Visurgis herring fishery

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The "Visurgis" Heringsfischerei AG was a German fishing shipping company. It existed from 1907 to 1931. (It should not be confused with the tramp ship shipping companies Visurgis AG (Bremen) and Visurgis AG (Oldenburg) .)

history

The shipping company was founded on October 17, 1907 on the initiative of the Bremen shipowner Adolf Vinnen in Bremen , but settled in Nordenham . Vinnen had already made considerable investments there and had economic interests, especially after he founded the "Midgard" Deutsche Seeverkehrs-AG in November 1905, which took over, managed and expanded the port facilities of Nordenham built by the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg on March 1, 1906 operated a number of larger fish steamers. Vinnen founded the German steam fishing company North Sea as early as 1896 and settled it on a site on the Weser, where the Nordenham fishing port was built by 1897. Making this the home port of another large fishing shipping company was of course advantageous for the port operator “Midgard”, and “Midgard” therefore made the area between the northern end of the pier and the entrance to the fishing port available to the new shipping company.

The "Visurgis" developed properly. She began 1908, two sail loggers and five steam loggers and immediately ordered in J. Frerichs & Co. in osterholz-scharmbeck 14 new steel sail logger of 35 m in length, 6.5 m in width and 115 RT gross tonnage. The first five ran in late 1908 / early 1909 from the stack . In 1912 the company owned nine sailing loggers, eleven steam loggers and twelve motor loggers, which made a total of 121 trips that year and landed 35,112 kantjes (1 kantje = 94-100 kg) herrings. The steam and motor loggers managed an average of four fishing trips per season, the sailing loggers only three due to their slower round trip.

When the First World War broke out in August 1914, the shipping company owned 33 loggers with a crew of around 500 , but the war brought herring fishing to a complete standstill, and some of the modern steam and motor loggers were requisitioned by the Imperial Navy during the war and used as armed support ships ( Outpost and security boats) used. The company tried to cover at least its running costs by chartering out its steam loggers, renting out its warehouses and selling expendable materials, but had to declare losses on its balance sheets .

After the end of the war, herring fishing could not be resumed until 1920 with the few remaining loggers due to the danger of mines . In 1923 the company was renamed "Visurgis" Heringsfischerei GmbH . In 1925 the "Midgard" bought the "Visurgis" herring fishery, which at that time was fishing for herring with 17 loggers in the North Sea, but could hardly make a profit because of low prices and therefore mostly insufficient sales. In July 1928 the name “Midgard” was changed to “Midgard, Deutsche Seeverkehrs- und Heringsfischerei AG”. As the herring fishery, however, remained unprofitable, the "Visurgis" was to become the sphere of interests of the August 1931 German "North Sea" sea fishing Bremen-Cuxhaven AG belonging Bremen-Vegesack fishing company sold, and the "Midgard" was back to "Midgard Deutsche Seeverkehrs-AG "renamed.

Footnotes

  1. ^ Hansa, Deutsche Nautische Zeitschrift , Volume 46, January 1909, p. 42
  2. ^ Hansa , Volume 46, January 1909, p. 120 and Hansa , Volume 46, March 1909, p. 300
  3. ^ Christian Grotewold: The German shipping in economy and law. Ferdinand Enke, Stuttgart, 1914, p. 465
  4. ^ Hansa , Volume 54, January 1917, p. 20
  5. ↑ According to a report in the Hansa, Deutsche Nautische Zeitschrift dated July 1921, the general meeting of "Visurgis" had already approved the takeover of the company by "Midgard" in 1921. ( Hansa , 58th year, July 1921, p.868 ).
  6. ^ In 1931, Bremen-Vegesacker also took over all the loggers of the Elsflether Herings Fishery Society in Elsfleth and the Deutsche Heringsfischerei GmbH in Wesermünde ( Hansa , year 69, January 1932, p. 161 ).

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