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Description: Norddeutscher Lloyd - mail and express steamers Original wood engraving from a magazine from 1888 (no reprint - no copy) - also printed on the back Sheet size: 10 x 21 cm, printed on the back. Condition: good - scan! Shipping is fast and packaged to prevent creasing! If you have any questions please send an email - Questions? - please send an email.Please also note my other offers! I offer many other interesting items - use the shop search. Shipping costs are only charged once if you purchase multiple items! Documentation: The Norddeutsche Lloyd (NDL, English North German Lloyd) was a German shipping company that was founded on 20. February 1857 by Hermann Henrich Meier and Eduard Crüsemann in Bremen. It developed into one of the most important German shipping companies of the late 19th century. and early 20th centuries. Century and sustainably promoted the economic development of Bremen and Bremerhaven. On 1. In September 1970, Norddeutsche Lloyd merged with Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft (HAPAG) to form Hapag-Lloyd AG. After the dissolution of the Ocean Steam Navigation Company, the Bremen merchants Hermann Henrich Meier and Eduard Crüsemann as well as Gustav Kulenkampff founded the company on 20 June 1874. February 1857, the German shipping company Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL) – “Lloyd” was here in the middle of the 19th century. Century a synonym for merchant shipping. Meier became the first chairman of the supervisory board and Crüsemann the first director of the stock corporation (AG). In addition to the transport of goods, Crüsemann also promoted passenger traffic, which increased considerably due to emigration. The shipping company also operated other areas such as tugboat services, bathing services, insurance and ship repairs, which are still in operation today. The shipping company's first office was located in Bremen at Martinistrasse No. 13. Before the North German Lloyd would later become the renowned transatlantic shipping company, the first sea-going vessels were used in service to England. The first sea-going vessel, which also provided the first regular passenger service between the Weser region and England, was the Adler, which was put into service in 1857. On the 28th. In October 1857 she began her maiden voyage from Nordenham to London. Just one year later, regular scheduled services were established between the New Port in Bremerhaven and New York with the 2,674 GRT steamers Bremen and New York. In the following years, passenger connections to Baltimore and New Orleans were added. Due to international economic crises, the economic start of the NDL was extremely difficult and losses had to be accepted until 1859. The subscription of the share capital was also very slow; instead of the planned four million thalers, only 2.8 million thalers could initially be placed. It was not until 1861 that shareholders received dividends, and from 1864 onwards they received high dividends. In 1867/68, Lloyd entered into a far-reaching partnership with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad a. Both founded the Baltimore Line, which had its own ships until 1978. Here, shipping and railway lines were sensibly linked. Bremerhaven had also already received a railway connection important for passenger traffic in 1862 with the then so-called Geestebahn. In 1869, the first director, Crüsemann, died at the age of only 43. From 1877 to 1892 Johann Georg Lohmann was director of the NDL. He promoted the express steamer policy. Soon, however, founders HH Meier and Lohmann would have significant differences over company policy. In 1892, the first 5481 GRT twin-screw steamer was christened after its founder, HH Meier. The lawyer Heinrich Wiegand served as Lloyd’s General Director from 1892 to 1909. He now had a significant influence on the development of the shipping company. With the founding of the German Empire, the NDL underwent a strong expansion during the founding period, and thirteen new ships of the Strassburg class were ordered. From 1871 to 1874, a line to the West Indies was established without success. A permanent line to the South American east coast followed in 1876. There was now fierce competition on the transatlantic route; in addition to HAPAG, the Holland-Amerika Lijn from Rotterdam and the Red Star Line from Antwerp were becoming increasingly noticeable. From 1881 onwards, eleven express steamers of the Rivers class with 4500 to 6900 GRT were built. put into service for North Atlantic voyages. In 1885, the NDL won the tender for the Imperial Postal Steamer Lines to Australia and East Asia. These lines, subsidized by the German Reich for mail transport, marked another milestone in the shipping company's expansion. The first major order to a German shipyard was placed when the NDL ordered three mail steamers for the main lines (see Preussen) and three smaller steamers (see Stettin) for the agreed branch lines from AG Vulcan Stettin on the basis of the contract. Actually, only steamers built in Germany were to be used on the lines operated with Reich subsidies. Thus, from 1894 to 1908, many other cargo and passenger ships followed, including the Barbarossa