Johs. Fritzen & Son

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Johs. Fritzen & Sohn was a shipping company in Emden that was particularly active in the ore trade , which emerged in 1925 from the Emden Dampferkompagnie Nübel & Fritzen AG, founded in 1923 by Johannes Fritzen and Wilhelm Nübel, with the steamer Radbod and ceased operations in 1979.

history

After Nübel, who preferred the wood business with older ships and low freight rates, and Fritzen, who preferred the more profitable ore trade, which placed greater demands on the ships, took over the steamer Radbod, which he took over after his wife Katharina Dorothea Fritzen (2) was renamed. His first ship of the same name was stranded and lost on January 2, 1925. In 1936 Fritzen acquired a large part of the fleet of the Jewish shipowner Arthur Kunstmann in Stettin , who emigrated to London. Part of the business was then carried out from Szczecin until 1945. Other ships were incorporated into the Fritzen fleet as spoils of war after 1939. For this, a number of ships had to be parked as coal transporters etc. for the navy .

After the Second World War , Fritzen only had a small coastal steamer, which was allowed to sail again from 1948, and two tugs . In the following years a fleet for bulk transport was built from Emden. At first it was about old ships bought from abroad, then about new builds.

In addition to the shipping company, a tugboat operation was maintained in Emden from 1955, to which a stevedoring and storage operation was connected. Tug shipping was carried out on the Ems and a fuel and mineral oil wholesaler in Emden via subsidiaries. Also in 1955 the shipping company Fritzen founded a branch in New York called Johs. Fritzen & Son Inc. Under their management four ships of the San Juan Carriers Ltd. sailed , which were in bulk with ore from Peru to Europe. In the early 1960s this business with Peru collapsed.

In 1963, the Thyssen-Bornemisza Group took over the shipping company, which had run into financial difficulties and which has since been called Fritzen Schiffsagentur und Bereederungs-GmbH . The business was limited to the towing operation and the ship agency in 1975. At the end of the 1970s it was taken over by the Swiss shipping company Suisse-Outremer , which also belonged to Thyssen-Bornemisza. In 1979 the last tractor was sold. The Fritzen ship agency was continued under the umbrella of Poseidon Schiffahrt GmbH . In 2011 the Johs. Fritzen & Sohn GmbH returned to the property of the Fritzen family. In the same year the Johs. Fritzen & Sohn GmbH & Co. KG was founded, which works in the field of project development and project management for shipbuilding.

Ships of the shipping company

The following ships are steam ships unless otherwise stated.

