Shipyard "Edgar André"
The Magdeburg VEB shipyard "Edgar André" existed from 1922 to 1970 and was then spun off into the VEB Kombinat Luft- und Kältetechnik Dresden.
history
The first plans for a repair yard for the Elbstrom-Bauverwaltung in Magdeburg go back to 1903. In 1912, the excavation of the shipyard's harbor basin began, and in 1922 the Rothensee State Shipyard of the Prussian Machine Office began operations.
The first order after the end of the Second World War was given to the shipyard in 1946 for the construction of new Black Sea Seine ships according to plans by the people's shipyard "Ernst Thälmann" as a reparation. On January 1, 1947, operations were subordinated to the General Shipping Directorate . The first launch took place on March 13, 1948 . On July 1, 1948, the shipyard was converted to the state-owned company VVW Staatswerft Rothensee VEB . The abbreviation Staros was common among the population . In addition to the reparations payments, the first new buildings for the GDR began in 1952. In the following year the construction of a 14-unit series of river passenger ships of the Turgenev series for the USSR began.
From May 8, 1954, the company, which now employed over 1100 people, was renamed VEB shipyard "Edgar André" Magdeburg after the KPD politician Etkar André . 1954 also saw the start of the construction of seine and sea tugs - initially intended for export to the Soviet Union - which, with a total of over 190 units, was to prove to be an important field of production for the shipyard by the end of shipbuilding. After the end of the production of inland motor cargo ships for the Soviet Union in the Roßlauer Schiffswerft , the Magdeburg shipyard continued their production from 1955 and from 1958 focused as the sole manufacturer on the construction of this series, of which a total of 120 units were built in Rothensee. In July 1960, the shipyard delivered the Oldendorf, the first of a series of 13 harbor tugs for the port of Rostock, and between 1961 and 1963 it built eight high-quality inland passenger ships of the Dichter class , which were also intended for use in building land. With the delivery of the floating department store (Plavmagazin) PM-601 to the USSR on March 31, 1969, the shipyard initiated a series of 38 units, about a third of which was built at the shipyard in Magdeburg.
On January 1, 1970, the VEB Kombinat Luft- und Kältetechnik Dresden took over the operation, whereupon the shipbuilding series that had started was ended and the operation was converted into a company for dedusting technology. On January 7, 1971, the port tug Darßer Ort was the shipyard's last ship. Within the combine, the company operated under the name VEB Entstaubungstechnik "Edgar André" . At the beginning of 1988 the company was assigned to the heavy machinery construction combine "Ernst Thälmann" and was last named as Dedusting Technology Magdeburg (ETM).
From 1946 to 1971 a total of 429 properties with a total of 122,000 gross tons were completed. Of these, 258 were seagoing vessels with a total of 37,000 GRT and 146 inland vessels with 85,000 GRT. In addition, in 1951 a hull was created for a sea cutter, in 1953 a tugboat, in 1959 a motorboat and in 1970 a hull for a supply ship.
Shipyard series (selection)
| Series of the shipyard "Edgar André" | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| designation | construction time | number | Client or delivered to |
| Black Sea Seine | 1948-1950 | 17th | USSR |
| SO-his | 1950-1952 | 28 | USSR |
| His tugboat | 1952-1953 | 3 | USSR |
| Folding barge | 1952-1953 | 6th | - |
| Motor ship type Rothensee |
1953-1954 | 4th | GDR / USSR |
| Warnow series tractor |
1952-1953 | 2 | GDR |
| Flushing chute | 1953 | 2 | - |
| Fishing cutter 18 m steel cutter |
1953-1954 | 14th | - |
| River passenger ship series Turgenev |
1953-1956 | 14th | USSR |
Anklam tractor * |
1952-1953 | 2 | GDR |
| His tugboat | 1954-1967 | 137 | USSR |
| Inland motor ship | 1955-1968 | 120 | USSR |
| Seebäderschiff | 1958-1961 | 4th | GDR |
| Oldendorf type tractor |
1960-1961 | 2 | GDR |
| Inland passenger ship Dichter class |
1961-1963 | 8th | GDR |
| Dierkow type tractor |
1964-1964 | 2 | GDR |
| Seebäderschiff | 1963-1964 | 3 | GDR |
| Push rail KSP 33 | 1965-1966 | 6th | - |
| Langenort type tractor |
1965-1971 | 9 | GDR |
| Sadko series tractor |
1967-1970 | 34 | USSR |
| Supply ship series Plavmagazin |
1969-1970 | 12 | USSR |
| * a comprehensive insurance from the Hugo Schütze shipyard in Aken | |||
literature
- Strobel, Dietrich; Dame, Günter: Shipbuilding between Elbe and Oder: 1945–1992 . 1st edition. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1993, ISBN 3-7822-0565-0 .
- Neumann, Peter; Strobel, Dietrich: From the cutter to the container ship . Ships from GDR shipyards in text and images. 1st edition. VEB Verlag Technik, Berlin 1981.
- Dünner, Hans-Wilhelm; Knoll, Horst-Christin: 50 years of the German inland shipping company . -from an East German inland shipping company to a European logistics service provider. 1st edition. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-7822-0757-2 .
- Schönknecht, Rolf; Gewiese, Armin: Inland shipping between Elbe and Oder . The other German shipping area 1945–1995. Busse Seewald / DSV-Verlag, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 978-3-88412-218-1 .
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Coordinates: 52 ° 10 ′ 38.4 " N , 11 ° 40 ′ 37.9" E