. 100 years of the German meeting place in North Schleswig Westholsteinische Verlagsanstalt Boyens & Co, Heide, 1994
  • Günter Weitling , Jebsen & Co. in China in Gerd Stolz and Günter Weitling, North Schleswig - Landscape-People-Culture, p. 183ff., Husum 2005

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personal data
SURNAME Jebsen, Hans Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German shipowner, Danish shipowner, German entrepreneur, Danish entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH 4th May 1979
Place of death Aabenraa