Oderwerke

Oderwerke AG
Industry	Shipbuilding
Founded	1903
Defunct	1961
Fate	Bankrupt
Headquarters	Stettin, later Lübeck and Cologne, Germany
Products	Merchant ships; Warships; U-boats
Number of employees	~3600

Oderwerke or Stettiner Oderwerke was a German shipbuilding company, located in Stettin (now Szczecin, Poland).

History

Oderwerke was founded on January 28, 1903, and built 154 ships prior to World War I.^{[citation needed]}

During World War II Oderwerke built two German Type VII submarines for the Kriegsmarine, U-821 and U-822. The Polish resistance conducted espionage of the Oderwerke.^[1]

After the war, Oderwerke moved first to Lübeck in 1949 and later Cologne in 1950. The company was declared bankrupt in 1961 and closed.^{[citation needed]}

Ships built by Oderwerke (selection)

Civilian ships

SS Preussen (1909)
SS Stettin (1933)
SS Isa (1936)
Wal (1938)

Naval ships

Submarines (U-boats)

2 x Type VII submarines (1941–1944)

References

^ Chrzanowski, Bogdan; Gąsiorowski, Andrzej. "Wywiad Związku Walki Zbrojnej – Armii Krajowej na Pomorzu. Część I (1940–1943)". Stutthof. Zeszyty Muzeum (in Polish). 6: 17, 28. ISSN 0137-5377.

External links

Some history of Oderwerke
Documents and clippings about Oderwerke in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW

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[1] Chrzanowski, Bogdan; Gąsiorowski, Andrzej. "Wywiad Związku Walki Zbrojnej – Armii Krajowej na Pomorzu. Część I (1940–1943)". Stutthof. Zeszyty Muzeum (in Polish). 6: 17, 28. ISSN 0137-5377.

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