Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft

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Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft
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Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft (often just called Germaniawerft, "

Kaiserliche Marine in World War I and the Kriegsmarine in World War II. The original company was founded in 1867 but went bankrupt and was bought out by Friedrich Krupp. Krupp was very interested in building warships and in the time before the First World War built a number of battleships for the Kaiserliche Marine, including SMS Posen, SMS Prinzregent Luitpold, SMS Kronprinz, and SMS Sachsen
. A total of 84 U-boats were built in the shipyard during the war. After the war it returned to the normal production of yachts and transports.

History

The company was founded in 1867 by

Kaiser Wilhelm II, the SMY Hohenzollern
.

The company went bankrupt in 1879 and had to be sold and became property of the Märkisch-Schlesischen Maschinenbau und Hütten-Aktiengesellschaft. They had constructed steam engines in Berlin since 1822. A few years later this company also got in trouble and in late 1882 a new company was founded, the Schiff- und Maschinenbau-Actien-Gesellschaft Germania.

A few more warships were constructed and the company also had a very good reputation concerning the construction of torpedo boats. However the financial problems were never far away and by the end of August 1896 Krupp took over, as they were very interested in building warships themselves. Between 1898 and 1902 the company doubled its surface and new and large slips were constructed. In 1902 the company changed name and became the Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft.

In 1908, Germaniawerft built the

Kaiserliche Marine, including SMS Posen, SMS Prinzregent Luitpold, SMS Kronprinz Wilhelm and SMS Sachsen. During the First World War, the company turned to building U-boats
. A total of 84 U-boats were delivered to the Kaiserliche Marine.

Afterwards, it returned to its original vocation, including building the steel-hulled barque Magdalene Vinnen II, now STS Sedov and the largest traditional sailing ship still afloat.

During

forced labourers
.

On 26 April 1945, the last U-boat built in the Germaniawerft was launched, U-4714. The war ended before it could enter into service. The most famous U-boats built at the Germaniawerft are probably U-47, which was commanded by Günther Prien during his sinking of HMS Royal Oak in 1940, and U-96, which formed the basis of Lothar-Günther Buchheim's novel Das Boot.

After the war, the partially ruined shipyard was one of the first facilities dismantled by the victorious Allies. The population of heavily bombed Kiel protested furiously this decision, but to no avail. The site was broken up and not rebuilt. In the late 1960s, the grounds were purchased by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft as a submarine-building shipyard. As of 2015, submarines are being built at the site.

Ships built by Germaniawerft (selection)

Civilian ships

Merchant ships

  • Mary (1920), schooner, later museum ship Carthaginian II at Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii, scuttled in 2005
  • Magadelene Vinnen II (1921), 4-masted barque, today Russian sail training ship STS Sedov
  • Adolf Vinnen, 5-masted barquentine that sank on her maiden voyage.

Yachts

Naval ships

Battleships

Cruisers

Destroyers

Submarines (U-boats)

Torpedo boats

Minelayers

  • Nusret, now museum ship in Mersin, Turkey

Notes

  1. The Milwaukee Journal. pp. 33, 35. Retrieved December 13, 2014.[permanent dead link
    ]
  2. ^ Snow, Brook Hill (March 15, 1987). "Off The Beaten Path The Lady Hutton, One Of The World's Largest Luxury Yachts, Is Now An Elegant Hotel In Downtown Stockholm". Sun Sentinel. Stockholm, Sweden. Archived from the original on 2014-10-24. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
  3. ^ Vanadis to Lady Hutton, Kajsa Karlsson, (1987)

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