Knöhr & Burchard
Knöhr & Burchard Nfl. Is a shipping company and ship brokerage that has existed in Hamburg since 1814 .
history
The first hundred years
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The company goes back to a ship brokerage office founded in Hamburg on June 23, 1814 by Johann Daniel Schirmer, Christian Ludwig Knöhr and Hinrich Matthias Burchard. The company named Johann Daniel Schirmer was continued by the two employees after Schirmer's death in 1839 and initially in CL Knöhr & HM Burchard, Joh. Dan. Schirmer's successor , a little later in Knöhr & Burchard, Joh. Dan. Schirmer's successor and a short time later finally renamed Knöhr & Burchard . Until 1842 only ships were dispatched to Great Britain, then also those to Sweden, Spain, the West Indies, the La Plata ports, Chile and the East Indies. After Hinrich Matthias Burchard's death in 1849, Christian Gustav Gabel, who had been with the company for twelve years, initially became a new partner and in 1850 a director. In 1850, Gabel acquired the first ship used by the shipping company, the wooden barque Elise . On November 3, 1855, the company founded the Hamburg-Brasilianische Dampfschiffahrts-Gesellschaft , the predecessor company of the Hamburg South American Steamship Company, with NO Bieber, Hansing & Co., JD Hinsch & Co. and DF Schmidt . In 1857 the company took part in the Hamburg-Mexican Packetfahrt founded by H. Jochheim and HW de la Camp , which did not operate its own ships and only existed until 1867. In 1860 Christian Ludwig Knöhr Junior and in 1866 Hinrich Matthias Burchard Junior became a partner. Burchard Junior died just one year after his partnership and Knöhr Junior in 1871, whereupon Gabel remained the sole owner of the company until he founded his own shipping company and then left the company in 1889.
In 1862 the company began managing sailing and steam ships. Another ten years later, Knöhr & Burchard and the sailing ship company HH Eggers set up the German steamship company Kosmos . In 1888, on the initiative of the shipping company, the German-Australian Steamship Company (DADG) was founded, which merged with DDG Kosmos in 1921. On January 1, 1890, Jacob Meyer, who had been with the company since 1867, took over the company. He changed the name to Knöhr & Burchard Nfl. And started a ship naming tradition with the City of Lucknow , which was purchased in 1890 and renamed Reinbek . Almost all of the following ships in the shipping fleet were given names that ended in ... bek . On July 1, 1894, MHA Elvers and FAE Zimmer became partners. After Jacob Meyer's death on October 11, 1896, his widow initially took over his shares, but left the company with Elvers on January 1, 1905, whereupon Zimmer became the sole owner. Comparable to a correspondent broker , around 60 other, mostly smaller Danish sailing ships were looked after in addition to the company's own shipping company.
In 1903 the company took a share in the shipping company Germania Walfang- und Fischindustrie A.-G. in Hamburg, which, after decades of German inactivity, made a new start in whaling off Iceland with two small fishing steamers, but broke it off again due to lack of profitability.
After FAE Zimmer's death in 1913, the company was passed on to his son FAM Zimmer.
First and Second World War
At the beginning of the First World War , the shipping company had a fleet of 17 sailing ships between 3000 and 4500 tons. On January 1, 1918, Carl JJ P Aldag joined the shipping company as a co-owner. After the end of the war, the shipping company had to deliver the entire remaining fleet to the victorious powers and began to rebuild in the 1920s. Knöhr & Burchard Nfl. Only used steamships in their fleet of between 2500 and 6500 tons. In addition to shipping operations and chartering, Knöhr & Burchard worked as an agent for numerous liner shipping companies, such as Halcyon-Line , Osaka Shosen Kaisha , Currie-Line , Horn-Linie and HAPAG, and as a continental agency for the towing, shipping and salvage companies . During the Second World War , several ships in the fleet were lost, including the Thielbek steamer, which was sunk in the Neustädter Bay by British aircraft with around 2,800 concentration camp prisoners on board shortly before the end of the war . The rest of the fleet had to be delivered again after the end of the war.
Post-war development
It was not until 1948 that Knöhr & Burchard was initially able to resume agency business. The submerged Thielbek steamer was lifted, repaired by the Lübecker Maschinenbau Gesellschaft and put back into service on July 19, 1950 under the new name Reinbek . In the course of the 1950s, a shipping fleet consisting of 19 freight steamers, freight motor ships and motor tankers was rebuilt. A particularly large number of charter contracts in these years were concluded with the Koninklijke Nederlandsche Stoomboot Maatschappij (KNSM). In 1963, the authorized signatories Gerd and Joachim Aldag, both sons of long-term partner Carl Aldag, took over shares in the company.