  • Katharine Dorothea Fritzen (1) (1923–1925), 6,000 tdw , ex German Hunding (1922) ex Norway. Tordenskjold (1903, built in Sunderland ), stranded near Skudesnes in 1925 , total loss
  • Katharina Dorothea Fritzen (2) (1925–1933), 6,115 tdw, ex German Radbod (1923) ex norweg. Sark (1903, built in Sunderland), demolished in 1933
  • Katharina Dorothea Fritzen (3) (1937–1942), 12,350 dwt, ex Danish. Daghild (1916, built by William Doxford & Sons in Pallion near Sunderland), sunk in 1942 by a mine hit near Langeoog
  • Katharine Dorothea Fritzen (4) (1950–1960) 10,400 dwt , ex Grainton (2), built in 1929, sold to Japan in 1961
  • Erika Fritzen (1) (1926–1945), 7,213 tdw, ex norwegian. Dampfem (1924) ex Swedish Hogland (1913) ex British Ryton (1906, built as a tower decker by William Doxford & Sons in Pallion near Sunderland), sunk in 1945 by mines of the RAF
  • Erika Fritzen (2) (1953–1960), 10,250 dwt , ex Nurtureton (2) (Chapman & Sons shipping company), built in 1929. This ship was stranded in 1931 with coal cargo at Dungeness . It broke in two and was reassembled at Tilbury . 1960 renamed Mongkok, demolished in Hong Kong
  • Gerritt Fritzen (1) (1938–1939), 7,580 tdw, ex Aylsham (1931) ex Egypt. Star of Cairo (1931) ex British Chatham (1929) ex British Lingfield (1910, built in West Hartlepool , stranded on Hubertgat ( Ems estuary ) in 1939 , total loss
  • Harm Fritzen (1939–1944), 8,100 tdw, spoils of war ex British Laleham (1937) ex British Dorington Court (1909), aground near Haugesund in 1944, sunk in 1948 with gas ammunition
  • Jürgen Fritzen (1) (1939–1940), 7,350 tdw, spoils of war ex British Peckham (1937) ex Greek (?) Ioannis Vatis (1930) ex Baron Jedburgh (1912, built in Glasgow ), 1940 near Landsort ( Stockholm ) decreased
  • Jürgen Fritzen (2) (1942–1945), 579 GT , 850 tdw, spoils of war ex Estonian Egon (1939) ex Swedish Largo (1923) ex Swedish Falster (1902, built in Helsingborg ), placed in Flensburg in 1945, severely damaged , Canceled in 1952
  • Gerritt Fritzen (2) (1940–1945), 2,450 dwt, German spoils of war ex Danish. Bohus (1939) ex Severoles (1923) ex Danish Terne (1922, built in Kingston upon Hull , England), sunk in 1945 by Soviet planes to Rixhöft
  • Annette Fritzen (1942–1945), 4,600 dwt, ex Finnish Tilda (1936 or 1940?) Ex British Margarita (1903, built by J. Blumer & Son in North Dock, Sunderland), 1942 purchased by Fritzen, 1942 arrival in Shanghai, used in Sino-Japanese traffic, taken over by Japan in 1945, sunk by a mine hit on July 26, 1945 in Formosa Street
Hermann Fritzen , built in 1906, was used by the shipping company until 1959
  • Hermann Fritzen (1938–1944, sunk by bombs in the port of Hamburg in 1944, recovered and repaired in Emden in 1949, then on the move again until 1959), 3,900 tdw, ex German Werner Kunstmann (1925) ex Greek Efstathios (1924) ex Clearway (1914) ex British Nonsuch (1906), 1959 demolished in Hamburg. The Hermann Fritzen - one of the last tower deckers in the world - was at times the largest German ship after 1949 and used in the ore voyage from northern Sweden to Emden.
  • Jacobus Fritzen (1) (1926–1942), 7,213 tdw, ex German Ruth (1923) ex British Dalemead (1920) ex British Dalemoor (1909, built as a tower decker at William Doxford & Sonds in Pallion), 1942 near Trelleborg Sunk by Soviet submarine
  • MS Jacobus Fritzen (2) (first new building, 1950–1962), 2,920 tdw, 1962 Panamanian Sevenstars, 1963 Lebanese. Gleam, 1974 demolished
  • Reimar-Edzard Fritzen (1) (1938–1945,? - 1951), 4,650 tdw, ex Lina Kunstmann (1923, built at Vulcan shipyard Hamburg), sold in 1951 to Unterweser Reederei , demolished in 1963
The 1951 built Reimar Edzard Fritzen (2) under its later name Archon Michael (IMO: 5292359)
  • MS Reimar Edzard Fritzen (2) (1951–1963), 10,020 tdw, 1963 Greek Archon Michael, ran aground near Nakskov in 1975 with a load of manganese ore for Poland and broken off in Germany
  • Herta Engeline Fritzen (1) (1924–1933), 6,000 tdw, ex German Hagen (1922) ex Norway. Tancred (1906, built in Newcastle upon Tyne ), demolished in 1934
  • Herta Engeline Fritzen (2) (1939–1941), 8,600 dwt, 5,083 GT, ex German Heinz W. Kunstmann (1929) ex Seven Seas Transport (1927) ex British Picton (1906, built in near Richardson, Duck & Co . in Stockton-on-Tees , according to other information from E. Thomas, Radcliffe & Co. in Cardiff), stranded at Hoek van Holland in 1941 and broken apart. (The Picton was badly damaged in the Halifax explosion on December 6, 1917 , killing 70 dock workers.)
