Robert Dohrmann

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Ludwig Robert Dohrmann (born February 4, 1850 in Otterndorf ; † November 27, 1932 in Bonn ) was a German entrepreneur who worked as a fish wholesaler, shipowner and real estate agent in Cuxhaven . Dohrmann is considered to be the founder of the Duhnen seaside resort .

biography

Fish wholesaler

Dohrmann was born the son of the businessman Peter Nicolaus Dohrmann and came to Cuxhaven in 1878 after completing his training.

In the same year he founded the first fish wholesaler and mail order business with his own fish smokehouse in Cuxhaven. The Cuxhaven fish market was in his hands. At that time there was no significant fishing industry in the city. Fishing was only carried out for local use. In 1900 there were just 18 fishermen, 3 salaried employees and 15 workers in the fishing industry in Cuxhaven. Before the railway was built, fish were shipped by stagecoaches.

Dohrmann specialized in shipping North Sea oysters . To this end, he expanded the oyster fishery in the North Sea: up to 12 Finkenwerder deep-sea cutters fished for him, especially in the winter months. Dohrmann also took part with four of their own cutters. After the Unterelbesche railway company between Harburg , Stade and Cuxhaven started operating in 1881 , Dohrmann expanded with its fish wholesale business. Now fish could be quickly transported inland and sold. For Dohrmann it was a profitable business.

Robert Dohrmann shipping company

Dohrmann had his first experience in the shipping business with his four fishing cutters in the oyster fishery. In 1886, together with his brother PN Dohrmann and Wilhelm Lütt, he bought the sailing cutter Amor , which received the Cuxhaven fishing license plate HC 1 .

Dohrmann went one step further in 1891 when he intended to establish the Cuxhaven fish market with regular fish deliveries and founded a shipping company for this purpose. Together with G. Ebrecht jr. and August Kempe and other donors, he founded the Antheils-Rhederei Cuxhavener Dampfer-Fischerei , which was known as the “Reederei Robert Dohrmann”. Dohrmann was appointed correspondence shipowner and was thus in charge of the company. He ordered a fish steamer from the Neptun shipyard in Rostock , which was named Cuxhaven .

The fish steamer was put into service in September 1891 under Captain Wilhelm - later director of Deutsche Seefischerei AG . It quickly became clear to everyone involved that the fish market could not be adequately supplied with just one fish steamer. The fish steamer therefore no longer sold its catches in Cuxhaven, but for a while in Altona . On February 2, 1892, Dohrmann sold it to Dietrich Bartels in Altona.

The shipping company ship - Fischdampfer Cuxhaven

Robert Dohrmann had ordered the ship in 1891 and in Rostock had the local Neptunwerft under the hull number 130 attached to Kiel . When it was launched on August 12, 1891, it was given the name Cuxhaven , making it the first fish steamer of this name. Test drive and delivery took place in September. The length was 31.79 meters, the width 6.20 meters, the draft 3.21 meters and the measurement 158 GRT . The drive consisted of a coal-fired compound expansion machine that achieved 250 hp and acted on a fixed pitch propeller . This enabled the ship to reach a top speed of 9.8 knots . The crew consisted of ten men. The fish steamer had a loading capacity of 750 baskets. As was common in fishing at this time, the ship was initially equipped with beam trawls . Only later was the conversion to trawl nets with otter boards. After the sale in 1892, the ship changed hands several times and was finally broken up in Sweden in 1925.

Real estate agents and tourism promotion

Before the turn of the century, Dohrmann began to work in real estate trading. In the Döse district of Cuxhaven, he bought land for residential construction.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Dohrmann promoted the development of tourism and founded a commission for the promotion of tourism , the later "Bathing Commission". The founding of the seaside resort Duhnen goes back to his initiative, as well as the "Duhner Wattrennen" (an annual horse race in July / August at low water, which is still held today), which first took place in 1902 and of which he was president for a long time.

Dohrmann later sold his fish mail order business and moved to the Rhineland in 1911 .

Honors

  • The Robert-Dohrmann-Platz as a new green area with a memorial stone in Cuxhaven - Duhnen got its name in 1913.
  • Dohrmannstrasse on the Grimmershörner Bay in Cuxhaven was named after him.
  • In 1931 he became an honorary citizen of the city of Cuxhaven.

literature

  • Peter Bussler: Historisches Stadtlexikon für Cuxhaven , special publication of the Heimatbund der Männer vom Morgenstern Volume 36, Cuxhaven 2002, ISBN 3931771-36-9 .
  • Nik Schumann: Cuxhaven, the big deep sea fishery and the sea fish market , Verlag August Rauschenplat, Cuxhaven 2008, ISBN 3-935519-29-X .
  • Karl B. Kühne : Cuxhaven. Hafen am Meer , Verlag Egon Heinemann, Norderstedt 1981, ISBN 3-87321-975-1 .
  • Karl B. Kühne: Cuxhaven. The long way to the universal port 1610–1992 , Verlagsgesellschaft Cuxhaven, Cuxhaven 1993, ISBN 3-920709-33-0 .
  • Günter Wolter: The Cuxhaven street names ; Self-published by the city of Cuxhaven, Cuxhaven 1997, ISBN 3-928327-51-8 .
  • Wolfgang Walter: German fish steamer. Technology, development, use, shipping register (publications of the German Maritime Museum. Volume 50), Carlsen / Die Hanse, Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-551-88517-6 .
  • Dieter Kokot, Werner Jakobeit: "Cuxhaven". A traditional name for fishing vessels (series of publications by the “Förderverein Schifffahrtsgeschichte Cuxhaven eV”, issue 12b (V1 / February 2018)), self-printed, Cuxhaven 2018, (without ISBN).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Bussler, p. 87f.
  2. ↑ a b c Kühne, Hafen am Meer, p. 120
  3. ↑ Kühne, Universalhafen, p. 159
  4. ↑ Schumann, p. 20, p. 77
  5. ↑ Schumann, p. 28
  6. ↑ Schumann, p. 77
  7. ^ Walter, p. 135
  8. ↑ Kokot, Jakobeit, p. 11f.
personal data
SURNAME Dohrmann, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dohrmann, Robert Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Otterndorf
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 1932
Place of death Bonn