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Germany Honors Jewish Shipbuilder

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HARRY M.
GOLDFARB

By SAM MILLER

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(Copyright, 1957, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)

HAMBURG On the one hun-
dredth anniversary of the birth
in this city of Albert Bailin, the
Jewish shipping magnate who
was an adviser of Germany's
last Kaiser and a leading figure
in German economic life before
the First World War, he was
honored with commemorative
ceremonies at his graveside and
through the release of a 20-
pfennig postage stamp with his
portrait silhouetted against the
background of a steamship on
the high seas.
A wreath from the Hamburg
Jewish Community was among
those recently deposited at his
tomb on the Ohlsdorf general
cemetery, where he is buried
amid "great Hamburg citizens."
Tribute was paid to him by
members of Hamburg's Govern-

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ment and by a small audience
of - prominent personalities from
the world of the German mer-

chant marine. Bailin died by
his own hand on November 9,
1918, numbed by the shock of
the realization that the shipping
empire he had built up would
be seriously crippled as a: result
of Germany's loss of the war
and that his friend the Kaiser,
had fled into exile.
He was born the thirteenth
child of Samuel Joel Bailin,
who as a young man- had come
to Hamburg from the small
Jeivish community in the
Danish harbor town of Hors-
ens. The elder Bailin and a
partner opened a modest
travel agency for emigrants.
In 1874 he died, and Albert
Bailin, then 17 years old, en-
tered the business.
Not long thereafter, he be-
came manager and co-owner.
Thanks to his initiative and
commercial skill, BallM soon
handled a substantial proportion
of the Africa-bound masses flee-
ing Central and Eastern Europe.
He was the first emigrant agent
to charter entire steamships for
his steerage passengers and to
treat the latter with the human
consideration that had earlier
been lacking. In a few years,
the cargo boats of the Carr
Shipping Line, under charter to

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him and remodelled according
to his plans, had carried hun-
dreds of thousands to New
York.
The Hamburg America Line,
the leader in the trans-Atlantic
passenger field, found itself un-
able to stand up to his competi-
tion and in 1886 joined an "emi-
grant pool" formed by the two
lines, with Bailin appointed to
the managership of the com-
bined passenger department.
The HAPAG, as it was known,
expanded vastly under his re-
sourceful direction and before
the turn of the century became
the world's largest shipping
line.
Bailin was a pioneer not
only of large-scale emigrant
traffic, but also of big luxury
vessels and of holiday sea
cruises to distant countries.
Bailin was responsible for
building the first ocean liners to
exceed 50,000 tons. These were
the "Imperator," of 52,000 tons
built in 1912; the "Vaterland,"
54,000 tons, built in 1914 and
the "Bismarck," 56,000 tons,
launched in 1914 but not com-
pleted until after the war. All
of these ships went to the Allies
in 1918.
The first became the "Beren-
garia" of Cunard, the second
was the famous "Leviathan" of
the United States Lines. The
last, which never saw service
under the German flag, became
"Majestic" of the White Star
Line and was the world's larg-
est ship until the advent of the
"Normandie" in 1935. The con-
cept of huge ships combining
the utmost in luxury for cabin
passengers with vast steerage
quarters for immigrants was
wholly Ballin's. His big three
could accommodate some 5,000
passengers each-
When he was named direc-
tor-general of the Hamburg
. America Line in 1899, he had
already reached a position of
leadership i n international
maritime affairs. He was in
the chair at the London nego-
tiations that led to the con-
clusion of the "Atlantic Con-
ference." During that entire
"golden age" of shipping, the
success • attained in achieving
cooperation between the ship-
owners of a wide variety of
nations was essentially his
work.
Kaiser Wilhelm was much
impressed by Ballin's diplomatic
skill, manifested in scores of
international deliberations as
well as in coups such as the
accord he brought about in 1902
with the American financial
quarters spearheaded by J. Pier-
pont Morgan. Furthermore, the
Kaiser greatly admired Ballin's
masterful reorganization and
development of Germany's mer-
chant navy. The Jewish ship-
ping tycoon gradually became
the monarch's most influential
adviser on maritime questions
and a strikingly close relation-
ship evolved between the two
disparate personalities.

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At the zenith of Ballin's pow-
er and influence, the Kaiser
urged that he accept baptism
and in that case offered to be-
stow • a title of nobility upon
him. Although it was common
for Jewish-born Germans in
high positions to heed such
hints from the Imperial Court,
Bailin declined:- In all other re-
spects, he had wholly assimi-
lated himself to the pattern of
the Hamburg shipping circles in
which he moved. Indeed, he was
so ardent a German patriot that
—alone among prominent Ger-
mans—he despairingly took his
own life when the Empire col-
lapsed and the Kaiser fled, but
he steadfastly spurned the sug-
gestion that he abandon the
faith into which he was born.

When the Hamburg America
Line began to build up its fleet
after World War I, the first of a
class of four 21,000-ton passen-
ger liners for the New York
trade was named "Albert Bai-
lin." When Hitler took over in
1933, this name was changed to
"Hansa." The ship was sunk
during the second World War.

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