Ludewig Wasserbau und Werft
| Ludewig Wasserbau und Werft GmbH | |
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| legal form | GmbH |
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Rostock , Germany
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| Branch | Hydraulic engineering and shipbuilding |
The Ludewig Hydraulic Engineering and Werft GmbH is a Rostock companies.
history
Otto Wilhelm Andreas Ludewig (born May 31, 1826 in Stettin ; † May 14, 1901) founded the shipyard at Am Strande 7 in the 19th century , which now has the company address at Am Kabutzenhof 21 in Rostock.
Ludewig, the son of a hatter , was the grandson of a sailmaker and the stepson of another sailmaker who had his workshop in Grabow on the Oder. Ludewig, one of 15 siblings, began his training in Albert Emil Nüscke's wooden shipyard at the age of 14 . He then went to sea for some time before attending the royal shipbuilding school in Stettin. In 1848 he completed his training as a shipbuilder. Then he worked for a year with the Prussian Navy in Stettin, where he also gave lessons, and then at various shipyards in Kolberg , Damgarten and Rostock. From October 18, 1850 he was involved in the construction of the first two iron screw steamers in Rostock. When, on October 30, 1852, he asked for the citizenship as a ship's carpenter at a contest , he had a job as a technician in the Tischbein factory and could hope that with his own fortune of 4000 thalers and the 3000 thalers that his fiancée, a daughter of Mayor Sternberg in Damgarten, was to receive as a dowry, either on Tischbein's property or elsewhere to be able to start a shipyard. The already resident shipbuilders tried with all means to prevent the settlement of this competitor, but finally the Grand Ducal Ministry stepped in and rejected all objections to Ludewig's founding of the shipyard.
His shipyard soon had a good reputation. Ludewig, who, along with Wilhelm Zeltz and Ernst Burchard, was one of Rostock's most renowned shipbuilders, usually selected the wood for his shipbuilding personally in the Gelbensander Forest and was not dependent on ship cracks from outside hands. He employed around 30 people. In his time, 66 sailing ships and a wooden steamer were built at Ludewig's shipyard. The first ship, a brig named Leonidas , was launched in 1854, the last, the Bark Rudolph Josephi , in 1883. The steamer was named Concurrent .
Otto Ludewig senior held several honorary positions. From 1864 he was church chairman in St. Petri ; For many years he was a member of the first quarters of the representative citizenship and was a citizenship deputy, and from 1876 he was also an assessor of the Imperial Upper Sea Office in Berlin. He died after a short, serious illness on a trip that he had undertaken on April 23, 1901 to negotiate a Maritime Administration in Berlin.
The shipyard passed into the hands of Otto Julius Ludewig (born April 30, 1858 in Rostock; † March 25, 1912), who was the second son of the company founder. After attending secondary school, he had learned to be a ship carpenter in his father's company and then worked for Rostock AG for shipbuilding and mechanical engineering and in Stettin at the Vulcan shipyard. This was followed by a degree in shipbuilding at the Technical University in Braunschweig . Otto Julius Ludewig had been a partner in his father's shipyard since he took his exams in Braunschweig and took over the management at the age of 32.
Otto Julius Ludewig recognized the signs of the times: Around 1880, new wooden ships were no longer profitable. But even for iron steamers at that time there was not as much cargo to be found as before, as Mecklenburg's grain exports had declined sharply. Therefore Otto Julius Ludewig decided to integrate hydraulic engineering into the company as a new line of business. The expansion of the pier in Warnemünde and the expansion of the port, which were necessary for rail traffic to Denmark , offered many job opportunities. In addition, Otto Julius Ludewig built steam rams and top frames and led the renovation of the Petri Bridge in 1911. He was awarded the Danebrogorden for his services .
After Otto Julius Ludewig's early death in 1912, his widow Erna, née Well graves, the shipyard continues. She was the owner together with her second daughter Herta. Paul Stage, the husband of this daughter, became managing director in 1919. Under Stage one worked in the groyne construction on the Baltic Sea coast and on the quays in Rostock and Warnemünde; In addition, the company had five tugs during those years that did maneuvering work and broke the ice in the fairways in winter. Paul Stage died in 1940 and Herta Stage took over the company, supported by operations manager Erich Hucksdorf. From 1961 there was a state participation, in 1970 it was converted into a limited partnership . With the forced sale on April 20, 1970, the shipyard Otto Ludewig jun. the VEB Wasserbau Rostock. Erna Stage died two years later. After the fall of the Wall, Michael Wolfgang Ludewig, a grandson of Otto Ludewig, founded Ludewig Wasserbau und Werft GmbH on July 1, 1991 with the civil engineer Hein Jasnau, the master carpenter Rolf Kucher and the qualified engineer Hans Dieter Seibel. It focused on hydraulic engineering, ship repairs for ships up to 90 tons, motor boat service and building construction.
The former basin of the Ludewig shipyard was to receive a promenade by the city's 800th birthday. A model of the brig Balance , which was built by Ludewig in 1863 for the skipper Heinrich Stuhr, is in the Warnemünde Local History Museum . The old slipway of the Ludewigschen Werft is located in the shipbuilding museum in Schmarl .
