Jöhnk shipyard
| Jöhnk Werft GmbH | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Company with limited liability |
| founding | March 29, 1933 |
| Seat | Hamburg , Germany |
| management | Rudolf Sommerfeld |
| Number of employees |
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| Website | www.joehnkwerft.de |
The Jöhnk shipyard is a shipyard in Hamburg . It is best known for the repair and construction of coasters and other small vehicles and has been in the inland port of Harburg since it was founded in 1933 .
founding
The shipyard Scheel & Jöhnk goes to the castle yard (at Harburg castle back) that (also the founder of Reinhold F. Holtz Norderwerft ) during the Great Depression forced to close in 1930 due to lack of orders. The two shipbuilders Scheel and Jöhnk employed there then began to work with their sons Georg Jöhnk jun. and Walter Jöhnk to build a wooden hall on part of the site that is still used today in order to run a shipyard himself. The company was officially founded on March 29, 1933. The young company's first new building was a motor lifeboat.
Shipbuilding and ship repair
Scheel & Jöhnk initially built small vehicles. Two slipways were built, whereupon the company often dealt with renovation orders in the following years and the workforce grew to 25 men. Later, a number of collapsible passenger ships were built for German inland waters, as well as bunker boats , harbor barges , coal barges and barges , dinghies and ferries , including export orders such as surf boats for Africa. The time of the Second World War was mainly focused on the repair and conversion of vehicles of the German Navy . Series of pioneer assault boats , M-boats, landing craft and detoxification vehicles were also produced.
After the war damage had been repaired, the shipyard concentrated on building new barges, tugs , bunker boats, ferries (including HADAG ferries ), government vehicles, barges and a number of coasters . The shipyard was enlarged. In 1953 he built a 52 m long floating dock with a load capacity of 750 t.
Repairs and modifications
New company buildings were added and the workforce increased to 150 by 1957. In 1977 the number had reduced to 116 employees. Today the focus of the company, which now only operates under the name Jöhnk-Werft, is mainly on repairs, maintenance work and occasional conversions.
Takeover by the shipowner Rudolf Sommerfeld
After a few company transfers and the previous tenant's bankruptcy, the shipyard owner Walter Jöhnk redeveloped the shipyard. In 2006, the Buxtehude entrepreneur Rudolf Sommerfeld, managing director of the Binnenschiffahrtkontor Sommerfeld (BKS), a first-generation family company, took over the shipyard and also uses it for the repairs and high-quality work on his inland vessels , which focus on dry cargo in the area of the Elbe to Magdeburg , drive the Mittelland Canal to the Ruhr and the Weser to Brake as well as in the container trip on the Lower Elbe .
See also
Web links
literature
- Gert Uwe Detlefsen: From the ewer to the container ship . The development of the German coasters. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1983, ISBN 3-7822-0321-6 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Jochen Gipp: Jöhnk-Werft has filed for insolvency , Hamburger Abendblatt, January 25, 2006.
- ↑ Jochen Gipp: Jöhnk-Werft again on top , Hamburger Abendblatt, March 7, 2007.
Coordinates: 53 ° 28 ′ 4 " N , 9 ° 59 ′ 14" E