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Horn Linie (Shipping Company, Germany)

image by Jarig Bakker, 25 Oct 2003

Introduction
Horn Linie
big H
Horn-Linie oHG
Reederei H.C. Horn (Inh. Heinz Horn)

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Introduction

Horn-Linie oHG
The company today is located in Hamburg’s fashionable new City-Süd. Heinrich Christian Horn’s star rose from a manufacturer of matches in Schleswig to one of the most important German ship owners.
The complete story can be read in: Gerd Uwe Detlefsen, den Band Nr. 20 der Serie DEUTSCHE REEDEREIEN.

Brief history
The story began in 1882. Here only the time since 1937 is given:
In 1937 Henry Horn died, his son became owner during a very critical era and had to face serious economic problems. Fortunately in 1933 Erich Müller-Stinnes acquired shares of the company and can help to overcome the troublesome years. He established in 1934 the company “Westindisches Schiffahrtskontor GmbH” together with Heinz Horn. This company became corresponding ship owner of the ships of Horn.
At the end of WWII the company had neither buildings nor ships but heavy burdens of debt in real estates.
On 27 August 1949 Heinz Horn transferred his shares of the company to Erich Müller-Stinnes. He renamed the “Westindisches Schiffahrtskontor GmbH” into “Horn-Linie oHG” in 1951.
So the company was no successor of the former Horn-Linie oHG.
Müller-Stinnes died in 1963 and left no heir. Therefore he sold the company to HAPAG and the French company CGT. Both partners acquired 50%.
On 1 July 1975 two different branches were established: “Reederei Horn-Linie oHG” and the ship brokers “Schiffahrtskontor Horn-Linie oHG. The shipping company stayed with HAPAG-Lloyd, as successor of HAPAG, and CGM, as successor of CGT, which had merged with “Messagerie Maritime” before.
The only owner of the ship brokers and the Baltic Sea service was however CGM. In 1978 the HAPAG-Lloyd withdrew from the shipping company and sold its shares also to CGM.
In 1997 Horn-Linie became part of “Global Refer Carriers Ltd.”, a daughter of “Fresh Del Monte Prod.Inc.”.
Klaus-Peter Bühne; translated by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 5 Apr 2009

Horn Linie

At home I have a stout "Larousse Commercial Illustré" (a kind of trade encyclopedia) published in Paris, 1930. It has four pages in colour illustrating house flags; a note identifies it as the work of Sandy Hook. It has an illustration of Horn Linie: horizontal blue-red (blue uppermost), a large white H over all, taking up one third of the flag's height (funnel: black, bearing the flag in the form of a band) = Flensburg, based in Hamburg
Jan Mertens, 25 Oct 2003

Horn Linie (big H)

image by Jarig Bakker, 25 Oct 2003

Image as seen in Brown's Flags and Funnels, 1928.
Jarig Bakker, 25 Oct 2003

Horn-Linie oHG

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 5 Apr 2009

Description of flag of Schiffahrtskontor Horn-Linie oHG:
It is a horizontally divided flag into blue over red. In the centre is a white capital “H” surrounded by a lozenge with thin white edges.
Source: www.marcollect.de
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 5 Apr 2009

Reederei H.C. Horn (Inh. Heinz Horn)

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 5 Apr 2009

Reederei H.C. Horn (Inh. Heinz Horn)
In 1956 Heinz Horn tried to get started a new business of refrigerator ships. The company owned nineteen minor vessels. In 1960 troubles began due to high interest rates and in 1969 Heinz Horn had to give up.

Description of flag:
It was a red flag with a white capital “H” in the centre and a horizontal blue stripe at the top and bottom edges. Furthermore it is the genuine flag of Horn-Linie.
Source: www.marcollect.de
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 5 Apr 2009