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The Woermann-Linie was a German shipping company that operated from 1885 to 1942.

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1-628: It was founded on 15 June 1885 by Adolph Woermann and developed as one of the leading shipping companies between Europe and Africa . From 1899 the company was headquartered in Afrikahaus , in Hamburg . For decades it transported contract laborers to various places on the African continent, for instance, workers from Liberia and Nigeria to Spanish Guinea . The Woermann family sold it to Deutsche Ost-Afrika Linie in 1916. In 1942, it and

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