Hamburg America Line Passenger Lists 1881-1939
Hamburg America Line Aka: Hamburg Amerika Linie, Hamburg Amerikanische Packetfahrt Actien Gesellschaft (HAPAG). Hamburg American Line was one of the major steamship companies to handle the immigrant trade. Their primary route was Hamburg to New York via Southampton.
The Hamburg American Line was a World-Wide passenger and freight steamship company. It's North America service ports, and connections included New York, Southampton, Cherbourg, Plymouth (England), Boulogne, Boston, Palermo, Naples, Gibraltar, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New Orleans, Montreal, Halifax, Copenhagen, Galveston, San Francisco, Puget Sound, and Scandinavia.
All Hamburg American Line Passenger Lists available at the Gjenvick-Gjønvik Archives have been transcribed and uploaded.
Note: The HAPAG steamship line used the Hamburg-American Line for all their English Language ephemera. A verbatim translation of Hamburg Amerika Linie would be Hamburg-America Line. We use them interchangeably as family historians use both versions.
1881-08-24 SS Lessing Passenger List
Cabin and Steerage Passenger List for the SS Lessing of the Hamburg America Line, Departing 24 August 1881 from Hamburg to New York. Commanded by Captain Voss.
1883-11-04 SS Silesia Passenger List
Cabin and Steerage Passenger List for the SS Silesia of the Hamburg America Line, Departing Sunday, 4 November 1883 from Hamburg to New York, Commanded by Captain Heinrich H. Barends.
1885-05-31 SS Westphalia Passenger List
Saloon Passenger List from the SS Westphalia of the Hamburg-American Line, Departing 31 May 1885 from Hamburg to Prague, Commanded by Captain H. H. Barends.
1897-08-26 SS Auguste Victoria Passenger List
Cabin Passenger List for the SS Auguste Vicotria of the Hamburg America Line, Departing Thursday, 26 August 1897 from Hamburg to New York via Southampton, Commanded by Captain Carl Kaempff.
1900-08-09 SS Fürst Bismarck Passenger List
Cabin Passenger List for the SS Fürst Bismarck of the Hamburg America Line, Departing 9 August 1900 from Hamburg to New York via Southampton and Cherbourg, Commanded by Captain Heinrich H. Barends.
1900-10-07 SS Patricia Passenger List
Cabin Passenger List for the SS Patricia of the Hamburg America Line, Departing 7 October 1900 from Hamburg to New York via Boulogne-sur-Mer and Plymouth, Commanded by Captain H. Leithäuser.
1901-07-28 SS Pretoria Passenger List
First and Second Cabin Passenger List for the SS Pretoria of the Hamburg America Line, Departing 28 July 1901 from Hamburg to New York via Plymouth and Boulogne-sur-Mer, Commanded by Captain Karlowa.
1902-01-26 SS Fürst Bismarck Passenger List
Cabin Passenger List for the SS Fürst Bismarck of the Hamburg America Line, Departing 26 January 1902 from Naples to New York via Gibraltar, Commanded by Captain Heinrich H. Barends.
1902-04-22 SS Pennsylvania Passenger List
Cabin Passenger List for the SS Pennsylvania of the Hamburg America Line, Departing 22 April 1902 from New York to Hamburg via Plymouth and Cherbourg, Commanded by Captain H. Spltedt.
1902-06-21 SS Pennsylvania Passenger List
First & Second Cabin Passenger List for the SS Pennsylvania of the Hamburg America Line, Departing 21 June 1902 from Hamburg to New York via Boulogne-sur-Mer and Plymouth, Commanded by Captain H. Spliedt.
1903-08-22 SS Pretoria Passenger List
First and Second Cabin Passenger List for the SS Pretoria of the Hamburg America Line, Departing 22 August 1903 from Hamburg to New York via Plymouth and Boulogne-sur-Mer, Commanded by Captain G. Schrötter.
1903-08-27 SS Fürst Bismarck Passenger List
First and Second Cabin Passenger List for the SS Fürst Bismarck of the Hamburg America Line, Departing 27 August 1903 from Hamburg to New York via Southampton, Commanded by Captain H. Leithäuser.
