Johannes Kulenkampff

Johannes Carl Heinrich Kulenkampff (born March 5, 1901 in Bremen , † 1987 in Bremen) was a German shipowner and director of North German Lloyd (NDL).

biography

Kulenkampff comes from a Bremen merchant family. He studied law and received his doctorate Dr. jur.

In 1932 he became a board member of the Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL) shipping company, which was managed by Rudolph Firle from 1933 to 1940 . From 1942 onwards, alongside Richard Bertram, he was the director of the NDL as the successor to General Director Otto Dettmers , who was only in office for two years .

After the Second World War , the rebuilding of the shipping company and technical operations in Bremerhaven began under Kulenkampff and Bertram's leadership . With the re-approval as a coastal shipping and stevedoring company by the US military government, the NDL began as an agency in 1945 with the towing and bathing services with 350 employees. From 1949, freighters up to 7200 GRT were allowed to  resume overseas services at the NDL. In 1950, the NDL ordered the first new ship, and a new fleet was created. Passenger shipping began in 1955 with the Berlin ; the Bremen and the Europa followed .

In 1967 Claus Wätjen and Horst Willner and in 1969 Karl-Heinz Sager became members of the board of the NDL. They replaced Kulenkampff in 1968 and Bertram in 1970 as a board member. In 1970, Norddeutsche Lloyd and Hamburg-American Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft (HAPAG) merged to form Hapag-Lloyd AG .

Kulenkampff was buried in the Riensberg cemetery .

Honors

• In 1974 the Shipbuilding Society made him an honorary member.

swell

• Karl Marten Barfuß, Hartmut Müller, Daniel Tilgner (eds.): History of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen from 1945 to 2005. Volume 1: 1945–1969. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2008, ISBN 978-3-86108-575-1 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Georg Bessell: Norddeutscher Lloyd - 1857–1957 - History of a Bremen shipping company . Bremen 1957, p. 181.