Vegesacker shipyard

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The Vegesacker Werft GmbH in Bremen-Vegesack in 1938 as a subsidiary of the shipyard Bremer Vulkan founded and existed until 1945. It built u. a. a total of 74  submarines for the Navy .

After the seizure of power of the Nazi party and the German Reich starting upgrade of Reichswehr and the Navy (1935 army and navy) was soon clear that the Bremer Vulkan, in particular due to its experience in the First World War in submarine construction, would receive orders from the Kriegsmarine to manufacture such ships. This brought the shipyard into certain difficulties, since it was to deal exclusively with the construction of civilian ships on the express order of the main shareholder Baron Thyssen . With the exception of the war years, this was consistently maintained by the Bremer Vulkan until the 1970s.

To avoid this conflict, the subsidiary Vegesacker Werft GmbH was founded in August 1938 with a share capital of 500,000  RM . Three Vulkan board members were appointed as the first managing directors.

Since a GmbH , unlike a stock corporation , does not need to publish its balance sheets, this also resulted in better secrecy about military projects. Bremer Vulkan provided two helmets as well as the necessary buildings and equipment for the newly established shipyard .

At the end of 1939, the construction of the first four type VII B submarines ( U 73 to U 76 ) began; it followed boats of the type VII C and type VII C / 41 . After the U 1279 was handed over on July 5, 1944, work on the three boats still under construction, the U 1280, U 1281 and U 1282 (construction no. 75, 76 and 77), was stopped two months later to free up capacity for the Production of sections of the new Type XXI boats.

In addition to Blohm & Voss in Hamburg and Schichau in Danzig, the Bremen company was also commissioned to build these boats . It was to complete 195 boats in the Valentin submarine bunker in Rekum . However, the end of the war in early May 1945 prevented this.

literature

  • Reinhold Thiel: The history of the Bremer Vulkan 1805-1997. Volume 2; Publisher HM Hauschild GmbH, Bremen 2009; ISBN 978-3-89757-408-3

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