Envelope Gildemeister Ries 1944 An Kriegsgefangenen-Arbeitskommando Carl Spaeter

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Envelope Gildemeister Ries 1944 An Kriegsgefangenen-Arbeitskommando Carl Spaeter
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You are bidding on one
empty envelope
of the company founded in 1817
“Gildemeister & Ries”
in Oberneuland near Bremen (Versa
nd of silk and woolen goods).
with
Postmark Bremen, 13.10.1944
, addressed to Feldwebel Alteköster,
Prisoner of War Work Command 1225/226
, Carl Spaeter GmbH in Hamburg, Saarlandstrasse 2-30.
the
Carl Spaeter GmbH
still exists today (Steel trade SPAETER Hamburg as part of the SPATER Group).
Format:
11.5 x 16.3 cm.
Condition:
With corner compressions, ins. Well.
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also note the pictures!
Internal note: MM folder 4-5
About the
Visurgis AG, which emerged from the Gildemeister & Ries company, and the SPATER Group (source: wikipedia):
Visurgis Ltd
was a shipping company in Bremen from 1897 to 1921, which emerged from the trading company and later merchant shipping company Gildemeister & Ries, which was founded in 1825.
Story:
Gildemeister & Ries: August Wilhelm Gildemeister (26. March 1791 – 27 May 1866), a son of the Bremen merchant and senator Johann Gildemeister (1753-1837), and his friend and partner Wulf Ludwig Ries († 19. July 1668)[1] went to the USA as young men and founded the company Gildemeister & Ries there in 1817,[2] which mainly traded in textiles.
In 1825 they moved their company to Bremen, and subsequently they expanded their field of activity to include shipping. For a long time, the company initially operated as a correspondent shipowner, a partner shipping company with six ships of 300–500 GRT in size in Chinese coastal shipping.[3] When this business was then increasingly taken over by steamships, the company turned to tramp shipping.
Visurgis AG: In the last quarter of the 19th At the end of the 19th century, the days of typical commercial shipping companies as partnerships came to an end, including for Gildemeister & Ries. In 1897, the company’s shipping division was spun off and converted into a public limited company, the Rhederei “Visurgis” AG.
The parent company Gildemeister & Ries concentrated on the mail-order business for silk and woolen goods.
The “Visurgis” was a sailing ship shipping company active in tramp shipping. As wooden ships found fewer and fewer jobs, the last wooden sailing ship was sold in 1898 to CJ Klingenberg & Co., ship brokers and “emigrant transport business” in Bremen. The “Visurgis” now only operated steel ships. In 1900 she had ten tall ships in service, seven full-rigged ships and three four-masted barques, with a total of 20,676 GRT.[4] In 1905 there were 19 ships with a total of 20,760 GRT.[5] The shipping company’s ships, painted light gray and whose names usually began with the letter “N”, were affectionately called “Bremer donkeys” by seafarers and dock workers because of their color.[6] They mostly traveled two routes: bringing coal or general cargo to China and Japan and returning grain from California and Oregon to Europe, or bringing timber to Australia from Sweden and Norway, then coal from Newcastle (New South Wales). Chile and from there saltpeter to Europe.
Initially, business was satisfactory, with dividends of 8, 8, and 9 percent paid out in the first three years of business, 1898, 1899, and 1900,[8] but falling freight rates soon eroded profits significantly, and by 1905 many voyages had stopped profitable. This was reflected in the fact that neither 1905 nor 1906 dividends could be paid.[9] Although a dividend of 4% was distributed in both 1907[10] and 1908,[11] the management realistically assessed the future prospects as not very good.
End: With the ever-faster displacement of the windjammers by steamships, the shipping company came under increasing competitive pressure and from 1909 the number of ships steadily decreased. In 1909 there were nine tall ships totaling 17,897 GRT; the steel four-masted barque Nauarchos was reduced to a hulk by fire this year in Antofagasta (Chile).[12][13] In 1910 there were eight with 15,696 GRT; In 1911 there were still seven with 14,011 GRT; and in 1912 and 1913 only five remained, totaling 10,239 GRT.
The years 1910 and 1911 were very lossy, not only because of the very low freight rates. A ship has been detained there for months because of a coal workers’ strike in Australia; two ships suffered serious damage; and one ship, the Neck, was sold to Norway[15] because his insurance on saltpeter voyages would have increased by 70% due to age.[16] The shipping company had to go into liquidation in 1912.
1912 went relatively well again, since not only could the losses of the two previous years be made good, but even a profit balance was generated.[17] However, the four-masted barque Nomia was lost in the hurricane between Newcastle and Antofagasta.[18] 1913 was also a good year as freight rates were quite high until the fall. Therefore, and because sales proceeds for tall ships fell, the sale of further ships was temporarily refrained from.
The war destroyed all hope. All five remaining ships were interned in Chile and had to be handed over to the victorious powers after the end of the war. A balance sheet had not been drawn up since 1914. on the 31st October 1921, the extraordinary general meeting decided to sell the remaining assets of the company to a new stock company to be founded, the Dampfschiffahrtsgesellschaft “Visurgis” AG, in which the previous shareholders would have a proportional share.[20] This decision was implemented in 1922, and in December 1922 the November 1921 founded Dampfschiffahrtsgesellschaft “Visurgis” AG the entire liquidation assets of the previous “Visurgis”.
The Spaeter AG
(Group appearance also Spaeter Group) based in Basel is a Swiss wholesale company. It supplies the construction and ancillary industries with steel, metals, building materials and products that are used in building services.
The group of companies, with the wholesale specialist Spaeter AG as the parent company, comprises a total of five subsidiaries operating under their own names. In 2005, the group generated sales of more than 500 million Swiss francs with around 700 employees.
History: Today’s Carl Spaeter AG was founded in 1901 in the legal form of a GmbH as a Basel branch of Carl Spaeter GmbH from Mannheim, which came from the industrial family of the same name. In 1904 it became an independent company, but still maintains close contact with the sister group Carl Spaeter GmbH in Duisburg.
In 1913, Basler Carl Spaeter GmbH was converted into a public limited company. The core activity was wholesale trading in rolled products. From this, over the decades, the current group of companies grew through the affiliation of trading and production companies, which is divided into the three product ranges steel & metal, construction and building services.
On the 1st On May 1, 2018, the companies SPAETER AG Sins, SPAETER Nänikon AG, Carl SPAETER AG and SPAETER Chur AG were united under the umbrella of a single German-Swiss company. This bears the name Spaeter AG. The structure in Ticino (SPAETER Ticino SA) and in western Switzerland (Veuthey & Cie SA) remains unchanged.
The “Visurgis” was a sailing ship shipping company active in tramp shipping. As wooden ships found fewer and fewer jobs, the last wooden sailing ship was sold in 1898 to CJ Klingenberg & Co., ship brokers and “emigrant transport business” in Bremen. The “Visurgis” now only operated steel ships. In 1900 she had ten tall ships in service, seven full-rigged ships and three four-masted barques, with a total of 20,676 GRT.[4] In 1905 there were 19 ships with a total of 20,760 GRT.[5] The shipping company’s ships, painted light gray and whose names usually began with the letter “N”, were affectionately called “Bremer donkeys” by seafarers and dock workers because of their color.[6] They mostly traveled two routes: bringing coal or general cargo to China and Japan and returning grain from Califor