class (over 10,000 GRT, Australia, East Asia and North Atlantic) and the Feldherren class (around 8,500 GRT, East Asia/Australia). The shipyards chosen for the NDL included the Stettiner Vulcan, Blohm & Voss in Hamburg, F. Schichau in Danzig, the Tecklenborgwerft in Bremerhaven, the AG Weser in Bremen, the Seebeckwerft and the Bremer Vulkan operates in Vegesack. In 1890, the NDL was the second largest shipping company in the world with 66 ships and 251,602 GRT after the British Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company with 48 ships and 251,603 GRT of shipping space. With 31.6% of German shipping space, it was by far the most important German shipping company, while P&O only accounted for 4.7% of British shipping space. The NDL also brought the most passengers of all shipping companies to New York. This was mainly due to the high number of steerage passengers, mostly emigrants, (67,775 / 18% of the total), while the top position for cabin guests with 16,629 people was also over 16%, but only just ahead of competitors Cunard Line and White Star Line. The NDL transported 42% of its total passenger volume to New York, but only 16.2% back from there. Passenger traffic with other ports in the USA accounted for 15%. The South American route accounted for 17.3% of passenger traffic there and only 1.7% on the return journey. The Reichspostlinien had shares of 3% to Australia and 3.9% to East Asia. Both lines had already transported higher absolute numbers than in 1890. In 1887, the NDL withdrew from the England lines in favor of the Argo shipping company. The NDL remained in the tugboat service through its participation (1899) in the tugboat company Unterweser (today Unterweser Reederei). In 1888, HH Meier resigned from his position as Chairman of the Board of Directors. His successor was Friedrich Reck, and Johann Georg Lohmann became director of the NDL. In 1892 Lohmann died and Reck resigned. Georg Plate became the new chairman of the board of directors, and the board of directors now consisted of Johann Friedrich Bremermann, A. Marquardt and Heinrich Wiegand. Wiegand was initially a director and from 1899 onwards held the title of General Director. Finally, in 1897, the NDL claimed a leading position among the North Atlantic shipping companies with the commissioning of the twin-screw express mail steamer Kaiser Wilhelm der Große, which was equipped with four funnels. The largest and fastest ship in the world at the time, which was also considered one of the most well-proportioned and beautiful ships abroad, made the competition sit up and take notice, not least by winning the Blue Riband for the fastest Atlantic crossing with an average speed of 22.3 knots. From 1901 to 1907, three more twin-screw express mail steamers followed with 14 to 19 thousand GRT, which together with the Kaiser Wilhelm der Große as sister ships formed the Kaiser class of the NDL. With this four-chimney quartet, which regularly sailed from Bremerhaven/Kaiserhafen to Hoboken near New York, the Bremen shipping company owned the most homogeneous express steamer fleet in the world. The three other representatives of the imperial class were Kronprinz Wilhelm and Kaiser Wilhelm II. and the Crown Princess Cecilie, whose interior was designed by some of the most important architects and artists of her time, including Joseph Maria Olbrich, the builder of the Vienna Secession building and representative of the Darmstadt artists' colony, Bruno Paul, a pioneer of modern functional architecture and the leading representative of the "Arts and Crafts" movement, Richard Riemerschmid. This ship also had a lot to offer in technical terms, as it was fitted with the largest piston steam engine system ever to be used in a ship. This fleet marked the beginning of the “German decade” in transatlantic shipping, during which NDL and HAPAG dominated the route to their respective shipping companies’ own port facilities in Hoboken with several record-breaking ships and became the largest shipping companies in the world alongside the British Cunard Line and the White Star Line. In 1902 and 1903, respectively, In 1904 two NDL ships again won the Blue Riband: the Kronprinz Wilhelm with an average speed of 23.09 knots on the Western Passage from Cherbourg to Hoboken/New York and the Kaiser Wilhelm II. with 23.58 knots for the east crossing. In 1907, the symbolic Blue Riband went to the RMS Lusitania and in 1909 to the RMS Mauretania, both ships of the British Cunard Line. The latter retained the award until 1929. During the major fire at Hoboken Pier in New York on 30. In June 1900, the three ships Bremen, Main and Saale were severely damaged. From 1900 to 1903, passenger service to East Asia was operated in conjunction with HAPAG. In 1900, due to the Boxer Rebellion in the Qing Dynasty in China, 14 Lloyd passenger ships were used alongside the Imperial Postal Steamers to transport troops there, and Kaiser Wilhelm II. gave his infamous “Hunnenrede” (Hun speech) on the occasion of the departure of the ship Frederick the Great. After 1914, eight confiscated German ships were renamed with names beginning with “Hun” (English for Hun), giving rise to the collective name “Hunnendampfer” (Hun steamers). The Lloyd was very pro-Prussian, which was