Hussmann & Hahn

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Hussmann & Hahn
legal form GmbH & Co. KG
founding March 25, 1908
resolution October 1, 2000
Reason for dissolution sale
Seat Cuxhaven
management
  • Diedrich Hahn, Heinrich Hussmann (1908–1916)
  • Diedrich Hahn (1916–1967)
  • Kurt Hahn (1967–1995)
  • Stephan and Thomas Hahn (1995–1998)
  • Thomas Hahn (1998-2000)
Number of employees around 800 (1967)
Branch Fish trade, fish processing , fishing shipping company

Hussmann & Hahn was a fish wholesaler and processing company founded in Cuxhaven in 1908 , which was sold in 2000 and, after several mergers and sales with name changes, filed for bankruptcy in 2015. From 1936 to 1954 a fishing shipping company was attached to the operation.

Key data of the company's history

At the turn of the 20th century, the expansion of the fishing fleets after the conversion from sailing boats to fish steamers and the rapid transport inland by rail led to an upswing in the sea fish trade, from which Hamburg also increasingly tried to profit. The Hamburg Senate had the Cuxhaven fishing port built in 1908 in Cuxhaven, which belonged to Hamburg until 1937 .

On February 24th, 1908 the auction business started its activity and shortly afterwards Heinrich Hussmann and Diedrich Hahn founded a sea fish business on March 25th, 1908. After Heinrich Hussmann fell in World War I in 1916 , Diedrich Hahn took over sole management of the company. In 1925, Hussmann & Hahn expanded the business and built a smokehouse and a production facility for marinades . With the founding of the in-house fish steamer shipping company in 1936, the company expanded to Bremerhaven, where it set up a branch in the fishing port . In 1938, Hussmann & Hahn expanded the business to include a fish meal factory, which in 1969 merged with the “Deutsche Fischmehlfabrik & Co.” to form the “Vereinigte Fischmehlwerke Unterelbe GmbH & Co. KG”.

Hussmann & Hahn building hall in President-Herwig-Strasse in Cuxhaven

After the Second World War, the manufacture of saithe-in-oil products formed the first expansion of the product range in 1949. When Hussmann & Hahn gave up its own shipping company in 1954, it started producing frozen fish in the same year and thus assumed a pioneering role in the manufacture of frozen products. One year later, the company took over the herring hall and the herring quay in the Cuxhaven fishing port and turned them into a production hall.

After Diedrich Hahn's death in 1967, his son Kurt Hahn (1907–1995) took over management of the company. At this point in time, the company employed around 800 people. Hussmann & Hahn expanded the business once again in 1990 by building new frozen fish production facilities. In 1995, after Kurt Hahn's death, his sons Stephan and Thomas Hahn took over the company. Stephan Hahn left the management and the company in 1998.

After that date, the company's crisis became clear and the series of sales, mergers and investors began to 1 October 2000 took over the Icelandic company " Samherji " the company in 2003 bought Hussmann & Hahn to competitors Pickenpack that the Pickenpack Hussmann and Hahn Seafood GmbH (PHHS) merged. In 2005 this was taken over by the Icelandic Icelandic Group , in 2011 it sold the company to an investor consortium around the Chinese fish company Pacific Andes . After several years in a row with increasing debt, the German companies of the Pickenpack Group filed for insolvency at the beginning of December 2015, and the plant in Riepe near Emden was taken over by Trident Seafoods.

Shipping company Hussmann & Hahn

The forced self-sufficiency policy as part of the four-year plan of National Socialist Germany and the possibility of expanding the value chain of the fish processing company with its own shipping company form the background to the founding of the shipping company Hussmann & Hahn.

The shipping company was founded in November 1936 and formed a separate department within the fish wholesale and processing company in Cuxhaven. In the same year she had already ordered two fish steamers from German shipyards, and negotiations were under way to build more ships. In addition to Hussmann & Hahn, Diedrich Hahn and other shipowners also held shares in the individual ships.

These steamers were the two sister ships Gauleiter Forster (PC 306) and the first Gauleiter Telschow (PC 307) of the Uranus type of the Unterweser shipbuilding company in today's Bremerhaven . In 1938 the third new building Gauleiter Bürckel (PC 315) from the Seebeck shipyard in Bremerhaven followed. They were state-of-the-art ships with a Maier-shaped hull . The home port of the ships was Cuxhaven. To supply the ships, the company had a repair shop and a net maker. At the same time, the shipping company set up a branch in the Wesermünder Fischereihafen, today's Bremerhaven.

At the beginning of the Second World War , the three fish steamers were taken over by the Navy as part of the mobilization in September 1939 , converted and used as auxiliary minesweepers or outpost boats. All three ships were sunk during the war. The purchase of three more ships for the shipping company was planned despite the war: The fourth fish steamer, the Gauleiter Bohle , was launched at the Seebeck shipyard in 1940 and was immediately integrated into the Navy as an outpost boat - this steamer was also sunk during the war.

