Jade seaside bathing service

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Jade-Seebäderdienst AG
legal form Corporation
founding 1924
resolution 1939
Reason for dissolution insolvency
Seat Wilhelmshaven - Rüstringen
management Karl Welge, Heinz von Freeden
Branch Shipping company

The Jade Seebäderdienst was a shipping company that existed from 1924 to 1939 and was based in Wilhelmshaven - Rüstringen . It primarily offered liner services between Wilhelmshaven and the island of Wangerooge , but also served Heligoland and other North Sea resorts .

history

prehistory

After the First World War , several shipping companies and companies from Wilhelmshaven resumed regular and excursion traffic to Wangerooge, other East Frisian islands and Heligoland. As inflation subsided at the end of 1923, the demand for passengers also increased. At these as Wilhelmshaven coastal resort service designated compounds Wilhelmshaven participated next to the town's tourist steamer Dr. Ziegner-Gnuechel and the North German Lloyd also the businessman Karl Welge. He made trips to Heligoland with the two water boats Hunte and Geeste chartered by the Wilhelmshaven naval shipyard .

founding

When the North German Lloyd stopped the trips of its seaside resort service in view of this oversupply, Karl Welge filled the newly created gap between Wilhelmshaven and Wangerooge. On his initiative, Wilhelmshaven business people founded the Jade Seebäderdienst as a public limited company in 1924 . To this end, it was given equity capital of 70,000 Reichsmarks in March . It was divided into 12 preference shares with 10-fold voting rights and 338 ordinary shares at 200 marks each.

Bank director Oetken from the Wilhelmshaven branch of the Oldenburgische Spar- und Leihbank was elected chairman of the stock corporation, and captain Heinz von Freeden and Karl Welge were appointed managing directors of the shipping company. After the two of them left, the businessman Schumacher became the company's managing director.

Development of the shipping company

The city of Rüstringen provided 48,000 Reichsmarks for the purchase of a ship, which Karl Welge used to purchase the bathing steamer Frisia IV from the shipping company Norden-Frisia . The paddle steamer , built in 1906 at the Sachsenberg-Werke shipyard in Roßlau , was 51.12 meters long, 6.71 meters wide, had a multiple expansion machine with 560 hp and could carry up to 500 passengers. The steamer was overhauled at the Wilhelmshaven shipyard and engineering company and put into service as Jade by the seaside resort service. The steamer left Wilhelmshaven every day at 4.45 p.m. and reached Wangerooge at 7.30 p.m.

Steamer Grüßgott and the city ​​of Rüstringen

In order to cope with the increasing number of passengers, the seaside resort service commissioned the Frerichswerft in Einswarden to build a new building that could carry up to 700 passengers. The ship was named Stadt Rüstringen and replaced the Jade in liner service between Wilhelmshaven and Wangerooge when it began operating on May 21, 1927 . The new building could accommodate as many passengers as the two old ships Jade and the Dr. Ziegner-Gnuechel and two daily trips between the mainland and the island. The city of Wilhelmshaven consequently stopped operating its ship and sold it. In addition to passengers, the city ​​of Rüstringen also carried mail, food and other freight. The shipping company also made trips to Heligoland by ship. The steamer did the job without any complaints. To improve maneuverability, the city ​​of Rüstringen received a second triple expansion machine with an additional screw around 1935 .

resolution

The shipping company was not able to distribute dividends to the shareholders from the beginning , had to reduce its equity to 35,000 Reichsmarks in 1927 and issue the same amount in common shares. A major overhaul of the town of Rüstringen was due for 1938 , for which the seaside resort service could not afford the costs. The shipping company had to hand over the ship to a rescue company with the participation of the city of Wilhelmshaven, which became the new owner. By resolution of the general meeting of 1939, the Jade Seebäderdienst was dissolved. The dissolution ended on November 1, 1939.

The Jade seaside resort service also managed the ship. After the beginning of the Second World War , the shipping company had to restrict the trips to the island considerably and finally the Navy took over the ship. A planned new company called Seebäderdienst AG did not materialize due to the war, after the war the Jade shipping company was founded instead .

Ships of the shipping company

Surname measurement Construction year in the service of the shipping company Notes, whereabouts
Jade (ex Frisia IV , ex Hohenzollern ) 248 GRT 1906 1924-1927 Paddle steamer Hohenzollern of the Norderneyer DSR, 1909 Frisia IV , used by the Navy as an auxiliary minesweeper on the French Atlantic coast during World War II, sunk in Bordeaux itself on 22 August 1944.
City of Rüstringen 410 GRT 1927 1927-1939 Bought by the Navy in 1940 and used as a traffic steamer. October 9, 1944, sunk in Hamburg by air raid.

literature

  • Werner Brune (Ed.): Wilhelmshavener Heimatlexikon , Brune Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Wilhelmshaven 1972.
  • Günther Diercks, Reinhold Thiel: J. Frerichs & Co. Frerichswerft . Verlag HM Hauschild, Bremen 2001, ISBN 3-89757-092-0 .
  • Claus Rothe: German sea bathing ships 1830–1939 . transpress VEB Verlag for Transport, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-344-00393-3 .
  • Hartmut Siefken: The new “Wilhelmshaven” . In: Wilhelmshavener Zeitung: Yesterday and Today , June 30, 2012, p. 6 – p. 9; wzonline.de (PDF).
  • The way to Wangerooge via Wilhelmshaven: Timetable steamer town of Rüstringen 1927 . Jade-Seebäderdienst AG, Wilhelmshaven 1927; ebay.de
  • Erich Gröner , Dieter Jung, Martin Maass: The German warships 1815-1945 . Volume 6: Port operations vehicles (II: excavators, rescue and diving vehicles, icebreakers, tugs, transport vehicles), yachts and notifications, landing units (I) . Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Koblenz 1989, ISBN 3-7637-4805-9 .
  • Erich Gröner, Dieter Jung, Martin Maass: The German warships 1815-1945 . Volume 8/2: Outpost boats, auxiliary minesweepers, coastal protection groups (part 2), small combat units, dinghies . Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Bonn 1993, ISBN 3-7637-4807-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Brune, p. 312f.
  2. ↑ Rothe, p. 97
  3. ↑ cf. on data from Hunte and Geeste : Erich Gröner , Dieter Jung, Martin Maass: The German warships 1815–1945 . Volume 4: Auxiliary Ships I: Workshop Ships, Tenders and Support Ships, Tankers and Suppliers . Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Koblenz 1986, ISBN 3-7637-4803-2 , pp. 119f.
  4. ^ A b Dieter Engel: Jade-Seebäderdienst AG, Wilhelmshaven-Rüstringen
  5. ↑ a b Rothe, p. 95f.
  6. ↑ a b Steamship “Jade” . virtual wangerooge (private website)
  7. ↑ a b c Rothe, p. 138f.
  8. ↑ a b Diercks, Thiel, p. 114
  9. ↑ Gröner, Volume 8/2, p. 426ff.
  10. ↑ Siefken, pp. 6–9
  11. ↑ Gröner, Volume 6, pp. 187ff.