Heiner Braasch

Heiner Braasch († April 29, 1982 ) was a Hamburg shipowner and finance broker , whose shipping company group, founded in 1969 around the Hamburg shipping company Braasch & Hahlbrok, collapsed in the mid-1970s due to numerous frauds.

history

Heiner Braasch, who had previously worked as a finance broker for Investors Overseas Services (IOS), founded a shipping company working as a tax depreciation company in 1969 together with Hermann Hahlbrok . In the period that followed, the company raised more than DM 140 million from around 2000 limited partners with whom ship limited partnerships were founded. Unless they were given a charter name, the names of the ships began with the word "Hamburger", followed by a term. The ships were registered in Lübeck, whose location on the edge of the zone made it possible to claim additional zone edge funding - a practice that later turned out to be fraud due to the company's Hamburg headquarters.

The first acquisitions were the three sister ships Heinrich Udo Schulte , Thomas Schulte and Angelica Schulte of the Himing class , which were taken over in 1969 by the Bernhard Schulte shipping company and renamed Hamburger Tor , Hamburger Burg and Hamburger Michel . This was followed by a larger used ship, the Cap Verde of the Hamburg-Süd shipping company , which initially continued to be operated without renaming to reverse charter (later Hamburger Brücke ).

From 1970 onwards, whole series of new buildings were taken over. Through the mediation of the Hamburg shipping company Barthold Richters 1968 and 1969 were two units of the type of ship Neptune 381 ordered from the state-owned foreign trade operation ship Commerz, the Hamburger Wall and the Hamburg dam . With the help of the Rostock shipyard, the purchase contracts were specified by around DM 800,000 too high per ship, which enabled Braasch to divert the difference to its own accounts. There were also three Trampko multi-purpose freighters from the Lübeck shipyard Orenstein & Koppel , the Hamburger Fleet , Hamburger Dom and Hamburger Senator . Braasch ordered the bulk freighters Hamburger City , Hamburg flag and Hamburg coat of arms from the Dutch company Verolme Verenigde Scheepswerven (shortly afterwards Rijn-Schelde-Verolme ) . One of the Verolme ships was sold before completion and one shortly after delivery.

The Hamburg shipping company Kontor managed and loaded the ships. Tax evasion, fraud and breach of trust occurred within the group's subsidiaries. So many artificial costs, for example through commissions, were produced. With the help of his brother Holger Braasch, who ran a crew agency in London, it was possible, for example, to settle excessive wages for the ship's crews. At the end of 1972 there were the first reports from donors, later the numerous victims founded a protection association. In 1974 Braasch finally fled Germany and chose his future domicile in countries that did not extradite him despite his arrest warrant. Braasch continued to operate shipping business from abroad. On April 29, 1982, Heiner Braasch was shot dead on his estate in the Dominican Republic.

The ships of the Hamburger Seereederei-Kontor (selection)

