S - H. Vogemann

Charter party from Vogemann shipping
company from 1903.
his own office in Savannah, Richard Meyer the Richard Meyer Company in
New Orleans, and so forth. It became clear to us then, just what a big mistake
we had made in sending young people to America who both knew one another
and who also engaged in private business correspondence with one another.
Because my father, my brother and I were all of the opinion that
we should continue business dealings in America on a very much smaller
scale and since we had no intention of undertaking charters from the South
Atlantic coast, we came to an agreement with Strachan & Co to the effect that
we waived doing business in the South Atlantic and represented the interests
of Strachan in Rotterdam and Hamburg. In later years, this agreement proved
to be extremely advantageous to the Rotterdam and Hamburg offices, especially
following the First World War, as Strachan, even though the agreement
was no longer in effect, continued to consign their ships to us and allowed
our stevedore department to unload the ships so that we had a good source
of income as we handled around 18 to 20 ships over the course of the year.
As far as I can recall, my father left the companies in Hamburg, Rotterdam
and America in 1906 and transferred his shares in equal parts to my brother
and myself.
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Increasing use of electrical
appliances such as vacuum
cleaners, irons, ovens and baking
ovens in households.
Max Liebermann: “Terrace of the
Restaurant Jacob in Nienstedten
on the Elbe“ (oil painting).
1903
The final contracts for building
the Baghdad railway are signed
in Constantinople.
The companies Siemens, Braun
and AEG jointly found a company
for wireless telegraphy, the
Telefunken AG.
VFB Leipzig wins against DFC
Prague in the final game of the
German football championship
which is being held for the first
time.
The German Navy sets up its first
radio stations for wireless communication
traffic with ships on
the high seas.
Orville and Wilbur Wright begin
their first powered flight.