Richard Bertram
Richard Bertram , also Richard Bertram-Nothnagel (born February 17, 1904 in Rica Aventura near Antofagasta , Chile ; † May 22, 1979 in Bremen , Germany ) was a German shipping agent and director of North German Lloyd (NDL). He is a grandson of the German internist Hermann Nothnagel .
biography
Bertram completed an apprenticeship at the shipping company Roland-Linie in Bremen, which was taken over by Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL) in the 1920s. He then worked for the Compania Salitrera de Taltal in Valparaíso , where he was promoted to authorized signatory. He then became a director's assistant at Westendarp & Pieper in Berlin.
On January 1st, 1930 he started working for NDL in Bremen. Here he was initially responsible for the America trip. In 1937 he became a deputy member of the board of directors of the company led by Johannes Kulenkampff until 1968; since 1942 he was a member of the board of the NDL alongside Kulenkampff. During this time the shipping company was heavily guided by the instructions of the Reich Commissioner for Maritime Shipping , the Hamburg Gauleiter Karl Kaufmann . Bertram was temporarily active in the Gauleiter's office as head of tonnage operations. In 1945 he successfully tried to get Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz to ensure that the already heavily damaged port facilities in Hamburg and Bremen would not be additionally destroyed by the Wehrmacht.
After the Second World War , the rebuilding of the shipping company and technical operations in Bremerhaven began under Kulenkampff and Bertram's leadership . With the re-approval as a coastal shipping and stevedoring company by the US military government, the NDL began in 1945 as an agency with the towing and bathing services. From 1949, freighters up to 7200 GRT were allowed to resume overseas services at the NDL. In 1950, the NDL ordered the first new ship, and a new fleet was created. Passenger shipping began in 1955 with the Berlin ; the Bremen and the Europa followed .
In 1967 Claus Wätjen and Horst Willner and in 1969 Karl-Heinz Sager became members of the board. You should replace Kulenkampff and Bertram as board member. The conversion from general cargo to containers in freight traffic made a concentration process necessary for the shipping companies at the end of the 1960s and in 1970 led to a merger of NDL and HAPAG to form the major shipping company Hapag-Lloyd, which Bertam had already initiated . In the same year, Bertram resigned as Chairman of the Management Board and in 1972 completely from the Management Board of Hapag-Lloyd, and was then a member of the Supervisory Board until his death. In addition, Bertram was a member of several shipping associations, 1957 Chairman of the Association of German Shipowners and Vice Chairman of the International Chamber of Shipping . 1960 to 1961 he was also President of the Bremen Chamber of Commerce .
Bertram was married to Lore Bertram (née Pröbst) for the second time. The marriage had three children.
Awards
literature
- Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . Volume: supplementary volume . A – Z. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2008, ISBN 978-3-86108-986-5 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Richard Bertram in the Munzinger archive (beginning of article freely accessible). Retrieved August 13, 2015.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bertram, Richard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bertram-Nothnagel, Richard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German shipping agent and director of North German Lloyd |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 17, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rica Aventura near Antofagasta ( Chile ) |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 22, 1979 |
| Place of death | Bremen |