Schichau Seebeck
| SSW Schichau Seebeck Shipyard | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1876 |
| resolution | 2009 |
| Reason for dissolution | insolvency |
| Seat |
Bremerhaven Germany
|
| management | Karl-Heinz Jahncke |
| Number of employees | 320 (before bankruptcy) |
| Branch | shipbuilding |
| Website | http://www.schichau-seebeck-shipyard.com |
The SSW Schichau Seebeck Shipyard GmbH , especially as Schichau Seebeck Werft or simply Seebeck Werft known was a shipyard in Bremerhaven . With 320 employees (2008) it was specialized in conversions, section construction and new construction of small container ships. The company was closed on July 31, 2009. The history of the shipyard is marked by several mergers , bankruptcies and start-ups.
history
The founding years
The company's founder Georg Seebeck (1845–1928) learned the trade of coppersmith and from 1871 to 1876 he ran the coppersmith's shop and the repair shop of the widow Schultz. In 1876 Seebeck founded his own coppersmith's shop in Geestemünde and manufactured pipes, pumps, wind motors and peat spreading machines, among other things. Although this first operation was not on the water, he began to manufacture smaller iron boats. A first milestone was the construction of the steam launch Minna with construction number 1 in 1879. In 1886 the shipyard was expanded on the cross channel, i.e. directly on the water with a railway connection. Ferdinand Niedermeyer also joined the company in October of the same year. He devoted himself to the commercial tasks of the expanded company and later became a managing director and member of the board. In September 1889, the company opened its own foundry . The shipyard employed between 120 and 150 men.
Acquisitions and expansion
In May 1891 Seebeck took over the docking and shipyard operation Schau & Oltmanns , founded in 1853 , had some older slipways renewed and added another one. As early as September 1891, the Uranus was launched for Gerhard Ihlder Junior, the first fish steamer. In 1892 another five fish steamers followed, four of them for the Bremerhaven-based Johann F. Lampe. The shipyard broke new ground in 1894 with the extension of the Reichspostdampfers Stettin of the North German Lloyd . Heinrich Hohnholz also ordered his first fish steamer from Seebeck in 1894. This business relationship proved to be so strong over the following decades that Hohnholz ordered all of the following fish steamers with a few exceptions. As early as 1895, Seebeck acquired the two dock and shipyard sites on the right bank of the Geeste from Carl Lange Johanns Sohn and HF Ullrichs . The latter space was expanded into a new shipyard. A peculiarity of the Seebeck shipyard came into play: building docks were used instead of runways. On October 28, 1895, the company became G. Seebeck AG, shipyard, machine factory and dry docks . In 1901 Seebeck took over the shipbuilding company FW Wencke on the right bank of the Geeste .
The new shipyard
From around 1904 Seebeck began to develop ideas for the construction of a new shipyard and in autumn 1906 construction work began on the new shipyard at its current location near the fishing port of Bremerhaven south of the Geeste . In the spring of 1910, the shipyard was completed to the point that shipbuilding could begin in the building docks and the Helgen.
Takeover by AG Weser
In 1928 the Seebeck shipyard became part of the Deschimag Group, initially as AG Weser , Werk Seebeck , the majority of which was held by Friedrich Krupp AG from 1941 .
During the Second World War , the Seebeck shipyard produced several submarines for the German Navy . This included about 16 submarines of the type IX C and IX C / 40.
Operation as part of the Bremer Vulkan
In the course of the concentration process in the German shipbuilding Seebeck Shipyard in 1987 a member of the Bremen shipyard alliance with the holding of Bremer Vulkan Verbund AG , whose leadership in 1988 the Bremen Senate leader in the business section Friedrich Hennemann took over. In the same year, 1988, the Seebeck shipyard merged with Schichau Unterweser AG (SUAG) to form Schichau Seebeck shipyard . The previous SUAG shipyard was given up piece by piece in favor of the Seebeck shipyard in the fishing port.
In 1994/95, however, problems began at Bremer Vulkan Verbund AG, which now has more than 22,000 employees, which finally led to the bankruptcy of the parent company Bremer Vulkan in 1996. This also affected the Schichau Seebeck shipyard, which filed for bankruptcy in the same year.
