Black Sea Shipping GmbH
The Schwarzmeer-Schiffahrts-GmbH was a semi-state enterprise brought into being by the German Reich government during the Second World War , which used the merchant shipping space that was captured by the German Reich during the war in the Black Sea and not requisitioned by the Navy for the purpose of supplying the Wehrmacht troops fighting in this area commanded . It was subordinate to the Reich Commissioner for Maritime Shipping , the Hamburg Gauleiter Karl Kaufmann , and operationally to the sea transport chief Black Sea.
In addition to a number of smaller units, the Schwarzmeer-Schiffahrts-GmbH controlled around a dozen larger ships of more than 1000 GRT , the majority of which belonged to enemy states that fell into German hands during the war. At least six of them were sunk in 1943 and 1944 as a result of the war, including the Theoderich (3814 BRT), the Teja (2773 BRT), their sister ship Totila (2773 BRT) and the Boy Feddersen ex Anhalt (6580 BRT); the remaining were captured by the Soviet Union .
In autumn 1943 the Schwarzmeer-Schiffahrts-GmbH was liquidated and its ships were taken over by the Mediterranean shipping company created for the same purpose in November 1942 .
Ship-managed ships (selection)
Individual evidence
Web links
literature
- Karl-Heinz Schwadtke : The German merchant fleet in 1939 and its fate. Eckardt and Messtorf, Hamburg, 1953
- Karl-Heinz Schwadtke: Germany's merchant ships 1939–1945. Stalling, Oldenburg, 1974, ISBN 3-7979-1840-2 , pp. 82-83
- Reinhart Schmelzkopf: Foreign ships in German hands 1939–1945. Strandgut, Cuxhaven, 2004