Husum shipyard
| Husum shipyard | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH & Co. KG |
| resolution | 1999 |
| Reason for dissolution | insolvency |
| Seat | Husum |
| Number of employees | up to 800 |
| Branch |
Shipbuilding (towards the end of the construction of wind turbines ) |
The Husum shipyard ( HSW for short ) was a shipbuilding company in Husum . In 1999 the company filed for bankruptcy .
history
First evidence
The origins of shipbuilding at the old location in the inland port can be traced back to 1606. After shipbuilding came to a standstill in 1735 due to the heavy siltation of the port, the construction of the schooner Fortuna can be proven for 1740 . Since 1796 the shipyard has been in operation under various master shipbuilders without interruption, and the construction of four ships is recorded for 1799. Up until the Second World War, the shipyard mainly built wooden cargo yachts and fishing vessels. Repair of iron ships was added around 1900. Around this time, the Husum-born artist Richard von Hagn painted the shipyard.
post war period
On January 1, 1947, before the Rendsburger Kröger shipyard was re-established , the former owners of the Warnemünder Kröger shipyard , the shipbuilding engineers and brothers Karl Kröger (1902–1963) and Hans Kröger (1905–1971) and their partner Walter Brauer took over Husum Shipyard. With a workforce of six, repairs and conversions were initially carried out on behalf of the British military government.
The first new building was built in 1949 for the Oberfinanzdirektion Kiel, it was the customs cruiser Eiderstedt . Nine ships were delivered as early as 1950/51, including four pilot boats for Turkey. The main focus of the first two decades included large series of coasters of 299 and 499 gross registered tons (GRT). 250 new buildings were built by 1968 and the workforce grew to around 300 employees during this time.
Move to the outer harbor
At the end of the 1960s, the shipyard in the inland port was able to expand. After lengthy negotiations with the state government, the city of Husum initiated the construction of a larger sea lock, the construction of which began in 1971. In anticipation of the lock to be built, the Husum shipyard opened up a new, larger operating site on Rödemis Hallig at the outer harbor between 1968 and 1971. The day passenger ship Malmö was the first new building of the new operation to be launched on January 18, 1969. With the two new Querhellingen for ships up to 4500 tons deadweight, the first newbuildings with 999 GRT could be delivered from 1970, from 1976 1599 GRT. The new shipyard included a building dock for ships up to 10,000 tonnes carrying capacity and two repair slips of 65 meters in length. After the death of Hans Kröger in 1971, the company was run by his son-in-law Uwe Niemann. After the last new building of the old master shipyard in the inland port was launched in 1972 with the Pellworm II car ferry , operations there were completely stopped at the end of 1976. The old slipway was placed under monument protection in 1990 and the Husum town hall is now located on the former shipyard site.
Boom and shipyard crisis
The 1970s were characterized by a boom in the shipyard. In addition to the regularly built cargo ships, the company added more sophisticated ships such as oil rig suppliers, dock ships, hotel ships, ferry ships and heavy lift ships to its program during this time. After the shipyard was able to put a new 130 meter long dry dock into operation in 1977, the number of employees briefly rose to 800. When the shipyard crisis hit the Husum shipyard in the early 1980s, the workforce fell to 485. The company remained the largest shipyard on the west coast of Schleswig-Holstein and the largest employer in Husum.
Bankruptcy and a fresh start
At the end of the 1980s, the Husum shipyard began developing and manufacturing wind turbines to create a second mainstay. The sales in the wind energy orders later reached between 10 and 15 percent of the total sales, but could not offset the negative trend in the shipbuilding industry enough to keep the entire company. By the end of the 1990s, the workforce had therefore sunk to below 250. In December 1999, the Husum District Court finally opened insolvency proceedings against the Husum shipyard.
Exactly one year after the bankruptcy was opened, the wind energy company Jacobs Energie GmbH from Heide took over the wind energy division of the shipyard in January 2000. 30 employees and the 100 meter long and 30 meter wide hall of the shipyard were taken over directly, 60 shipbuilders were employed by NOI Rotortechnik GmbH, which is also located on the shipyard site. Jacobs completely relocated its development and production to the shipbuilding hall in Husum and invested over two million DM there. After Jacobs had signed a company collective agreement with IG Metall Rendsburg to compensate for the previously around 20 percent higher wages of the former shipbuilders, at the end of 2000 around 130 employees work at Jacobs in Husum. In 2001, Jacobs Energie merged with BWU and pro + pro Energiesysteme to form REpower Systems ( Senvion since 2013 ).
The ship repair business with 30 employees was later taken over by the Kröger shipyard in Rendsburg. Today the shipyard is operated as Husumer Dock und Reparatur GmbH & Co. KG .
Ships of the shipyard
In the course of its 52-year history, the shipyard has built well over 400 ships. The focus of the new building activity was mainly on coasters. In addition, numerous passenger and ferry ships of all types and occasionally yachts were built. Furthermore, special ships such as oil, gas and chemical tankers, tugs, cutters and dredgers as well as government and hotel ships, but also boiler houses, were part of the repertoire of the shipyard.
The high number of around 20 of the total of 71 Kümos from the early post-war period , which were built to designs by the Hamburg shipbuilder Adolf Weselmann, deserves special mention . In later decades, the shipyard repeatedly produced series of successful ship types . The shipyard and shipping company took an unusual route when building a series of ships that began in 1979 for the Husum silo company Heinrich Thordsen . Kümos of this size with a measurement of 299 GRT and around 1000 loading tons had not been built for a good ten years before, but found good employment. Another loyal customer was the Danish shipping company Lindinger , which has repeatedly received ships from the Husum shipyard over the years. The best known here was a series of seven identical Kümos built in the 1970s, each with 1599 GRT, the last ships of which, however, were no longer accepted due to the bankruptcy of the Lindinger Group in spring 1979. The last few years before HSW went bankrupt were marked by a series of new container ships for the Chinese market. This included the shipyard's largest new building, the 131-meter-long Tian Guang , which weighs around 11,000 tons and was launched in July 1996.
Construction list
literature
- Gert Uwe Detlefsen: ports - shipyards - ships: Chronicle of shipping on the west coast of Schleswig-Holstein , Verlag H. Lühr and Dircks, Sankt Peter-Ording 1987, ISBN 3-921416-45-0 .
Web links
- List of HSW ships
- Report from the University of Bremen
- Maritime Museum North Friesland: The Husum shipyard
Individual evidence
- ^ Report in the World of December 1, 1999
- ↑ RePower page entry ( Memento from February 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ New name for first-class engineering: REpower is called Senvion , Senvion press release ( Memento from April 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Website of the shipyard