Concordia

Concordia was the first German steamboat on the Rhine. On 1 May 1827 she made her first trip from Mainz to Köln. Context In 1825 the Dampfschiffahrts-Gesellschaft von Rhein und Main (DGRM) was founded in Mainz. It ordered three ships at the Nederlandsche Stoomboot Maatschappij (Dutch Steamboat Comp.), with which it cooperated. Concordia was meant to steam between Mainz and Mannheim, Ludwig from Mannheim to Kehl and Strasbourg, and Stadt Frankfurt would steam between and between Mainz and Frankfurt am Main. The order for the ships was part of a plan by three companies to cooperate and monopolize steam transport on the Rhine. The idea was that the Nederlandsche Stoomboot Maatschappij would offer transport between Rotterdam and Cologne. The Preußisch Rheinische Dampfschiffahrts-Gesellschaft“ (PRDG) would steam from Cologne to Mainz. Finally the DGRM would service the Upper Rhine.