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Warnow shipyard Warnemünde
legal form 1948–1990 VEB
1990–1991 GmbH
founding 1948
resolution 1991 (merger with the Neptun shipyard )
Seat Rostock - Warnemünde , Germany
Branch Shipbuilding

The VEB Warnowwerft Warnemünde was the largest shipyard in the GDR in the VE Kombinat Schiffbau Rostock, commissioned with the construction of ocean-going vessels (container, LoRo) in Rostock- Warnemünde , today Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , which took this official name on August 1, 1948 in the Soviet occupation zone received.

history

1945 began in New York City on the site of the former Krögerwerft the shipyard Warnemünde with the construction of wooden fishing boats for the Soviet Union. It came to the Wismar repair yard in 1947 as the Warnemünde branch , became independent in 1948 and was named VEB Warnowwerft .

Company history

The Wilhelm Pieck was launched on May 27, 1951
Former cable crane system of the shipyard
Shipyard floating dock
Shipyard floating dock

Structure and beginnings with ship repairs (1948)

The VEB Warnow Werft Warnemünde was founded on August 1, 1948 its shipyard located at the mouth of the river Warnow north of the Hanseatic city of Rostock . It is one of the most important shipyards in Germany. The shipyard was built in the late 1940s with the aim of modernizing the Soviet fishing fleet and rebuilding the Soviet merchant fleet, which was badly damaged by the war . The foundation stone for this was laid at the Yalta Conference . In the Soviet zone of occupation everything was directed and directed by orders of the Soviet Military Administration in Germany (SMAD).

At the end of the Second World War the situation was dramatic. 24.7% of the residential buildings and 42.2% of the commercially used areas of the city of Rostock were completely destroyed by British and American bomb attacks. The Arado aircraft factory was also completely devastated.

Only the Kröger brothers' small boatyard was still standing, which was located on the old harbor basin built in 1887. But the owners of this shipyard had fled to the western sectors. During the war, among other things, explosive boats were built here. During the Nazi dictatorship, the Kröger brothers were military leaders and confidants of the Gestapo . They also employed prisoners of war in their shipyards. On January 3, 1945, the dismantling of the remaining facilities began under the command of the Soviet major Pobegalov. This was completed in October 1945 and the shipyard ceased to exist.

The Soviet city ​​command decided to build a new shipyard for the production of smaller fishing vessels for their fishing fleets to improve the food situation of their troops. On May 21, 1945, the first 28 workers began repairing fishing trawlers - with the simplest means due to the general shortage of materials. In order to make the work more effective and to create trust among the population in the occupying power and the new German political administration, the shipyard was handed over to the Rostock city administration on October 17, 1945. 70 employees found work in the shipyard, where eight fishing cutters were being repaired at the time.

The first newbuildings were launched on October 22, 1945: there were two half dinghies that were christened Gustav Sobottka and Captain Manow . The use of these dinghies was intended for the Warnemünde fishing fleet. These two new buildings were also the first new buildings in the Soviet-administered part of Germany .

Under Order No. 124 of October 30, 1945 and Order No. 126 of October 31, 1945 of the SMAD , the property of war criminals was confiscated by the SMAD and placed under Sequester (compulsory administration). This also applies to the property of the Kröger brothers. So that the work in the shipyard did not come to a standstill due to a lack of material, on December 18, 1945, on order No. 173 of the SMAD, shipbuilders from other industries as well as 700 tons of flat steel, profile iron and sawn timber were arranged for the shipyard.

By order of the SMAD on April 30, 1946, 18 wooden cutters were to be built in Warnemünde for the fleets of the USSR. On May 21, 1946, the management of the shipyard was handed over to the newly formed German administrative bodies. In May 1946 one of the Kröger brothers came back to Rostock and asked for the shipyard to be returned. After the referendum on June 30, 1946 advocated the expropriation of war criminals in Saxony, the workforce of the Mecklenburg boatyard also passed a resolution at a works meeting on July 8, 1946: “Protest against the efforts and existing intentions to resume operations previous owners ”(145 against the return, 14 abstentions, 1 for the return) and the shipyard became public property.

On order no. 93 of the SMAD, the ship repair yard Wismar, the wagon factory Wismar and the boat yard Warnemünde were merged on July 7, 1947. The Warnemünde shipyard became part of the Wismar ship and repair yard and operated as the “Wismar ship repair yard, state-owned company, Warnemünde branch”. On September 1, 1947, the first object to be repaired arrived in Warnemünde. First of all, ships sunk in the Second World War were lifted, repaired and rebuilt. The first timber cutter was delivered on February 29, 1948. On June 23, 1948, on order no. 112 of the SMAD, the Warnemünder Werft was again separated from Wismar and was to be expanded as an independent company by May 1, 1949. At the same time, the SMAD ordered in an annual program to carry out ship repairs in the amount of 15 million DM. In addition, orders were given to cease fishing shipbuilding on January 1, 1949 - the beginning of the planned economy. The VEB Warnowwerft Warnemünde was officially founded on August 1, 1948. This was the beginning of the planned construction and further development of the shipyard and its products.