Ships built by Ludewig
- Brigg Leonidas (1854)
- Brigg CH Knitschky (1855)
- Bark CM by Behr (1855)
- Schonerbark Favorite (1855)
- Bark Dr. Jur. Jantzen (1856)
- Brigg Nordstern (1856)
- Bark Erwin (1856)
- Schoonerbark Theodor Voss (1856)
- Bark Clara Wilsnack (1856)
- Bark Forward (1857)
- Brigg Wodan (1857)
- Brigg Meeresbraut (1857)
- Brigg Horus (1857)
- Bark Hans Georg (1858)
- Brigg V. Laffert-Garlitz (1858)
- Brigg Mayor Sternberg (1858)
- Brigg Max (1859)
- Bark PJF Burchard (1860)
- Schooner Bertha (1860)
- Bark Fides (1861)
- Schooner Ernst II Duke of Coburg-Gotha (1861)
- Bark Rebecca (1862)
- Bark Georg Becker (1862)
- Brigg Balance (1862)
- Brigg The Bride (1862)
- Steamer Concurrent (1862)
- Bark Bobsien Kägsdorf (1863)
- Bark Tönnies Voss (1863)
- Schoonerbark Carl Brodersen (1863)
- Barque Albatros (1864)
- Bark Vienna-Hohenfelde (1864)
- Bark JF Pust (1865)
- Brigg CF Maass (1865)
- Bark Fortuna (1866)
- Brigg GC Michels (1866)
- Schooner Elise (1866)
- Schoonerbrigg Hermann (1866)
- Bark Mathilde (1866)
- Bark Hellas (1867)
- Bark V. Schack-Rey (1867)
- Brigg Swantewit (1867)
- Brigg Gustav Fretwurt (1867)
- Schooner Gut Heil (1867)
- Brigg C. Neumann-Gaedebehn (1868)
- Brigg Helios (1868)
- Schooner Lisette (1868)
- Brig Albertine Meyer (1868)
- Schooner Matthäus Rickert (1869)
- Bark Albert Neumann Berlin (1869)
- Bark Carl Agrell (1869)
- Bark Matthias Meyer (1872)
- Bark Carl Both (1872)
- Schooner Richard Porter (1873)
- Brigg Rudolphine Burchard (1873)
- Brigg Beatrice Suppicich (1873)
- Brigg Dr. Witte (1874)
- Bark Ada Stott (1875)
- Schooner Elfriede Mumm (1875)
- Bark August Burchard (1875)
- Bark Semmy Cohn (1876)
- Schooner Clara Peters (1876)
- Schooner The Peace (1877)
- Schoonerbrigg Heinrich Sellschopp (1877)
- Schoonerbrigg Bertha Heyn (1877)
- Bark J. Schoentjes (1878)
- Bark Rudolph Josephi (1883)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Excerpt from the commercial register at www.online-handelsregister.de
- ↑ a b Jürgen Rabbel, Rostock Windjammer. Wooden sailors , Rostock ²1988, ISBN 3-356-00213-9 , p. 63
- ↑ a b c d Jürgen Rabbel, Rostocker Windjammer. Wooden sailors , Rostock ²1988, ISBN 3-356-00213-9 , p. 64 f.
- ↑ Jürgen Rabbel, Rostock Windjammer. Wooden sailors , Rostock ²1988, ISBN 3-356-00213-9 , p. 66
- ↑ Wolf-Dietrich Gehrke, The oldest shipyard on the beach lives on ... as Ludewig Wasserbau und Werft GmbH , in: Wolf-Dietrich Gehrke, people under seven towers. Rostocker Familiengeschichten edited by Ulrich B. Vetter , Konrad Reich Verlag Rostock 1997, ISBN 3-86167-095-X , pp. 72–75
- ↑ mo, “Bäderschiff should not be forgotten” , August 30, 2016 at www.ostsee-zeitung.de
- ↑ Ship model with a real history of Warnemünde , January 6, 2016 on der-warnemuender.de
- ↑ Schmatzen an der Warnow , October 24, 2016 at www.wiro.de
- ↑ a b Jürgen Rabbel, Rostock Windjammer. Wooden sailors , Rostock ²1988, ISBN 3-356-00213-9 , p. 238
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- ^ Jürgen Rabbel: Rostock Windjammer . Hinstorff, 1988, ISBN 978-3-356-00213-3 , p. 272 ( limited preview in Google book search)
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- ^ Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz: Mitteilungen - Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz . Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz., 1997 ( limited preview in Google book search)
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- ^ Verlag C. von der Ropp: Baltic studies . Verlag C. von der Ropp, 2000, p. 222 ( limited preview in Google book search)
- ^ Heinz Glade: Rostock . FA Brockhaus, 1982, p. 90 ( limited preview in Google book search)
- ^ Jürgen Rabbel: Rostock Windjammer . Hinstorff, 1988, ISBN 978-3-356-00213-3 , p. 133 ( limited preview in Google book search)
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