Peters shipyard
| Peters Werft GmbH
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1871 |
| Seat |
Wewelsfleth , Germany
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| management | Mark Dethlefs |
| Number of employees | 110 |
| sales | 60 million euros |
| Branch | shipbuilding |
| Website | www.peters-werft.de |
The Peters Werft GmbH, from September 2000 to March 2014 Peters shipbuilding , previously shipyard Hugo Peters is a shipbuilding operation in Wewelsfleth to the sturgeon .
history
J. Peters
The beginnings of shipbuilding on the Stör go back to around the middle of the 18th century. The foundation stone of the Peterswerft was laid by the 39-year-old shipbuilder Jürgen Peters (1832–1921) when he acquired the shipyard in Wewelsfleth, founded by Harm Stelling senior around 1800, on October 1, 1871 from his 71-year-old son Harm Stelling junior. Jürgen Peters completed an apprenticeship as a ship carpenter at Harm Stelling junior from 1848 to 1852. He then worked at shipyards in Kiel and Hamburg. In 1856, Peters hired as a carpenter on a cargo ship. In this way he came to Australia, where he became prosperous as a gold prospector . He invested his profits in the establishment of a shipyard near Sydney , which at times employed up to 35 workers. In 1869, Peters traveled back to Germany as an Australian citizen, where he was surprised by the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War and interned in Lockstedt . There he met his future wife, who refused to emigrate to Australia after the end of the war. Peters then sold his Australian company in 1871 and acquired his former master's shipyard in Wewelsfleth. The construction program of the J. Peters shipyard initially included various wooden ships such as schooners , ewer and fishing cutters . A notable innovation was the steam-powered gang saw , which was put into operation in 1894 . In October 1906 the shipyard burned down almost completely only three days after the pilot schooner Groden was launched.
Intermediate steps
Since the company founder no longer had the strength to rebuild and his two sons Hugo and Wilhelm also waived, the shipyard was sold to the Hamburg shipbuilding engineer Max Werner the following year . But this went bankrupt again in 1909. In the foreclosure auction on February 14, 1910, Hugo Peters, born in 1874, bought back his father's former business, but sold it ten days later to Claus Witt, who had owned a shipyard in Wewelsfleth since 1900 and wanted to expand his company. Witt managed the former Peters shipyard until July 1, 1918 and then sold it, as did Gustav Junge at the same time as the neighboring Junge shipyard (founded in 1859), to the Hamburg company Friedrich Sternemann & Co., which combined the two operations to form the Störwerft (officially Störwerft and machine factory Friedrich Sternemann Hamburg / Wewelsfleth ). The new owners entrusted Gustav Junge with the technical management of the Störwerft and on September 20, 1920 also issued him with power of attorney for the company. After the Störwerft was able to deliver some barges in 1927, it was shut down on July 1, 1928 due to a lack of orders. The site then lay fallow for years.
Hugo Peters & Co.
After the sale of his father's shipyard to Claus Witt, Hugo Peters acquired the Jensen & Massuthe scrapping yard east of the Wewelsflether ferry in 1911 , which he converted into a shipyard in the following two years. The company then worked in the repair business as well as in the demolition sector and also carried out renovations from 1918. In 1919, the shipbuilder Paul Theodor Berendsohn , who previously worked in Burg / Dithmarschen , took a financial stake in the company, which then traded as the shipyard Hugo Peters & Co. In May 1921, the large shipbuilding shed and a material store burned down. Hugo Peters and Paul Berendsohn repaired the damage, but sold the shipyard in the same year to Schiele und Bruchsaler Industriewerke AG in Hornberg , which renamed the company to Unterelbe AG . While Paul Berendsohn subsequently founded the Köhlbrand shipyard in Hamburg, Hugo Peters began building a new shipyard in Beidenfleth , a little further up on the Stör , which he opened in 1922. The company offered repair and demolition work as well as the production of new buildings. During the height of the Great Depression , Hugo Peters succeeded in 1933 in maintaining the shipyard with only his two sons Paul and Hugo Wilhelm and a few apprentices. In 1936, the shipyard delivered its first steel coaster, the Nordmark .
Shipyards Hugo Peters
After initial sales negotiations failed in 1935, Hugo Peters bought back the Stör shipyard in Wewelsfleth, which had been idle since 1928, from Friedrich Sternemann and reopened it on September 14, 1938. The family business was now called Schiffswerften Hugo Peters, Wewelsfleth / Beidenfleth . In addition, on March 13, 1940, Hugo Peters bought the Wewelsflether Werft Unterelbe AG , which went bankrupt at the end of 1939 , to build fishing cutters and other wooden ships . He then combined the two shipyards in Wewelsfleth into one operation. The shipyard in Beidenfleth was also continued.
