Martin Garlieb Amsinck

Martin Garlieb Amsinck ( born September 23, 1831 in Hamburg, † April 10, 1905 ) was a German shipbuilders and shipowners.

Family and early life

Amsinck came originally from the Netherlands coming Amsinck family who belonged to the upper class Hanseatic Hamburg. He was the son of the merchant John Amsinck, owner of John Schu Back & Sons.

Amsinck completed a commercial apprenticeship, then did not rise as opposed to four brothers but his father's company, but turned the ship to. In this context, he spent some years in Nuremberg and in the UK. In Glasgow, Scotland, he was involved in the construction of sailing steamship Great Eastern, the largest ship in the world at that time.

Shipbuilders and shipowners

In 1856 he opened in Hamburg on the small Grasbrookhafen a shipyard for the construction of sailing ships. Until 1878 he built mainly barges in sizes up to 1000 tons. Since he was also active as a shipowner in 1859, he built almost half of its ships on their own account. In 1878 he gave up the ship, as the craft wooden shipbuilding was gradually displaced by the iron and steel shipbuilding.

In a community with his brothers William and Henry Amsinck became a successful shipowner. His company M. G. Amsinck rose to become one of the largest sailing ship shipping companies in Hamburg. With the growing trade he enlarged his fleet resistant. As the first iron structure in 1880 he bought the flora, also the first ship that had been built at the shipyard Blohm & Voss. It was built by Blohm & Voss for their own account.

Martin Garlieb Amsinck was elected in 1883 to the Board of Hamburg Süd, was from 1877 to 1886 and from 1882 the citizenry of the deputation for trade and shipping to. In addition, he fulfilled Civil honorary positions as a commercial judge (1880-1885), sworn Schiffstaxator (1876-1885) and assessors of the Marine Board.

Martin Garlieb Amsinck died in 1905 and was buried in the Old Niendorf cemetery in Hamburg. A year later, the shipping company was dissolved by his son.

On the occasion Amsincks centennial of the Hamburg Senate decided in 1931 to rename the Sailing Ship Kai - Kai in Amsinck. The site was redesigned in the 1970s, but a Amsinckufer reminds continue to the shipowner.