After Knöhr & Burchard worked as correspondent shipper for the tankers Diana M. , Michael M. , Isebek and Osterbek as early as the 1950s , the company began building and managing its own chemical tankers for small and medium-sized voyages in 1968 at Gerd Aldag's suggestion . In 1973 the Knöhr & Burchard freighter fleet was reduced to a single ship. The Dalbek was finally renamed Daniel (after the company founder Schirmer), flagged out to Cyprus and continued to operate until 1978. In 1974 Joachim Aldag died, after which Gerd Aldag became the sole owner of Knöhr & Burchard. From 1986 Knöhr & Burchard and the tanker shipping company Christian F. Ahrenkiel worked together in the joint chartering organization United Chemical Transport (UCT) and in the following year Knöhr & Burchard re-entered dry shipping, which had been interrupted in the meantime.
In 2004 Günther Kordts, who had already started his apprenticeship at Knöhr & Burchard, took over shares in the company and in the following year the shipping company took over management of the Eilbek class , four 1600 TEU container ships with traditional names - Eilbek , Reinbek , Flottbek and Barmbek .
Ships (selection)
| Ships managed by Knöhr & Burchard | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Building name | Construction type / type | Shipyard / construction number |
Delivery / year of construction | IMO number | Client | Renaming and whereabouts |
| Carrion | Cargo steamer | F. Schichau, Elbing / 1160 | 1925 | - | Knöhr & Burchard | Stranded on the north coast of Scotland March 17, 1928 |
| Alc | Motor tractor | Rheinwerft Walsum, Sterkrade / 854 | August 1943 | - | Navy | Delivered to the USA in 1945, to Knöhr & Burchard in 1949, to Bugsier Reederei in 1954, scrapped in 1966 |
| Ammersbek | Motor tanker | JG Hitzler, Lauenburg / 716 | November 8, 1970 | - | P / R MS "Ammersbek" K / R Knöhr & Burchard |
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| Gilcruix | Four-masted barque | Whitehaven Shipbuilding Company, Whitehaven / 67 | August 1886 | - | North Western Shipping, Liverpool Mgrs. Ismay, Imrie & Company |
Applied in 1895 to P / RK / R Knöhr & Burchard → Barmbek , August 18, 1914 by the French cruiser Chateau Renault and scrapped to the French government → Pacifique , 1923 |
| Barmbek | Cargo steamer | Schiffswerfte & Maschinenfabrik (formerly Janssen & Schmilinsky) AG, Hamburg / 572 | October 16, 1923 | - | Knöhr & Burchard | 1927 Villiers , confiscated by Italy in 1941 → Parma , January 30, 1943 stranded off Tunis after a mine hit, total loss |
| Barmbek | Cargo steamer | Flensburg shipbuilding company, Flensburg / 415 | December 1929 | 5183431 | P / R K / R Knöhr & Burchard |
On April 14, 1944, she ran onto the reef near Maaloy, lifted the aft ship in 1949 and fitted it with a new foredeck in Flensburg, in service again in 1949 → Käthe Grammerstorf , converted into a motor ship in 1957, set on the beach off Dunkirk after a collision with the Norwegian tanker Thorsvaag on March 29, 1962 , 30 March 1962 removed and repaired, 1965 Eleftherios , June 1976 main engine removed for use in another ship, scrapped in Perama from November 1977 |
| Barmbek | Container motor ship | Meyer Werft, Papenburg / S-674 | June 3, 2005 | 9313228 | Hansa Hamburg Shipping, Hamburg Mgrs. Knöhr & Burchard |
in motion |
| Bredenbek | Motor tanker | JG Hitzler, Lauenburg / 704 | 6th September 1969 | 7002629 | P / R MS "Bredenbek" K / R Knöhr & Burchard |
1987 Agios Simeon I , 2003 Afros I , 2012 in motion |
