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House Flags of German Shipping Companies (l)

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Richard Lambert

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 16 Sep 2008

Richard Lambert, located in Stettin.
It is a plain red flag with a white cross pattee in ist centre.
Source: [llo12] p.104, image no.1414
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 16 Sep 2008

Larsen Reederei

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 29 Mar 2009

Larsen Reederei
The company was located in Flensburg. It is a dark blue over white over dark blue horizontal triband with red, serifed capitals in “LR” in the white stripe.
Source: “Deutsche Reedereien und ihre Erkennungszeichen”; 2nd ed.; Hamburg 1956; p.26
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 29 Mar 2009

Larsen & Stoss

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 16 Sep 2008

A flagoid - meaning a flag picture possibly (and hopefully) representing the real item - is shown on the modest website of ‘Larsen & Stoss GmbH’(German only): Sky blue field with white disk bearing red serifed initials ‘L’ and ‘S’ (partly behind the ‘L’ and in a lower position).
The company is established at Lübeck in the North of Germany and active in ship broking, freighting (chartering), and port transporation (haulage). That is all I could find except for the fact that the firm already existed in 1954.
Jan Mertens, 14 Jan 2009

Lass shipbroker

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 25 Feb 2009

Lass is a ship broker, located in the Hamburg harbour area either at Johannisbollwerk or Vorsetzen.
The flag is white with four blue bars forming a capital “E” which covers the total range of the flag. Upon the middle horizontal bar are white capitals forming the companies name and at the centre of the hoist edge is a white 8-point star.
Source: I spotted this flag on 13 March 2007 in Hamburg’s harbor area.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 25 Feb 2009

Is it Greek-owned?
Eugene Ipavec, 25 Feb 2009

Hermann R. Lassen

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 22 Mar 2007

Hermann R.Lassen was an agent in the beginning but became corresponding owner of a ship of Rickmers in 1887. The Lassen company sold its last ship in 1907 and since then Lassen worked as ship-broker.This company exists still today having the name: "Lassen & Co. Reederei Agentur G.m.b.H.".
The shipping-company used a red flag with a white diamond touching the edges with a black serifed capital "L".
Source: Jürgen Meyer: "Hamburger Segelschiffe von 1795-1945"; ISBN 3-89225-400-1; Hamburg 1999; p.150ff.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 22 Mar 2007

Walter Lauck

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 26 Mar 2009

This is the Hamburg-based Walter Lauk companies. Here is the website, English version: Founded in 1982 and initially dedicated to in-harbour transport, the combined firms are now active in inland shipping, container trucking, agency services in four German harbours, and not related to transport, rather to the loads product control.

As related on the company site, Walter Lauk operates one tugboat and one pushboat plus nine open barges and eight covered ones in the various harbours plus thirty vessels (ten of which are under contract) on the inland waterways. In this last respect, agricultural products are a very important load which ties in with product control activities such as sampling, analysis, certifying, etc.

Link to an article (in German) about father and son Lauk, in a playful mood: They note, among other things, the need for in-harbour shipping to bypass the local traffic jams lorries get caught in.

Seen right away on the home page, the house flag is divided red-blue along a descending diagonal with large white serifless letters "W" on the lower red triangle, "L" on the upper blue one. Interestingly, attachment hardly shows the white dividing line clearly visible on the truck's side ("About us" section) and in the flag in front of the company seat, enlarged extract of photo. (Photo too dim for editing, ed.)

Again the white stripe in a drawing on this page: only this time the flag is enclosed in a blue border we have seen is not there in reality. Some photos on the internet show the tug "Jörg" with the white-stripe flag on the funnel. (No idea about the second flag in front of the company seat? is it the container division?).
Jan Mertens, 1 Jul 2006

Walter Lauck
The flag is divided per bend into red and blue with a white fimbriation between red and blue. In the lower hoist is a white capital “W”, in the upper fly a white capital “L”.
Source: I spotted this flag on 20 October 2007 in Billwerder Bucht, Hamburg.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 26 Mar 2009

LEA Shipping

image by Ivan Sache, 7 Jul 2005

Here is another house flag: quarterly per saltire, left and right triangles white, upper and lower ones blue; in the middle, a white blue-rimmed oval containing red letters ‘LEA’.
‘Lea Shipping’ (or “Lea Schiffahrtsges, Hamburg”) in the page title actually refers to the ‘Leo Adams’ shipping company, Hamburg.
On the other hand, ‘Lea Schiffahrts GmbH’ and ‘Leo Adams Reederei’ were perhaps two distinct, but related, companies?
Jan Mertens, 5 Jul 2005

Leda Schiffahrt

image by Jarig Bakker, 16 Oct 2005

Leda Schiffahrt, Leer - white, a shield with the East-Frisian colors between black "LS".
Image after Brown's Flags and Funnels Shipping Companies of the World, compiled by J.L. Loughran, Glasgow, 1995 [lgr95]
Jarig Bakker, 16 Oct 2005

Reederei Lehmann

image by Jarig Bakker, 3 Jan 2006

Reederei Lehmann G.m.b.H., Lübeck - white flag, blue circle, red two-towered castle.
Image after Brown's Flags and Funnels Shipping Companies of the World, compiled by J.L. Loughran, Glasgow, 1995 [lgr95]
Jarig Bakker, 3 Jan 2006

Leonhardt & Blumberg

image by Jorge Candeias, 22 Dec 2004

The flag is white with a narrow red saltire under a black cross with the same thickness and a white square occupying the intersection (would have been hollowing it if instead of white appeared the red intersection of the saltire's arms). German national colours, a striking and if not unique at least rare design, great stuff. But the caption is very hard to read. The same thing happens whenever it includes lots of letters. Guessing more than reading, I came up with two surnames: Leinhardt & Blumberg.
Jorge Candeias, 22 Dec 2004

Leonhardt & Blumberg, Hamburg.
Jarig Bakker, 22 Dec 2004

Libra

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 19 May 2007

Libra: It's a blue flag with a white "L" in its centre. The angle between both bars is 66 2/3^o.
The company seems to be part of the Chilean company CSAV. This is also valid for Norasia, which uses the same logo as CSAV.
Source: Image spotted at companies doorplate at Hamburg Herrengraben 3 on 16 March 2007.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 19 May 2007

Linnhoff Schiffahrt

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 24 Feb 2009

Linnhoff Schiffahrt
It is a green flag with a white diamond in ist centre touching the top and bottom edge. In the diamond are dark blue bold capitals “LS”, both connected at their bottom line.
Source: I spotted this image on 5 April 2008 at the doorplate of the company at Alster lake in Hamburg.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 24 Feb 2009

Lübeck Linie

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 June 2007

Lübeck Linie - The company was located in Lübeck.
Description of flag: It is a white flag with two horizontal red stripes. At the hoist both stripes have double width. So the stripes are forming some kind of "LL".
Source: Arnold KLUDAS: Die Geschichte der deutschen Passagierschiffahrt (5 Bde.), Hamburg 1986; Reprint Laibach Slovenia-Buch Nr. 03617-8; flagchart p.224.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 June 2007

Lüdders und Wehrt

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 23 Feb 2009

Lüdders und Wehrt GmbH
This shipping, transport and storage company was located in Hamburg at the Kehrwieder and was dissolved. But I don’t know when.
The flag is divided by a dark blue saltire into green (hoist and fly) and white(top and bottom).
Source: I spotted a timetable of the company at Turmweg fleemarket in Hamburg on 6 September 2008.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 23 Feb 2009