Empacher Bootswerft
On 18 December 1923, Willy Empacher founded a boatyard in Königsberg/East Prus-sia at the age of 21 with a contract to build three sailing yachts. Together with Wilhelm Karlisch, his business companion at the time, he had to survive some hard times in the autumn and winter of those early years.
Willy Empacher, a trained master boatbuilder and chief master of the guild, built not only motor and sailing yachts in Königsberg, but also ice-boats. There was hardly any demand for rowing boats.In the 1930s, he operated the largest boatyard east of Ber-lin with over 100 employees. Like everywhere else in Germany, boats were built for the navy and the engineers during the war. In 1945, the six members of the family fled by boat from East Prussia to Schleswig-Holstein, reaching Eberbach in 1947 without a penny to their name.
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