The two largest objects up to 1955 were the reconstruction of the passenger ship Hansa for the Soviet Soyuz and the conversion of the former Hamburg into the whaling mother ship Juri Dolgoruki .

New building (1951/52)

After this new building with the sailing training ship Wilhelm Pieck was handed over to the owner on August 2, 1951 , the production of series ships began. The new construction of similar types of ships was developed into series production at an early stage. In 1960 the Warnowwerft had grown into the largest shipbuilding company in the GDR and was developed into the lead company of VVB Schiffbau. The V / O Sudoimport, the foreign trade company of the USSR, was the largest customer of the East German shipbuilding industry. Deliveries were also made to Yugoslavia, China, Romania and Czechoslovakia. In addition, numerous ships were built for the GDR's merchant fleet and the international market, especially for West German shipping companies. From 1959 the Warnow shipyard was merged with other shipbuilding companies in the GDR to form the Association of People's Own Enterprises ( VVB ) Shipbuilding . In the following year, the last restored wartime ship was put into service. In 1979 VVB Schiffbau was transformed into Kombinat Schiffbau Rostock . By 1986, 320 ships with a volume of around 3.5 million gross tons had been built.

After the fall of the Wall, Warnowwerft Warnemünde GmbH (1990)

→ see main article: MV Werften Warnemünde

Further milestones

  • October 29, 1950: Start of the new shipyard building for ships with a load capacity of 10,000 twd and more,
  • 1950–1955: Major investments to build a cable crane system with four slipways . The result was the largest production facility in European shipbuilding at the time.
  • December 31, 1953: DM 340 million in reparations payments were made.
  • January 14, 1956: The first 10,000 t freighter was launched; the client was VEB Deutsche Seereederei Rostock. The name was symbolic: peace
  • June 23, 1957: delivery of peace ,
  • July 12, 1960: Delivery of the whaling mother ship Juriy Dolgoruky (ex. Passenger ship Hamburg ). The rebuilding of this ship was the largest and most expensive work the shipyard had done since the Second World War. The costs amounted to 150.875 million DM,
  • 1970/1971: 15 ships a year delivered for export,
  • December 16, 1975: The first full container ship was delivered. It was the Khudozhnik Saryan of the Mercur I type ,
  • May 27, 1987: The first of ten originally planned ships of the "Saturn" type for VEB Deutfracht / Seereederei Rostock was christened Ernst Thälmann and delivered. Due to the technical innovations, this series was awarded the title “Perspective Ship of the Future”.

Ships and types of ships from the Warnow shipyard

List of reparation items

modification ship Year of construction / shipyard
September 1, 1947 to May 22, 1948 MARABU logger 1934 Frerichs-Werft Einswarden
September 1, 1947 to May 22, 1948 Fishing trawler NALIM
ex. HILDEBRANDT
ex. WILHELM GRUENHAGE
1921
September 1, 1947 to December 5, 1948 Passenger ship ASIA
ex. SIERRA MORENA - 1934
ex. THE GERMAN - 1946
25 October 1924 Vulkan-Werft Bremen / Vegesack, hull number: 612
January 11, 1948 to June 27, 1948 Passenger ship SIBIR
ex. SIERRA SALVADA - 1917
ex. AVARE - 1924
ex. PEER GYNT - 1925
ex. NEPTUNIA - 1927
ex. OZEANA - 1945
ex. EMPIRE TARNE - 1946
December 24, 1913 Vulkan-Werft Bremen / Vegesack, hull number: 560
February 1, 1949 to June 1, 1949 SS FEOLENT
(completed in Wismar)
n / A
February 20, 1949 to August 1, 1949 SS LENINGRADSOVIET
(completed in Wismar)
n / A
October 15, 1949 to December 10, 1953 TS SOVIETSKIY SOYUS
ex. ALBERT BALLIN - October 01, 1935
ex. HANSA - 1949
June 16, 1923 Blohm & Voss, Hamburg, construction no .: 403
June 7, 1949 to April 1, 1952 Passenger ship RUSS
ex. CORDILLERA - 1949
August 8, 1933 Blohm & Voss, Hamburg, construction no .: 494
August 12, 1949 to March 9, 1950 Passenger ship TULOMA
ex. SASSNITZ
1906 Stettin Shipyard
September 20, 1949 to January 30, 1951 SS AUSEKLIS
ex. MEZENJ
ex. HIGHLANDS
n / A
October 19, 1949 to October 29, 1950 SS LIGOVO
ex. DAMP FIRE
n / A
November 1, 1949 to June 10, 1951 MV KARELIA n / A
December 15, 1949 to June 9, 1951 MT LENKORAN
ex. ADOLF
n / A
July 27, 1950 to June 17, 1951 SS SOVJETSKIY GAVAN
ex. SAMUEL A WORCESTER
1943 Oregon SBCorp., Portland, USA
November 7, 1950 to July 12, 1960 Jury Dolgorukiy
ex. Hamburg - 1950
March 27, 1926 Blohm & Voss, Hamburg, construction no .: 473
October 26, 1950 to January 13, 1953 SS JAKUTIA
ex. IMPERATOR PETR VELIKIY
1913 John Brown & Co., Clydebank, UK
November 30, 1950 to June 7, 1952 MV MUDJUG n / A
August 19, 1950 to November 18, 1950 SS MARIA n / A
September 3, 1951 to 7.1954 Admiral Nakhimov
ex. Berlin
1925 Vulkan shipyard, Bremen / Vegesack