Start-ups and bankruptcy
The SSW Fähr- und Spezialschiffbau GmbH established itself on the old site in 1998 . The previous repair shop in another basin of the fishing ports was made independent as Bremerhaven Dockgesellschaft ( BREDO ). The new shipyard mainly produced sections for new builds and conversions of other shipyards. In 2001/2002 the TT ferries Nils Holgersson and Peter Pan were built as an in-house development. For the first time, the ships received state -of-the- art electric pod drives . The delivery was delayed, however, because there were problems with the new pod drives, among other things.
However, the development and construction of the new type SSW Super 25 , a medium-sized container ship with a capacity of 2500 TEU according to its own design, brought the shipyard into financial difficulties: In autumn 2002, bankruptcy had to be filed again.
SSW Schichau Seebeck Shipyard GmbH was established in 2003 as the successor company . In August 2007 the first container feeder of the 1000 TEU type SSW Super 1000 developed by SSW Schichau Seebeck Shipyard was delivered. The second ship in the series, the Grete Sibum , was delivered in March 2008.
In April 2008 the SSW shipyard was bought for 4.6 million euros by a group of investors who wanted to renovate the shipyard site and continue operations in the previous form. In January 2009, bankruptcy had to be filed for the third time. The shipyard has been closed since the end of July 2009.
The ships of the shipyard
By far the most well-known type of ship at the yard is the multi-purpose freighter Seebeck 36L, which was manufactured in 55 units between 1969 and 1980 . Like most German shipyards, SSW has also specialized in niche shipbuilding products. These include in particular smaller container ships (so-called feeders ), ferries and cruise ships .
Ships built (selection)
The following list gives an overview of ships that were built at SSW. The data describe the ships at the time of delivery. Later modifications as well as changes to the name or the owner are not taken into account.
| delivery | Surname | Build number | Measurement (GRT / GT) | Client / owner / operator | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | Gerdt Oldendorff | 940 | about 10,000 | Multi-purpose ship of the type Seebeck 36L , type ship (55 ships) | |
| 1969 | Skyward | 942 | 16,254 | Monastery Cruise Ltd. | Cruise ship |
| 1974 | Norland | 972 | 12,988 | North Sea Ferries | RoPax ship (type ship, two ships) |
| 1975 | European gateway | 2256 | 3,334 | Monarch Steamship Co. Ltd | RoPax ship (type ship, three ships) |
| 1978 | Holstensailor | 1018 | 8,712 | Container ship (type ship, five ships) | |
| 1980 | Herald of Free Enterprise | 2280 | 13,601 | Townsend Thoresen | RoPax ship , sunk on March 6, 1987 |
| 1981 | Olau Hollandia | 1028 | 21,473 | Olau Line | RoPax ship |
| 1989 | Seabourn Spirit | 1070 | 9,975 | Seabourn Cruise Line | Cruise ship |
| 1992 | Royal Viking Queen | 1071 | 9,961 | Monastery Cruise Ltd. | Cruise ship |
| 1992 | Chiquita Bremen | 1098 | 10,842 | Great White Fleet | Reefer ship (type ship, two ships) |
| 1995 | Superfast I. | 1087 | 23,663 | Attica Marine SA | RoPax ship (type ship, two ships) |
| 1996 | Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania | 1092 | 37,987 | DFO German ferry company Baltic Sea | Railway ferry |
| 2001 | Nils Holgersson | 2000 | 36,468 | TT-Line | RoPax ship (type ship, two ships) |
| 2002 | ER Heligoland | 2003 | 26,200 | ER shipping | Full container ship, SSW Super 25 (type ship, six ships) |
| 2006 | Ulysses | 2026 | 26,200 | KG Projex | Full container ship (type ship, two ships) |
| 2007 | Anne Sibum | 2028 | 10,585 | Shipping company Bernd Sibum | Full container ship, SSW Super 1000 (type ship, three ships) |
Web links
- Website SSW. Retrieved January 1, 2011 .
- Peter Müller: Seebeck shipyard 1876-1994. Retrieved May 29, 2013 .
- CVs of selected ships from the Seebeck shipyard
- CVs of selected ships of the Schichau-Seebeck shipyard
Coordinates: 53 ° 31 ′ 44.4 " N , 8 ° 35 ′ 6" E
Individual evidence
- ↑ VerkehrsRundschau - Springer Fachmedien: Schichau Seebeck Werft files for bankruptcy. Retrieved January 11, 2012 .
- ↑ SSW Schichau Seebeck Shipyard: References - Newbuildings since 1961. Retrieved on January 11, 2012 .