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This firm is a subsidiary of the Emden-based Schulte und Bruns shipping concern. It was established in 1917 as a ship repair and maintenance yard but since the Great War it has expanded to construct small coastal cargo vessels, river-sea ships and fishing vessels, the construction of which has become the yard’s specialty. At the present time the yard employs some four hundred workers, half of whom are engaged in new construction.

(The Schulte und Bruns yard does not have infrastructure for the construction of warships per the rules of the simulation; its output is covered as an element of the civil economy)

In 1880 Friedrich Lürssen established his boat yard in Bremen for the construction of fast steam launches and pleasure craft. From 1890 it introduced motor launches powered by engines supplied by Daimler Benz, and from 1906, under the direction of Otto Lürssen, son of the founder, the yard concentrated on the construction of such craft. In the years prior to the Great War the firm produced many award-winning craft, including the motor boat Lürssen-Daimler, which in 1911 set a speed record of twenty-seven knots. During the Great War the firm constructed coastal motor boats and small minesweepers for the Imperial Navy; during the height of the conflict the yard expanded to employ more than seven hundred workers – with the return of peace this number shrank to little more than one hundred.

In the early postwar years the firm survived on the construction of small sport and work boats; later it was able to return to building large motor boats and yachts, many for export to the United States. From these designs the firm developed a series of motor torpedo boats and motor minesweeping craft that were supplied to the Kriegsmarine, which continues to be a major part of the firm’s output today. These have steadily grown in size and horsepower, proving themselves to be seaworthy craft.

This firm operates a shipyard and marine engine works at Brandenburg an der Havel, employing some four hundred workers in the construction of barges and river-sea transport vessels, as well as canal tugs and industrial diesel engines. It was founded in 1877 by the brothers Carl and Wilhelm Wiemann, and founded its success on constructing barges required by the local brick industry. In the latter 1890s it was one of the largest inland shipyards of Germany, though it suffered heavily in consequence of the Great War. The firm has since regained its position thanks to the expanding network of canals and navigable rivers that have increased demand for construction and repair of small vessels.

(The Wiemann yard does not have infrastructure for the construction of warships per the rules of the simulation; its output is covered as an element of the civil economy)

This Hamburg shipbuilding firm was originally founded in 1880 as the boiler-making enterprise Pommee und Nicolay. In 1889 it was converted into a joint stock company under the current style, but limited its production to boilers, steam engines, pumps and other marine equipment. In 1920, having acquired several other metalworking firms in the Hamburg suburbs of Altona and Ottensen, a new shipyard was laid out in the Peute district, where the firm concentrated on the production of barges, motor barges, motor tow-boats, fishing vessels and coastal and river-sea cargo vessels.

(The Ottensener Eisenwerk yard does not have infrastructure for the construction of warships per the rules of the simulation; its output is covered as an element of the civil economy)

Located in the town of Pappenburg in the Emsland, this firm dates its founding from 1795, with the establishment of a yard for wooden shipbuilding by the Meyer family. In 1872, under the leadership of Joseph Lambert Meyer, the firm shifted to the production of steel-hulled steamships for the coastal trade. Later the firm came to specialise in the production of fishing trawlers, pilot boats, tugs and fireboats. During the Great War the yard constructed small minesweepers for the Imperial Navy; it has since returned to the construction of small freighters and motor trawlers for Germanys expanding fishing fleets.

(The Meyer Werft yard does not have infrastructure for the construction of warships per the rules of the simulation; its output is covered as an element of the civil economy)

The Sachsenberg firm dates from 1844 when Gottfried, Friedrich and Wilhelm Sachsenberg inherited the ironworks and machine shop at Roßlau that their father had founded some years before. At that time the firm concentrated on the manufacture of steam engines and distillation equipment for Germany’s nascent industrialisation. In 1866 the brothers entered the shipbuilding field with the construction of paddle steamers for operating on the river Elbe; by 1876 the firm was constructing steel-hulled dredgers, fishing vessels and river cargo ships on an increasing scale.

The demand for the firm’s designs led to the acquisition of a shipyard in Köln-Deutz in 1900, and, in 1922, it acquired the shipbuilding and repair firm of Georg Koch at Stettin. By 1922 the firm was employing more than 1,700 workers in its three locations. In 1934 the firm was converted into a joint-stock concern, and a period of expansion was embarked upon.

In 1936 the concern established a subsidiary in Berlin for the development of lightweight composite materials capable of aviation and naval application. The following year it acquired the Köslin machinery works of Adolf Krauss to increase the concern’s output of small diesel engines and components. The assets of the firm Leonische Roth-Nürnberg, a maker of cable and wires, were purchased in 1938 and a subsidiary company organised to carry on its business. A ship repair facility was constructed at Hamburg-Harburg in 1940 to cater to the increasing needs of the Kriegsmarine as well as civilian ship operators.


The firm’s own works include:

Gebrüder Sachsenberg AG, Schiffswerft Deutz, Köln-Deutz (ship repair and construction)
Gebrüder Sachsenberg AG, Schiffswerft Hamburg, Hamburg-Harburg (ship repair and construction)
Gebrüder Sachsenberg AG, Schiffswerft Roßlau, Roßlau (ship repair and construction)
Gebrüder Sachsenberg AG, Schiffswerft Stettin, Stettin (ship repair and construction)


Subsidiaries of the firm include:

Land und See-Leichtbau GmbH, Berlin (materials development)
Leonische Drahtwerke AG, Nürnberg (cables and wires)
Pommersche Maschinenfabrik und Eisengiesserei AG, Köslin (engines and components)


(The Sachsenberg firm does not have infrastructure for the construction of warships per the rules of the simulation; its output is covered as an element of the civil economy)