Schlieker shipyard
The Schlieker shipyard was a major shipyard in Hamburg from 1954 to 1962 . Its founder, Willy H. Schlieker , was considered a controversial personality during the economic boom . The rapid rise of the shipyard to one of the most modern in Europe and the equally rapid descent into bankruptcy and its circumstances were a much-discussed political issue.
The founder
Willy Schlieker, who came from a working-class family - his father was a boiler maker at Blohm & Voss - had built up an industrial group in the metal and electrical sector under the name Willy H. Schlieker KG Hamburg-Düsseldorf in the post-war period .
Schlieker was almost admired by the shipyard workers , because of high wages, good earning opportunities and working conditions, the workforce was considered highly motivated. In the Hamburg entrepreneurship he remained an outsider, both his pricing policy for shipbuilding contracts and his departure from wage policy were seen as strong competition.
history
The Schlieker shipyard emerged from the takeover of Ottensener Eisenwerk AG .
1889: Ottensener Eisenwerk
The predecessor of the Ottensener Eisenwerke was the company Pommée & Nicolay , founded in 1880 as a boiler forge , with the conversion to a stock corporation from 1889 under the name Ottensener Eisenwerk vorm. Pommée & Ahrens . In 1907, the company was renamed Ottensener Eisenwerk Aktiengesellschaft and took over various metalworking companies in Ottensen and Hamburg.
1920: A shipyard is built on the Peute
On the Peute in the Hamburg- Veddel district , a leasehold property was taken over in 1920 to build a shipyard for the construction of inland waterway vessels and small seagoing vessels. The construction program soon expanded and mainly barges , launches , motor tugs, motor freighters, fish steamers, coasters , small passenger and ferry ships for the HADAG and some mine sweepers for the navy were built.
1952: Schlieker takes over the Ottensener Eisenwerke
In 1952, Willy Schlieker bought Ottensener Eisenwerke (OEW), a manufacturer of boiler systems and marine machinery in Altona, including their small shipyard on the Peute. Because it was above the Elbe bridges , no larger ships could be built at this location. Since Schlieker saw the business in large industrial shipbuilding, he looked for a suitable building site without restrictions.
1954: Schlieker moves the shipyard to Steinwerder
To expand the shipyard business, in 1954 Schlieker acquired part of the Blohm & Voss site, which had been fallow since the Second World War , directly on the Norderelbe in Hamburg-Steinwerder on Schanzenweg, including three floating docks and the right to use the Elbe 17 dry dock , which was owned by the City of Hamburg . He then expanded the shipyard operations with the rapid expansion of the shipyard for large shipbuilding on Steinwerder. Production there continued initially under the name Ottensener Eisenwerke . From the beginning of 1959, the previous operations of the company operated under the name Schlieker-Werft. The last factories in Ottensen were shut down in 1960 and relocated to Steinwerder.
In its heyday around 1960, the company had a turnover of 800 million DM and employed 4,000 workers in Hamburg alone. Willy Schlieker's public relations work also received a lot of attention . In Hamburg, for example, Cypriot shipyard workers were trained to build a shipyard in Cyprus . These were effective in the press in May 1962 by the then Cypriot President and Archbishop Makarios III. welcomed during a tour of the Schlieker shipyard.
1962: bankruptcy
With the shipyard crisis at the beginning of the 1960s, however, the Schlieker empire collapsed because the capital base of 20 million DM equity was too low and no default guarantee could be obtained for the company, which was unpopular among Hanseatic merchants. The shipyard in Steinwerder was taken over again by Blohm & Voss after the bankruptcy in 1962. The Ottensener Eisenwerke went into the Maschinenbau GmbH Stülcken , which was taken over in 1966 with the Stülckenwerft by Blohm & Voss. The small shipyard on the Peute was sold for 1½ million DM from the bankruptcy estate. A total of around 125 ships were almost 450,000 BRT delivered, including four tenders the Rhein-Class for the German Navy .
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Arnold Kludas , Dieter Maass, Susanne Sabisch: Port of Hamburg. The history of the Hamburg free port from the beginning to the present . Hamburg 1988, ISBN 3-8225-0089-5 , p. 360 f.
- ^ A handshake for compatriots . ( Memento from July 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Hamburger Abendblatt , May 26, 1962, p. 4
- ↑ Felix Fabian: Not even the name stayed . In: Die Zeit , No. 10/1966