Heinrich Brandenburg (shipyard)
Heinrich Brandenburg had been running a repair yard at Steinwärder in the Port of Hamburg since 1845 , which was expanded considerably from 1873 onwards. The shipyard was sold to the Reiherstieg shipyard in 1912 .
history
The shipyard of the Heinrich Brandenburg company was one of the oldest Hamburg shipyards . It was on Steinwärder in the Hamburg free port area. The systems were initially only designed for wooden shipbuilding. In 1873, Sauber Gebr. Became a partner with a share of 50 percent. The shipyard was expanded considerably. The commercial management was also passed into the hands of the Sauber Gebr. Shipping company.
The shipyard was surrounded by water on three sides; the north side was formed by the Elbe, the east side by the ferry canal and the south side by the Nordersandfleth. While the south side only offered sufficient water depth for river vessels, the west and north sides could be occupied by large seagoing vessels. The area of the shipyard was 14,000 m², the length of the three water fronts 350 m.
In 1890 the floating dock on the Elbe side with a total length of 90 m and a width of 25 m with a load capacity of 3600 t was put into operation. The growing requirements soon prompted the shipyard to build two additional dock sections with a length of 50 m and a load capacity of 3000 t, so that a total length of 140 m with a load capacity of 6600 t was now available.
Heinrich Brandenburg repaired and rebuilt: workboats for HADAG , steam launches , steam tugs , fire boats , trawlers , grain elevators, coal Heber, people steamers , barges , seagoing vessels , water conservation steamer and customs steamer . Heinrich Brandenburg was also a machine factory and boiler shop.
In 1897 the Heinrich Brandenburg shipyard was converted into a limited partnership . Emma Sauber became a personally liable partner .
Heinrich Brandenburg (son of the company's founder) died in 1898 after having withdrawn from the business for several years. Johann Rieck and Konrad Engel became personally liable partners of the shipyard. Konrad Engel was married to a daughter of Hermann Sauber . In 1903 Herman JM Sauber also became a personally liable partner in the Heinrich Brandenburg shipyard .
Most recently the shipyard employed 450 to 600 workers and employees; 900 times at peak times. Considerable investments were necessary in 1912 to thoroughly modernize the shipyard. Ultimately, the shareholders did not raise the necessary capital. Heinrich Brandenburg was sold to the Reiherstieg shipyard after lengthy merger negotiations with the neighboring Stülcken shipyard had collapsed. In 1928 the systems were transferred to the Deutsche Werft and continued as Plant III. The site has been fallow since the mid-1980s.
literature
- Heinrich Brandenburg . In: Julius Eckstein (Hrsg.): Historisch-biographische Blätter . The State of Hamburg. tape 7 , delivery 13. Eckstein's Biographischer Verlag, Berlin 1905 ( online [PDF]).
- Hildegard von Marchtaler, Herman Sauber: Sauber Gebr., Founded in 1839, Sauber & Co., Hamburg: Company history 1939–1951. Hamburg 1951, DNB 948085274 .
- Ulrike Lange-Basman: three-masted schooners and steam launchers. The Hamburg shipyard JHN Wichhorst at the time of transition from wooden shipbuilding to iron and steel shipbuilding. (= Writings of the German Maritime Museum. 68). Oceanum Verlag, Wiefelstede 2009, ISBN 978-3-86927-068-5 .
- Paul Schroedter, Gustav Schroedter (Ed.): 100 years of shipping, shipbuilding, ports. Schiffahrtsverlag Hansa, Hamburg 1964, DNB 577407732 .
- Hansa . different years
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Hildegard von Marchtaler, Herman Sauber: Sauber Gebr., Founded in 1839, Sauber & Co., Hamburg: Company history 1939–1951. 1951.