House Flags of German Shipping Companies (k) - part 1

Deutsche Reedereiflaggen (k) Teil 1

Last modified: 2016-04-28 by klaus-michael schneider
Keywords: kayser | kette | kiehn | kieler vag | kiepe | kimme | kingsin linie | kipp | klingenberg | knoehr und burchard | taucher knoth | knudsen und jordan | knueppel |
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• Kayser & Söhne
• "Kette" Deutsche Elb Schiff Gesellschaft
• J.C. & H.C. Kiehn
• Kieler Verkehrs A.G.
• Hubert Kiepe
• Monika & Rolf Kiepe
• Hermann Kimme
• Kingsin Linie
• Reederei Kipp
• Klingenberg
• G.J. Klingenberg
• Knöhr & Burchard Nfl
• Taucher Knoth
• Knudsen & Jordan
• Knüppel Schiffahrt

• House Flags of German Shipping Companies
• House Flags of Shipping Companies
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Kayser & Söhne

The company was located in Bremerhaven. It was a white flag cotized blue. In the centre was a blue hexagram with a red "K" in its centre.
Source: Lloyds 1912 ; p.100 , flag no.1334
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 10 May 2012

"Kette" Deutsche Elb Schiff Gesellschaft

Pennant reported 1897

The pennant is divided by converging stripes into black over white over red. In the white stripes are red capitals "KDES".
Source: Gratis Beilage zu Deicken und Behrmann's Neuen Monatsheften Neue Ausgabe Sommer 1897
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 24 Apr 2012

Flag reported ca. 1898

It was a blue flag divided by a yellow saltire with a small, black "K" in the centre of the saltire.
Source: Flaggenkarte, Hrsg.: H. Carly, Hamburg, c.1898
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 21 Jun 2012

J.C. & H.C. Kiehn

The flag is a spanish fess of blue and white, with a large black "K" at the center.
Source: Flaggenkarte, Hrsg.: H. Carly, Hamburg, c.1898
Jorge Candeias, 9 Dec 2004

It must be J.C. & H.C. Kiehn, Hamburg - there's a trace of this firm here (see under 'War Rother'), ... but I've found no second picture of this particular flag.
Jan Mertens, 1 Jan 2005

Kieler Verkehrs A.G.

Kieler Verkehrs A.G., Kiel - white flag, the firm's shield superimposed on two black anchors in saltire.
Image after Brown's Flags and Funnels Shipping Companies of the World, compiled by J.L. Loughran, Glasgow, 1995 [lgr95]
Jarig Bakker, 17 Feb 2006

The variant has only black capitals, a different form of shield and an additional yellowish rope.
Source: scan located by Jan Mertens
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 7 May 2012

Hubert Kiepe

Hubert Kiepe K.G., Haren/Ems - horizontal BWB flag; in center white diamond, blue "K".
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

Monika & Rolf Kiepe

Monika & Rolf Kiepe - red flag with yellow bend fimbriated black, in centre superimposed by a capital "K", also yellow fimbriated black. The company has only one vessel named "RUDOLF THEA" and is operating on European rivers.
Source: ZDF Morgenmagazin (German TV), report on 9/10 July 2015
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 28 Apr 2016

Hermann Kimme

Hermann Kimme, Bremen - red flag, white cross formy, black "HK".
Image after Brown's Flags and Funnels of British and Foreign Steamship Companies, compiled by F.J.N. Wedge, Glasgow, 1926 [wed26]
Jarig Bakker, 28 Jan 2005

