House Flags of German Shipping Companies (r) - part 3

Deutsche Reedereiflaggen (r) Teil 3

Last modified: 2019-08-15 by klaus-michael schneider
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• E. A. Richter
• Ernst Richter
• Ernst Rickertsen
• A. Riebecksche Montanwerke AG
• C. J. Riedel
• Riga-Lübecker Dampfschiffahrts Gesellschaft
• C. T. Rinch
• Hans Rinck
• H. W. Ritscher
• RMKS
• H. L. Rochow
• I. N. Rodbertus
• Gebr. Röchling GmbH
• A.G. Röhrs & Co.
• Adolf Röper
• Rolf Rohden
• Adolf E.H. Ronnebaum
• Berend Roosen
• J. Roosen
• Rostock Port (Hafen-Entwicklungsgesellschaft Rostock mbH)
• Roß, Vidal & Co.
• Fr. Roters
• K.G. Reederei Roth
• Roth Kies
• Rothenbücher, Maass und Lüdicke
• J. Rubardt
• Rüdebusch BBS
• Rütgerswerke AG
• Hermann Rumstich
• Spielmann & Co. Reederei Ges. 'Russia' mbH

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E. A. Richter

The company was based in Hamburg and used a red pennant, parted by a white cross, in centre in a thin, black annulet was a red initial "H".
Source: Massary 1928, series 1, image no.114
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 2 Aug 2019

Ernst Richter

Kornumstecher Ernst Richter, a grain transhipping company, based in Hamburg. The flag was a red-white-red horizontal triband. The white stripe had a red inscription "ER", slightly shifted to the hoist.
Source: Schnall funnel chart 1997
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 17 Aug 2019

Ernst Rickertsen

Ernst Rickertsen & Co GmbH:
The company was located in Hamburg. The flag is divided by saltire into red and black. In the centre is a white disc with a black capital "R".
Source: "Deutsche Reedereien und ihre Erkennungszeichen", 2nd ed.; Hamburg; 1956; p.35
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 30 Mar 2009

A. Riebecksche Montanwerke AG

The company was based in Halle upon Saale. The flag was white, in centre black hammer and mallet, the symbols of mining, flanked by black initials "M" (left) and "W" (right), above the ensemble is a white crown fimbriated black over a bow tie of the same.
Source: Massary 1928, series 1, image no.5
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 7 Aug 2019

C.J. Riedel

Acc. to source Hamburg shipowners register provides evidence of the company's existence at least from 1869 until 1879. It is a white flag with a blue cross patty in the centre.
Source: Otto Mathies: "Hamburgs Reederei 1814 - 1914", Hamburg 1924, p.49
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 9 Jul 2012

Riga-Lübecker Dampfschiffahrts Gesellschaft

The company was probably based in Lübeck. The flag was parted per saltire of white and red with black initials on each quarter "R" (hoist) "L" (top) "D" (fly) and "G" (bottom).
Source: Flaggenbuch 1905, part V, p.13, image no.109
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 9 Jul 2012

C.T. Rinch

It is a red flag with a blue disc shifted to the hoist.
Source: Otto Mathies: "Hamburgs Reederei 1814 - 1914", Hamburg 1924, p.25
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 9 Jul 2012

Hans Rinck

Hans Rinck Brennstoffe (fuels) OHG is a bunkering service located at Horneburg, not far from the left bank of the Elbe, opposite Hamburg in Germany.  Link to the company website (in English): Providing mineral oil of various kinds to shipowners for more than twenty years now, Hans Rinck has the necessary storage tanks and a fleet of trucks plus three seagoing vessels.  Other tanker vessels are under contract.

As the Rinck family name is prominent among the employees, I suppose this is still a family business of which Hans Rinck would then have been the founder and first owner.  There also exists a Hans Rinck Tankschiff (tankship) GmbH at Horneburg.

