Stettiner Oderwerke

Steam icebreaker Stettin , built in 1933, museum ship in Hamburg

The Stettiner Oderwerke Aktiengesellschaft für Schiff- und Maschinenbau was a shipyard in Stettin . The company founded in 1903 was liquidated in 1961.

history

Möller & Holberg, Oderwerke

The Stettiner Maschinenbau-Anstalt and Schiffsbauwerft-Actien-Gesellschaft (formerly Möller & Holberg) , founded in Berlin in 1872 , went bankrupt in 1894. The Oderwerke Maschinenfabrik und Schiffsbauwerft AG in Grabow near Stettin emerged as a new establishment at the end of the 1890s . (Grabow was incorporated into Stettin along with other suburbs in 1900.) Despite the economic difficulties, the company's 500th new building was launched in 1899 with the freighter Mottlau , which was delivered to the Danzig shipping company. Nevertheless, the company went bankrupt again in 1901.

Stettiner Oderwerke

Share of RM 1000 in the Stettiner Oderwerke AG for shipbuilding and mechanical engineering dated December 5, 1932

Steam icebreaker Wal , museum ship in Bremerhaven, built in 1938 by the Stettiner Oderwerke

On January 28, 1903, the Stettiner Oderwerke Aktiengesellschaft für Schiff- und Maschinenbau was founded as the successor . The company built smaller river boats and excursion steamers for use on the Elbe and Oder, ships for the seaside resort service to East Prussia , tugs and sea dredgers. During the Second World War produced the Oderwerke two U-boats of the type VII C ; U 821 and U 822 . Two more submarines were planned (U 823 and U 824), but construction work was interrupted in 1943 and the order was canceled in July 1944.

After the end of World War II, the Soviet military administration in Germany ordered the plant to be dismantled . The company headquarters were relocated to Lübeck in 1949 and then to Cologne the following year. The location in Cologne resulted from the fact that shortly before the end of the war, material and inventory were brought to the Rhine by a ferry of the Reichsbahn on inland waterways and the transport got stuck in Cologne. After two orders that were still being carried out, a settlement procedure was applied for in 1954 and the company was renamed "Hansa" Stahl- und Schiffbau . This company could not hold up either and had to be liquidated in 1961.

shipbuilding

154 ships had been built by the beginning of the First World War . In the 1930s the Oderwerke had 3,600 employees. The icebreakers built during this period are outstanding, two of which ( Stettin and Wal ) have been preserved as museum ships. During the Second World War, the shipyard delivered the two Type VII C submarines U 821 and U 822 ( U 823 and U 824 were not completed) and 25 minesweepers of the types minesweeper 1935 and minesweeper 1940 to the Navy .

literature

• Hellmut Lassnig: The Stettiner Oderwerke . In: Yearbook , 2005/06, German Society for Shipping and Marine History e. V. Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-935091-21-3 , pp. 71-92

Web links

• Company history Stettiner Maschinenbau-Anstalt
• Actie of the Stettiner Maschinenbau-Anstalt
• Company history Oderwerke
• Early documents and newspaper articles on the Stettiner Oderwerke in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Erich Gröner, Die deutscher Kriegsschiffe 1815–1945, Volume 7, Koblenz, 1990, p. 86