Adolf fins – Wikipedia
Friedrich Adolf fins [first] (Born April 19, 1868 in Bremen, † May 11, 1926 in Bremen) was a German shipowner, entrepreneur and politician. He became known primarily as the owner of the Bremen shipping company F. A. Vinnen & Co.
Family [ Edit | Edit the source text ]
Adolf Vinnen, as he called himself throughout his life, was the second oldest son of the Bremen shipowner Johann Christopher Vinnen (1829–1912) and Jenny Friederike Vinnen, born Westenfeld (1841–1870). His older brother was the Worpsweder painter Carl Vinnen (1863–1922), who was supposed to take over the family company, but became a painter.
Adolf Vinnen married Magdalene Volkmann (1884–1963), the daughter of the merchant and partner of the Lahusen Johann Heinrich Volkmann and Alwine Kommallein. The Bremen merchants Johannes Daniel Volkmann and Wilhelm Volkmann were brothers of his wife. Adolf and Magdalene had three sons; The son Werner Vinnen was a shipowner and later president of the Bremen Chamber of Commerce (1904–1981). The Vinnen couple was buried on the family grave of the Vinnen in the Riensberg cemetery.
education and profession [ Edit | Edit the source text ]
Vinnen completed a commercial apprenticeship. After a long stay in England and America, he entered the shipping company in family owning since 1797 E. C. Schramm & Co. a.
He was an important representative of the German and international shipping industry. He was in 1904 when the Sailing Ship Owners International Union In London, in which Germany’s sailing, France, France and England with ships over 1000 NRT participated in over 85%, elected to the Union’s senior committee.
Horst Adamietz wrote in his book Tide of shipping u. a .:
“When the sailing shipping 1909/1910 was generally judged worldwide and its future prospects as extremely poor, Adolf Vinnen bought the entire Hamburg shipping company” Alster “with its sail freight fleet at an extraordinarily cheap price, named the ‘Alster’ in ‘Bremer Stahlhof AG’ around and put the fleet on the move. In 1911, as in general – suddenly it went up again with the sailing shipping. The new Vinn ships were now worth ten times, brought £ 35,000 in an annual tour, so that the shipping company F. A. Vinnen & Co was wealthier in a short time than ever before. ”
The Bremen Biography 1912-1962 from 1969 continues to him and his shipping company:
“Originally imported house, which primarily devoted itself to trading tobacco from the USA, it had developed into an important shipping company since the Napoleonic period, which ran both the freight and passenger ride, but the latter with the emergence of the steamer. The decline in the freight loads for sailing ships also caused Vinnen’s father to turn to the import of petroleum in the mid -1970s, for whose deletion and storage he had acquired land in Nordenham since 1879 and built extensive scales.
Although he had to withdraw from the petroleum business that was no longer profitable for him in 1887, his investment activity, which had given the impetus to the development of Nordenham to a port and industrial square, proved to be a success. Already when he entered the family company, he was able to German steam fishing society and the North Sea Reasons that took an extremely quick climb and at times maintained the world’s largest deep sea fishing fleet.
In 1905 he launched Midgard Deutsche Severkehrs-AG, which took over the north of Nordenham port facilities built, managed, managed and expanded as well as a number of larger fish steamers. He also contributed to the economic upswing of the place with the foundation of the Nordenhamer Terrain-AG (1906) and the “Visurgis” Heringsfischerei AG (1907).
While Vinnen all led these activities as a board of directors or controlled as chairman of the supervisory board, he had initially dedicated his workforce to the company E. C. Schramm & Co., first of all, after his father’s sole owner, he led the shipping company which he renamed F. A. Vinnen & Co. in 1912.
When the First World War broke out, he fought with the Bavarian Chevauxlegers in the campaigns in the Balkans and in the west.
Their ships, which were driving under the white-blue house flag, formed the last large sailing fleet in Bremen. The loss of his four -mast bars caused by the First World War had to make him all the more painful. But he went unbroken courage to the reconstruction of the company and was still experiencing that she was adding up the overseas freight service with modern motor sailors. ”
With the renewed construction of freight sailing ships after the First World War, in view of the technical development towards steamships in specialist circles, Vinnen had initially shaking the head, but in view of the tremendous economic success of its sailing ships that consuming fuel were brilliantly confirmed. His four mast bars, named after family members, were huge. The second built in 1921 at the Germania shipyard in Kiel Magdalene fins Was in her construction and is still the largest sailing ship in the world with 3,709 BRT. Today it drives under the Russian flag and the name Sedov .
He lived in a large house at the Contrescarpe and built the shipping company’s still existing account at Altenwall No. 20.
Politics and offices [ Edit | Edit the source text ]
Vinnen was in the plenum of the Bremen Chamber of Commerce, on the board of the association of the shipping company (since 1917: Bremer Rhederverein e.V.), on the board of directors of the Association of the German Shipping Association, on the board of the managing committee of the German School Ship Association and on the board of the German Lake Cooperative .
Vinnen was a member of the supervisory board of the Adler Kaliwkener Oberröblingen and the Superphosphate factory Nordenham AG . He was an honorary member of the Bavarian Association in Bremen.
From 1918 to 1926 he was a Bavarian Consul General in Bremen. In 1925 he became the head of the Seepfahrt house. He was the deacon of the community our dear women and administrator of the girls’ orphanage.
As a representative of the 2nd grade, the conservative Vinnen was a member of the Bremen Citizenship from 1900 to 1918 as well as in the deputations for schools, for lighting and for the waterworks.
From December 9, 1918, he was chairman of a conservative citizens’ committee to represent the interests of the bourgeoisie during the Bremen Räter Republic. He therefore belonged to a delegation that claimed in Berlin at the end of January 1919, with military measures against the built Socialist Republic of Bremen to proceed. The Reich government followed the request and on February 4, 1919, the Gerstenberg division was bloody.
Vinnen was in the Bremen National Assembly chosen. He was the list of a conservative/bourgeois state election association, consisting of the German National People’s Party (DNVP) and the German People’s Party (DVP). The Bremen constitution was decided on May 18, 1920. Vinnen then withdrew from parliamentary work.
- The Adolf-Vinnen-Straße is named after him in Nordenham.
- Several ships were also named in, including:
- Adolf Vinnen (ship, 1892), a four -mast bark
- Adolf Vinnen (ship, 1922), a five-mast-top-sail protector that stranded on his maiden voyage in 1923 and was lost
- Adolf Vinnen (ship, 1929), a fish steamer that was used by the Navy in the Second World War as a weather observation ship
- Adolf Vinnen (ship, 1955), a motor freight ship scrapped in 1979
- ↑ Inscription with a full name on the tombstone in the Riensberg cemetery
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