Elbewerft Boizenburg

The Elbewerft Boizenburg was a shipyard for the construction of barges and small ships in Boizenburg, Mecklenburg- Vorpommern.

History

History, founded in 1793

The original 1793, founded by Franz Jürgen Lemm boatbuilding operation in Boizenburg built in 1895, the first steel ship, remained until 1917, in the family, was sold to the bank Carlo Thomsen and introduced into the Norder Werft AG. In 1921, the same shipyard was with the North German Union merged works ( Tonning ), which went bankrupt in 1925 and came to the rescue company Boizenburger shipyard. From 1938 it was then called Thomsen & Co and came 1945 under trusteeship. In 1947, the operating state property and state-owned enterprise in 1948 with the name VVW Elbewerft Boizenburg VEB.

Production from 1945

The yard had survived the war without damage, was not dismantled, and therefore could begin in 1945 with production of 15 fishing boats as Reparationsauftrag. After another Reparationsaufträgen of herring loggers and freezer vessels worth DM 200 million coasters were built. This was followed by barges for inland navigation, fishing boats and stern trawler for export and for the fishing combine Saßnitz. From 1957 ships were exported to Albania motor coasters, Trawler to Iceland and Cuba.

Combined with the Roßlauer Shipyard VEB Elbe yards Boizenburg / Roßlau (1970 )

According to the Association for the VEB Elbe yards Boizenburg / Roßlau a series of 24 small container ships in the series Bolton was built, which were used in the shuttle service and coastal water transport. This was followed by very laborious cabin passenger ships including for the inland waterways of the USSR, especially the Dmitriy Furmanov - class. Also for the USSR emerged a large number of container inland Coasters type of CBK. They were hauled Disassemble the top deck because of the Elbe bridges, to Hamburg. After the subsequent assembly they were partially or in the floating dock with heavy duty vessels, such as, for example, spent the Mighty Servant to their destinations to the Far East, such as the river basin of the Amur.

The streamlined serial production also led to in-house activities such as intensive staff training, construction of a new shipbuilding hall of sections, slipway ship with weights up to 2,000 t. 1979 was integrated into the combine ship.

Elbewerft Boizenburg GmbH (1990 - 1997)

After the reunification of the yards were again separated and the Elbewerft Boizenburg was a daughter of the German mechanical engineering and shipbuilding AG (DMS AG). The DMS AG is the successor to the combine ship. Under the direction of the combine the orders and the processing of all shipyards in eastern Germany were coordinated to 1990.

After the subsequent privatization of the operations of the DMS AG group of companies Petram and fire took over the Elbewerft Boizenburg and after the insolvency of the main authority in 1997 bankruptcy was requested. In the Elbewerft Boizenburg nearly 500,000 GRT / GT were built to ship space, of which around 150,000 GRT / GT seagoing ships, the rest were barges, pontoons, floating cranes and floating pile drivers.