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Brothers’ stars are in
the ascendant
within the German
shipping firmament
after the Dauelsberg
empire was split
between family
members
Germany
Nicolaus and Friedrich Bunnemann
HAD this list been published 18 months master’s degree in shipping, trade and The brothers are clearly expansion-
ago, the Bunnemanns may not have finance, and a relatively brief stint at minded, with reports that they have
secured a place on it, as their 158-year-old Rickmers Maritime. picked up something like 20 vessels
Bremen-based family company Herm at distressed prices, and are actively
Dauelsberg is not generally regarded as Atlantic Lloyd and Asiatic Lloyd, seeking to build the company by
among the biggest names in the German Friedrich’s Singapore company that acquisition.
shipping firmament. was founded in 2008, retain chartering
of Dauelsberg’s five boxships and two Their freedom to move is enhanced
However, their stars are seen as being panamax tankers. by the fact that they are unencumbered
in the ascendant as part of the shake-up by previous family involvement with the
that resulted after Dauelsberg was divided According to its website, the Asiatic/ troubled KG system.
up last year between fourth-generation Atlantic Lloyd group of companies as a
family members Andreas and Klaus. whole owns and manages post-panamax A senior German ship finance figure
bulk carriers and boxships in the 1,000 confirmed their profile in the Hamburg
Klaus’s son Nicolaus, pictured, is teu-9,000 teu bracket. shipping community is growing. He
now managing director of Atlantic Lloyd, commented: “They have significant
which owns four boxships and two Activities include technical private wealth, are among the most
tankers as a result of the split. management, crewing, asset management active players, and would for sure be
and project development, and there included on the list of younger Germans
His CV includes the obligatory year is a shipbroking arm responsible for shaping the future of the industry.”
at Cass Business School, studying for a chartering and sales and purchase.
The leading light in Borealis Maritime
has well-known shipping and trading
heritage on both sides of his family tree
Germany One grandfather was Alfred
Christoph Toepfer Toepfer, founder of the grain trader
Toepfer International, who was also a
CHRISTOPH Toepfer, born in April 1970, shipowner in his day; the other was the
may be based in London as a non-dom, legendary Egon Oldendorff, founder of
but he is very much a product of the the eponymous bulk shipping giant.
Hamburg milieu, with well-known Indeed, Egon is one of Christoph
shipping and trading heritage on both Toepfer’s middle names. But like many
sides of his family tree. of his cohorts, Christoph has been
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