Shipping company fleet of the Hamburger Seereederei-Kontor
Building name	Shipyard / construction number	IMO number	delivery	Client	Later names and whereabouts
Heinrich Udo Schulte	Lindenau / 105	5145958	1957	Bernhard Schulte, Hamburg	1970 Hamburger Michel , 1973 Naimbana , 1978 Hoe Onn , 1986 First Lady , scrapped in Calcutta in 1991 (other source 1992/93)
Thomas Schulte	Lindenau / 106	5359547	September 28, 1957	Bernhard Schulte, Hamburg	1969 Hamburger Burg , 1972, Cape Sable , on December 17, 1972 on the journey from Antwerp to Algiers Cargo slipped in bad weather and in position 43.2 ° N; 009.2 ° W decreased - 13 dead
Angelica Schulte	Lindenau / 110	5017292	1958	Bernhard Schulte, Hamburg	1969 Hamburger Tor , 1972 Cape Cod , 1978 Toufic , 1986 Loucy , 1987 Karo , 1987 Loucy , 1989 Boucy , scrapped in Bombay from November 11, 2000
Cap Verde	Flender / 461	5060861	March 7, 1956	Rud. Aug. Oetker, Hamburg	1969 Hamburger Fleet , 1969 Hamburger Brücke , 1972 Catherine S , on December 31, 1979 for demolition to Kaohsiung (demolition from May 1980 at Yih Shen Steel Enterprises)
Hamburger Wall	381 / Neptune	7014115	1970	Heiner Braasch Schiffahrts Gesellschaft MS "Hamburger Wall" KG, Lübeck (Barthold Richter's shipping company)	1970 Sparreholm 1971 Hamburger Wall , 1973 Lloyd Philadelphia , 1975 Dafra Trader , 1978 Spetses Island , 1982 Jowaki , 1986 Salt , laid up in Aqaba on December 24, 1983 and arrived in Gadani Beach on March 19, 1986 for demolition
Hamburg dam	382 / Neptune	7030937	1970	Heiner Braasch Schiffahrts Gesellschaft MS "Hamburger Damm" KG, Lübeck (Barthold Richter's shipping company)	1970 Tasco , 1971 Hamburger Damm , 1972 Lloyd New York , 1975 Eastern Street , 1977 Brittenburg , 1980 Helene Presthus , 1982 Polwind , 1987 Sunwind , 1989 Bagatel , 1992 Wind Trader , 1992 MSC Marina , demolition from June 2002 in Alang
Hamburger Fleet	O & K / 672	7023960	2nd October 1970	Heiner Braasch shipping company Ges. MS "Hamburger Fleet" & "Hamburger Brücke" KG (shipping company Kontor Braasch & Hahlbrok KG), Lübeck	1975 Eastern Lake , 1977 Georg Kurz , 1985 AG Georgios , 1987 Alexander , 1991 Potencial , 1997
Hamburg Cathedral	O & K / 677	7104362	July 16, 1971	Heiner Braasch shipping company MS "Hamburger Dom" KG (Hamburger Seereederei Kontor Braasch & Hahlbrok KG), Lübeck	1972 Cape Ray , 1978 Marianne Roth , 1986 Annamaria Elle , 1987 New Hailee , 1995 Jielong Ace , 1996 Zi Jin Shan
Hamburg Senator	O & K / 682	7109001	11th September 1971	Heiner Braasch Kauffahrtei shipping company MS "Hamburger Senator" KG (Hamburger Seereederei Kontor Braasch & Hahlbrok KG), Lübeck	Auctioned in October 1978 in Rotterdam, Illerberg , 1986 Xin Hai Yue
Hamburg City	Verolme Cork / 838	7211476	July 29, 1972	Heiner Braasch shipping company, Hamburg / Flensburger Übersee Schiffahrts Ges. Jacob mbH & Co. KG, Flensburg	1970 Babette Jacob , 1982 Fjord Bridge , 1986 Pisa , 1987 Ismenios , 1993 Rova , arrived in Alang on September 18, 1997 for demolition
Hamburg coat of arms	Verolme / 856	7233632	March 16, 1973	Heiner Braasch Kauffahrtei shipping company MS "Hamburger Wappen" KG (Hamburger Seereederei Kontor GmbH), Lübeck	1977 Capetan Manolis Hazimanolis , converted into a container ship in Hamburg at the beginning of 1978, 1979 Seatrain Baltimore , 1981 Capetan Manolis Hazimanolis , 1981 Nedlloyd Everest , 1982 Capetan Manolis Hazimanolis , 1983 Nedlloyd Everest , 1992 DSR African Star , 1992 Capetan Manolis Hazimanolis , 1994 MSC Laurence , 1995 Nedlloyd Inca , 1997 MSC Rio Grande , 2001 Capetan Manolis Hazimanolis , scrapped August 2001
Hamburg flag	850 / Verolme	7327926	5th November 1973	Heiner Braasch Schiffahrts Ges. MS "Hamburger Flagge" KG (Hamburger Seereederei Kontor GmbH), Lübeck	1977 Barendrecht , 1978 Arabian Unity , 1979 Barendrecht , 1980 Ocean Trader , 1982 Hapag Lloyd Express , 1982 Nalo Express , 1986 Viamala , 1990 CMB Marabou , 1990 Viamala , 1990 MSC Lucy , canceled in Alang in 2002
Lloyd's Register, Equasis, large tonnage