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

Deutsche Reedereiflaggen (b) - Teil 1

Last modified: 2019-08-24 by klaus-michael schneider
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• Karl-Heinz Baase
• BACO-Liner GmbH
• Gustavo Bahr
• G. Balleer
• Baltische Dampfschiffahrts Gesellschaft
• Baltische Segelschiffs Reederei
• Baltische und Weißmeer Handels- und Schiffahrt
• Baltischer Lloyd Stettin
• Baltrum Linie
• A. Bangert
• Gerd Bartels
• Robert Bartholomay
• Basler Rheinschiffahrt-Gesellschaft mbH
• H. Bauer
• Bauer-Schadel GmbH (BSG)
• Baum & Co
• Volker Baume
• Bavaria AG
• Bayer Chemicals
• Bayerischer Lloyd
• Bremer Bereederungsgesellschaft (BBG)

• House Flags of German Shipping Companies
• House Flags of Shipping Companies
• Germany

Karl-Heinz Baase

Karl-Heinz Baase, Elsdorf-Westermühlen - red flag, black hoist-diagonal stripe, in center white disk, black "B".
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

BACO-Liner GmbH

BACO-Liner GmbH., Duisburg - blue flag with white vertical stripes; in center a yellow "b"-like thingy.
Image after Brown's Flags and Funnels Shipping Companies of the World, compiled by J.L. Loughran, Glasgow, 1995 [lgr95]
Jarig Bakker, 4 Dec 2005

Gustavo Bahr

Gustavo Bahr - The company used a red flag with a white 5-point star in its centre. In the star was a black serifed capital "B".
Source: Jürgen Meyer: "Hamburger Segelschiffe von 1795-1945", ISBN 3-89225-400-1; Hamburg 1999;  inside cover
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 25 Mar 2007

G. Balleer

The company was based in Bremen. The flag was white with a black serifed inscription "B&M" and had a red bordure.
Flaggenbuch 1905, part V, p.12, image no.78
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 9 July 2019

Baltische Dampfschiffahrts Gesellschaft

The company was based in Stettin. The flag was a blue-white-blue horizontal triband. In centre of the broader white stripe was a blue disc. The colours are those of Pomerania.
Source: Massary 1928, series 1, image no.209
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 3 Aug 2019

Baltische Segelschiffs Reederei GmbH

The company was based in Lübeck. The flag was white, charged with a white isosceles triangle fimbriated black on two sides and pointing to fly and a red flash in the triangle, all like a pennant on the flag.
Source: Massary 1928, series 1, image no.381
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 6 Aug 2019

Baltische und Weißmeer Handels- und Schiffahrt

Baltische und Weißmeer Handels- und Schiffahrts Ges.m.b.H. Danzig - The flag of the company was divided by saltire. Its quarters were blue (top), red (bottom); white (others) with black serifed capital letters in its white quarters "B" (hoist) and "W" (fly).
Source: Jürgen Meyer: "Hamburger Segelschiffe von 1795-1945", ISBN 3-89225-400-1; Hamburg 1999;  inside cover
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 27 Mar 2007

Baltischer Lloyd Stettin

Baltischer Lloyd, I have no images, the company's existence was 1871-1874 according to Bonsor in his "North Atlantic Seaways" and 1870-1876 in the shipslist website and this is outside the scope of my books as although they go back to 1883 it is not until Lloyds 1904 that non British companies were shown in any number.
Bonsor does not illustrate but he describe the flag as being white, black "BALTISCHER LLOYD, STETTIN" between two black concentric circles, in centre, black head of a griffin vrowned.
Neale Rosanoski, 6 Jul 2009

Baltrum Linie

Baltrum Linie GmbH & Co., Baltrum - green flag, white triangle bordered black, black "B.-L.".
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

Baltrum Linie - The company is connecting Baltrum Island with Neßmersiel. The flag is green with a white disosceles triangle, fimbriated black, in its centre. The triangle contains black, serifed dotted capitals “B.-L.”.
Source: www.marcollect.de, maintained by  Klaus-Peter Bühne.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 7 May 2009

A. Bangert

It was a red flag. In the centre was a white disc containing a blue initial "B".
Source: Flaggenkarte, Hrsg.: H. Carly, Hamburg, c.1898
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 22 Jun 2012