1905-07-29 SS Graf Waldersee Passenger List
First and Second Cabin Passenger List for the SS Graf Waldersee of the Hamburg America Line, Departing 29 July 1905 from Hamburg to New York via Dover and Boulogne-sur-Mer, Commanded by Captain A. Krech.
1905-09-14 SS Hamburg Passenger List
First & Second Cabin Passenger List for the SS Hamburg of the Hamburg America Line, Departing 14 September 1905 from Hamburg to New York via Dover and Boulogne-sur-Mer, Commanded by Captain E. Burmeister.
1905-11-11 SS Pennsylvania Passenger List
First & Second Cabin Passenger List for the SS Pennsylvania of the Hamburg America Line, Departing 11 November 1905 from Hamburg to New York via Boulogne-sur-Mer and Plymouth, Commanded by Captain H. Knuth.
1906-08-04 SS Pennsylvania Passenger List
First & Second Cabin Passenger List for the SS Pennsylvania of the Hamburg America Line, Departing 4 August 1906 from Hamburg to New York via Boulogne-sur-Mer and Plymouth, Commanded by Captain H. Knuth.
1906-08-21 SS Moltke Passenger List
First Class Passenger List for the SS Moltke of the Hamburg America Line, Departing 21 August 1906 from Genoa to New York via Naples, Commanded by Captain Reessing.
1907-05-04 SS Meteor Passenger List
Cruise Passenger List for the SS Meteor of the Hamburg America Line, Departing Saturday, 4 May 1907 from Genoa to Hamburg via Villafranca, Ajaccio, Algiers, Gibraltar, Tangier, Lisbon, and Dover, Commanded by Captain Schwamberger.
1907-06-01 SS Batavia Passenger List
Second Cabin Passenger List for the SS Batavia of the Hamburg America Line, Departing 1 June 1907 from New York to Hamburg, Commanded by Captain G. Bachman.
1907-08-08 SS Amerika Passenger List
Cabin Passenger List for the SS Amerika of the Hamburg America Line, Departing 8 August 1907 from Hamburg to New York via Southampton and Cherbourg, Commanded by Captain H. Knuth.
1908-11-12 SS Amerika Passenger List
Cabin Passenger List for the SS Amerika of the Hamburg America Line, Departing 12 November 1908 from Hamburg to New York via Southampton and Cherbourg, Commanded by Captain H. Knuth.
1909-09-20 SS Koning Wilhelm II Passenger List
First Class Passenger List for the SS König Wilhelm II of the Hamburg America Line, Departing 20 September 1909 from Hamburg to La Plata via Boulogne-sur-Mer, Southampton, Vigo, Lisbon, and Rio de Janeiro, Commanded by Captain P. Wiehr.
1909-10-07 SS Deutschland Passenger List
Cabin Passenger List for the SS Deutschland of the Hamburg America Line, Departing 7 October 1909 from Hamburg to New York via Southampton and Cherbourg, Commanded by Captain Carl Kaempff.
1910-06-30 SS Cincinnati Passenger List
Cabin Passenger List for the SS Cincinnati of the Hamburg America Line, Departing 30 June 1910 from Hamburg to New York via Southampton and Cherbourg, Commanded by Captain Schülke.
1910-07-24 SS President Lincoln Passenger List
First & Second Cabin Passenger List for the SS President Lincoln of the Hamburg America Line, Departing 24 July 1910 from Hamburg to New York via Southampton and Boulogne-sur-Mer, Commanded by Captain Hahn.
1910-09-08 SS Cincinnati Passenger List
Cabin Passenger List for the SS Cincinnati of the Hamburg America Line, Departing 8 September 1910 from Hamburg to New York via Southampton and Cherbourg, Commanded by Captain Schülke.
1911-05-24 SS Graf Waldersee Passenger List
Cabin Passenger List for the SS Graf Waldersee of the Hamburg America Line, Departing 24 May 1911 From Philadelphia To Hamburg, Commanded by Captain P. Froehlich.
