Jens Jost shipping company
The Jens Jost shipping company was originally founded in Flensburg in 1874 by the shipping company merchant Hans-Peter Jost and after his death in 1887 it was continued by Jens Jost under his own name. The ship brokerage company Christian Jürgensen and Brink & Wölffel emerged from the company and was deleted from the commercial register at the beginning of 2019.
history
In the time before the turn of the century, the steamships showed their superiority in freight transport compared to the sailors and made enormous profits. It was therefore easy for the shipowners to set up a shipping company and find partners for a new ship that shared in the profit or loss of a ship.
Foundation by Hans-Peter Jost
In 1874, Hans-Peter Jost ordered a 1000 GRT steamer from the William Gray & Company shipyard in West Hartlepool , which was largely financed by Parten and delivered in the spring of 1875 under the name Conatio .
In 1887 Hans-Peter Jost died and his brother, the captain Jens Jost, who had also driven ships for the shipping company and was also director of the Flensburger Dampfschiffahrtsgesellschaft from 1869 (FDG from 1869), took over the business and continued it under his name. Both shipping companies moved into an office community on Flensburger Holm. Jens Jost named the next new building, which he took over in 1889, after his brother Hans Jost .
Jens Jost was appointed to the Flensburger Schiffergelag in 1854 and in 1887 he took over the office of one of the four senior men . Until his death he was the first senior man at the head of this venerable guild of boatmen.
From 1900
At the beginning of the 20th century the freight rates fell and many steamers of this time, which were mainly built as three-hatch ships, were without cargo and were laid up. In 1903 Jens Jost handed over the management to his son-in-law, Captain Jörgen Brink. In the same year, the Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft ordered the Fiducia and Schömer & Jensen in Tönning - the Gratia , JLLassen and Peritia - three larger ships with five hatches, which were delivered from 1903 to 1908. After the death of Jens Jost, the company fell to Jörgen Brink in 1908, who continued it under the name J. Jost. Around 1910 five steamers drove for the shipping company.
Jörgen Brink died in 1911. Because his two sons were too young, the widow hired the employee Hanns Wölffel to manage the company. During and after World War I, the J. Jost shipping company was managed by Hanns Wölffel and mainly transported wood and coal in the Baltic and North Seas. In winter the shipping area was extended to the Mediterranean and Black Sea. In 1919 Otto Brink, the son of Jörgen Brink, joined the company. The hyperinflation made it difficult to operate, particularly in 1923 substantially. As a replacement for the Peritia , which sank in 1924 , the shipping company bought the Constantia, built in 1909, in the same year . During the global economic crisis , the Fiducia and the Justitia in Flensburg, acquired second-hand in 1928, were scrapped at the end of 1933 . After that, only the Gratia and Constantia remained in service.
World War II and after
As a replacement for the January 17, 1940, a sea mine spilled and then stranded Gratia was the company the Finnish pinch ship Toras provided that the name Fiducia got and could be used to 1942nd In the further course of the Second World War , the shipping company was assigned two Hansa A ships , of which it only received the Licentia , built in 1944 . After the war Otto Brink had to deliver all the remaining ships. Without ships, he took over the ship brokerage company Friedrich Dahm in Flensburg, founded around 1900 , the founder of which had died. Together with Kurt Wölffel, the son of Hanns Wölffel, they operated as Brink & Wölffel and took care of the declaration of ships calling at Flensburg, mainly Danish Kümos . Chartering was also one of their tasks. For some Kümoreeder who fled to Flensburg from the east and founded new companies, the brokerage company Brink & Wölffel increasingly acted as a correspondence shipping company . In 1952 Jürgen Brink, Otto Brink's son, joined the Flensburg company. After Kurt Wölffel's death in 1954, he continued to run the Brink & Wölffel company in Flensburg on his own.
Bremer Schiffahrtkontor Brink & Co in Bremen
Parallel to the business in Flensburg, Otto Brink founded a new shipping company in Bremen under the name of Bremer Schiffahrtkontor Brink & Co in 1950 and began to rebuild his fleet with the steamer Industria, which was bought from England . The new Audentia building was added in 1954 by the Unterweser shipbuilding company . The Elsflether shipyard delivered with the motor coasters Fidentia , Prudence and Contentia 1955-1957 three new buildings. The ships were partly loaded by Brink & Wölffel in Flensburg and mainly sailed in the Baltic and North Sea.
The Bremen shipping company was closed in 1961 and its areas of activity were taken over by the Flensburg parent company Brink & Wölffel. The following three newbuildings, Gratia , Fiducia and Laetitia , owned by one-ship companies, were built from 1967 to 1968 at the Nobiskrug shipyard in Rendsburg. Shortly afterwards, two German multi-purpose freighters with 15,000 tdw were ordered from Bremer Vulkan and the Rickmers shipyard . The first ship, the Jens Jost , was delivered in December 1969. The new Rickmers building was sold to the Leonhardt & Blumberg shipping company before completion , after Jürgen Brink, the son of the shipping company Otto Brink, had died in 1969.
Partner Atle Jebsen
As there were no male heirs, the ship brokerage company Brink & Wölffel was sold and the shipping company was continued with the Norwegian partner Atle Jebsen (Bergen) in the shipping company J. Jost GmbH, founded in 1971, in which the Hamburg-based Deka Schiffahrtkontor also held shares. The headquarters of the new Jost GmbH and the ship management initially remained in Flensburg, while the chartering was relocated to Hamburg and Bergen. Jebsen later became the sole shareholder and also had some of his incoming new buildings registered in Germany with J. Jost as the correspondent owner. In 1975 he moved the headquarters of the shipping company from Flensburg to Hamburg and took over 10 more ships from the Norwegian parent company Kristan Jebsen A / S. By the mid-1980s, these ships were gradually ceded to other companies.
The Flensburg ship brokerage company Christian Jürgensen and Brink & Wölffel, later continued by Jürgen F. Jensen, was deleted from the commercial register on January 28, 2019.
swell
- 100 years of shipping, shipbuilding, ports; 1964 Hamburg, shipping company Hansa
- Detlefsen, Gert Uwe: German shipping companies, Volume 4: 1996 Publisher Gert Uwe Detlefsen
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jutta Glüsing: Maritime Silver in the Industrial Age, A »Silver Cog« from 1908 , Deutsches Schiffahrtsarchiv 25, 2002
- ^ Online Commercial Register, Christian Jürgensen u. Brink & Wölffel Schiffahrt Verwaltungs GmbH, Flensburg (paid access)