The house flag is remarkable: white with a blue silhouette of an ascending worker carrying a load.  No photos with flag found yet I?m afraid.
Jan Mertens, 30 Apr 2006

Pennant

On 30 April 2006, I had to confess: "no photos with flag found yet I'm afraid" (the house flag has been giffed by Eugene Ipavec, to be sure) but the optimists will prevail - after a fashion, as a small pennant is only a small breakthrough.
There is a photo detail showing this white pennant with the worker in a darker shade of blue than shown on the company website (he said accusingly). Found on German eBay under item no. 220025238762, end 17 September 2006, concerning five house flags in all. Not identified by the owner, the pennant's dimensions were given as 28cm x 51cm and described as "new" despite its somewhat crumpled appearance. But then you are bound to look like that after a hard day's work?
Jan Mertens, 10 Oct 2006

H. W. Ritscher

The company was based in Hamburg-Moorburg. The flag was white with a black initial "R" in centre.
Source: Massary 1928, series 1, image no.67
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 29 July 2019

RMKS

Rhein Main Kies und Splitt GmbH & Co. KG (i.e. Rhine Main Gravel and Crushed Stone) is established at Wesel on the River Rhine and related to üRMKS Schiffahrt, Spedition und Handel GmbH (i.e. RMKS Shipping, Forwarding and Tradeü).
Modest website (German only), showing a flagoid we may assume is the house flag: founded in 1963 and currently employing 26, RMKS is active in extracting sand, gravel, and crushed stone which are important building material.  As the extracting sites empty they are landscaped with respect for the environment (although ecologists have their doubts).
Additional source.
 Image based on a table flag, standing in for a possible house flag (as RMKS has a separate shipping division): I have not yet found any photos of vessels flying it.  Blue field bearing large white initials RMKS without serifs.
Source: German eBay offer no. 160181252406 (end 23 Nov 2007) put up by "maiti35".
Jan Mertens, 29 Dec 2008

H.L. Rochow

It is a red swallow tail pennant with a white bordure at three sides. In the red filed shifted to the hoist is a white, serifed capital "R".
Source: Gratis Beilage zu Deicken und Behrmann's Neuen Monatsheften Neue Ausgabe Sommer 1897
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 25 Apr 2012

I. N. Rodbertus

The company was based in Barth (West Pomerania). The flag was blue with white serifed initials "JNR".
Source: Flaggenbuch 1905, part V, p.21, image no.567
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 18 July 2019

Gebr. Röchling GmbH

The company was based in Hamburg. The flag was divided per bend sinister of white over red, over all a black, serifed "R".
Source: Massary 1928, series 1, image no.160
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 1 Aug 2019

A.G. Röhrs & Co.

The company was based in Bremen. Red flag with white diamond, charged with a (dotted) black "R.".
Source: I spotted this flag on 22 June 2010 in Hamburg-Sandtorhafen
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 23 July 2019

Adolf Röper

The company was based in Hamburg. The flag was red with a white diamond in centre.
Source: Schnall funnel chart 1997
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 17 Aug 2019

Rolf Rohden

The company was located in Loga/Leer. It is a black over red over blue horizontal tricolour, the colours of eastern Frisia. In the centre a white lozenge, fimbriated black containing a black capital "R", is superimposed.
Source: "Flaggen, Schornsteine, Reedereien- Flaggen und Schornsteine der deutschen Reedereien und ihre Schiffe über 300 BRT"; Hamburg 1957; p.F25 Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 Apr 2009

Adolf E.H. Ronnebaum

Reederei Schiffsmakler Adolf E.H. Ronnebaum, i.e. shipping company and shipbroker, and probably also agent for Nordisk Handels og Skibfahrtsbureau, a Scandinavian trading and shipping company, which had the same symbols. The flag was parted per saltire of green (hoist and fly) and white (top and bottom, in centre a green disc, charged with a white centred cross.
Source: Schnall funnel chart 1997
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 17 Aug 2019

Berend Roosen

Berend Roosen - The company flag is an inverted flag of the City of Hamburg. In the centre of a white flag is a red Hamburg-gate.
Source: Jürgen Meyer: "Hamburger Segelschiffe von 1795-1945", ISBN 3-89225-400-1; Hamburg 1999; inside cover.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 23 Mar 2007

J. Roosen

Acc. to source Hamburg shipowners register provides evidence of the company's existence at least from 1855 until 1871. The flag is divided per saltire into white and red. The white quarters have red inscriptions "J" (hoist) and "R" (fly).
Source: Otto Mathies: "Hamburgs Reederei 1814 - 1914", Hamburg 1924, p.97
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 10 Jul 2012

Rostock Port (Hafen-Entwicklungsgesellschaft Rostock mbH)

Rostock Port is owner of wharfages and water expanses in the port area of Hansa City of Rostock. The business is development of infrastructure of the port, especially leasing of pieces of real estate. Furthermore the company is shareholder of terminal company KLV.
Rostock Port maintains a ferry terminal, a cruise terminal and the whole freight- and tanker shipping spectrum.
Description of flags:
The ratio is appox 11:6. They are both horizontal tricolours with ratio 7:2:1 from top. The blue flag (left) has classical colours of the city, i.e. blue over white over red, the red flag (right) has red over white over blue. On both flags at the bottom of the white stripe is an inscription in capitals: "ROSTOCK"(blue) "PORT"(red). On both flags a white square at the hoist side is superimposing the bottom stripe half. It contains the logo of the company, aquarter of a blue disc and a red angle.
Source: I spotted these flags in the port area of Rostock on 25 April 2009
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 6 Apr 2012

Roß, Vidal & Co.

