Company History
| 1852 |
The company is founded by Master Shipwright Johann Gottfried Schinke, then taken over by his son Gustav Schinke. The company produces barges. |
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| 1940 | Ernst Liebich acquires the company. The company’s range now also includes motorized cargo ships and prams for the German Wehrmacht as well as ship repair. | |
| 1950 | The company is turned into a KG (limited partnership business entity); its range is expanded to include the production of containers. | |
| 1957 | Government involvement is imposed on the enterprise. | |
| 1960 | The company profile changes considerably with the production of technical watercraft such as suction dredgers and floating bucket-chain dredgers. | |
| 1965 | Merger with Firma J.C. Ritter (Schiffswerft Königstein), which results in the company Vereinigte Stahl und Schiffsbau Oberelbe Königstein. | |
| 1972 | Nationalized and renamed the VEB Schiffswerft Oberelbe. | |
| 1979 bis 1984 |
Complete reconstruction of the shipyard in Bad Schandau. |
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| 1981 bis 1989 | Further development and distribution of the floating grab dredger from the yacht shipyard Eisenhüttenstadt, which has a grab volume of 2.6 m³. Besides monitoring boats 12 meters in length, the company develops, designs and builds their own, patented SWO type floating conveyor system starting in 1981. Also, a diesel-electric powered bucket-chain dredger is designed and built, primarily for use in flood control on smaller rivers. | |
| 1989 bis 1990 | The enterprise is taken over by the Treuhand agency. | |
| 1991 | The company is purchased by W. Rohr Otterstadt and produces components for dredgers, bucket-chain dredgers and floating conveyor systems. | |
| 2001 | Bankruptcy of the company Bleichert & Rohr. | |
| 2002 | Takeover by BEYER GmbH, Viernheim, which produces extraction equipment for sand and gravel. |  |
| 2012 |
Introduction of 3D CAD construction. |
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