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In the fifties: coster with loading – left with wood, right with diverse heavy sections Personal dedication as the key to success Klingenberg shipping line celebrating double anniversary Even the address is unusual: who would ever think you would find the headquarters of a well-positioned medium-sized shipping line that has had its vessels built in China for many years far from the water, in Ellerbek near Hamburg, in the quiet street Achter de Höf, in just as tranquil and respectable looking building? This is indeed the address of Reederei Klingenberg – down-to-earth, no-frills, successful – personified by its owner Armin Klingenberg, who can be proud of a double anniversary this year: the centenary of the shipbrokers Albert Hauschild, which Armin Klingenberg has owned for a long time and from which the shipping line Klingenberg developed, as well as Armin Klingenberg’s own half-century at Albert Hauschild. The shipbroker Albert Hauschild registered his company at Hamburg Municipal Court on July 18th 1906. It served mainly coastal motor ships carrying fodder and grain to the German North Sea and Baltic ports and Denmark. The company Albert Hauschild continued to be active even during the second world war, in any case as far as this was permitted by the circumstances. After the second world war, there was initially scarcely any more business for shipbrokers in war-torn Hamburg. The British as occupying power imposed a rigid regime, insisting on their approval of every activity. There were also hardly any ships available. The large vessels had been sunk or handed over, while the smaller ones, if not also handed 20 over, except for a few very old vessels that were allowed to remain with their owners, were regarded as surrendered but could continue to be operated initially as „X ships“ by their owners according to the provisions of the occupying power. Up to July 7th 1945, there was a general prohibition of navigation, which was then relaxed in small steps. On that day, which can thus be regarded as turning point, for the first time a licence was issued for a single voyage of two 169 grt large vessels for a shipment of oats from Kappeln/ Schlei to Hamburg. Initially, only services to the west German coast between Emden and Lübeck were permitted. Every single voyage had to be approved. But before the first could be approved, an Allied licence for the printing of the licence forms had to be issued. The coaster vessel „Ines“ was the shipping line‘s first vessel, built in 1969 in The Netherlands Conditions were thus certainly very unfavourable for resuming business and re-establishing old contacts and making new ones. Yet with great effort companies recovered, and Albert Hauschild was also soon able to do good business again. The Korean War enormously stimulated shipping, including coastal shipping, giving lines and owners an unprecedented boom in freight rates. Horrific rates were paid between about 1952 and 1957 because with the fear of another major war on the horizon everyone wanted to stock up with goods. It was at this time that Armin Klingenberg, born in 1939, entered the shipping world. He still recalls his start very exactly. On January 25th 1956, he had been informed by the labour exchange that the shipbrokers Albert Hauschild was looking for a trainee, and on February 3rd the nearly 17-year-old Armin, accompanied by his mother, took the tram line 1 to the Fischmarkt in Hamburg-Altona, near which the company had its offices, to apply for the training position. He has not forgotten the „beastly icy east wind“ on that day that made covering even short distances on foot a nightmare. Nevertheless, Armin Klingenberg was taken on by the firm. The sum of DM55 was agreed as monthly remuneration for the first year of training. The new trainee started on April 1st 1956 and on his very first day became acquainted with the practical side of shipbroking. Shortly after arriving at the company, he was told: „Come on, we have to go to clear a customer.“ Armin Klingenberg then boarded a ship for the first time. The vessel was the motor sailer „Amandus“, which had loaded 150t of coal waste from Odense. This was a product that was extensively used for road construction in Hamburg and elsewhere at that time.
MV “Thies” (1) was the first ship of the shipping company build in Germany And so the youngster gradually became acquainted with the company‘s business – „learning by doing“, as we would say today. Armin Klingenberg had to do everything that had to be done in the small firm, such as drawing up clearing and provisions lists, and he had to go everywhere, for example to the customs and the port authority – naturally on foot! If, for instance, a ship berthed on the Rethe had to be cleared, that meant a walk of two and a half hours from Altona through the Elbe tunnel and, of course, trudging for the same time back, naturally in all kinds of weather. That not only toughened the spirit of the young Armin but also gave the budding shipbroker a wealth of experience from which he admits he still benefits today. At that time, the company Hauschild continued to focus on grain and feed cargoes. Armin Klingenberg completed his training in 1959. He must have really satisfied his superior, who praised his performance and capabilities: „Klingenberg always performed well during his training; as far as can now be determined, Klingenberg has the capability to be a shipbroker for coasters.“ Klingenberg then very quickly succeeded in acquiring his own regular clientele by providing customers with a highly personal service, as he recalls. When the coasters came to him as shipbroker, they were first served fresh rolls and coffee and even given the mass tabloid „Bild“ to glance at before getting down to business. „That was what it was like at that time, and it is in various respects a shame that so much has been lost of these very personal contacts.“ This personal approach proved so successful that quite soon, in 1964, Klingenberg became a partner in the company Albert Hauschild, which gradually expanded its business over the North Sea and Baltic: Seville, Casablanca or Archangelsk then became destinations. This met with a lack of understanding in the traditional world of coaster shipping. Voyages involving seven or more days at sea were undertaken. „But you just don‘t do that,“ it was frequently murmured. But Armin Klingenberg did do it, and was successful, which was probably also a reason why he was transferred further shares in the company. Time for a rethink A turning point not only for German coaster shipping but also for Armin Klingenberg‘s strategy was prompted by MV “Nadja” with a container capacity of 672 TEU Shipping line profile MV “Thies” (2), able to carry 580 TEU the scrappings required by the federal government in 1967-68. To promote fleet renewal, bonuses were paid for older and smaller ships handed over for breaking up. But precisely those were the vessels that had been brokered by Hauschild, and with their withdrawal a substantial part of this business was lost. A rethink was required, and in this situation it meant that the company had to acquire its own tonnage. So in 1969 Hauschild ordered its first newbuilding, the 1,150 tdw „Ines“, which could also carry 52 TEU, in the Netherlands. Further newbuildings of up to 2,000 tdw from Dutch yards followed. Klingenberg pursued a basically sound newbuilding strategy that has been retained up to the present day. He explains: „I didn‘t, of course, have any money from the scrappings as start-up capital. I financed everything, up to today, with the money I earned with my company.“ The ships were deployed mainly for transporting timber between Scandinavia as well as the White Sea and England. However, Klingenberg definitely also had confidence in German shipbuilding, which he duly demonstrated with an initial order placed with Sietas Shipyard in 1974. This was for the 1,500 tdw MS „Thies“, which could load up to 2,500 cbm of packaged timber. As the agreed construction sum of DM4.4m did not quite correspond to Klingenberg‘s available means, the head of Sietas at that time, Johann Jakob, naturally helped out with a contribution, which was later repaid. The parties came 21
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