1945 to 2000
In the immediate post-war period, Peters repaired British tanks, and soon after the repair and construction of fishing cutters began again. On January 1, 1951, Hugo Peters ceded the company to his two sons Paul and Hugo Wilhelm, with Paul Peters taking over the management of the Beidenflether shipyard and Hugo Wilhelm Peters the management of the Wewelsflether shipyard. In 1952, wooden shipbuilding was stopped on the site of the former Lower Elbe shipyard and a new patent slip with a load capacity of 1000 tons was built there . The company ran into financial difficulties as a result of further construction work in Wewelsfleth, whereupon the Hamburg shipbuilding engineer Rudolf Schlöh strengthened the previous family business as co-partner and operations manager. Hugo Peters died on March 29, 1954. In autumn of the same year the Beidenflether shipyard was closed for reasons of profitability after the Hans Matthias had been built. By then, a total of 27 new buildings had been built there.
On January 1, 1955, the previous partner Rudolf Schlöh was appointed managing partner. He was also authorized to represent the company alone. Other managing directors and shareholders of the company, now trading as the Hugo Peters Wewelsfleth shipyard , were Hugo Wilhelm Peters and the businessman Theodor Boll. At the same time, Paul Peters left the business in order to reopen the closed shipyard in Beidenfleth and to continue to operate it independently. The Beidenflether shipyard was then mainly active as a repair shop and also carried out some modifications. From 1957 to 1958 Paul Peters built the four sister ships Tiny Tim , Lizard , Berta Beck and Olaf there . The last of the ships was not accepted by his Dutch shipowner due to a lack of money and sold in 1958 to the shipowner Kurt Saurin from Wilster with a considerable loss . As a result, the Beidenflether shipyard filed for bankruptcy in the same year and finally ceased operations.
The Wewelsflether shipyard made a good name for itself in the following years under the direction of Rudolf Schlöh, in particular with the construction of coasters . In 1971, on the 100th anniversary of its existence, the shipyard could look back on 545 ships built. Even the ships of the first post-war series were known for their relatively sleek lines. The ships built by the shipyard since the 1960s were also given a typical "Peters look", which was continuously developed and characterized by the slightly forward-sloping lines of the superstructure and numerous other details, giving the ships a high recognition value. The series of Peters River Sea Ships built from the late 1970s to the 1990s had simply drawn superstructures with a retractable wheelhouse.
On June 30, 1978, the managing partner Rudolf Schlöh retired. His majority stake was taken over by Helmut Breuer, who had been with the shipyard since 1947 and had owned company shares since 1975. At the same time, Hugo Wilhelm Peters and Theodor Boll left the company as managing directors. Helmut Breuer managed the shipyard with around 350 employees (348 on January 1, 1982) until the year 2000. In December 1995 he became the sole owner of the shipyard by acquiring the 35% remaining stake that the Peters family had held in the company until then Had kept. The Hugo Peters Wewelsfleth shipyard was then renamed the Peterswerft Wewelsfleth at the beginning of 1996 .
Since 2000
On June 13, 2000, the shipyard's management had to file for bankruptcy. However, a new investor was found for the company, which in the following years operated under the new name Peters Schiffbau . In the construction of mega yachts, the shipyard is now cooperating with the new majority owner, the yacht shipyard Kusch Yachts . The first mega yacht completely manufactured by Peters was launched in 2004. Since March 2014 the company has been trading as "Peters Werft".
In August 2017, the shipyard began restoring the Peking , a four-masted steel barque for the port museum in Hamburg. On June 24, 2019, the "Peking" was successfully undocked and relocated to the equipment quay.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Article from July 28, 2000 in the world
- ↑ Article from May 15, 2013 in AKTIV in the north
- ↑ From New York to Wewelsfleth: Restoration in the Peters Werft: The "Peking" arrives at dusk
literature
- Gert Uwe Detlefsen: From the ewer to the container ship . The development of the German coasters. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1983, ISBN 3-7822-0321-6 .
- Cai Boie: Shipbuilding in Germany 1945–52 . The forbidden industry. 1st edition. Publishing house Gert Uwe Detlefsen, Bad Segeberg and Cuxhaven 1993, ISBN 3-928473-11-5 .
- Herbert Karting: The Peterswerft and its ships . 125 years of Peterswerft. 250 years of shipbuilding in Wewelsfleth. Verlag HM Hauschild, Bremen 1996, ISBN 978-3-931785-12-3 .
- Specialist in excavator repairs on the Stör . In: Hansa , issue 4/2018, p. 92