1912-08-03 SS Cincinnati Passenger List
First and Second Class Passenger List from the SS Cincinnati of the Hamburg American Line, Departing Saturday, 3 August 1912 from Hamburg for New York via Southampton and Cherbourg, Commanded by Captain Schülke.
1912-09-28 SS Patricia Passenger List
Second Cabin Passenger List for the SS Patricia of the Hamburg America Line, Departing 28 September 1912 from Hamburg to New York (Direct), Commanded by Captain A. Borden.
1912-11-01 SS President Lincoln Passenger List
First and Second Cabin Passenger List for the SS President Lincoln of the Hamburg America Line, Departing 1 November 1912 from Hamburg to New York via Southampton and Boulogne-sur-Mer, Commanded by Captain Witt.
1913-10-25 SS Pretoria Passenger List
Second Cabin Passenger List for the SS Pretoria of the Hamburg America Line, Departing 25 October 1913 from Hamburg to New York, Commanded by Captan Dugge.
1914-09-13 SS Red Cross Passenger List
Special Passenger List of Doctors, Nurses and Officers for the SS Red Cross of the Hamburg America Line, Departing 13 September 1914 from New York to Falmouth, England, Commanded by Captain Armistead Rust, U.S.N. (Retired).
1926-01-28 SS Albert Ballin Passenger List
Third Class Passenger List for the SS Albert Ballin of the Hamburg America Line, Departing 28 January 1926 from Hamburg to New York via Boulogne-sur-Mer and Southampton, Commanded by Captain Wiehr.
1926-07-30 SS Deutschland Passenger List
Cabin Passenger List from the SS Deutschland of the Hamburg America Line, Departing Friday, 30 July 1926 from Hamburg to New York via Boulogne-sur-Mer and Southampton, Commanded by Captain Schwamberger.
1926-08-18 SS Westphalia Passenger List
Third Class Passenger List for the SS Westphalia of the Hamburg America Line, Departing 18 August 1926 from Hamburg to Boston and New York via Cobh (Queenstown), Commanded by Captain Niss.
1926-08-27 SS Albert Ballin Passenger List
Third Class Passenger List for the SS Albert Ballin of the Hamburg America Line, Departing 27 August 1926 from Hamburg to New York via Boulogne-sur-Mer and Southampton, Commanded by Captain Wiehr.
1926-12-10 SS Cleveland Passenger List
Third Class Passenger List for the SS Cleveland of the Hamburg America Line, Departing 10 December 1926 from Hamburg to New York via Boulogne-sur-Mer and Southampton, Commanded by Captain Luck.
1927-07-06 SS Albert Ballin Passenger List
Third Class Passenger List for the SS Albert Ballin of the Hamburg America Line, Departing 6 July 1927 from New York to Hamburg via Cherbourg and Southampton, Commanded by Captain Paul Wiehr.
1927-07-30 SS Reliance Passenger List
First and Second Cabin Passenger List for the SS Reliance of the Hamburg America Line, Departing 30 July 1927 from Hamburg to New York via Southampton and Cherbourg, Commanded by Captain W. Möller.
1927-08-12 SS Deutschland Passenger List
Cabin Passenger List for the SS Deutschland of the Hamburg America Line, Departing 12 August 1927 from Hamburg to New York via Boulogne-sur-Mer and Southampton, Commanded by Captain Langer.
1927-08-16 SS Resolute Passenger List
First and Second Cabin Passenger List for the SS Resolute of the Hamburg America Line, Departing 16 August 1927 from Hamburg to New York via Southampton and Cherbourg, Commanded by Captain F. Kruse.
1927-09-14 SS Thuringia Passenger List
Third Class Passenger List for the SS Thuringia of the Hamburg America Line, Departing 14 September 1927 from Hamburg to New York, Commanded by Captain Buch.
1927-09-23 SS Deutschland Passenger List
Third Class Passenger List for the SS Deutschland of the Hamburg America Line, Departing 23 September 1927 from Hamburg to New York via Boulogne-sur-Mer and Southampton, Commanded by Captain Langer.
