Robert Bornhofen shipping company
The Robert Bornhofen shipping company was founded in 1920 by Captain Robert Leopold Bornhofen and closed in 1985.
history
Robert Bornhofen was born in Koblenz in 1880 and attended seaman's school in Hamburg when he was 15 . He then went to sea on various ships for 4 years and received the master's license after attending the helmsman's school. In 1911 he and a partner founded a small tug shipping company and mainly transported grain in the Baltic Sea and across the Rhine using barges pulled by tugs. In 1923 he bought the old steamer Marta (built in 1879, 650 t) and opened up shipping. By 1930 he had bought eight used freighters between 500 and 2000 tdw and these were kept in service by him even during the global economic crisis. In 1932 he founded his second mainstay with Robert Bornhofen Schiffahrts- und Hafenbetriebs GmbH.
In 1938 he ordered his first new building ( Karin K. Bornhofen , 3700 GRT) from the Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft , which was not delivered by Nakskov Skibsværft until 1942 due to the war. The second new building ( Robert Bornhofen , 4000 GRT) came from the Rostock Neptun shipyard , which however passed this order on to the Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft. It was then completely built by Nakskov Skibsværft.
World War 2 and post-war period
Most of the ships were destroyed in World War II, only the two newbuildings remained lying in Copenhagen, but had to be delivered to the Soviet Union. In 1948 the shipping company began rebuilding with sunken ships that were lifted and rebuilt. The Hamburg harbor ferry Finkenwärder, which was delivered to Hafen-Dampfschiffs AG by the A. Pahl shipyard in 1936, was taken over as wreck by Bischoff and Bornhofen in 1948 , which they had converted and expanded by the Elsflether shipyard into the Claus Bischoff coaster . 75% of the ship was renewed. In 1950 the HC Horn shipping company bought the motor freighters Therese Horn and Marie Horn , built by the Germania shipyard , and then sailed as Luise Bornhofen and Wilhelm Bornhofen . Newbuildings were then ordered from various shipyards, usually motor freighters.
The diesel-electric cargo ship Falkenstein with a Pleuger active rudder was a special feature . The active rudder came from Pleuger Unterwasserpumpen , was new and had only been installed in small ships so far. It consists of an asynchronous motor built into the rudder blade as a submersible motor that drives a jacketed propeller . The rudder blade could be rotated 90 ° to each side. The ship was commissioned by Pleuger from the Stülckenwerft and delivered in 1953 to the shipping company , for which Robert Bornhofen was appointed correspondent owner. Several newbuildings were ordered from Elsflether Werft, some of which were financed by the owner of the Klosterfrau Melissengeist company .
In 1956, Robert Bornhofen KG was founded with Peter Döhle as personally liable partner, in which the Kümo activities were combined. Robert Bornhofen resigned as a partner in 1961 and Peter Döhle continued to run the company under his name. The previous management of two Bischoff ships was also given up in 1956 and the Robert Bornhofen Schiffahrts- und Hafenbetriebs was spun off and sold to Heinrich Bischoff .
50 years of the Robert Bornhofen shipping company
1970, in the 50th year of the shipping company, the shipping company, now managed by Kurt Bubert, ordered six liner freighters , four from the Schlichting shipyard and two from the Seebeck shipyard. The financing did not come from the shipping company, but from the capital investor market .
In 1973 the company founder died.
The Almut Bornhofen ( hull number 1000) was the last new building, it came in 1976 from the Seebeck shipyard , which celebrated its 100th anniversary this year. In the years that followed, the shipping company found it difficult to employ the ships, which were now largely flagged out. Some ships “were chained” and were auctioned off at the instigation of the ship lending banks. Others were stuck with machine failure. In 1985 the shipping company was closed.
swell
- 100 years of shipping, shipbuilding, ports; 1964 Hamburg, shipping company Hansa
- Detlefsen, Gert Uwe: German shipping companies, Volume 10: 1999 Verlag Gert Uwe Detlefsen
Individual evidence
- ↑ Karin K.Bornhofen bygget på Nakskov Skibsværft i 1942. In: arkiv.dk. Retrieved February 15, 2019 (Danish).
- ↑ Robert Bornhofen bygget på Nakskov Skibsværft i 1944. In: arkiv.dk. Retrieved February 15, 2019 (Danish).
- ↑ Friedrich Schulz-Baldes: The development of electrical engineering on board seagoing ships. In: German Shipping Archive. 6, 1983, p. 147 f. ( dsm.museum , pdf, 1 MB, accessed on February 13, 2019).
- ↑ MS "FALKENSTEIN" Möwe-Verlag Scale: 1: 250. In: kartonbau.de. January 11, 2016, data and picture of the ship accessed on February 13, 2019.