Ottensener Eisenwerk

The Ottensener ferrous AG (originally Pommée & Nicolay ) was a 1880 founded German company. It was taken over by Willy Schlieker in 1953 and renamed the Schlieker shipyard in early 1959 .

history

Share of 1000 RM in Ottensener Eisenwerk AG from August 1942

The company Pommée & Nicolay was founded in 1880 as a boiler forge in the then village and later Hamburg district of Ottensen near Altona . After a change of partners, the forge traded under the name Pommée & Ahrens from 1885 and, with the conversion to a stock corporation, from 1889 as Ottensener Eisenwerk vorm. Pommée & Ahrens . The production in the machine works and foundry included transmissions , steam engines , steam boilers and pumps . In 1907 the company was renamed Ottensener Eisenwerk Aktiengesellschaft . By 1920, numerous metal factories in Ottensen and Hamburg were taken over, such as the Ottensener machine factory, Altona-Ottensen, and the Ottensener machine factory, Hamburg.

In 1920, the company on the Peute in the Hamburg-Veddel district , at the Müggenburger Schleuse , acquired a leasehold property to build a shipyard . Barges and small ocean-going vessels were built here, and there was good cooperation with the company's other plants. The construction program consisted mainly of barges, launches , motor tugs, motor freighters, fish steamers, Kümos , small passenger ships for the Hadag and some minesweepers.

From 1929 onwards, individual parts of the company were closed and sold. In 1953 the large industrialist Willy Schlieker took over the Ottensener iron works and the Peute shipyard. He expanded operations in 1955 with the expansion of a shipyard for large shipbuilding on Steinwerder . From 1959 the company's operations operated under the name Schlieker-Werft . The last factories in Ottensen were shut down in 1960 and relocated to Steinwerder.

Known uses

• Steam boilers of Ottensener works were, for example, fire engines - teams of the company Louis Tidow used.

literature

• Schlieker: Schlieker ships. Schlieker shipyard Hamburg. The rapid rise of a Hamburg shipyard after World War II , Rocholsche Buchdruckerei W. Jahn, Soest, no year

Web links

Commons : Ottensener Eisenwerk  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ottensener Eisenwerk AG, formerly Pommée & Ahrens
• Der Spiegel: One man alone , article from August 1, 1962
• Early documents and newspaper articles on the Ottensener Eisenwerk in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Manfred Gihl: Fire brigades under steam. The history of steam spray technology , steam pressure spray trolleys preserved with various photographs, Erfurt 2011: Sutton, ISBN 978-3-86680-813-3 , p. 91f. u.ö .; partly online via Google books