Wm. H. Müller & Co.
The shipping company Wm. H. Müller & Co. from Rotterdam existed from 1876 to 1972.
history
The company goes back to Wilhelm Müller. He traded mining and blast furnace products and founded the trading company Wm. H. Müller & Co. in Düsseldorf on April 18, 1876. On June 3, 1878, Müller opened a subsidiary in Rotterdam, which was initially managed by Willem Kröller. In 1887 his younger brother Anton Kröller married Willem Müller's daughter, Helene Müller. The following year the couple moved to Rotterdam and in 1889 Anton took over the management of the Rotterdam branch. The company's headquarters were soon relocated to The Hague, where it was based on Lange Voorhout . Wm. H. Müller & Co. entered the American grain trade and participated in ore mines in North Africa and Spain. On November 1, 1895, the company took over the Dutch shipping company Nederlandsche Stoomboot Maatschappij with its entire fleet. Their liner service between Rotterdam and London was continued and formed the main line of the shipping company. It later became known as the Batavier Line.
Wm. H. Müller & Co. founded and took over other seagoing tug and inland shipping companies:
- 1896 NV Maatschappij voor Vracht & Passengersvaart Nederlandsche Stoomboot Maatschappij
- 1897 NV Stoomvaart Maatschappij "Mineral"
- 1897 "Hook of Holland" sleep service
- 1889 Wm. H. Müller & Co.'s Algemeene Scheepvaart Maatschappij, Rotterdam
- 1908 Takeover of NV Scheepvaart Maatschappij v / h Smith & Co. (Bordeaux service)
- 1919 Participation in Stoomvaart Maatschappij Zeeland, founded in 1875
- 1923 Subsidiary Wm. H. Müller & Co. (London) Ltd. in London
- 1923 Vianda Steamship Company Ltd. in London (from 1968 renamed Wm. H. Müller & Co. (Batavier) Ltd. London.)
The shipping company ended its passenger services to London as early as 1958. The freight business was continued until 1971 when Scheepvaartbedrijf Kroonburgh NV in Rotterdam took over. Ship operations were stopped the following year.
Liner services
- Rotterdam to London (Tilbury) (Batavier Line)
- Rotterdam to Boston Lincs.
- Rotterdam to Hamburg
- Rotterdam to King's Lynn
- Rotterdam to Amsterdam, Antwerp and Paris
- Bordeaux to Casablanca and Port Lyautey
- Rotterdam to Amsterdam and Aberdeen
- Rotterdam to Bordeaux and La Pallice
- Rotterdam to Casablanca and London (Morocco Line)
- Rotterdam to Antwerp, Guernsey and Jersey
- Rotterdam to Amsterdam and Le Havre
- Rotterdam to Amsterdam and Rouen
- Rotterdam to Amsterdam and Middlesbrough
- Rotterdam to Amsterdam, Antwerp, Stockholm, Norrköping and Västerás
- Rotterdam to Amsterdam, Antwerp, Oskarshamn, Karlshamn and Köping
- Rotterdam to Amsterdam, Antwerp, Gothenburg and Halmstad
- Rotterdam to Amsterdam-Luik, London, Antwerp and Paris
The Kröller-Müller Museum
The owner family Kröller-Müller moved first to Wassenaar in the spring of 1916 and later for a few years to the St. Hubert hunting lodge designed by Hendrik Petrus Berlage in the middle of the Veluwe region . The passionate hunter Anton Kröller bought some farms and 6000 hectares of land there. The Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller was opened there in 1938. Helene Kröller-Müller died in 1939, Anton Kröller two years later. Both were buried on the Franse Berg near their museum. Today's Kröller-Müller Museum in the Hoge Veluwe National Park has an important Van Gogh collection and a sculpture park at the Kröller-Müller Museum .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Website of the museum (English)