House Flags of German Shipping Companies (b)

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• Baum & Co
• Bischoff Gruppe
• Aug. Bolten
• Bremen Südamerika Linie
• Bugsier-, Reederei- und Bergungs-Aktiengesellschaft
• Buss shipping company
• Carl Buttner

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Baum & Co

Dov Gutterman reported the link of Baum & Co., (Nordenham) - A canting flag (German Baum meaning tree). Flag is blue with a white diamond neraly touching all sides, charged with a green tree, with "&" on its stem and below the tree capitals CO, all blue.
Santiago Dotor, 6 Nov 2003

Bischoff Gruppe

White with dark red triangles above and below, relatively narrow, linked by a central disc also dark red. At the hoist and at the fly, the black letters "B" and "C", respectively; on the disc the sign "&" in white.
Jorge Candeias, 7 Feb 1999

Bischoff Gruppe. Appears to have originated as Bremer Reederei Bruno Bischoff & Co. GmbH with a couple of subsequent variations noted in Lloyds before becoming Bruno Bischoff Reederei Gmbh & Co. K.G. in 1981. By the late 1990s it had become a subsidiary of the Icelandic company Samskip H/F and this appears to have coincided with their dropping the naming system of their vessels which previously all had the 1st name of "Bremer".
Neale Rosanoski, 3 Jan 2003

Aug. Bolten

Dov Gutterman reported the link of Aug. Bolten, WM. Miller's Nachfolger (GmbH & Co.) KG - white flag with a red border fimbriated white and a red St.
Andrew's cross and in the center a white disk with black border, charged with a capital B..
Santiago Dotor, 6 Nov 2003

Bremen Südamerika Linie

BS Bremen-Südamerika Linie is a German company that links Europe and Brazil —particularly northwestern Brazil and the Amazon basin— and is represented in Portugal by Garland Navegação. Its logo consists of a flag that can be described as that of Bremen with a blue triangle based at the fly and with the third angle vertically centered at about 2/12ths of the length. The triangle is charged with the sigla BSL in white. There is always the possibility that the real flag is something different than this, but I am sending along what I suppose is the company flag.
Jorge Candeias, 29 Apr 2002

Bugsier-, Reederei- und Bergungs-Aktiengesellschaft

Quartered per saltire, top triangle red, bottom blue, hoist and fly white. On each triangle, one of the companies initials (BRBA), in white on the top and bottom triangles and black on the white ones.
Santiago Dotor, 10 May 2005

Bugsier-Reederei-und Bergungs A.G. began 1866 as Vereinigte Bugsier & Frachtschiffahrt Ges. using a similar flag but with letters "VBFG" replacing the "BRBA" being white on the red quarters and black on the white quarters. The name changed in 1919. Whether the letters on the white are blue or black is very confusing. The company website, together with non German sources, show them as black. Whilst normally I would expect the company portrayal to be correct, the flag letters in the Josef Nüsse collection are definitely blue and this is supported by all other German sources.
Neale Rosanoski, 3 Jan 2003

Buss shipping company

Dov Gutterman spotted the link of Buss shipping company: flag: white, in center narrow black stripe, interrupted by blue "S".
Santiago Dotor, 11 Nov 2003

Carl Buttner

A pinkish (possibly red?) flag with initials "C.B." and a five-pointed star on each corner, all white.
Santiago Dotor, 10 May 2005