| Clara | Barque | J. Oltmanns Wwe., Motzen / - | May 24, 1865 | - | Carl Ludwig Knöhr and Christian Gustav Schnabel K / R Knöhr & Burchard |
Sold in 1880, condensed in 1889 |
| Curslack | Cargo steamer | F. Schichau, Elbing / 1129 | June 1923 | - | Schlueter & Maack, Hamburg K / R Knöhr & Burchard |
Sviyaga 1935 , deleted from Lloyd's Register in 1960 |
| Balasore | Four-masted barque | Barclay, Curle & Company, Glasgow / 378 | 1892 | - | The Balasore Sailing Ship Company, Liverpool Mgrs. Th. Rome |
1913 to Knöhr & Burchard → Dalbek , confiscated by the USA in 1917 and sent to USSB → Red Jacket , 1918 Monogahela , 1937 as a lighter → Balmore , 1942 Monogahela , stranded on December 17, 1943 off Cape George, Porcher Island |
| Erika | Cargo steamer | Schiffswerfte & Maschinenfabrik (formerly Janssen & Schmilinsky) AG, Hamburg / 580 | August 10, 1921 | - | Partner shipping company K / R H. Schuldt, Hamburg |
1923 extended, 1925 to J. Lauritzen, Hamburg, K / R Knöhr & Burchard → Dalbek , 1927 Strijpe , 1933 Sivigliano , sunk 7 May 1943 at Bizerta, later lifted and scrapped |
| Dalbek | Cargo steamer | Lübecker Maschinenbau AG, Lübeck / 381 | June 6, 1939 | - | P / R K / R Knöhr & Burchard |
Delivered to Great Britain in 1945 → Empire Weaver , 1946 to the Soviet Union → Tchernigov , scrapped in Split from May 2, 1969 |
| Dalbek | Cargo motor ship | Lübeck Flender-Werke, Lübeck / 457 | October 6, 1955 | 5085380 | P / R MS "Dalbek" K / R Knöhr & Burchard |
1973 Daniel , 1978 Queen Sea |
| diamond | Barque | D. Oltmann, Rönnebeck / - | 1869 | - | Balleer, Bremen | 1883 to Knöhr & Burchard, published and sold in 1884, deleted from the register in 1900 |
| Diana M | Motor tanker | DW Kremer and Son, Elmshorn / 1047 | 3rd February 1956 | 5126457 | Shipping company Ostermoor, Hamburg K / R Knöhr & Burchard |
1961 Gary , 1971 Genny , Donna Laura |
| Edmund & Louise | Barque | C. Wriede, Finkenwerder / - | May 29, 1867 | - | HW Köhn, Hamburg | 1879 to Knöhr & Burchard, sold in 1885 → Rolf , stranded on March 25, 1888 on the north coast of Jutland |
| Liberte pour tous | Barque | M. Pearse & Company, Stockton / - | 1862 | - | G. Lauriol, Nantes | 1880, Castletown , 1890 Knöhr & Burchard → Eilbek , May 22, on the journey from Liverpool to Guayaquil in 1895 Fernando de Noronha abandoned |
| Moreton | Four-masted barque | Russel & Company, Port Glasgow / 305 | September 1892 | - | Sailing Ship "Moreton" Ltd., Liverpool Mgrs. JP Welford |
1898 to P / RK / R Knöhr & Burchard → Eilbek , May 31, 1899, removed to Port Jackson, sold in 1918, sold to Tamara XV in 1922 , sold for demolition in February 1925 |
| Dora Horn | Cargo steamer | Henry Koch shipyard, Lübeck / 242 | August 22, 1923 | - | HC Horn, Hamburg | 1923 after launching at Knöhr & Burchard → Eilbek , 1930 sold → Baalbeck , in 1942 by the German Reich seized → Frieda 3 , February 21, 1943 18 miles east-southeast of Cape Bon by British submarine unruffled sunk |
| Eilbek | Cargo steamer | Lübecker Maschinenbau AG, Lübeck / 347 | April 28, 1936 | - | P / R K / R Knöhr & Burchard |
Applied on November 18, 1939 by the British auxiliary cruiser Scotstoun , 1940 Empire Scout , 1946 Kellwyn , 1950 Claus Böge , foreclosed in 1960 → Antonakis , scrapped in Yugoslavia from August 1968 |
| Eilbek | Cargo motor ship | Helsingør Jernskib & Maskinbyggeri, Helsingør / 271 | October 30, 1942 | - | Knöhr & Burchard | intended as barrier breaker 30 , damaged several times by bombs during the renovation and sunk by bombing before completion on November 4, 1944, later scrapped |