Kingsin Linie

In the time of economic progress after the German-French war of 1870/71 the "Deutsche Dampfschiffs-Rhederei zu Hamburg AG" was established in 1871, located at Rathausmarkt 15, Hamburg. In 1874 this company was somehow connected with "August Bolten, W.Millers Nachfolger". This new company was backed by famous shipping companies like "Wachsmuth & Krogmann", "Godeffroy" and "William O'Swald", represented by Albrecht O'Swald. The plan was to established a European line but the company ended in running the Eastern Asia services. In 1881 the more suggestive denomination "Kingsin Linie" occurred for the first time. Kingsin means "golden star". The company applied for a mail-licence in 1884 but failed and Norddeutscher Lloyd ran the mail service. Nevertheless the company made big business in the next years in supplying the German Navy in Eastern Asia. The main targets were the ports of Penang, Singapore, Hong Kong, Yokohama and Hiogo. The company was dissolved in 1898 probably for economical reasons.
Description of flag: It is a red and white quarterly divided square flag. In the centre of the first quarter there is a white Hamburg-castle with an open door and portcullis.
Source: Arnold KLUDAS: "Die Geschichte der deutschen Passagierschiffahrt" (5 vols), Hamburg 1986; Reprint Laibach Slovenia-Buch Nr. 03617-8; p.156-7.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 14 June 2007

Reederei Kipp

This tourist ship company is located in Breege, isle of Rügen and runs a line from Ralswiek via Breege to the isle of Hiddensee. It is a celestial blue flag divided by a white cross. In its centre is a white disc surmounted black with a black cross pattee superimposed by a white "K". For further information click company's webpage
Source: I spotted this flag on 3 January 2008 in Breege harbour.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 23 Feb 2009

Klingenberg

Dov Gutterman reported the link of Albert Hauschild (GmbH & Co.), which contains the houseflag of said firm, as well as the rather similar flag of Klingenberg Bereederungs- und Befrachtungs OHG. Klingenberg's flag is: white with broken capitals: green A, and black K.
Santiago Dotor, 6 Nov 2003

G.J. Klingenberg & Co.

The company was located in Breman. It was a red flag with a white cross patty in the centre.
Source: Lloyds 1912 ; p.136 , flag no.2107
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 10 May 2012

Knöhr & Burchard Nfl

Another of the images I have in my files is a photo of a page of a book, looking a few decades old, that is full of flags that apperently are german houseflags, since the page is labelled "Rhedereien". The flags are mostly blue and white. This is one of them: a white flag with a blue disc more or less in the center.
Jorge Candeias, 2 May 2004

That is Knöhr & Burchard Nfl, Hamburg - Source "See und Seefahrt", by Gustav-Adolf Wolter, 1968.
Jarig Bakker, 2 May 2004

It's the flag of one of the oldest German shipping companies: Knoehr & Burchard Nfl. GmbH, Hamburg. This company was founded in 1814 and still exists in Hamburg. They sent me an original tableflag some years ago. I could'nt find a homepage but they are in the Yellow Pages.
Jörg M. Karaschewski, 2 May 2004

Taucher Knoth

Taucher Knoth (Nachf.) GmbH & Co. KG, meaning essentially Successors to Knoth's Diving Enterprise, at Hamburg (Germany), maintain a modest website in German (English version not yet up): here
Offering much more than diving and underwater work, Knoth operates a small but impressive fleet of floating equipment, specialized vessels, pontoons,etc.: here
To get an idea, check out "Referenzen" (i.e. references, upper menu) where you will see said equipment at work in various situations. Happily, how to reach the company is not only explained for travel by car but also by ship, coming from Helgoland to finally reach Hamburg port where the flag is hoisted!
Shown in the cloth on the "Profil" page (i.e. profile, upper menu) is the bright orange house flag sporting blue, unserfied initials "TK"� (second lower than first ) accompanied at right by the logo: a classic blue-and-white diving helmet above a blue diver's (frogman's) silhouette.
More pictures are here and here
Jan Mertens, 19 Apr 2011

Knudsen & Jordan

Here is the website of Knudsen & Jordan GmbH - houseflag: white with a narrow flydiagonal line; at hoist blue K, at hoist blue J.
Dov Gutterman, 2 Nov 2003

Knüppel Schiffahrt

The white flag as red stripes on the edges at top and bottom. Between the stripes is a big, blue initial "K".
Source: Verband Deutscher Reeder homepage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 12 Jul 2012

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