Hugo Stinnes Schiffahrt
Hugo Stinnes GmbH in Bremen is a shipping company and was part of the former conglomerate Hugo Stinnes GmbH.
History
In 1808 Mathias Stinnes started a company for shipping and coal trading. The activities are mainly confined to the Rhine and Ruhr. The " Hugo Stinnes GmbH" was founded in 1907 for the purpose of carbon trading on the coast, the ship -related envelope and the shipping company by Mathias Stinnes ' grandson Hugo Stinnes. In 1917, Hugo Stinnes, the " AG Maritime and overseas trade " in Hamburg. This company included among other things the company by Mathias Stinnes and Hugo Stinnes. In this AG ran from now on, all threads of the Stinnes interests in navigation and overseas trade together. After the attempt failed, to win by share acquisition in established Hamburg shipping companies influence, Hugo Stinnes occurred in 1920 in direct competition to the three major shipping companies Hapag, North German Lloyd and Hamburg Süd. 1921 Stinnes founded in 1908 involved in the Ocean line of the shipping group H. Schuldt, who worked in airline service between Europe and Cuba and Mexico. Until the death of Hugo Stinnes in 1924 drove in collaboration with small carriers more than 30 vessels flying the flag Stinnes preferred to Central and South America, and East Asia.
1926 saw the establishment of " Hugo Stinnes Corporation " to accommodate American capital. In this company all the essential assets of the Stinnes family were introduced. The family share of the assets of the " Hugo Stinnes Corporation " was seized in 1942 by the U.S. as enemy property. The " Hugo Stinnes Corporation " was auctioned off and continued as " Hugo Stinnes Industries Inc. " in New York. Due excluded from American editions of the " Hugo Stinnes Industries Inc. ", the family Stinnes made in 1948 with some companies independently in Germany. 1950 founded Clare Stinnes, widow of the founder Hugo Stinnes, and the sons of Hugo Stinnes and Otto a new company, " Hugo Stinnes fuel, iron and steamship company " branch Ruhrort. Otto Stinnes soon moved to Hamburg where he took over with the company " Hugo Stinnes ", Hamburg branch, the ship management of Stinnes fleet.
Founded in 1963, " KG Monsun" ( a 100 % subsidiary of the company " Hugo Stinnes ", Hamburg branch ) and the " German DSR Rostock GmbH" founded in 1992, the shipping company " DSR / Stinnes West Indies Services GmbH " based in Hamburg. In 1998, the " DSR / Stinnes West Indies Services GmbH " in " H. Stinnes Linien GmbH " renamed. The German Seereederei and Prescher plant GmbH from Nienhagen acquired in 2002, the remaining shares of the Stinnes family and moved the headquarters of the " H. Stinnes lines " from Hamburg to Rostock. In 2008, the German DSR Rostock GmbH sold the activities of " Hugo Stinnes Linien GmbH " at a company founded by Jens Kroczek " Stinnes Holding GmbH". This leads to today the shipping activities under the name " Hugo Stinnes GmbH in Bremen " on.
Although for more than a decade, no longer in possession of the Stinnes family, is the company " Hugo Stinnes shipping " today the only company that bears the name of Stinnes and even in one of the three original fields of activity of the Stinnes - concept ( coal mining, metallurgical industry, shipping ) operates. In addition to a full container service to and from South Africa, based in Rostock " Hugo Stinnes GmbH in Bremen " is a specialist in overseas transportation of breakbulk, heavy lift and project cargo between northern Europe, the Caribbean and Mexico; thus it continues the tradition of the Ocean line of 1921.
Swell
- Gert Uwe Detlefsen (1999 ): The Stinnes shipping companies, publishing Gert Uwe Detlefsen, ISBN 978-3928473514