Schulte & Bruns shipyard

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Schulte & Bruns was the same shipping company owned shipyard in Emden District Port Arthur / Transvaal .

history

The Schulte & Bruns shipyard was a subsidiary of the Emden shipping company Schulte & Bruns and was initially founded in 1917 as a pure repair shipyard . The first new buildings followed in 1920, when C. Hohoff & Röschmann ordered four special vehicles for peat transport with a load capacity of 40 tons. Schulte & Bruns built a total of 283 ships during its existence. In addition to conventional sea, coastal and inland vessels, tankers and, in particular, numerous fish loggers for the regionally based herring fisheries were delivered. Around half of sales continued to be made up of repairs and conversions of existing ships.

The largest ships built by the shipyard had a carrying capacity of around 4,300 tons. In addition to two slips and two floating docks, the shipyard's equipment also included a so-called docking pontoon.

During the Second World War, around 70 percent of the shipyard's premises were destroyed during the air raids on Emden . By 1950, however, the shipyard was essentially rebuilt. An expansion became possible because the Emden herring fishery was acquired after its bankruptcy in 1968. Only three years later, the shipyard gave up its old slipway for ships up to 30 meters in length. Instead, a larger slipway was built for ships up to 23 meters wide - this corresponded to ship sizes up to 23 meters wide, which roughly corresponded to a load capacity of up to 18,000 dwt . The slipway received a 50-ton crane, and two welding halls were also built . The old slipway was used instead for the construction of tugs or other ships up to twelve meters wide. With these expansion measures, the shipyard responded to the trend towards ever larger new ships. In the early 1970s, Schulte & Bruns built dry freighters, tankers , tugs , ferries , government vehicles and , as always, inland waterways .

The largest ship built there was the Tanke Mobil Jade , delivered in 1975 , with a length of 120 meters with a deadweight of 11,215 dwt. Between 1945 and 1975 Schulte & Bruns delivered 130 newbuildings, including 66 freighters, tankers and RoRo ships . In 1975 the shipyard had two floating docks with a load capacity of 800 and 1300 tons. They were used for the repair shop, which made up between 20 and 30 percent of the company's total sales that year . The export share of sales was 17 percent with a focus on clients in Scandinavia , France , West Africa, South America, Indonesia and Arab countries. While the number of employees was 280 in 1950, it had risen to a maximum of 540 in 1975. Schulte & Bruns was thus the second largest of the three Emden shipyards of those days after the North Sea Works , albeit by a considerable margin: in 1975 around 4900 people worked for the North Sea Works. A further 160 people also worked for suppliers in East Frisia .

Only one month after the Schulte & Bruns shipping company went bankrupt on October 31, 1977, the shipyard also went bankrupt. By means of a state guarantee, it was still possible to complete the last new ship, Jan Wilhelm , which had already started . The ship was launched on July 28, 1978 from the stack . The number of employees had fallen from the high of 540 in 1975 to 200 at the end of August 1978. On March 3, 1979 the shipyard was finally closed. The bankruptcy trustee sold one of the two floating docks to Denmark in April 1979, and the larger, with a load capacity of 1300 tons, went to the neighboring Cassens shipyard. The number of employees had already fallen to 20 at this point in time, which put the Emden labor market, which was burdened by the general shipbuilding crisis in the second half of the 1970s, even more difficult. The shipyard was partly taken over by the Cassens shipyard and partly by the port handling company Emder Verkehrs und Automotive Gesellschaft .

New buildings (selection)

Separate articles are available for the following ships of the shipyard:

  • Berlin (delivered in 1922 as a logger, converted to Kümo in 1954)
  • Estelle (delivered in 1922 as Logger Vesta , 1954 conversion to Kümo, 1986 to 1994 conversion to gaff schooner)
  • Ikone (delivered in 1937 as Kümo Adelheid , sunk in the North Sea in 1967)

Web links

Commons : Ships of the Schulte & Bruns Werft  - collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Ernst Siebert, Walter Deeters , Bernard Schröer: History of the city of Emden from 1750 to the present. (East Frisia in the protection of the dike, vol. 7). Verlag Rautenberg, Leer 1980, DNB 203159012 , therein:
    • Walter Deeters: History of the City of Emden from 1890 to 1945. P. 198–256.
    • Bernard Schröer: History of the city of Emden from 1945 to the present. Pp. 257-488.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.arcinsys.niedersachsen.de/arcinsys/detailAction?detailid=v7206764
  2. ^ Bernard Schröer: History of the city of Emden from 1945 to the present. , s. Lit., p. 326.
  3. ^ Bernard Schröer: History of the city of Emden from 1945 to the present. , s. Lit., p. 326.
  4. ^ Bernard Schröer: History of the city of Emden from 1945 to the present. , s. Lit., pp. 325 and 328.
  5. ^ Bernard Schröer: History of the city of Emden from 1945 to the present. , s. Lit., p. 431.
  6. ^ Bernard Schröer: History of the city of Emden from 1945 to the present. , s. Lit., p. 435.
  7. ↑ www.emderzeitung.de: EVAG invests 3.5 million euros in terminal expansion , Emder Zeitung of March 27, 2013, accessed on April 6, 2013.
  8. ↑ In this context, the present means: until 1978/79, and in perspective two years beyond.