Peter Sager (shipbuilder)

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Peter Sager (born March 24, 1809 in Vegesack , † October 31, 1869 in Vegesack) was a German shipbuilder and shipyard owner.

Life

In 1841 Peter Sager took over the shipbuilding business from his father Jürgen Sager and continued to run it until his death in 1869. After that, the shipyard had to cease operations because there was no suitable successor and the wooden shipbuilding also came to an end. The shipyard was later bought by Sager's widow Emma née. Behn (1821–1899) sold to the Vegesacker Sparkasse . In 1898, the Strandlust hotel and restaurant, which still exists today, was built on the shipyard site. The old residential and office building on Buchtstrasse (today Rohrstrasse) gave way in 1911 to the new building of the Sparkasse, which in turn was replaced by an apartment house in 2009.

In 1842, Sager and other entrepreneurs, u. a. with the neighboring Vegesack shipbuilder Hermann Friedrich Ulrichs , obtained permission to build a repair yard on the Outer Weser in Bremerhaven . This was important in so far as the number of new ships built had declined considerably during this period. In 1863, the company ran into financial difficulties, as new construction operations had again declined sharply after a brief recovery. The number of employees had dropped from around 100 in 1826 to just 50. However, Peter Sager managed to avert the impending bankruptcy.

At Jürgen and Peter Sager's shipyard, a total of 68 new wooden sailing ships were built, mostly for Bremen shipowners, and a river steamer. In addition, there were numerous repairs and conversions at both locations.

Honors

  • Today Sagerstrasse runs through the center of Vegesack.
  • The tombstone of the Sager family has been preserved behind the town church of Vegesack an der Kirchheide.

Ships

  • 1815, Galiot Eduard is the first ship from the Sager shipyard
  • 1818, river steamer The Duke of Cambridge
  • 1848: Julius
  • 1851: Adelheid
  • 1855: Everhard Delius
  • 1857: Laura
  • 1869, Schoonerbark Anina is the shipyard's last ship

See also

literature

  • Sophie Hollanders: Vegesack - Old pictures of a port city. Johann Heinrich Döll-Verlag : Bremen 1984; ISBN 3-88808-016-9
  • Peter-Michael Pawlik: From the Weser to the world, the history of the sailing ships from Weser and Lesum and their shipyards 1770 to 1893. Writings of the German Shipping Museum, Volume 33, Ernst Kabel Verlag: Hamburg 1993, ISBN 3-8225-0256-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.fortunecity.com/littleitaly/amalfi/13/shipik.htm ( Memento from August 17, 2000 in the Internet Archive )
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personal data
SURNAME Sager, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German shipbuilder
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Vegesack
DATE OF DEATH October 31, 1869
Place of death Vegesack