Flender Werke was a German
shipbuilding company, located in
Lübeck. It was founded in 1917 as a branch of Brückenbau Flender AG of
Benrath on the Rhine. In 1926 it was made a fully independent business and renamed Lübecker Flenderwerke AG. It went on to become one of the largest
shipyard
A shipyard, also called a dockyard or boatyard, is a place where ships are built and repaired. These can be yachts, military vessels, cruise liners or other cargo or passenger ships. Dockyards are sometimes more associated with maintenance a ...
s in Germany, building nearly 700 ships in all.
During
World War II, Flender Werke built 2
Type II and 40
Type VII
Type VII U-boats were the most common type of German World War II U-boat. 703 boats were built by the end of the war. The lone surviving example, , is on display at the Laboe Naval Memorial located in Laboe, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
Conc ...
U-boats for the
Kriegsmarine
The (, ) was the navy of Germany from 1935 to 1945. It superseded the Imperial German Navy of the German Empire (1871–1918) and the inter-war (1919–1935) of the Weimar Republic. The was one of three official branches, along with the a ...
.
After the war, Flender Werke continued to build
merchant ships, and in 1973 were renamed Flender Werft AG. In 2002 they were forced to close because of
insolvency.
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Shipbuilding companies of Germany
Manufacturing companies established in 1917
Defunct companies of Germany
History of Lübeck
German companies established in 1917
Manufacturing companies disestablished in 2002
Port of Lübeck
German companies disestablished in 2002
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