Karl-Heinz Sager

Karl-Heinz Sager (born September 1, 1931 in Kiel ; † May 25, 2011 in Travemünde ) was a German manager. He was a board member at Norddeutscher Lloyd and Hapag-Lloyd .

biography

In 1967 Claus Wätjen and Horst Willner and in 1969 Sager became members of the board of the Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL) shipping company . They replaced Johannes Kulenkampff and Richard Bertram as board members. On January 1, 1970, Norddeutsche Lloyd and Hamburg-American Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft (HAPAG) merged to form Hapag-Lloyd AG . Sager remained a member of the board as deputy board spokesman in the board, which has been led by Hans Jakob Kruse since 1973 . From 1975 he was President of the Shipowners Association of the European Community . He left the shipping company in a crisis at Hapag-Lloyd.

Then in the 1980s he was managing director and partner of the logistics company Röhlig & Co. in Bremen. In 1985 he founded the Bremen shipping company DSR Senator Lines , which he led as manager. The new shipping company set up a round-the-world service for container traffic . All container ships have been chartered exclusively from Sager. The Free Hanseatic City of Bremen also participated in this shipping company until it was acquired by Hanjin Shipping in 1997 and dissolved in 2009.

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• Karl Marten Barfuß, Hartmut Müller, Daniel Tilgner (eds.): History of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen from 1945 to 2005 . Volume 2: 1970-1989. Edition Temmen , Bremen 2008, ISBN 978-3-8378-1020-2 .