Albert Ballin ca. 1910

Albert Ballin' (15 August 1857, Hamburg - 9 November 1918, Hamburg) was a German businessman. He was born into a modest family of Hamburg. His father was part owner of an emigration agency that arranged passages to the United States, and when he died in 1874, young Albert took over the business. He developed it into an independent shipping line, saving costs by carrying cargo on the return trip from the US. This brought him to the attention of Hamburg-America, who hired him in 1886, and made him general director in 1899. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 378 × 450 pixelsFull resolution (378 × 450 pixel, file size: 15 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Albert Ballin Hamburg America Line ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 378 × 450 pixelsFull resolution (378 × 450 pixel, file size: 15 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Albert Ballin Hamburg America Line ... This article is about the city in Germany. ... A memorial statue in Hanko, Finland, commemorating the thousands of emigrants who left the country to start a new life in the United States Emigration is the act and the phenomenon of leaving ones native country to settle in another country. ... Year 1874 (MDCCCLXXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link with display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1886 (MDCCCLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1899 (MDCCCXCIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday [1] of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ...

Although extremely successful in developing the business, as a Jew he was not accepted by Hamburg society. Nevertheless, he became friends with Kaiser Wilhelm II. William II or Wilhelm II (born Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm Albert Viktor von Preußen; English: Prince Frederick William Albert Victor of Prussia) (27 January 1859–4 June 1941) was the last German Emperor and King of Prussia (German: Deutscher Kaiser und König von Preußen), ruling both the German...

Before World War I many different ship companies started including cruise ships among their fleet, to add luxury and comfort to sea travel: Due to bad weather conditions in the winter months the transatlantic ocean liners could not operate at full capacity, and Ballin thought of a scheme to increase the occupancy by offering idle ships to travel agencies in Europe and America in the winter. The first modern cruise, which defined the journey not just as transport but as the actual reward, commenced on 22 January 1891, when the SS Auguste Victoria (named after the German empress) set sail to cruise the Mediterranean for six weeks. The competitors initially sniggered at Ballin, who organised and supervised the voyage personally, but the project was a huge success. In order to accommodate the growing demand another three of the SS Auguste Victoria’s sister ships operated as cruise liners, and in 1899 the Hamburg-America Line ordered a new ship at the Blohm und Voss shipyard. It was the very first cruise ship, one exclusively tailored for the needs of well-to-do passengers. “The Great War ” redirects here. ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ...

Ballin acted as mediator between the United Kingdom and Germany in the tense years prior to the outbreak of World War I. Terrified that he would lose his ships in the event of naval hostilities, Ballin attempted to broker a deal whereby the United Kingdom and Germany would continue to race one another in passenger liners but desist their attempts to best one another's naval fleets. Consequently the outbreak of war deeply disillusioned him. Many of the Hamburg-America Line's ships were lost or suffered considerable damage during the hostilities. “The Great War ” redirects here. ...

Discouraged at the destruction of his work building the Hamburg-America fleet, and perhaps fearing the loss of his ships, Ballin committed suicide by taking an overdose of sleeping pills two days before the armistice ended World War I. Ballin's fears were soon to be realized; the company‘s flagships, the triumvirate SS Imperator, SS Vaterland and SS Bismarck were ceded as war prizes to Great Britain and the United States. Front page of the New York Times on Armistice Day, 11 November 1918 The armistice treaty between the Allies and Germany was signed in a railway carriage in Compiègne Forest on November 11, 1918, and marked the end of the First World War on the Western Front. ... SS Imperator, later renamed RMS Berengaria, was the first of a trio of successively larger ocean liners that included the Vaterland and the Bismarck built by the German HAPAG Line for the transatlantic passenger service. ... The SS Leviathan was a United States Lines ocean liner active in the 1920s and 1930s, was one the worlds largest ships for nearly 20 years. ... RMS Majestic, originally christened Bismarck, was launched in 1914 and was, at 56,551 gross tonnes, the largest ship in the world until the completion of the S.S. Normandie in 1935. ...

The SS Albert Ballin was named in his honor, as is the Ballindamm, a street in central Hamburg. He's also ballin' SS Albert Ballin was an ocean liner of the Hamburg-America Line launched in 1923 and named after Albert Ballin, visionary director of the line who had killed himself in despair several years earlier. ...

We stay fly, No Lie ,You know this (BALLIN!)

References

• Lamar Cecil, Albert Ballin; business and politics in imperial Germany, 1888-1918 (Princeton University Press, 1967)
• Bernhard Huldermann, Albert Ballin (Berlin: Gerhard Stalling, 1922)
• he was the biggest baller in the history of balla legends, his legendary technique and the last name of ballin made him forever known in ballas hall of fame. The song by by the famous artist called Chingy was a small reminder of how ballin this man really was.

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