  • Herta Engeline Fritzen (3) (1942–1945), 7,100 dwt, 3,580 GT, ex Greek Perakis L. Cambanis (1924, after scuttling in Rotterdam - or after bombing in Dieppe? - lifted in 1940, German spoils of war 1941 or 1942 in service near Fritzen, sunk in Brunsbüttel in 1945, lifted and broken off in 1949) ex British Grelarlie (1918) ex British Rachel (built 1910 in West Hartlepool )
  • MS Herta Engeline Fritzen (4) (1951–1960), 10,000 tdw, 6,177 GT, 1964 philipp. Eastern Meteor, 1977 Panamanian New Man Fu, 1978 Char Cheng, 1981 demolition in China
  • Gertrud Fritzen (1) (1938–1945), 5,100 tdw, ex German Arthur Kunstmann (1923) ex Danish. Sortehavet (1920) ex Norway. St. Andrews (1906, built by John Blumer and Company , North Dock / Sunderland)
  • TS Gertrud Fritzen (2) (1955–1969), 23,000 tdw, 1969 ind. Varuna Kanchan, 1976 demolition
  • TS Carl Fritzen (1) (1938–1939), 10,750 tdw, ex German Taifun (1926) ex British War Genius (1920) ex Italian Fiume (1920, built in Chepstow ), stopped on September 4, 1939 by HMS Ajax and sunk by the crew themselves off the La Plata estuary
  • TS Carl Fritzen (2) (1956–1965), 12,505 tdw, 1965 Greek Michael E., 1978 panames. Golden Tiger, demolished in China in 1978
  • Ilse Fritzen (1) (1941–1945), 7,600 dwt, German spoils of war ex French. Saint Octave (1922, built in Dunkirk ), sunk in 1945 by the Royal Air Force near Askevold / Norway
  • TS Ilse Fritzen (2) (1956–1970), 23,360 tdw, 1970 Greek Intrepid Colocotronis, 1974 demolished in Hamburg
  • Klaus Fritzen (1938–1942), 4,650 tdw, ex German Wilhelm Kunstmann (1922, built at Vulcan-Werft Hamburg ), sunk in 1942 by the Royal Air Force near Maaloy / Bergen, Norway
  • Theda Fritzen (1939–1945), 5,014 tdw, ex German Ostfriesland (1937) ex Swedish Vigor (1929) ex British Sheaf Dart (1918) ex British Leander (1906, built in Hartlepool), 1945 through England with gas ammunition sunk in the Skagerrak
  • Antje Fritzen (1939–1942), 8,700 dwarfs, German spoils of war ex British Meopham (1938) ex British Gibraltar (1922) ex British Maplemore (1916, built in Southwick (Hampshire) ), sunk in 1942 by Soviet attack on the Trip to Kirkenes
  • TS Jantje Fritzen (1939–1945), 10,750 tdw, ex German Passat (1926) ex British War Iliad (1920) ex Italian Sile (1920, built in Chepstow), sunk in 1945 with gas ammunition in the Skagerrak
  • Gotenhafen (1941–1944), German spoils of war ex French. Saint Firmin (1920, built in West Hartlepool), damaged by bombs in the Weser estuary in 1944, sunk in Hamburg in 1945, scrapped in 1947
  • Dora Fritzen (1) (1937–1945), 10,300 tdw, ex Greek Adamastos (1937) ex British Richmond Hill (1936) ex Great City (1914, built in Stockton), sunk in 1945 by British Norway. Motor torpedo boat in the Stavfjord / Norway
  • MS Dora Fritzen (2) (1954–1971), 16,206 tdw, converted to a combined ore-oil freighter in 1960, to a sweet oil tanker in 1964, demolished in China in 1971
  • Anna Katrin Fritzen (1) (1938–1942), 970 tdw, ex German Gerda Kunstmann (1914) ex German Vulcan (1911, built by AG Vulcan Stettin ), sunk in 1942 by a Soviet submarine near Memel
Anna Katrin Fritzen , built in 1958 (2)
  • TS Anna Katrin Fritzen (2) (1958–1973), 16,275 tdw, 1973 Greek Katrin, 1977 demolished in Spain
  • TS Susanne Fritzen (1959–1972), 16,275 tdw, 1972 Greek. Andreas E., 1975 Margit B., 1979 demolished in Spain
  • TS Johannes Fritzen (1962–1975), 36,800 dwt, 1975 argentin. Pampero I, 1981 demolished in China
  • Castor (tugboat) (1938-?) Ex British West Heath (1918) ex German Norderney (1922)
  • Mercur (tug) (1938–1951) ex German Kirchwärder (1900), 1934 as Mercur in service with W. Kunstmann, 1952 Fairplay III , sunk in 1958 near Steinwerder , back on the road, demolished in 1963
  • Neptun (tugboat) (1938–1956) ex German Kuhwärder (1899), 1935 as Neptun in service with W. Kunstmann, 1956 deleted from the register of ships
  • MS Fritzen I (tugboat)
  • MS Fritzen II (tug) (1974-?), Later shipping company: Emder Schlepp Operation, still in operation in 2014

Some of the Fritzen ships were based in Stettin. The ships of the Emdener Allgemeine Verkehrs- und Handelsgesellschaft, Emsland, Emsriff, Emshörn, Emsstrom and Stadt Ems were also managed by the Fritzen Group. At times, other ships were managed or loaded. B. the ships of Halcyon Lijn BV in The Hague .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Museum of London
  2. ^ Reimar Edzard Fritzen (2), ship data and picture
  3. ↑ Location of the wreck on Wrecksite.eu
  4. ^ Halifax explosion
  5. ↑ Data on: teesbuiltships.co.uk
  6. ↑ Location of the wreck on Wrecksite.eu
  7. ^ Ships of the Kunstmann shipping company

literature

  • Gert Uwe Detlefsen: German shipping companies Volume 12. Detlefsen, Bad Segeberg 2000, ISBN 3-928473-56-5 .

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