According to source Hamburg shipowners register provides evidence of the company's existence at least from 1842 until 1883. The predecessor was Roß & Co. since 1836. Their flag is not reported. The white flag is divided by two narrow horizontal stripes. Between the stripes is a blue inscription "RV & Co.".
Source: Otto Mathies: "Hamburgs Reederei 1814 - 1914", Hamburg 1924, p.8
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 9 Jul 2012

Fr. Roters

The company was based in Bremerhaven. The flag was blue with a white initial "R".
Source: Flaggenbuch 1905, part V, p.21, image no.571
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 18 July 2019

K.G. Reederei Roth

K.G. Reederei Roth, G.m.b.H. & Co., Hamburg - blue flag, white cross, in center white diamond, red "R".
Image after Brown's Flags and Funnels Shipping Companies of the World, compiled by J.L. Loughran, Glasgow, 1995 [lgr95]
Jarig Bakker, 23 Oct 2005

Roth Kies

The company was located in Rendsburg-Westerrönfeld. It was a yellow flag, divided by a blue horizontal stripe. In the centre was awhite disc fimbriated blue and containing a red capital handwriting "R" .
Source: "Reedereien und ihre Schiffe über 300 BRT"; Hamburg 1957; p.F25
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 20 Apr 2009

Rothenbücher, Maass und Lüdicke

The company was based in Hamburg and used a pennant, bicoloured white over red with a black 6-point star in canton.
Source: Massary 1928, series 1, image no.123
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 2 Aug 2019

J. Rubardt

The company was based in Bremen. The flag was parted by a white throughout cross patty, the upper hoist and lower fly quarters were black, the lower hoist and upper fly quarters red.
Source: Flaggenbuch 1905, part V, p.17, image no.344
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 15 July 2019

Rüdebusch BBS

Rüdebusch Braunschweiger Binnenschifffahrt GmbH (i.e. Rüdebusch Brunswick Inland Navigation Ltd.) is a young firm founded in 2007 by Hans-Hermann Rüdebusch. For further information click here.
One vessel, INGA, a general freighter, is operated. Services rendered logically include transportation over inland waterways, possibly to a harbour, but also warehousing. Apparently preferred goods are construction materials.
BBS was founded to expand the logistic solutions, already offered by Mr. Rüdebusch's original road transportation company, founded in 1978. For further information click here.
Originally established at Braunschweig the main firm now has three more local offices, two of them in the former GDR.
The house flag is red showing the Rüdebusch road transportation logo in white, perhaps somewhat shifted towards the right, plus the company initials in black, serifless initials "BBS" in the upper hoist.
The logo consists of three rounded and parallel stripes, gradually growing thicker and coming together (the left or largest one definitively ends in an arrowhead) while describing a quarter circle (left upper quadrant); there is a fourth bowed line under the others, seemingly aimed at meeting them the other way round.
Jan Mertens, 2 Aug 2010

Rütgerswerke AG

The company was based in Berlin-Charlottenburg. The flag was a red-white-red horizontal triband. The white stripe had a black, serifed inscription "R.W.".
Source: Massary 1928, series 1, image no.146
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 31 July 2019

Hermann Rumstich

Everführerei Hermann Rumstich, i.e. tug skippers, a company located in Hamburg. The flag was green, in centre a white diamond with black inscription "HR".
Source: Schnall funnel chart 1997
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 17 Aug 2019

Spielmann & Co. Reederei Ges. "Russia" mbH

According to source Hamburg shipowners register provides evidence of the company's existence at least from 1913 until 1914. The white flag is divided by a blue saltire, like the Russian jack. In the centre is a red Hamburg castle surrounded by a blue annulet. Blue, white and red are the colours of the flag of Russia. Source: Otto Mathies: "Hamburgs Reederei 1814 - 1914", Hamburg 1924, p.222 Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 July 2012

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