Shipping company Stinnes AG

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The company founder Mathias Stinnes
Paddle steam tug Mathias Stinnes I, 1843
Paddle steam tug Mathias Stinnes 3, 1866

The shipping company Stinnes was founded in 1808 by Mathias Stinnes in Mülheim an der Ruhr as a shipping and coal trading company.

history

In 1810 Mathias Stinnes bought his first ship, a Ruhraak , by 1820 he owned 66 ships and was the largest inland shipping company in Germany. In the next few years, Stinnes took over HA Diesch AG from Mainz and Gebr. Mellinghoff from Mülheim an der Ruhr. For the 100th anniversary in 1908, the shipping company owned twelve paddle steam tugs , nine screw steam tugs , five heavy screw tugs and 85 iron barges . In 1892 Hugo Stinnes , a grandson of the company founder, founded his own inland and sea shipping company, Hugo Stinnes Schiffahrt GmbH . After the First World War and in the time of the Great Depression , both shipping companies were jointly and 1934 under the name United Stinnes Rhine Reederei GmbH , headquartered in Duisburg-Ruhrort merged. During this time, the first motor freight and tankers were built and a general cargo liner service from the Rhine and Main to Berlin and Basel was set up. In 1939 the shipping company had 167,000 tons of dry cargo space and 8,000 tons of tanker tonnage. All steam and motor vehicles had a combined 27,700 hp.

After the Second World War , the fleet, which had been greatly reduced by the effects of the war, was rebuilt. Sunken ships were lifted and repaired and in 1954 the first new motor tug, the Rosenblumendelle , was put into service. The sister ship Mathias Stinnes 25 followed a year later . On its 150th birthday, the shipping company owned seven motor tugs, 72 barges, 21 goods ships, 17 tankers and two crane ships.

Acquisitions

In 1971, the United Stinnes-Rheinreederei, Fendel Schiffahrt AG and Bremen-Mindener Schiffahrts-AG (BMSAG) became Fendel-Stinnes Schiffahrts AG . Fendel AG was one of the largest inland shipping companies and had around 300 ships in the 1960s. In 1976, Fendel Schiffahrts AG and the shipping company of Westfälische Transport AG (WTAG) became Stinnes Reederei AG Dortmund. In 1981 the Stinnes shipping company still had 75 ships. In the following years, some large motor ships with a load capacity of up to 3000 tons were built, which could also sail as a coupling formation with up to three barges . 1983 was the line push boat Stinnes push one built, but which differed in its construction from the usual push boats. It was only 11.4 m wide and could therefore also navigate the side waterways and canals. In 1992, the shipping company still owned 62 ships of its own, including 10 motor cargo ships, 10 push motor cargo ships, 19 cargo barges, six tank barges and one mainline pusher.

When the Main-Danube Canal was opened in 1993 , Stinnes took over the Danube fleets of Bayerischer Lloyd AG Regensburg and the Austrian DDSG Cargo , followed in 1995 by the takeover of the Raab Karcher shipping company , at the same time all tankers were handed over to the Jaegers shipping company . In 1996 the shipping departments of Raab Karcher and Stinnes became the RS Partnership . Two years later, in 1998, the Stinnes Group separated from inland shipping and the fleet became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Rhenus AG & Co KG under the name Rhenus Partnership AG & Co KG in Duisburg. This shipping company is one of the largest dry shipping shipping companies in Europe and has around 400 own or rented ships.

literature

in order of appearance

  • Walter Michels: Unforgettable steamship trips on the Rhine and Danube. Historical documentation in words and pictures, with an individual listing of the entire steam-powered Rhine fleet in 1935, situation sketches, historical shipping company flags and images of all steamboat types on the Rhine, Lake Constance and Danube . Hestra-Verlag in commission, Darmstadt 1967.
  • Werner Böcking : Ships on the Rhine in three millennia. The history of the Rhine journey . August Steiger, Moers 1979, ISBN 3-921564-14-X .
  • Werner Böcking: From steam to diesel. The Rhine tugboat trade in transition . Boss, Kleve 1992, ISBN 3-89413-204-3 .
  • Heide Ringhand: The inland shipping . Flowing streets - living rivers . Published in cooperation with the Bundesverband der Deutschen Binnenschiffahrt e. V. BeRing Verlag, Velbert-Neviges 1992, ISBN 3-925636-16-1 , pp. 32-36, 284-285.
  • Helmut Betz: History from the current tape. XXIV - Shipping on the Moselle and Saar - From Römerschiff to Koppelverband , Verlag Th. Mann, Gelsenkirchen 2006, ISBN 3-7862-0152-8 , pp. 29, 45, 58.

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