1928-10-12 SS Deutschland Passenger List
Third Class Passenger List from the SS Deutschland of the Hamburg America Line, Departing Friday, 12 October 1928 from Hamburg to New York via Boulogne-sur-Mer and Southampton, Commanded by Captain Langer.
1929-01-16 SS New York Passenger List
Third Class Passenger List for the SS New York of the Hamburg America Line, Departing 16 January 1929 from Hamburg to New York via Boulogne-sur-Mer and Southampton, Commanded by Captain Graalfs.
1929-03-15 SS Hamburg Passenger List
First & Second Cabin Passenger List from the SS Hamburg of the Hamburg America Line, Departing Friday, 15 March 1929 from Hamburg to New York via Boulogne-sur-Mer and Southampton, Commanded by Captain Schwamberger.
1929-04-05 SS New York Passenger List
Cabin Passenger List from the SS New York of the Hamburg America Line, Departing 5 April 1929 from Hamburg to New York via Boulogne-sur-Mer and Southampton, Commanded by Captain Graalfs.
1929-04-19 SS Hamburg Passenger List
Tourist Third Cabin and Third Class Passenger List for the SS Hamburg of the Hamburg America Line, Departing 19 April 1929 from Hamburg to New York, Commanded by Captain Schwamberger.
1929-10-17 SS Cleveland Passenger List
Cabin Passenger List from the SS Cleveland of the Hamburg America Line, Departing Thursday, 17 October 1929 from Hamburg to Boston and New York via Boulogne-sur-Mer and Cobh (Queenstown), Commanded by Captain Niss.
1930-06-07 SS Cleveland Passenger List
Cabin Passenger List from the SS Cleveland of the Hamburg America Line, Departing Saturday, 7 June 1930 from New York to Hamburg via Boston, Galway, and Cherbourg, Commanded by Captain W. Hennecke.
1930-08-22 SS Deutschland Passenger List
First, Tourist, and Third Class Passenger Lists from the SS Deutschland of the Hamburg America Line, Departing Friday, 22 August 1930 from Hamburg to New York via Southampton and Cherbourg, Commanded by Captain Buch.
1930-08-29 SS Hamburg Passenger List
First and Second Cabin Passenger List from the SS Hamburg of the Hamburg America Line, Departing 29 August 1930 from Hamburg to New York via Southampton and Cherbourg, Commanded by Captain Koch.
1931-05-21 SS New York Passenger List
Third Class Passenger List for the SS New York of the Hamburg America Line, Departing 21 May 1931 from Hamburg to New York via Southampton and Cherbourg, Commanded by Captain Graalfs.
1931-10-08 SS New York Passenger List
Cabin Passenger List from the SS New York of the Hamburg America Line, Departing Thursday, 8 October 1931 from Hamburg to New York via Southampton and Cherbourg, Commanded by Captain Graalfs.
1932-07-16 SS Resolute Passenger List
Cabin Passenger List from the SS Resolute of the Hamburg America Line, Departing Saturday, 16 July 1932 from Hamburg to Scotland, Iceland, Spitzbergen, and Norway, Commanded by Captain F. Kruse.
1932-09-18 SS Milwaukee Passenger List
Cabin Passenger List from the SS Milwaukee of the Hamburg America Line, Departing Sunday, 18 September 1932 from Hamburg to New York via Boulogne-sur-Mer, Southampton, and Cobh (Queenstown), Commanded by Captain H. Molchin.
1933-07-27 SS New York Passenger List
First, Tourist and Third Class Passenger List from the SS New York of the Hamburg America Line, Departing Thursday, 27 July 1933 from Hamburg to New York via Southampton and Cherbourg, Commanded by Commodore Kruse.
1933-08-24 SS New York Passenger List
Tourist Passenger List from the SS New York of the Hamburg America Line, Departing Thursday, 24 August 1933 from Hamburg to New York via Southampton and Cherbourg, Commanded by Commodore Kruse.
