Lurssen

Lürssen GmbH

Type	GmbH
Industry	Shipbuilding
Founded	1875
Founder	Friedrich Lürssen
Headquarters	Bremen-Vegesack, Germany
Key people	Peter Lürssen (CEO)
Products	Yachts Naval ships
Revenue	€829,9 million
Number of employees	1,635
Divisions	Fr. Lürssen Werft Lürssen Logistics Lürssen Yachts Lürssen Schacht-Audorf (Rendsburg) Lürssen Berne-Bardenfleth
Website	Lürssen (yachts) Lürssen Defence (naval vessels)

Lürssen (or Lürssen Werft) is a German shipbuilding company based in Bremen-Vegesack.

Lürssen designs and constructs yachts, naval ships and special vessels. Trading as Lürssen Yachts, it is one of the leading builders of custom superyachts such as Paul Allen's Octopus, David Geffen's Rising Sun, and Azzam, the largest private yacht in the world at 180m in length.

On June 27, 1875, the 24 year-old Friedrich Lürssen sets up a boatbuilding workshop in Aumund, a suburb of Bremen, Germany. His first vessel demonstrates his trademark: originality and high-quality. Friedrich Lürssen´s shipyard grows and thrives, and at one point he even begins placing orders with his father.

11 years later, in 1886, Lürssen builds the world's first motorboat. The 6-meter REMS is commissioned by the inventor and engine manufacturer Gottlieb Daimler, who needs a boat to put his new engine through its paces. Friedrich Lürssen, always open to new ideas, designs and builds it without delay. The Daimler engine that powers it has a cylinder capacity of 0.462 liters, weighs 60 kilograms, and has an output 1.5 hp at 700 rpm. In 1907, Friedrich Lürssen´s only son, Otto, joins the firm as a partner, contributing far-reaching practical and theoretical knowledge. As a shipbuilding engineer, he combines tried and trusted craftsmanship with new technical expertise, improving on past techniques. This approach, handed down over the decades, remains to this day the essence of Lürssen´s unique quality and innovative spirit.

Four years later the Lürssen-Daimler speedboat with its 102 hp engine becomes the sensation of the racing season. In the Mediterranean off Monaco, it wins the unofficial world championship, the Championship of the Sea. The speedboat goes on to win the Prix de la Cote d´Azur and the Grand Prix des Nations later in the same year.