| Eilbek | Container motor ship | Meyer Werft, Papenburg / S-671 | January 2005 | 9313199 | Hansa Hamburg Shipping, Hamburg Mgrs. Knöhr & Burchard |
2005 Cast Prosperity , 2006 Eilbek , in motion |
| Emin Pasha | Barque | Grangemouth Dockyard, Grangemouth / 134 | October 1890 | - | CM Matzen, Hamburg | during construction to P / RK / R Knöhr & Burchard → Ellerbek , January 23, 1913 brought in to Valparaiso de-masted, later towed to Coquimbo and condensed, sold August 28, 1913, repaired → Quintero , March 16, 1918 on the journey from Copenhagen to Methil sunk by UB 34 |
| Ellerbek | Cargo steamer | Orenstein-Koppel & Lübecker Maschinenbau AG, Lübeck / 411 | December 12, 1953 | - | Kathra Warenhandels-Gesellschaft, Hamburg K / R Knöhr & Burchard |
1966 Castalia , 1972 Newenglander , launched September 26, 1972 in Lübeck, scrapped in Bilbao from July 4, 1973 |
| Eugene | Barque | O. Kirchhoff, Stralsund / - | 1876 | - | Eugen Diekelmann, Stralsund | 1885 to Knöhr & Burchard, sold in 1889, stranded in Cuba in 1904, condensed in 1905 |
| Crown of Germany | Four-masted barque | Workman, Clark & Company, Belfast / 90 | 1892 | - | The Crown Steamship Company of Belfast, Belfast Mgrs. John Reid |
1910 to Knöhr & Burchard → Fischbek , stranded on July 19, 1910 on the journey from Port Talbot to Iquique in Drakestrasse near False Cove |
| Fischbek | Cargo steamer | Orenstein-Koppel & Lübecker Maschinenbau AG, Lübeck / 521 | November 30, 1957 | 5115563 | "Progreß" shipping company and trading company, Hamburg (Otto Aldag) K / R Knöhr & Burchard |
1973 Centa Star , 1980 Venus , 1980 Toyota , 1983 Al Badr Al Saudi II , launched September 26, 1972 in Lübeck, scrapped in Gadani Beach from November 1983 |
| Flottbek | Full ship | CS Swan & Hunter, Newcastle / 168 | September 1891 | - | - | during construction at P / RK / R Knöhr & Burchard, brought in January 1901 as a damaged vehicle to Cape Flattery, in June 1906 on a trip from Iquique to Liverpool near Cape Horn collided with an iceberg and repaired in Rio de Janeiro, from August 1914 as a trailer in Antofagasta , Awarded to France in 1919 and handed over in Ghent in February 1921, scrapped in Wilhelmshaven from August 1923 |
| Flottbek | Cargo steamer | F. Schichau, Danzig / 1157 | February 13, 1926 | - | P / RK / R Knöhr & Burchard | Sunk by the British submarine Trident on 17 November 1941 off Kirkenes |
| Flottbek | Cargo steamer | Orenstein-Koppel & Lübecker Maschinenbau AG, Lübeck / 556 | December 8, 1951 | 5116828 | P / R MS "Flottbek" K / R Knöhr & Burchard |
Sold in 1968 → Constantinos , 1979 Aetopetra , scrapped in Cartagena from July 1984 |
| Flottbek | Container motor ship | Meyer Werft, Papenburg / S-673 | May 4, 2005 | 9313216 | Hansa Hamburg Shipping, Hamburg Mgrs. Knöhr & Burchard |
in motion |
| Fortuna | Barque | Reiherstieg Schiffswerfte, Hamburg / 201 | 1869 | - | Martin Arnesen, Hamburg | 1903 to Knöhr & Burchard, June 16, 1903 collision with the steamer Wilhelmina whereby the latter sank, sold in 1906, January 18, 1910 stranded at Ship Bottom, New Jersey on the voyage from Montevideo to New York |
| Miltonburn | Four-masted barque | Barclay, Curle & Company, Glasgow / 382 | 1893 | - | R. Shankland & Company, Greenock | 1908 to P / RK / R Knöhr & Burchard → Goldbek , applied to Lizard on September 10, 1914 by the British cruiser Talbot , auctioned in 1914 → Steinsund , set sail from Bordeaux to Newport News on March 3, 1920 and lost on the voyage |
