Shipping company Ernst Jacob

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The shipping company Ernst Jacob (GmbH & Co KG) is a Flensburg shipping company.

history

The company was founded by Ernst Jacob. In 1928 he began an apprenticeship at the shipping company and ship brokerage HP Vith, which was followed by working hours in Hamburg and abroad. In 1938 he returned to Vith, where in 1938 he was initially sole authorized signatory and in 1939 managing director. From 1943 Jacob served in the army, was wounded in 1945 and then returned to the Vith shipping company, which at that time was only one ship of its dozen freighters. After the end of the war and the currency reform , Jacob initiated the founding of the Flensburger Trampreeder Gesellschaft. Initially, all Flensburg shipowners participated in this company, but after the order for the first new building, only the shipowners Vöge & Däcker, HP Vith, Ernst Jacob and Waldemar Nissen remained, who put four freight steamers into service by 1955.

In 1955 Jacob finally went completely independent. The first ship was the Schwennau steamer with a deadweight of 2,850 tons; the shipping company's only employee was an apprentice at the time . By 1963, the fleet had grown by five more ships, each with a carrying capacity of around 3,000 tons, a ship size that was customary for Flensburg trampoline shipping companies at the time. From the mid-1960s onwards, the size of the ship increased to 7,000 tons and the work area was expanded to include worldwide tramping.

In 1966 Werner Jacob, the son of the company founder, joined the company and on January 1, 1971 he became a general partner, after which the company was continued as a family limited company . At the beginning of the 1970s, money began to be raised for new buildings with new financing models that focused on tax advantages in addition to the return. In this way, five ships of the type German multi-purpose freighters came first , then three container ships , each with a 17,000 tonne deadweight, and then six larger bulk carriers with a 50,000 tonne deadweight (four from the Verolme Cork Dockyard in Cobh and two of the 50/15 type from the Flensburger Schiffbau- Society ) to the shipping fleet. In 1975/76, the fleet was expanded to include three product tankers from the Verolme Scheepswerf Alblasserdam, each with a load capacity of 33,000 tons. Around 1980, two more tankers of 42,000 tons from the Flender shipyard and AG Weser were added. In 1983/84 two reefer ships came to the Jacob fleet for the first time . These were worth mentioning for a number of reasons. The type ship Blumenthal (building name Helene Jacob ) was the first German seagoing ship with a free-fall lifeboat , the ship type was voted "Ship of the Year" in 1983 by the trade journal Hansa . In addition, after the German reefer fleet was sold off towards the end of the 1970s, the ships were the only reefer vessels flying the German flag.

On August 13, 1984, the junior boss died in a sailing accident, whereupon the company founder took over the management again. Today the company is run by Ernst Jacob's grandsons Rolf and Tom Jacob and is structured as follows: Ernst Jacob (GmbH & Co KG) acts as an umbrella and ship owner company. The ship management has been carried out by the subsidiary Ernst Jacob Shipmanagement since September 2005 . The manning of own and foreign ships is in the hands of the subsidiary NorthMan GmbH . Another subsidiary is Jacob Tankschifffahrtsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG in Hamburg. The shipping company employs a total of around 500 people, around 30 of them at the headquarters in Flensburg.

literature

  • Ernst Jacob 75 years in Kehrwieder - magazine for Deutsche Seeschiffahrt 7/86 from July 1986, p. 26/27

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ MS Helene Jacob . In: Schiffahrt international , issue 2/1984, Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford, p. 52/53.
  2. ^ From the coast in Hamburger Abendblatt of December 16, 1983
  3. ↑ 478,000 cu.ft. REFRIGERATED CARRIER at Ingenieurbüro für Schiffstechnik Ingo Schlüter (English; PDF; 182 kB)
  4. ↑ Modern oil tankers of the shipping company Ernst Jacob in the Flensburger Energie Zeitung from autumn 2004  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 3.1 MB)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.stadtwerke-flensburg.de  

Coordinates: 54 ° 47 '7.9 "  N , 9 ° 26' 12.1"  E