1933-12-20 SS Albert Ballin Passenger List
First, Tourist, and Third Class Passenger List from the SS Albert Ballin of the Hamburg America Line, Departing Wednesday, 20 December 1933 from Hamburg to New York via Southampton and Cherbourg, Commanded by Captain Fuhr.
1934-08-09 SS New York Passenger List
First and Tourist Class Passenger List for the SS New York of the Hamburg America Line, Departing Thursday, 9 August 1934 from Hamburg to New York via Southampton, Cherbourg, and Cobh (Queenstown), Commanded by Commodore Kruse.
1934-08-30 SS Hamburg Passenger List
First Class and Tourist Passenger List from the SS Hamburg of the Hamburg America Line, Departing Thursday, 30 August 1934 from Hamburg to New York via Southampton, Cherbourg, and Cobh (Queenstown), Commanded by Captain Koch.
1934-09-06 SS New York Passenger List
First Class and Tourist Passenger List from the SS New York of the Hamburg America Line, Departing Thursday, 6 September 1934 from Hamburg to New York via Southampton and Cherbourg, Commanded by Commodore Kruse.
1935-07-11 SS Hamburg Passenger List
First, Tourist, and Third Class Passenger List from the SS Hamburg of the Hamburg America Line, Departing Thursday, 11 July 1935 from New York to Hamburg via Cobh, Cherbourg, and Southampton, Commanded by Captain Theodor Koch.
1935-08-15 SS Deutschland Passenger List
First Class and Tourist Passenger List from SS Deutschland of the Hamburg America Line, Departing Thursday, 15 August 1935 from Hamburg to New York via Southampton, Cherbourg, and Cobh (Queenstown), Commanded by Captain Dau.
1935-08-21 SS Hamburg Passenger List
First Class and Tourist Passenger List from the SS Hamburg of the Hamburg America Line, Departing Wednesday, 21 August 1935 from Hamburg to New York via Southampton and Cherbourg, Commanded by Captain Koch.
1936-05-28 SS New York Passenger List
Cabin, Tourist, and Third Class Passenger List from the SS New York of the Hamburg America Line, Departing Thursday, 28 May 1936 from New York to Hamburg via Cherbourg and Southampton, Commanded by Captain J. Wagner.
1936-06-04 SS Hamburg Passenger List
Cabin, Tourist and Third Class Passenger List from the SS Hamburg of the Hamburg America Line, Departing Thursday, 4 June 1936 from New York to Hamburg via Cherbourg and Southampton, Commanded by Captain Theodor Koch.
1936-07-02 SS Hamburg Passenger List
Cabin, Tourist, and Third Class Passenger List for the SS Hamburg of the Hamburg America Line, Departing Thursday, 2 July 1936 from New York to Hamburg via Cherbourg and Southampton, Commanded by Captain Theodore Koch.
1936-08-27 SS Deutschland Passenger List
Passenger List (Class Not Stated) for the SS Deutschland of the Hamburg America Line, Departing 27 August 1936 from Hamburg to New York via Southampton and Cherbourg, Commanded by Captain Friedel.
1937-09-02 SS Hamburg Passenger List
Passenger List (Class not Stated) for the SS Hamburg of the Hamburg America Line, Departing 2 September 1937 from Hamburg to New York via Southampton and Cherbourg, Commanded by Captain Koch.
1937-09-14 SS Stuttgart Passenger List
Cabin, Tourist, and Third Class Passenger List from the SS Stuttgart of the Hamburg America Line, Departing Tuesday, 14 September 1937 from Hamburg to New York via Southampton and Cherbourg, Commanded by Captain A. Kinkel.
1938-08-04 SS Hamburg Passenger List
Cabin and Tourist Class Passenger List for the SS Hamburg of the Hamburg America Line, Departing Thursday, 4 August 1938 from Hamburg to New York via Southampton and Cherbourg, Commanded by Captain Th. Koch.