List of new buildings

The Korolenko (BiFa Type B) in front of Vyborg
Construction period Ship type Type designation Series size
1948-1949 Fishing trawler Type D 18th
1951 Sail training ship Wilhelm Pieck 1
1953-1956 Inland passenger ship Type B 15th
1954-1956 Floating crane 50 Mp SK 50 7th
1955-1957 Floating crane 15 Mp SK 15 11
1956 tractor plaice 1
1957-1961 General cargo ship Type IV 15, 3 variants,
1958-1959 Bulkers Type K + EI / Ugleuralsk series 9
1960-1963 Bulkers Type K + E II / Dzhankoy series 17th
1961-1963 Bulkers Type IX 6, 2 variants
1961 State yacht Baltic Sea country 1
1962-1966 General cargo ship Type X (Type XA ... Type XC) 16, 3 variants
1963-1969 General cargo ship Type VI 31, 4 variants
1965 Tank cleaning ship Newt 1
1966/1978 Floating crane 100 Mp Griffin, Goliath 3 units together with the Neptun shipyard
1967-1969 General cargo ship Type XD 16
1968-1970 General cargo ship Type 17 12
1970 General cargo ship Type 17 B 5
1971-1972 General cargo ship Type 17 B 2 9
1970-1971 General cargo ship Type 17 K 1 D 4th
1971-1972 General cargo ship Type 17 K 1 E 4th
1969-1970 General cargo ship Pacific type 3, 2 variants
1970-1980 General cargo ship Type ocean 34
1971-1975 Fast freighter Type Indic 8, 2 variants
1972-1974 General cargo ship Type Meridian I 4th
1976-1981 Semi-container ship Type Meridian II 25, 3 variants
1972-1977 Semi-container ship Type Mercator 21, 2 variants
1975-1979 Container Ship Type Mercur I 10
1977-1981 Arctic freighter Type UL-ESC 13
1981-1984 Arctic freighter Type UL-ESC II 14th
1979-1985 Semi-container ship Monsoon type 15, 2 variants
1982-1985 Semi-container ship Type Mercur II 10
1983-1994 Lo-ro freighter Type Lo / Ro 18 28, 4 variants
1985-1987 Semi-container ship Type Equator-WW 7, 2 variants
1987-1990 Semi-container ship Type "Passat" 9, 2 variants
1987-1989 Container Ship Saturn type 4th

Literature / sources

  • VEB Warnowwerft Warnemünde - Operation of VEB Kombinat Schiffbau July 31, 1981, published by the BPO of VEB Warnowwerft Warnemünde, author collective under the direction of Willy Balzer, Ostsee-Druck Rostock, BT Wismar, C119 82-3716
  • Dietrich Strobel: The Warnemünder Werft , Wolgast 2002, ISBN 3-933978-62-9
  • Gerhard Buchführer: The sea economy of the GDR Vol. 1 1945-1960, Transpress VEB Verlag für Verkehrwesen, Berlin 1962
  • Karl-Heinz Gustmann: The sea economy of the GDR Vol. 2 1961-1970, Transpress VEB Verlag für Verkehrwesen, Berlin 1968
  • Michael Bera: aircraft construction prohibited! Of planes, cutters and chests of drawers. The "Werft Warnemünde" in own pictures 1918–1920. ß Verlag & Medien GbR, Rostock 2011 ISBN 978-3-940835-28-4

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