Hermann Friedrich Ulrichs

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Hermann Friedrich Ulrichs (born July 30, 1809 in Bremen , † December 3, 1865 in Vegesack ) was a shipbuilder and shipyard owner. His shipyard, together with the Johann Lange shipyard, is regarded as the forerunner of the Bremer Vulkan shipyard founded in 1893 .

biography

Ulrichs was born as the son of the Bremen merchant Bartholomäus Ulrichs (1762-1839), owner of the shipping company Grovermann & Co and his wife Marie Elisabeth Achelis. The philologist Prof. Heinrich Ulrichs was his older brother. He learned the shipbuilding trade in Denmark and then completed practical training in the USA. He was a member of the Bremen citizenship from 1848 to 1852 and again from 1855 to 1865 , and from 1858 to 1862 builder of the Vegesack parish.

Shipyard at the ferry base

Former Ulrichssche house in Weserstraße , condition before 2010

At the age of 29 he decided to set up his own shipyard. After he had failed in Bremerhaven , he bought a small piece of land directly on the banks of the Weser at the northwestern end of Vegesack, the so-called Fährgrund . Since this area was too small for a modern shipyard, in 1840 he also acquired a larger area in Fähr on the Hanover side of the Fährgrund. This gave him the opportunity to build ships for Hanoverian accounts. At that time, the small town of Vegesack owned three shipyards, namely those of Lange and Ulrichs, with Peter Sager's shipyard in between .
In 1840 Ulrichs built his house next to the shipyard at Weserstraße 65, which later became the Nawatzki villa . The old facade alone was integrated into the new “UlrichsVilla” project in 2011.

Ulrichs concentrated from the beginning on building larger ships, after 1844 almost exclusively sailors between 200 and 400 loads were built. The most important clients were the large Bremen shipping companies like those of his father, B. Grovermann & Comp ., As well as JWF Iken & Co. , Konitzky & Thiermann and not least DH Wätjen and Co.

When Arnold Duckwitz from Bremen commissioned Admiral Brommy as Reich Minister to build a navy in 1848 , Ulrichs became one of the advisors. Soon afterwards he received the order to build two rowing gunboats, two more were built at Johann Lange's shipyard.

Shipyard in Bremerhaven

After the expansion of the Vegesack shipyard, Ulrichs came back to his original idea of ​​setting up a shipyard in Bremerhaven. The lucrative repair business was the main attraction here. In 1842 he and other master shipbuilders were assigned a site that could be used as a wood storage area and for small ship carpentry work. In 1850 he was given a larger area on the right bank of the Geeste , which was now also suitable for new ships. The first ship was launched here in 1854 and a double dry dock was commissioned in 1865 after Ulrichs had bought the previously leased site in 1862.

During his lifetime, a total of 77 ships were built in his two shipyards. Detailed lists of all newbuildings with ship biographies and numerous illustrations can be found at P.-M. Pawlik.

Post developments

After his death, Ulrichs' widow Gesine Helene, née Christoffers (1819–1890), tried to keep the shipyard in family ownership. The sons took over the shipyard management: Carl Ulrichs (1843–1883) in Vegesack and Hermann Ulrichs (1844-?) As technical director in Bremerhaven.
From 1871, Carl Ulrichs began to convert the shipyard in Vegesack to iron shipbuilding. In 1884 the company was transformed into the stock corporation Bremer Schiffbaugesellschaft formerly HFUlrichs (from 1891 only Bremer Schiffbaugesellschaft ). In 1895, Bremer Vulkan took over the shipyards in Vegesack and Fähr.
The Bremerhaven shipyard was acquired by Georg Seebeck in 1895 by the Seebeck shipyard .

Honors

  • The street Ulrichs Helgen in the Vegesack district of Fähr-Lobbendorf runs along the wall at the former volcano shipyard.

literature

  • Sophie Hollanders: Vegesack, Old Pictures of a Port City ; Döll-Verlag, Bremen 1984, ISBN 3-88808-016-9
  • Shipyard history Bremer Vulkan: ship history for the 150th anniversary of the Vulkan shipyard ; Bremen 1955
  • Peter-Michael Pawlik: From the Weser to the world, Volume 1, (Writings of the German Maritime Museum 33), Hamburg 1993, pp. 257-317.
  • Peter-Michael Pawlik: From the Weser to the world, Volume 3, (Verlag HM Hausschild) Bremen 2008, pp. 451–481.
  • Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . Edition Temmen, Bremen 2001, ISBN 3-86108-616-6 .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Diedrich Steilen: Church to Vegesack, Vegesack 1921, p. 41
  2. P.-M. Pawlik: From the Weser to the world, Volume 1 (1993), p. 260 (for Vegesack / Fähr); Volume 3 (2008), p. 454 (for Bremerhaven)