expressed by the choice of ship names. There were also agreements between Kaiser Wilhelm II. and General Director Wiegand have good personal relations. On the other hand, the NDL maintained a cautious distance from the naval policy of Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, as this disturbed the good and necessary maritime relations with the United Kingdom and the USA. Beginning of the 20th century At the end of the 20th century, the US banking magnate JP Morgan began to buy up a whole series of shipping companies, including the White Star Line, the Leyland Line and the Red Star Line, in order to build a transatlantic monopoly. However, he did not succeed in taking over the British Cunard Line or the French Compagnie Générale Transatlantique (CGT), among others. HAPAG and NDL therefore made an offer to Morgan, which also owned the largest US railway company, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, to divide up the market. Together with Holland-Amerika Lijn and the Morgan shipping company Red Star Line, an agreement was signed that divided the passengers among the four companies. Ruinous competition was prevented. In 1912 the Morgan Agreement was terminated. In 1905, the NDL established its first pure freight line to Australia between the Imperial Postal Steamer departures. The new route, for which the Franken-class freighters were procured, initially led via Benelux ports into the Mediterranean, through the Suez Canal and then called at Padang, Batavia and Soerabaya in the Dutch East Indies, then circled the northern tip of Australia and along the Queensland coast via Townsville and Brisbane to Sydney. From July 1907, the route led through the South Atlantic to Cape Town, then Fremantle in Australia and around southern Australia, possibly to Brisbane. In 1907, the Norddeutsche Lloyd celebrated its fiftieth anniversary and was referred to as the “world shipping company”. He had 93 sea steamers, 51 coastal steamers, two sailing training ships (Duchess Cecilie and Duchess Sophie Charlotte) and 53 river steamers as well as 182 lighters and coal barges. 491,383 passengers and 3.8 million tons of freight were transported on Allen lines in 1906. The fleet value was 160 million marks. Lloyd employed around 22,000 people. Due to the high investment costs and an international economic crisis, the shipping company also had to contend with considerable financial difficulties during this period. Despite financial constraints, between 1907 and 1910, Plans by the architect Johann Georg Poppe for the very representative administration building with a tower, the Lloyd building in Bremen on Papenstraße. This building in the eclectic architectural style of the time was sold to the company Deschimag (AG Weser) in 1942. After 1945, the Senator for Construction moved into the building, which had been badly damaged during the war, and the Remmers Bierstuben moved into the basement. In 1969, the building was completely demolished to make way for the Horten department store. However, the new shopping arcade next door is called “Lloydpassage”. New, attractive ships from other major shipping companies were now sailing on the lucrative North Atlantic passages, including the RMS Lusitania and RMS Mauretania from the Cunard Line and the RMS Olympic, RMS Titanic and HMHS Britannic from the White Star Line. HAPAG planned to build ships with a capacity of 50,000 GRT with the Imperator. The NDL responded with smaller but representative ships such as the Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm and the George Washington as well as the Berlin, which operated from the Mediterranean to New York; ships with 17 to 25 thousand GRT and a speed of 17 to 20 knots. In 1914, the construction of two 33,000 GRT Columbus-class steamers was finally commissioned; the First World War prevented their completion. In 1914, around 22,000 people were employed by the shipping company. The company's success also had a direct impact on the rapid growth of the city of Bremerhaven, founded in 1827. After the death of General Director Wiegand in 1909, Philipp Heineken succeeded him until 1920. To improve passenger handling, the so-called Lloyd station was built in 1913 at the rear of Bremen Central Station with the large Lloyd coat of arms.Source: WikipediaIf the combined shipping via eBay does not work, I will of course refund the overpaid shipping costs! The Norddeutsche Lloyd (NDL, English North German Lloyd) was a German shipping company that was founded on 20. February 1857 by Hermann Henrich Meier and Eduard Crüsemann in Bremen. It developed into one of the most important German shipping companies of the late 19th century. and early 20th centuries. Century and sustainably promoted the economic development of Bremen and Bremerhaven. On 1. In September 1970, Norddeutsche Lloyd merged with Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft (HAPAG) to form Hapag-Lloyd AG. After the dissolution of the Ocean Steam Navigation Company, the Bremen merchants Hermann Henrich Meier and Eduard Crüsemann as well as Gustav Kulenkampff founded the company on 20 June 1874. February 1857, the German shipping company Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL) – “Lloy

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