1938-11-03 SS New York Passenger List
Cabin, Tourist, and Third Class Passenger List from the SS New York of the Hamburg America Line, Departing 3 November 1938 from Hamburg to New York via Southampton, Cherbourg, and Cobh, Commanded by Captain B. Majewski.
1939-04-20 SS Hamburg Passenger List
Cabin, Tourist and Third Class Passenger List for the SS Hamburg of the Hamburg America Line, Departing 20 April 1939 from Hamburg to New York via Southampton, Cherbourg, and Cobh, Commanded by Captain P. Hille.
1939-05-11 SS New York Passenger List
Cabin, Tourist, and Third Class Passenger List from the SS New York of the Hamburg America Line, Departing 11 May 1939 from New York to Hamburg via Cherbourg and Southampton, Commanded by Captain B. Majewski.
1939-06-08 SS New York Passenger List
Cabin, Tourist, and Third Class Passenger List for the SS New York of the Hamburg America Line, Departing Thursday, 8 June 1939 from New York to Hamburg via Cobh, Cherbourg, and Southampton, Commanded by Captain B. Majewski.
The Hamburg America Line History
The Hamburg America Line is Germany's oldest and largest steamship company. It was founded on May 27, 1847, by Hamburg merchants as the Hamburg-American Steam Packet Company and rose in the course of a few decades from an obscure firm owning a few sailing ships to the position of the world's largest steamship company whose ships sailed to every corner of the globe.
After the World War which resulted in the loss of practically all of its tonnage, untiring and persevering efforts soon enabled the Hamburg America Line again to occupy one of the leading positions in the shipping world with a modern fleet of 101 ocean-going steamers and 142 smaller vessels aggregating in all 738,971 Gross Register Tons.
The first service operated by the Company which today maintains regular services to all parts of the world was between Hamburg and New York.
After the foundation of the Company, the service was inaugurated by three sailing ships, soon to be followed by the first steamers flying the Hapag flag.
They started a rapid development of this critical service by still larger and faster ships until, at the outbreak of the War, three giant liners plying between Hamburg and New York were the largest and most luxurious afloat.
Today the New York Service is maintained by the four twin-screw express steamers of the "Hamburg" type, of 22,000 Gross Register Tons.
Propelled by engines of about 28,000 HP., these ships attain an average speed of 19 miles per hour enabling them to make the crossing from Hamburg to New York in eight days.
Every Thursday, in summer and winter, one of the "Famous Four" sails from Hamburg via Southampton and Cherbourg to New York while another one returns from New York via Cherbourg and Southampton to Hamburg.
Each of these ships can accommodate about 1,000 passengers in Cabin, Tourist and Third Class. Besides the four ships of the "Hamburg" type, the twin-screw MV "St. Louis" of 16,732 Gross Register Tons is also engaged in the New York Service during the summer months.
Also, a Twin-Screw-Electric-Liner for the North Atlantic-Service of the company is in construction with a tonnage of about 36,000 tons to be placed into commission at the beginning of 1941.
Apart from this service, the Hamburg America Line maintains regular sailings to all parts of the world. More than 120 ports in every corner of the globe are regularly called at by the steamers of the Hamburg America Line.
With excellent ships for the speedy transportation of passengers, cargo and mail, the Company maintains services to Canada, Cuba and Mexico, the West Indies and Central America, to the West Coast of North and South America, to the Dutch East Indies, to Australia, to China and Japan and other countries of the Far East.
Pleasure cruising has been another important branch of the Company's business ever since, in the early nineties, the "Augusta Victoria" of the Hamburg America Line sailed on the world's first pleasure cruise.
The Twin-screw-steamer "New York" is scheduled yearly on Short and Long West Indies Cruises visiting the most remarkable places of the Caribbean.
The "Milwaukee" of 16,754 Tons is exclusively engaged in cruising carrying its passengers to the Mediterranean and the Lands of the Midnight Sun, to the Atlantic Islands and to the West Indies.
The "Milwaukee," among other features, is equipped with up-to-date installations for medicinal baths, massages and similar treatments making her the world's first "floating Spa."
