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, October 13th, 1944
, addressed to Sergeant Alteköster,
Prisoner of War Labor Command 1225/226
, Carl Spaeter GmbH in Hamburg, Saarlandstrasse 2-30.
The
Carl Spaeter GmbH
still exists today (Stahlhandlung SPAETER Hamburg as part of the SPATER group).
Format:
11.5 x 16.3 cm.
Status:
With corner upsets, ins. Well.
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Internal note: MM folder 4-5
About the
Visurgis AG, which emerged from the Gildemeister & Ries company, as well as the SPATER group (source: wikipedia):
Visurgis AG
was a shipping company in Bremen that existed from 1897 to 1921, emerged from the trading company and later merchant shipping company Gildemeister & Ries, founded in 1825.
History:
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 from Marburg, 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 relocated their company to Bremen and subsequently expanded their range of activities to include the shipping company. Initially, the company operated for a long time as a correspondent shipping company with six ships of 300–500 GRT in size for Chinese coastal shipping. [3] When this business was then increasingly taken over by steamers, the company turned to tramp shipping.
Visurgis AG: In the last quarter of the 19th Century came to an end of the typical merchant shipping companies as partnerships, also for Gildemeister & Ries. In 1897 the shipping division of the company was spun off and converted into a stock corporation, the shipping company "Visurgis" AG.
The parent company Gildemeister & Ries concentrated on the mail order business for silk and woolen goods.
The "Visurgis" was a sailing ship company active in tramp shipping. As wooden ships found less and less employment, the last wooden sailing ship was sold in 1898 to CJ Klingenberg & Co., ship broker and "emigrant transport business" in Bremen. The “Visurgis” now only operated steel ships. In 1900 she had ten tall ships in service, seven full 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 light gray painted ships of the shipping company, whose names usually began with the letter "N", were affectionately called "Bremen donkeys" by seafarers and dock workers because of their color. [6] They were mostly on two routes: they brought coal or general cargo to China and Japan and on the return journey grain from California and Oregon to Europe, or they brought wood from Sweden and Norway to Australia, then coal from Newcastle (New South Wales) Chile and from there saltpetre to Europe.
At first business was satisfactory, and in the first three financial years 1898, 1899 and 1900 dividends of 8, 8 and 9 percent could be distributed, [8] but falling freight rates soon caused profits to shrink considerably, and by 1905 there were many trips no longer profitable. This was reflected in the fact that neither 1905 nor 1906 dividends could be paid. [9] In 1907 [10] and 1908 another 4% dividend was paid out, [11] but the management realistically assessed the future prospects as not very good.
End: With the ever faster displacement of windjammers by steamships, the shipping company came under increasing competitive pressure and from 1909 the number of its ships steadily declined. In 1909 there were nine tall ships with a total of 17,897 GRT; the four-masted steel barque Nauarchos was reduced to a Hulk by fire that year in Antofagasta (Chile). [12] [13] In 1910 there were eight with 15,696 GRT; In 1911 there were seven with 14,011 GRT; and in 1912 and 1913 only five remained with a total of 10,239 GRT.
The years 1910 and 1911 were very lossy, not only because of the very low freight tariffs. One ship was held there for months because of a coal workers' strike in Australia; two ships suffered considerable accidents; 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 was again relatively positive, as not only could the losses of the two previous years be made up, but a profit balance was even 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 autumn. Therefore, and because sales revenues for tall ships sank, 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 In October 1921, the extraordinary general meeting decided to sell the remaining assets of the company to a newly founded stock corporation, the steam shipping company "Visurgis" AG, in which the previous shareholders would be proportionally involved. [20] This decision was implemented in 1922, and in December 1922 the The steam shipping company "Visurgis" AG founded in November 1921 took over 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 construction sectors with steel, metals, building materials and products that are used in building services.
The group of companies with Spaeter AG, which specializes in wholesaling, as the parent company comprises a total of five subsidiaries that operate under their own names. In 2005 the group achieved 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 and independent company, but still maintains close contact with the sister group Carl Spaeter GmbH in Duisburg.
In 1913, the Basel Carl Spaeter GmbH was converted into a stock corporation. The core activity was the wholesale trade in rolling mill 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 May 2018 the companies SPAETER AG Sins, SPAETER Nänikon AG, Carl SPAETER AG and SPAETER Chur AG were united under the roof of a single German-Swiss company. This is called Spaeter AG. The structure in Ticino (SPAETER Ticino SA) and in western Switzerland (Veuthey & Cie SA) remains unchanged.
The "Visurgis" was a sailing ship company active in tramp shipping. As wooden ships found less and less employment, the last wooden sailing ship was sold in 1898 to CJ Klingenberg & Co., ship broker and "emigrant transport business" in Bremen. The “Visurgis” now only operated steel ships. In 1900 she had ten tall ships in service, seven full 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 light gray painted ships of the shipping company, whose names usually began with the letter "N", were affectionately called "Bremen donkeys" by seafarers and dock workers because of their color. [6] They were mostly on two routes: they brought coal or general cargo to China and Japan and on the return journey grain from C