| Goldbek | Cargo steamer | F. Schichau, Elbing / 1131 | August 1923 | - | Knöhr & Burchard | Sold in 1935 → Sura , arrived in Hamburg on January 10, 1969 for demolition |
| Goldbek | Cargo steamer | Lübecker Maschinenbau AG, Lübeck / - | January 5, 1940 | 5216941 | P / RK / R Knöhr & Burchard | Completed as Thielbek , sunk by aerial bombs on May 3, 1945, over 2000 dead, lifted and repaired in 1949 → Reinbek , sold in 1961 → Magdalena , 1966 Old Warrior , demolished in Split in 1974 |
| Dilkhoosh | Full ship / barque | J. Major, London / - | 1864 | - | Fleming, London | Converted to a barque in 1881 → Inveravon , 1883 Gotha , 1890 sold to Knöhr & Burchard, 1893, 1897 to Knöhr & Burchard, 1898 sold to GJH Siemers as a storage ship in Buenos Aires, sunk in Buenos Aires in 1899 |
| Grönnebek | Cargo steamer | Orenstein-Koppel & Lübecker Maschinenbau AG, Lübeck / 481 | November 15, 1954 | 5136531 | Kathra Warenhandels-Gesellschaft, Hamburg K / R Knöhr & Burchard |
1970 Sunshine , 1971 Nicolaos H , 1975 Virgo , stranded on February 2, 1976 in bad weather off Mimizan , demolition in situ |
| Deux-Sèvres | Cargo steamer | Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée , Le Havre / 313 | October 1906 | - | Cie. de Nav. d'Orbigny-Faustin, La Rochelle | 1912 Cora , 1913 Consul Schulte , 1917 Thebea , 1917 Gustav , 1917/18 sold to Knöhr & Burchard, 1918 sold, 1921 Rihon , 1923 Nisshin Maru No. 2 , stranded east of Okushiri on April 20, 1930 |
| Was compass | Cargo steamer | Pusey & Jones , Wilmington / 1005 | September 1918 | - | Shipping Controller , London | 1918 Aurora , 1920 Carabinier , 1917 Thebea , 1926 Yzerhandel , 1928 Belgica , 1932 Haarfagre , confiscated by the German Reich in 1944, shipowner Knöhr & Burchard, returned in 1945, 1948 Helmi L. , 1949 Karl Erik , on August 20, 1960 for demolition at Van Heyghen Freres arrived in Ghent |
| Wandsbek | Full ship | Alexander Stephen & Sons , Glasgow / 289 | 1885 | - | Edmiston & Mitchells, Glasgow | 1885 Ardencaple , 1896 Wandsbek , stranded at Lizard Point in 1900 and abandoned |
| Wandsbek | Four-masted barque | Russell & Co. , Greenock / 303 | 1892 | - | GT Soley & Co., Liverpool | 1892 Ancyra , 1900 Wandsbek , 1914–1923 in Santa Rosalía , Mexico, interned, destroyed there in a storm in 1923 |
| Wandsbek | Turbine cargo ship | Moss Værft & Dokk , Moss ( Norway ) / - | 1938 | - | Knöhr & Burchard | 1940 Kriegsmarine, sunk in 1941, lifted and repaired in 1943, 1945 Great Britain Empire Medway , 1946 Soviet Union Aleksandr Pushkin , broken up in 1966 |
| Data: Lloyd's Register of Shipping, various years, Equasis, large tonnage | ||||||
| Abbreviations: P / R: Partenreederei, K / R: Korrespondentreederei, Mgrs .: Managers | ||||||
literature
- Hans Jürgen Heise: Knöhr & Burchard Nfl. In: Nautilus , Vol. 1, No. 6, November 1973, pages 315-333
- Hans Jürgen Heise: Knöhr & Burchard Nfl. In: Nautilus , Vol. 2, No. 1, January 1974, pages 34-44
- Hans Jürgen Heise: Knöhr & Burchard Nfl. In: Nautilus , Vol. 2, No. 2, March 1974, pages 95-105
- Mathies, Otto: Hamburg's shipping company 1814-1914 . Friederichsen Verlag, Hamburg 1924.
Web links
- Internet presence of the shipping company
- Walter Kresse: Knöhr & Burchard Nfl., Ship broker and shipowner in Hamburg since 1814 (PDF; 4.6 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Fischbek at wrecksite (English)
- ↑ Equasis homepage (English)
- ↑ grosstonnage homepage (English)