Olympic Maritime
Olympic Maritime was the shipping company of Aristotle Onassis and existed from 1952 to the 1990s.
history
Olympic Maritime was founded in Paris in 1952 and managed from Monaco; the German subsidiary Olympic Maritime AG was based in Hamburg. The building there was restored by Caesar Pinnau in 1952 . From 1951 to 1955 the engineer Paul Naß worked for Olympic Maritime and initiated the construction of over 20 large tankers , which were primarily commissioned in Germany, after which he was recruited as director from Lübeck's Flender-Werke AG . Another line of business between 1954 and 1956 was the management of Onassis' whaling fleet, which had previously been carried out by the Erste Deutsche Walfang-Gesellschaft (EDWG) in Hamburg.
In 1975 the company had 45 tankers flying the Liberian flag. Until 1977 the company was led by Christina Onassis , then by Louis Anderson.
When the business division of the Alexander Onassis Foundation was realigned in the 1990s , the company was merged into Olympic Shipping & Management SA, based in Faliro. This still operates 16 ships under the Greek flag and one under the flag of the Marshall Islands.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Portrait: Cäsar Pinnau ( Memento from July 19, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) , Hamburg Architecture Archive of the Hamburg Chamber of Architects.
- ^ Schiff & Hafen : Volume 15, Page 486
- ↑ Klaus Barthelmess: The opponents of the "Olympic Challenger" How American secret services, Norwegians and Germans ended the whaling adventure of Aristotle Onassis in: Polarforschung 79 (3), 2009, pp. 155–176.
- ↑ Business week: Issues 2379–2387
- ^ Time: Volume 110, 1977, p. 69
- ^ Onassis Foundation