Kolbewerft

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The Kolbewerft was a shipbuilding company founded in Kiel in 1893 . The company was based at the mouth of the Schwentine in the Wellingdorf district of Kiel .

history

The company was founded in 1893 by Christian Kolbe together with a partner as Stocks & Kolbe in Kiel. Until 1910 mainly small boats, lighters and ships up to 100 GRT , including six electric boats between 8 and 17 meters in length, were built. From 1911 the ships became bigger and reached around 550 GRT with the combined cargo and passenger ship Hermann Krabb . In the early years, the company also operated civil engineering, dyke and port construction, and carried out dredging and pile driving. Another mainstay was the salvage business in the western Baltic Sea, which had been maintained for decades. In 1907, Stocks & Kolbe began building motor boats and ships at an early stage against the backdrop of the Kiel Motorboat Exhibition. The engines used were powered by petroleum and crude oil . They were supplied by the Philipp Swiderski Maschinenbaufabrik from Leipzig , the Kieler Maschinenfabrik and the Deutsche Maschinen- und Motorenfabrik (formerly Christiani) from Kiel. The subsidiary Düppelwerft north of Sønderborg was also founded in 1907 in order to be able to carry out larger new buildings up to around 15,000 tons . The new shipyard on Alsensund was around 70,000 m² and had a quay length of 600 meters. Since Sonderburg became Danish after the end of the First World War, Kolbe gave up the shipyard again.

Starting from 1910, an increasing number of motor launchers , motor tugs , motor lighters and motor freighters were delivered. The oak freight and passenger steamer Solf was delivered to the Deutsche Handels- und Plantagen-Gesellschaft in 1913. It served as a mail steamer in the South Pacific for regular mail traffic between the plantations on the South Sea islands. The mail steamer was seized by the United States Navy in 1917 , armed and used as the USS Samoa in the South Pacific. The 1914 Stocks & Kolbe built 190-BRT became known three-masted gaff schooner Belmonte , who from the company GW Bley in Kiel bereedert was. The Belmonte was acquired by the Imperial Navy as an auxiliary ship during World War I and used as a submarine trap . The freight steamers Bille and Stör, which were delivered to the Hamburg Bugsier-, Reederei- und Bergungsgesellschaft around 1920 , were Stocks & Kolbe's largest ships at 660 GRT.

In the early 1920s, the company went after leaving his partner in the sole possession of Kolbe's over and changed its name to closure as Kolbe shipyard . Around 500 people were employed in the original shipyard at that time. A total of around 650 ships were launched at Stocks & Kolbe. The last new build, the 120 GRT motor sailer Anguaze , was delivered to the Portuguese Colonial Ministry in 1929 with hull number 263.

Kolbe died on April 17th, 1930, who had no offspring, and the Kolbe shipyard closed on June 1st. The shipyard was taken over by the Kiel Naval Arsenal . During the war, a torpedo equipment yard, a torpedo warehouse and other buildings were built. After the end of the Second World War, the Kiel sea fish market was established on the site in 1947.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eike Lehmann: 100 Years of Shipbuilding Society: Biographies on the History of Shipbuilding , Springer, Berlin, 1999, page 235.
  2. ↑ Yearbook of the Shipbuilding Society , Volume 32, J. Springer, Berlin, 1931, p. 57.
  3. ↑ Kiel Memorial Day: September 27, 1947 - Opening of the Kiel sea fish market at the mouth of the Schwentine at Kiel.de ( Memento of the original from August 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / kiel.de
  4. ↑ Heinz Göben: The competition of the German fishing port and its problems , Duncker & Humblot, Berlin, 1961, p. 135.

Coordinates: 54 ° 19 ′ 40.9 ″  N , 10 ° 10 ′ 48.4 ″  E