In the spring of 1941, Hussmann & Hahn took over the management of the fishing steamer Günter (sometimes also referred to as Peter ) from Gerhard and Elisabeth Schütze from Brandenburg / Havel, with whom fishing could be resumed. This ship was also lost after a mine hit in 1941. The shipping company ordered the second Gauleiter Telschow as the last new building in the war . The Seebeck shipyard passed the order on to the Dutch shipyard de Merwede in Hardinxveld and supplied the construction plans and materials. Shortly before the end of the war, about 80 percent of the ship was towed to Germany and built after the war.

Model of the fishing steamer Vorwärts in the Wreck- und Fischereimuseum Cuxhaven

After the end of the war, the shipping company was the first to put a repaired steamer into operation: The Severyanka originally commissioned by the Soviet Union was confiscated after the start of the German invasion of the Soviet Union ( Operation Barbarossa ), entered service as V 1111 and burned out in July 1944 after a Soviet air raid Service provided. After having been repaired, Hussmann & Hahn put the steamer back into service on December 20, 1945 as a ride . However, she had to deliver the ship to the Soviet Union in February 1946. A month earlier, in January 1946, the shipping company had sent the fish steamer, which had started as the second Gauleiter Telschow and was built as Vorwärts , on a fishing trip. The steamer was in use for Hussmann & Hahn until 1949, when it had to be delivered to the Netherlands. In 1948 Hussmann & Hahn took over the Gauleiter Bürckel, which was sunk at the end of the war and repaired again, as Glückauf . In 1952 she sold the steamer to the Nordsee Deutsche Hochseefischerei in Cuxhaven, which she put into service as the Danube .

As a replacement for the Vorwärts that had been delivered , the shipping company chartered the small fishing motor ship Margee and Pat II provided by the USA from the Fischdampfer-Treuhandgesellschaft . In 1952 the ship was returned to the USA. As the last ship, the shipping company took over the new Elbe from the Seebeck shipyard in 1951 . In 1954 she sold it again, also to the North Sea German Deep Sea Fishery. The ship sank a year later in a collision in which 15 sailors were killed. After the Elbe was sold in 1954, Hussmann & Hahn gave up shipping operations.

Own and managed ships of the shipping company

The data describe the ships at the time of delivery. Later changes are listed under Notes.

Surname Construction year Shipyard tonnage in the service of the shipping company Notes, whereabouts
Gauleiter Forster (PC 306) 1937 Schiffbaugesellschaft Unterweser, Bremerhaven 425 GRT 1937-1939 October 25, 1939 for the Navy as M 1208 , sunk on February 11, 1942 after being hit by a mine while preparing for Operation Cerberus near Barfleur .
Gauleiter Telschow (1) (PC 307) 1937 Schiffbaugesellschaft Unterweser, Bremerhaven 428 GRT 1937-1939 September 16 for the Navy as V 206 , on October 20, 1939 as V 209 . Sunk on November 20, 1939 after being hit by a submarine torpedo.
Gauleiter Bürckel (PC 315) 1938 Seebeck shipyard, Bremerhaven 489 GRT 1938-1939, 1948-1952 September 24, 1939 to the Kriegsmarine as M 1501 , from March 19, 1943 as NH 05 to the detachment test command. April 9, 1945, sunk in Kiel by air raid, repaired in 1946, in 1948 as Glückauf at Hussmann & Hahn. Sold to the North Sea in 1952, entered service as the Danube , canceled in 1961.
Gauleiter Bohle (PC 326) 1940 Seebeck shipyard, Bremerhaven 505 1940-1940 On November 6, 1940 for the Navy as M 1902 , on July 14, 1943 as V 5911 and on April 1, 1944 as V 6101 . Sunk on September 25 by a Soviet air strike.
Günter (PG 271), ex Sea Lion , ex Fritz Busse 1918 Eiderwerft , Tönning 237.5 GRT 1941-1941 In the spring of 1941, Hussmann & Hahn took over the management of the fishing steamer Günter (sometimes also referred to as Peter , as his renaming and relocation of the home port to Cuxhaven had been requested) from Gerhard and Elisabeth Schütze from Brandenburg an der Havel in order to resume fishing . The ship sank after a mine hit on October 7, 1941.
Fahrwohl (PC 335), ex Christian Wendig , ex Severyanka 1941 Norderwerft, Hamburg 589 GRT 1945-1946 1939 Soviet order Severyanka , confiscated in 1941, completed in November as Christian Wendig and in service as V 1111 . Burned out in an air raid on July 21, 1944 and a. D. On October 20, 1945 as a ride at Hussmann & Hahn. Soviet survey ship Planeta February 7, 1946, Soviet from November 30, 1946. Dvina fishing ship . Canceled in 1966.
Gauleiter Telschow (2) (PC 336) 1943-1945 de Merwede, Hardinxveld / Netherlands 525 GRT 1946-1949 Construction started for Hussmann & Hahn, planned for the Kriegsmarine as UJ 1228 from 1944 , completion at Seebeck in 1945, in January 1946 as Vorwärts at Hussmann & Hahn. Delivered to the Netherlands in 1949, in service as Tzonne , 1959 Greek Evridiki II , 1960 Haravyi and 1972 Avra II , stranded off Morocco in 1982.
Margee & Pat II , (BX 565) 1946 Wheeler, Whitestone / New York 188 GRT 1949-1952 Made available by the USA in 1949 as a replacement for Forward . 1952 back to the USA: 1955 Cushmere , 1959 Evelyn L. Brown , 1972 Carlson Fishery III Aspasia , 1974 Eileen Doe , Connie M. , 1997 still on the road.
Elbe (NC 390) 1951 Seebeck shipyard, Bremerhaven 397 GRT 1951-1954 Commissioned in 1951, in 1954 to the “North Sea. Deutsche Hochseefischerei AG ”in Cuxhaven, sunk in 1955 after a collision.

