Shipyard W. Holst

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W. Holst was a shipyard in Hamburg-Neuenfelde on the estuary , which was mainly known for the construction of coasters . The company, founded by Wilhelm Holst in 1920, was taken over by the shipbuilding company JJ Sietas in 1959 .

history

The Kümo Falke was created in 1935 from an excavator barge

Wilhelm Holst was born in Hamburg-Neufelde in 1883 as the son of the independent carpenter Peter Holst, who had previously worked as a ship carpenter at the neighboring Sietas shipyard. In 1898 he began training as a ship's carpenter at Johann Stelling's shipyard, which he passed in 1902 with very good results. His parents then financed a four-year engineering degree in Hamburg. Wilhelm Holst then worked as a shipbuilding engineer at the Schichau shipyard in Elbing . After four years he moved to Blohm & Voss , where he worked in the design office. In 1920, Wilhelm Holst went into business for himself and took over his parents' carpentry at the estuary in Hamburg-Neuenfelde, where he initially manufactured wooden lifeboats with which the new buildings from Blohm & Voss were equipped. After a simple slipway was built, wooden fishing trawlers , barges and sailing yachts were also built there . In 1925 the shipyard was expanded to include a patent slip . In the following year Wilhelm Holst delivered his first iron motor launch to the Hamburg port authority. The Neuenfelde port launch, designed for 185 people, and the approximately 25-meter-long Herbert launch followed in 1927 and 1928, respectively. Their hulls were already electrically welded . From 1930, the first coasters (Kümos), the Libelle and the Heini, were built at the Holst shipyard. In the years that followed, the company also converted older ships into Kümos. In 1935, for example, Wilhelm Holst made the Kümo Falke from an excavator barge that was built in Lübeck in 1923 and was intended for the newly founded shipping company of his son-in-law Jonny Wesch. A closed shipbuilding hall was inaugurated in 1941. During the Second World War, a number of artillery carriers and auxiliary ships for the navy were built at the shipyard .

After the Western Allies partially relaxed the general shipbuilding ban issued in 1945, a working group led by the Hamburg shipbuilder Adolf Weselmann drew up a draft of a Kümos that met the Allied requirements. The construction of the 231 BRT large Weselmann-motor coasters Paul ( № 173) the Holst shipyard could resume production in the 1949th Paul , laid in Kiel on May 12, 1949, was the first Weselmann-Kümo ever to be delivered by the Allies. The ship was launched on September 5, 1949 and went to the Rahmann shipping company in Estebrugge on November 28, 1949 . The shipyard was continuously expanded through land purchases in the early 1950s. New company buildings were added and the number of employees rose to 300 by 1956. On April 19, 1958, the largest new Holst building was launched, the Wilhelm Wesch (№ 218) with 1,999 GRT. She was delivered to the Jonny Wesch shipping company on June 15, 1958. As a result of declining order numbers, the Holst shipyard ran into serious financial problems from the summer of 1958. On July 1, 1959, the bankrupt company was bought by the neighboring shipbuilding company JJ Sietas .

Sietas took over the company's employees and initially had the work at the Holst shipyard continued in order to complete some ships that had been ordered and were still under construction. In addition, the construction of the tug Otto Stockhausen (Sietas № 462) was outsourced to the Holst shipyard. After the takeover, the port tanker BP Nette ( No. 223, IMO 5033129) was completed and delivered on July 30, 1959. On October 14th, the Freiburg (№ 228) and on October 29, 1959 the Bützfleth (№ 229), two ice-breaking tugs for the Hamburg Waterways and Shipping Authority, were launched. The Freiburg was delivered on November 16 and the Bützfleth on December 14, 1959. As the penultimate Holst ship, the pilot transfer boat Osteriff (No. 230), which was later stationed in Brunsbüttel , was launched on December 17, 1959 , and was delivered on February 24, 1960. At the beginning of 1960, the last new building from Holst was the port launch Technical Operation II (№ 231) commissioned by HAPAG .

gallery

  • Heini , built in 1930

  • Kustvåg , 1935 as Wotan arose

  • Frisnes , № 149

  • Homeland , № 152

  • Memelland , № 153

  • Lower Elbe , № 154

  • Paul , № 173

  • Anna Sietas , № 177

  • Egon Wesch , № 189

  • Kehdingerland , № 202

  • Paula Rahmann , № 204

  • Hilda Wesch , № 205

  • Lower Saxony , № 206

  • Heinrich Knüppel , № 207

  • Emil B. , № 213

  • Elvdiek , № 217

  • Carllene , № 221

  • Osteriff , № 230

Web links

Commons : Ships of the shipyard W. Holst  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

literature

  • Bernd Voltmer, Klaus Krummlinde: Holst shipyard in Cranz-Neuenfelde . Shipyards in Germany. Elbe-Spree-Verlag, Hamburg / Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-931129-25-X .
  • Gert Uwe Detlefsen: From the ewer to the container ship . The development of the German coasters. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft , Herford 1983, ISBN 3-7822-0321-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Seefahrt im Alten Land, Reederei Wesch , accessed on May 28, 2019
  2. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt, October 15, 1959, page 18 (PDF), accessed on October 17, 2019
  3. ^ Kehrwieder: Journal for Shipowners and Ship Crews, November 1959 edition, page 176
  4. ^ Kehrwieder: Journal for Shipowners and Ship Crews, December 1959 issue, page 192
  5. ↑ a b Kehrwieder: Journal for Shipowners and Ship Crews, January 1960 edition, page 16
  6. ^ Kehrwieder: Journal for Shipowners and Ship Crews, March 1960 edition, page 48
  7. ↑ Holst-Werft in Cranz-Neuenfelde, Bernd Voltmer and Klaus Krummlinde, Elbe-Spree-Verlag, Hamburg / Berlin 2010, page 106
  8. ↑ Holst-Werft in Cranz-Neuenfelde, Bernd Voltmer and Klaus Krummlinde, Elbe-Spree-Verlag, Hamburg / Berlin 2010, page 107