Gerd Bartels

The company is located in NeuWulmstorf near Hamburg. The flag is yellow with a red lozenge in the centre containing a white inscription "GWB" with connected letters.
Source: Verband Deutscher Reeder homepage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 12 Jul 2012

Robert Bartholomay

The company was located in Hamburg. The flag was red. Two white equilateral triangles fimbriated black met one another in the centre of the flag. Within the triangles were black capitals "R"(hoist) and "B"(fly).
Source: "Deutsche Reedereien und ihre Erkennungszeichen"; 2nd ed.; Hamburg 1956; p.11
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 19 Sep 2010

Basler Rheinschiffahrt-Gesellschaft mbH

The house flag of German Brag (CH) subsidiary found in"'Flaggen auf dem Rhein" (1952 ed.).
Brag archivexillum: white with shifted black crozier, a national flag (in this case the German one) in the canton.
Name: Basler Rheinschiffahrt-Gesellschaft mbH (i.e. Basle Rhine Shipping Co. Ltd), Mannheim.
Jan Mertens, 26 Sep 2007

H. Bauer

It was a blue flag with red serifed initials "HB" in a white lozenge. The company was based in Rostock.
Source: Flaggenbuch 1905, part V, p.15, image no.223
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 July 2019

Bauer-Schadel GmbH (BSG)

The company is located in Greetsiel (Aurich County), was established in 1987 and runs one tourist ship, the MS GRETCHEN, which was built in 1924. The flag is an East Frisian tricolour, i.e. black over red over blue. Within the red stripe are white initials "BSG".
For further information click: company webpage
Source: I spotted this flag in Greetsiel on 14 September 2009.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 31 Dec 2013

Baum & Co

Dov Gutterman reported the obsolete link http://www.baumco.de/ of Befrachtungskontor W. Baum & Co., Nordenham (Nordenham is along the Weser river opposite Bremerhaven) - A canting flag (German Baum meaning tree). Flag is blue with a white diamond neraly touching all sides, charged with a green tree, with "&" on its stem and below the tree capitals CO, all blue.
Santiago Dotor, 6 Nov 2003

Volker Baume

The company was based in Hamburg - green flag, white stylized "vb".
Image after Brown's Flags and Funnels Shipping Companies of the World, compiled by J.L. Loughran, Glasgow, 1995 [lgr95]
Jarig Bakker, 19 Oct 2005

Bavaria AG

Bavaria Schiffahrts- und Speditions-AG (Bavaria Shipping and Transport Co. Ltd) has its head office at Aschaffenburg on the River Main and local offices in Germany (Würzburg, Bamberg, etc.) and France (Strasbourg). Company website (the house flag appears), and the English version of this site.
Bavaria offers extensive warehousing facilities, is specialized in integrated transport, operates a fleet of 25 barges representing about 45.000 metric tonnes, and has a subsidiary offering insurance.
If we consider the company website's version as the correct one, we can describe the house flag as being light blue with a thin white saltire and a small white, black-rimmed, disk in the centre bearing a black initial "B".
Jan Mertens, 28 Apr 2006

Bayer Chemicals

As mentioned here earlier the Bayer chemical factory flew a house flag showing the winged lion, the brand preceding the well-known "Bayer cross". A pennant really, it appears in "Flaggen auf dem Rhein" (1952 ed.) and so documents the continued use of the lion - but let me say right away that I do not yet know the years when Bayer's fleet was active. The pennant was vertically divided white (hoist) and blue (fly), the winged lion with one paw holding a caduceus and the other one resting on the globe, all yellow, in the hoist. Captioned as 'Farbenfabrik Bayer, Leverkusen' (i.e. Bayer Chemical Works, Leverkusen).
One single vessel, the push boat-cum-firefighting boat BAYER, was shown on the Binnenvaart site - it was built in 1974 (from 1996 on registered at Dormagen which is on the Rhine N. of Cologne, as is Leverkusen):
Founded in 2001, Chemion Logistik at Leverkusen is now Bayer's specialized (owned) company responsible for logistic operations including inland shipping. No fleet of their own it seems.
Jan Mertens, 3 Dec 2007

Bayerischer Lloyd

Image from a German eBay offer no. 150133135419 (end 25 June 2007) put up by "bundeszentralregister ", table flag measuring about 15 cm x 24 cm.
Description: Wavy gyronny of twelve pieces, blue and white; in the centre a yellow lion, rampant, with red tongue and nails.
Jan Mertens, 23 Nov 2007

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