Hanseatic shipping company Emil Offen & Co.
The Hanseatic shipping company Emil Offen & Co. in Hamburg was a German shipping company . It existed from 1926 to 1966.
history
The shipowner Emil Claus Offen was born in Hoisdorf near Hamburg in 1887. At the age of 14 he started an apprenticeship at the sailing ship company GJH Siemers & Co. as a ship broker. In 1926 he founded the Hanseatische Reederei AG and acquired four ships from the bankrupt shipping company Wilhelm Hemsoth AG against assumption of the debts. The ships were named after the deserving captains Kersten Miles , Klaus Schoke , Simon von Utrecht and Dietmar Koel . With Kurt Siemers ' help, the ships could be used in global tramping despite the economic crisis. In 1937 the shipping company put the first new buildings into service and renamed itself Hanseatische Reederei Emil Offen & Co. When the Second World War broke out, the shipping company had nine tramp freighters.
From 1946 onwards, Offen set up the seaports general management on behalf of the British occupying forces and took over its management. In 1950, Offen began to rebuild its fleet. The Klaus Schoke of the Flender shipyard in Lübeck was the second German post-war newbuilding over 5000 GRT. After Emil Offen's death on April 4, 1966, the shipping company invested in barges for a while in the early 1970s and was soon dissolved. His youngest son Claus-Peter Offen built up the shipping company Claus-Peter Offen from 1971 .
The shipping company Emil Offen's office flag was a black Hanseatic cross on a red background, that of his son was a white Hanseatic cross on a blue background.