Jastram works

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Jastram works
legal form GmbH & Co. KG
founding 1928
Seat Hamburg-Bergedorf
Branch shipbuilding
Website jastram-group.com

The Hamburger Motoren-Fabrik Carl Jastram ( Jastram-Werke for short ) is a manufacturer of ship propulsion systems and controls.

Company history

Carl Jastram founded a locksmith's workshop in Hamburg-Bergedorf in 1873 . In 1887 he expanded this workshop into a small factory, in which he and a few employees initially manufactured petroleum motors with 2 hp. For one of these first engines, he received an award at the Hamburg industrial exhibition in 1889.

In 1928, he founded the Allermöhe shipyard , originally to install his now powerful diesel engines in ships. However, around 30 mostly smaller ships ( motorized barges , inland freighters, motor tugs and customs boats) were also built.

In the summer of 1942, the Jastram-Werke leased an area on the grounds of the Neuengamme concentration camp . A total of four barracks were built in which up to 300 prisoners from the concentration camp had to do forced labor . For example, torpedo discharge tubes and water tanks for submarines were produced. Jastram was one of the first private companies to relocate the manufacture of armaments to the Neuengamme concentration camp.

Shipbuilding was given up in 1971 . The Jastram company still exists today and produces rudder systems and transverse thruster systems for ships.

literature

  • Ulrich Baucke, Heinz Brüdigam , Ludwig Eiber , Wolfgang Wiedey (eds.): Work and destruction. The Neuengamme concentration camp 1938–1945 . VSA-Verlag, Hamburg 1986.
  • Ludwig Eiber : Work slaves for SS and the war economy. Prisoner work in Neuengamme concentration camp 1940–1945 . In: Arno Herzig, Dieter Langewiesche, Arnold Sywottek (ed.): Workers in Hamburg. Lower classes, workers and the labor movement since the late 18th century . Publishing house education and science, Hamburg 1983, p. 559ff.
  • Hermann Kaienburg : "Destruction through work". The Neuengamme case. The economic efforts of the SS and their effects on the living conditions of the concentration camp prisoners . Dietz Nachf., 1990, ISBN 3-8012-5009-1
  • Eberhard Möller, Werner Brack: Diesel engines for five German navies . Koehlers Verlagsges., 1998, ISBN 978-3-8132-0566-4
  • Thomas Wägener: Anchored in the shipping industry for 125 years . For the 125th anniversary of the Jastram company. In: Hansa , issue 11/2014, p. 48, ISSN  0017-7504

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kaienburg: "Destruction through work". The Neuengamme case. The economic efforts of the SS and their effects on the living conditions of the concentration camp prisoners . 1990, p. 413
  2. ^ Eiber: Work slaves for SS and war economy. Prisoner work in Neuengamme concentration camp 1940–1945 . 1983, p. 564

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