literature

  • Dieter Kokot: Hussmann & Hahn 1937–1954 , in: Nik Schumann: Cuxhaven, the big deep sea fishery and the sea fish market , Verlag August Rauschenplat, Cuxhaven 2008, ISBN 3-935519-29-X .
  • Werner Beckmann: The shipping companies of the deep sea and herring fisheries in Bremerhaven (Volume 40 of the new series of special publications of the Heimatbund of the men from Morgenstern), Heimatbund der Männer vom Morgenstern, Bremerhaven 2003, ISBN 3-931771-40-7 .
  • Wolfgang Walter: German fish steamer. Technology, development, use, shipping register (publications of the German Maritime Museum. Volume 50), Carlsen / Die Hanse, Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-551-88517-6 .
  • Dieter Kokot: A fishing vessel from WWII . The "Holland" fish steamer VORWÄRTS , in: Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt July 2013, p. 4 Online version as PDF from Men from Morgenstern. Heimatbund at the mouth of the Elbe and Weser .
  • Erich Gröner , Dieter Jung, Martin Maass: The German Warships 1815-1945, Volume 5 Auxiliary Ships II: Hospital Ships, Accommodation Ships, School Ships, Research Vehicles, Port Service Vehicles , Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Koblenz 1988, ISBN 3-7637-4804-0 .
  • Erich Gröner, Dieter Jung, Martin Maass: The German warships 1815-1945, Volume 8/1: River vehicles, Ujäger, outpost boats, auxiliary minesweepers, coastal protection associations (Part 1) , Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Bonn 1993, ISBN 3-7637-4807- 5 .
  • Dieter Kokot, Hans J. Heise, Dennis Kokot: Hussmann & Hahn. A Cuxhaven fishing steamer shipping company 1937–1954 , Cuxhaven 1992.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ingo Heidbrink, Werner Beckmann, Matthias Keller: ... and today there is fish! 100 years of the fish industry and fish wholesale trade in the spotlights 1903–2003 , HM Hauschild Verlag, Bremen, 2003, p. 19
  2. ↑ a b c d Beckmann, p. 115
  3. ↑ Peter Bussler: Historisches Stadtlexikon für Cuxhaven , special publication by the Heimatbund der Männer vom Morgenstern Volume 36, Cuxhaven 2002, ISBN 3-931771-36-9 , p. 112f.
  4. ↑ a b c Schumann, p. 270
  5. ↑ a b Icelanders praise growing German seafood arm , at fishupdate.com from September 22, 2014
  6. ↑ a b c Company presentation by Pickenpack - Hussmann & Hahn Seafood GmbH from 2009
  7. ↑ Bioceval company history as the successor to the fishmeal factory of Hussmann & Hahn at bioceval.de
  8. ↑ Schumann, p. 52, p. 277
  9. ↑ Schumann. P. 72
  10. ↑ Schumann, p. 55
  11. ↑ Company profile Pickenpack Fischfabriken from Lüneburg at Werzu-wem.de
  12. ^ Hansa, Deutsche Nautische Zeitschrift, Volume 73, November 14, 1936, p. 2241
  13. ↑ a b c d e Schumann, p. 153
  14. ↑ Kokot, p. 4
  15. ↑ cf. on Fischdampfer-Treuhand GmbH: Beckmann, p. 81f.
  16. ↑ Schumann, p. 59
  17. ↑ a b Walter, p. 254
  18. ↑ a b Gröner, Volume 8/1, p. 232
  19. ^ Walter p. 259
  20. ↑ Gröner, Volume 5, p. 179
  21. ^ Walter p. 265
  22. ↑ Gröner, Volume 8/1, p. 214
  23. ↑ Schumann, p. 154
  24. ↑ Walter p. 205
  25. ↑ Gröner, Volume 8/1, p. 177
  26. ^ Walter p. 267
  27. ↑ Gröner, Volume 8/1, p. 266
  28. ↑ Schumann, p. 155
  29. ↑ Walter S. 269
  30. ↑ Gröner, Volume 8/1, p. 169
  31. ↑ Schumann, p. 156
  32. ^ Walter p. 274
  33. ↑ Schumann, p. 158
  34. ^ Walter p. 288
  35. ↑ Schumann, p. 157f.