Visurgis AG (Hamburg)

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The steamship company "Visurgis" AG was founded in 1921, first in Bremen , 1927 in Hamburg -based shipping company , successor of the liquidated Bremer Rhederei "Visurgis" AG .

The company did not operate successfully. Although it acquired two steamers , it went into liquidation after a few years and went out in late 1935.

founding

The 1897 from the Gildemeister & Ries emerged in Bremen tall ships -Reederei "Visurgis" was already in the last years before the First World War in trouble and went into liquidation 1912th Since their five remaining ships had been interned in Chile during the war and had to be handed over to the victorious powers after the war , it was no longer possible to save society. On October 31, 1921, the extraordinary general meeting decided to sell the remaining assets of the company to a newly founded stock corporation , in which the previous shareholders would participate proportionally.

As a result, the steam shipping company "Visurgis" AG was founded on November 24, 1921 in Bremen . The business purpose was the acquisition of ships and the operation of a shipping company and all related business. In December 1922, the new company took over the entire liquidation assets of the previous "Visurgis".

fate

The shipping company bought two old steamships: in 1922 the Granada , which was built as a cattle transporter in 1899 and renamed Brema , and in August 1923 the freighter Tranquebar , built in 1906 , which was renamed Hansa . Both ships were mostly chartered out . The business of the not very financially strong company was not very successful. The “Visurgis”, which moved its headquarters from Bremen to Hamburg in 1927, incurred losses every year, whereby unusual circumstances also played a role: One of the two ships, probably the Brema , was confiscated in Buenos Aires in 1924 , and both of them Ships were chartered to a charter company in Oslo in 1924 , which soon went bankrupt . Both incidents caused considerable financial losses and led to lengthy claims for damages that continued into the 1930s. After just a few years, the shipping company was therefore on the way to processing. The Brema was sold to Greece in February 1927 , the Hansa in 1928 to the Arnold Bernstein shipping company in Hamburg, where it was renamed Gravenstein .

The company then existed for several years, in the hope of financial compensation due to ongoing legal proceedings , but then went into liquidation at the end of 1931. However, after the claims asserted in Argentina and Norway remained unsuccessful, the steam shipping company "Visurgis" AG in Liqu. Disbanded on December 28, 1935.

Footnotes

  1. ^ Hansa, Deutsche Nautische Zeitschrift , Volume 58, November 1921, p. 1275
  2. ↑ Hansa , Volume 59, December 1922, p. 1439
  3. ↑ For the balance sheets for the years 1914 to 1921, see Hansa , Volume 59, December 1922, p. 1515 .
  4. ↑ It began in 1924 after the conversion of its balance sheet from paper marks to gold marks with a share capital of 260,000 Reichsmarks ( Hansa , 62nd year, January 1925, p. 65 ). The era of the paper mark officially ended on December 31, 1923 with the commercial “paper mark closing balance sheet”, since from January 1, 1924 all German companies could only calculate according to the “opening gold mark balance sheet”.
  5. ↑ Hansa , 62nd year, July 1925, p. 1128 ; Volume 64, April 1927, p. 694 ; 65th year, March 1928, p. 515 ; 66th year, May 1929, p. 831 ; 68th year, March 1931, p. 539
  6. ^ Hansa , 69th year, April 1932, p. 507
  7. ↑ Hansa , 64th year, March 1927, p. 417
  8. ^ Hansa , 69th year, April 1932, p. 507
  9. ^ Hansa , 72nd year, April 1935, p. 673