S - H. Vogemann

“Vogesen” seized after the First World War as USS “Quincy” in an American port.
what agency commission he would grant, he replied: “We pay $ 500 for full
cargoes, $ 250 for part cargoes”, which, when you take the devaluation of the
Mark into consideration, was an absolutely astronomical amount of money
at the time. A shed from Hapag was rented through our brokers and a large
poster was affixed to it with the name Pacat Steamship Corporation.
Mr Ainsworth was a typical American business man who did
not mince his words and always knew how to sort himself out. So when the
railway workers went on strike, without further ado, he bought himself a car
so he could travel to Copenhagen. When he did not receive a prompt reply to
the various cables he had sent to his partners in New York, he ordered me to
send a clearly worded telegram to New York which started as follows: “Why
in the hell don‘t you answer my cables you are making a damned fool of me”
and so forth. Normally I had to pick him up from his hotel around midday. He
received me in his dressing gown and made his business visits around 1 p.m.,
when the majority of owners were going to lunch or were hanging around the
stock exchange. The Pacat Steamship Corporation's expeditions still continued
until around 1922; then business slowly began to stagnate because the
corporation ran into financial difficulties.
At the time we still managed to obtain the commission-business
from the New York & Argentine Steamship Co, which had set up a service
from Hamburg to Buenos Aires. This business was also operated with the
Chapter 1 – History of the H. Vogemann Company 1886 – 1946 29
Austria exits the war.
The armistice in Compiègne ends
the war in the west.
A sailors' mutiny in Kiel develops
into a revolution in Germany.
Workers' and soldiers' councils
briefly take power.
Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates and
goes into exile in Holland.
Friedrich Ebert (SPD) becomes
Reichskanzler. Proclamation of the
Republic.
1919
In Germany, socialist uprisings by
government troops and Freikorps
are struck down.
At the elections for the constituent
National Assembly, the SPD wins
the majority of votes.
Friedrich Ebert becomes
Reichspräsident.
Signing of the Peace Treaty by the
German Reich in the Hall of Mirrors
at Versailles:
In addition to paying heavy reparations,
Germany must accept sole
responsibility for the war and relinquish
its colonies, amongst other
things, as well as large sections of
its commercial fleet.
Walter Gropius establishes the
Kunstinstitut Bauhaus in Weimar.