History

Our History from 1837 till today as Film in low, middle and high resolution:

| 1837 | Founding of the company by Carl Woermann
| 1847 | Purchase of the first sailing ship, the "Eleonore"
| 1849 | First journey of own brig "Therese Henriette" to Liberia
| 1853 | Beginning of the Australian and East Asian trade

| 1854 | Founding of the branch office in in Monrovia/Liberia
| 1855 | C. Woermann and his company became the epitome of the Africa trade among the general public.
| 1862 | Founding of the branch office in Gabon/West Africa
| 1868 | Founding of the branch office in Cameroon
| 1874 | Adolph Woermann becomes part owner of the company

| 1880 | The first steam ship, the "Aline Woermann" is commissioned
| 1882 | Establishment of a scheduled service to West Africa
| 1885 | Founding of the "Afrikanische Dampfschifffahrts-Aktiengesellschaft, Woermann-Linie"
| 1890 | Eduard Woermann becomes a partner
| 1890 | Founding of the "Deutschen Ost-Afrika-Linie“ (DOAL, or German East Africa Line)
| 1895 | DOAL steam ship before Zanzibar | 1900 | Construction of the Afrikahaus in Hamburg by the architect Martin Haller

| 1908 | Founding of an operating consortium comprising DOAL, Woermann Line, Hapag and the Hamburg-Bremen Africa Line
| 1912 | Kurt Woermann is taken on as a junior partner | 1912 | Death of Adolph Woermann | 1914 | Loss of all investments in Africa and most ships as a result of the First World War | 1917 | Sale of the controlling interest in the Woermann Line and shares in the Deutsche-Ost-Afrika-Linie | 1920 | Loss of foreign assets and new beginning after the First World War... | 1921 | Re-opening of the branch office in Monrovia (Liberia) by C. Woermann | 1922 | Opening of the branch office in Accra (Gold Coast) by C. Woermann
| 1924 | Opening of the branch office in Freetown/Sierra Leone by C. Woermann | 1924 | Branch office in Bata/ Equatorial Guinea

| 1928 | Typical Woermann store in the 1920s, with everything that the population needed to live.
| 1939 | Dispossession in Sierra Leone and on the Gold Coast as a result of the Second World War
| 1942 | Closing of the branch offices in Liberia and Equatorial Guinea

| 1949 | Re-opening of the branch office in Monrovia (Liberia) in cooperation with the Brussels Corporation (Woermann & Brussels Corporation)
| 1951 | Heinrich Woermann joins the company
| 1951 | Opening of the branch office in Lagos/Nigeria in cooperation with Gilbert J. McCaul (Gilbert J. McCaul & C. Woermann Ltd.)
| 1954 | Opening of an office in Accra
| 1960-1969 | The trading house C. Woermann changes rapidly...
| 1966 | C. Woermann Nigeria is founded

| 1973 | Opening of a branch in Kumasi/Ghana
| 1974 | The long-standing branch office manager in Ghana, Volker Kuppe, becomes a new partner
| 1979 | Detlev Woermann becomes a partner
| 1983-1999| Branch offices in Conakry and Abu Dhabi

| 2003 | The long-standing branch office manager of C. Woermann Nigeria, Axel Kuppe, becomes a partner
| 2005 | Founding of a branch office in Angola