This page is part of © FOTW Flags Of The World website

Ballin Linie (German Shipping Company)

Last modified: 2009-04-11 by jarig bakker
Keywords: ballin |
Links: FOTW homepage | search | disclaimer and copyright | write us | mirrors



[Ballin Linie] image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 8 Apr 2009 See also:

Ballin Linie

Ballin Linie
As far as I know, the company ran a mail service from Hamburg to Nordeney, Borkum and Helgoland at the beginning of 20th century. The ships had a yellow funnel, topped black.
Description of flag: It is a quarterly divided flag into green(upper hoist), red(lower fly) and white. The centre was superimposed by a white oval, fimbriated green and taking total height of flag, containing a green capital “B”.
Source: I spotted an image of that flag on a poster, exhibited in Hamburgmuseum, on 9 August 2008.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 8 Apr 2009

Weidtmann & Ballin

[Weidtmann & Ballin] image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 8 Apr 2009

Weidtmann & Ballin
The ship broker company Hugo Ballin was established in 1912. On 31 October 1945 his son Hans Ballin became chairman of the company. Max Weidtman became its partner and the company was renamed Weidtman und Ballin. In 1972 the shipping branch was closed. Ballin died in 1974, Weidtman in 1983.
Description of flag: It is a dark blue(FIAV-code B+) over yellow over dark blue horizontal triband with a blue lozenge in the middle of the yellow stripe.
Source: Deutsche Reedereien und ihre Erkennungszeichen”; 2nd ed.; Hamburg; 1956; p.42.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 8 Apr 2009

Hamburg-Pazifik Linie

[Hamburg-Pazifik Linie] image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 8 Apr 2009

Hamburg-Pazifik Linie
As far as I know, the company was iniated by Ballin and DDG Kosmos in 1896, in order to install a shipping line from Hamburg to Valparaiso for the transportation of  nitre (guano - birddroppings).
Description of flag: The flag is clearly derived from the national flag of Chile but the lower hoist quarter is white with dark blue capitals “HP” over “L” in triangular order.
Source: Arnold Kludas: Die Geschichte der deutschen Passagierschiffahrt (5 Bde.) Hamburg 1986; Reprint Laibach Slovenia-Buch Nr. 03617-8 - Flaggentafel auf S.222-224.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 8 Apr 2009