Jansen shipyard

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Aerial photo of the shipyard 2013

The Martin Jansen GmbH & Co. KG, shipyard and machine factory was a shipyard in Leer (East Friesland) .

history

The company was founded in Westrhauderfehn in 1926 by Martin Jansen and Karl Kronenberg, both master mechanical engineers at Emden Nordseewerke , and was run as a family company until bankruptcy in 1987. The first new building was the Henriette freighter built in 1927 . But also tow barges were motorized and other mechanical engineering was carried out. Kronenberg left the company in 1931.

In 1950 the shipyard moved to Leer on a site on the Nesse, where Jansen was able to build larger ships. For this purpose, an existing slipway, which had been destroyed in the meantime and was rebuilt, and two temporary huts served as accommodation and storage. The first two units built there were two Weselmann-Kümos . At the beginning around 50 men were employed and ships up to a length of 70 meters and a dead weight of 720 tons could be slipped on. The ship repair business of the master blacksmith Reintsema was soon taken over and in 1952 the slip was lengthened to 104 meters. 1953 the company founder died shortly after the handover on the shipyard test drive of the new Isabella building . The company was continued by his son Kurt Jansen. In the 1950s and 1960s the shipyard was best known for its " paragraph ships ", coasters , which exploited the existing survey guidelines as far as possible. Particularly noteworthy for this period are the Höegh Vedette , with which export shipbuilding began, and the Holland series , a series of ten coasters, most of which were built for Dutch shipping companies. At the end of the 1960s there were already 300 employees. Soon the shipyard also began building a wide range of special ships, in particular offshore and research ships, but also fishing vessels, heavy lift ships or ferries , and most recently even developed gas and chemical tankers . 1974 the company with 400 employees. converted into a limited partnership and in 1975 Kurt Jansen's son Ingo Jansen joined the business. In the same year, a sea lock, enlarged to 180 meters in length and 26 meters in width, was inaugurated in Leer, which enabled a new transverse slipway for ships up to 150 meters in length to be built in the following year. In the years 1982 to 1985, despite the shipyard crisis, further large-scale construction phases with several new halls and other facilities were inaugurated on the shipyard site.

Although the shipyard with 500 employees at the end of 1986 still had full order books, a settlement had to be announced in May 1987 due to financial difficulties due to a large new building order from Iran that was canceled in April. Thereupon new construction contracts were missing due to the canceled credit line of the banks and a non-granted state guarantee, so that on July 1, 1987 bankruptcy was finally declared. The background to the failure to grant the state guarantee was a balance sheet falsified by around 7.5 million D-Marks .

In the 61 years of its existence, the company had built and delivered over 190 ships, including almost 160 ocean-going vessels, with a total of around 160,000 GRT .

After bankruptcy

In the years after the bankruptcy, a dispute arose over the continued existence of the shipyard. In November 1988, on the one hand, the former shipping department of the Jansen shipyard was activated as INO Schiffahrtkontor under the management of Ingo Jansen in order to offer advice and brokerage of new construction projects; on the other hand, the Hamburg lawyers Zenk, Tipphauer and Osmer acquired the shipyard and its inventory in November 1988 to open an industrial park there. Later various metalworking companies settled on the shipyard site. The slipway was run as a repair yard for some time and the Leda Yachtbau boat yard worked in a hall for a few years . In November 1996 the Schlömer shipyard moved from Oldersum to the Jansen site and worked there until it was closed in the summer of 2002. After that, the Nessewerft of the Briese Schiffahrt shipping company was located on the site, but this had to be completed in 2009 due to the reduced order volume Closing the financial crisis from 2007 . Today the Westerbroek company Ferus Smit continues to use the shipyard as a shipbuilding site.

literature

  • Martin Jansen In: Schiffbautechnische Gesellschaft (Ed.): 100 Years of the Shipbuilding Society - Biographies on the History of Shipbuilding , Springer, Berlin, 1999, ISBN 3-540-64150-5 , p. 208.
  • Martin Jansen GmbH (Ed.): 50 years of Martin Jansen, Leer . 1926 - 1976. KO Storck & Co. Publishing and Printing, Hamburg 1976.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Folker Fröbe: Vom Kümo zum Überseefrachter , In: Hamburger Abendblatt , January 4, 1969
  2. ^ Günter Merck: Rebuilding the shipyard of Martin Jansen in Leer in Hansa, number 6 of February 9, 1952, p. 235
  3. ↑ Jansen plans shipyard expansion , In: Nordsee-Zeitung , July 1974
  4. ↑ Jansen Werft company brochures
  5. ↑ Ferry for Trinidad , In: Nordsee-Zeitung , August 1986
  6. ↑ Jansen-Werft submits a settlement application , In: Hamburger Abendblatt , May 1987
  7. ↑ Jansen is now active again with Consulting , In: Nordsee-Zeitung , November 1988
  8. ↑ Hamburg lawyers plan industrial park in Leer , In: Hamburger Abendblatt , November 1988

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Coordinates: 53 ° 13 ′ 4.2 "  N , 7 ° 27 ′ 13.3"  E