Yachten und Yachttender für Amerika: das USA-Geschäft der Fr. Lürssen Yacht- und Bootswerft in Bremen-Vegesack in der Zwischenkriegszeit

Abstract: Looking back on extremely modest beginnings as a boatyard in Aumund near Bremen, the Fr. Lürssen boatyard founded in 1875 is today a Bremen-Vege-sack-based shipbuilding group specializing in the construction of naval vessels and large motor-yachts. Before World War I, it was one of Germany’s leading builders of motorized boats, offering a wide assortment of boat types including motor-yachts of up to 20 metres in length. After the war, the company went on to develop new business segments. It began seeking contact to the U.S. in 1922/23, and the first yacht went to Boston in 1924. Between 1924 and 1932, it supplied American customers with altogether twenty-eight motor-yachts of widely differing types, measuring between 12 and 30 metres, along with a large number of tenders. As many of these vessels were driven with Maybach engines, Friedrich Wilhelm von Meister (1903-1978) - the New York representative of that well-known engine manufacturer of Friedrichshafen - provided sales support

Angaben zum Objekt

• Weitere Titel: Yachts and Yacht Tenders for America: the Fr. Lürssen Yacht and Boatyard of Bremen-Vegesack and its Business with the U.S. between the World Wars
• Standort: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Umfang: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: Deutsch
• Anmerkungen: Veröffentlichungsversion ; begutachtet (peer reviewed) ; In: Deutsches Schiffahrtsarchiv ; 39 (2016) ; 325-421

Klassifikation und Themen

• Schlagwort: Werft ; Jacht ; USA ; Deutschland

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wo): Mannheim
• (wer): SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
• (wann): 2016
• Urheber: Ostersehlte, Christian

Weitere Informationen

• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-74451-7
• Rechteinformation: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 25.03.2025, 13:43 MEZ