Karl Schlueter shipping company
The shipping company Karl Schlueter was a German shipping company based in Rendsburg . It was named after its founder Karl Schlueter (1912–1994).
Company history
Karl Schlueter was born on March 9, 1912 in Stavenhagen , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . After completing school and nautical training, he acquired the captain's license . In 1951 he acquired his first ship, the Heike Schlüter, and thus became the captain shipowner . This ship was built in 1912 as a lighter named Frieda at the F. Lemm shipyard in Boizenburg and was converted into a coaster in 1927 . From 1936 it was used by the German Navy named Mosel as a torpedo transport ship. Karl Schlüter carried wood with the Heike Schlüter from Sweden to Germany, the Benelux ports and Great Britain. In June 1958 he replaced the ship with a new Sietas Type 1 , which was also christened Heike Schlüter . The third Heike Schlüter was built in 1965 at the Husum shipyard and was also used in the logging industry.
In 1969, Karl Schlüter founded the shipping office in Rendsburg together with the captains Emil Jeß and Hans Peterson and from 1975 onwards it made it possible for third-party investors to participate in the ships operated. Jens-Peter Schlüter (1945–2014) took over from his father in 1975 as managing director of the shipping company and initiated the construction of a container ship in which outside investors could participate. The Thomas Mann, delivered in 1976 with 135 berths, was the first ship in the Dichter series. Further container feeder ships followed in cooperation with the issuing house Norddeutsche Vermögen in order to expand as a shipping company with outside financing. The first jointly placed ship was the Theodor Fontane , a container ship with 343 spaces, which was chartered to DNOL. Later, other modern container freighters were put into operation in cooperation with the issuing house Norddeutsche Vermögen.
On July 1, 2007, Norddeutsche Reederei Holding, a subsidiary of Norddeutsche Vermögen, took over the Karl Schlueter shipping company. In 2010, 26 container ships with parking spaces from 1,700 to 4,250 TEU drove for the shipping company, around 500 German, Croatian, Ukrainian and Filipino seafarers provided the seafaring personnel. A bulk carrier , the Tasman Castle with 57,000 dwt, was delivered in early 2011.
The headquarters of the Schlüter shipping company was relocated from Rendsburg to Hamburg on February 1, 2011 , and the company was integrated into the North German shipping company H. Schuldt on July 1, 2011 .
Shipping company Jens-Peter Schlueter
After the sale of his father's company, Jens-Peter Schlüter founded the Jens-Peter Schlüter (JPS) shipping company, also located in Rendsburg, in 2007, which began operations with two container ships. He invested a lot of time in setting up the Rendsburg shipping archive, which was opened in 2007 . The 69-year-old entrepreneur died in 2015, the shipping company was dissolved in 2017.
literature
- Gert Uwe Detlefsen: 50 years of the Karl Schlueter shipping company. = 50 years shipping company Karl Schlueter. Gert Uwe Detlefsen, Bad Segeberg et al. 2000, ISBN 3-928473-58-1 .
Individual evidence
- ^ The company history , North German shipping company H. Schuldt.
- ↑ Kieler Nachrichten, A shipowner with a social conscience, September 1, 2014 , accessed on September 10, 2019
- ↑ Entry at Northdata , accessed September 11, 2019