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| Employee conditions start improving J. Lauritzen becomes one of the first shipping companies to equip its ships with single and double berth cabins with radio and curtains, hobby rooms, libraries and dental clinics. In port, JL provides bicycles for its seamen and sets up the J. Lauritzen Sports Association for office staff. These activities extend throughout the 1930s and beyond. |
Sons take over When Ditlev Lauritzen dies in 1935, his sons Ivar and Knud Lauritzen take over the family business and manage it jointly until their deaths in 1974 and 1978. |
2nd training vessel added In 1939 Ditlev Lauritzen’s sons add yet another training vessel, the Rømø. |
Humanitarian aid continues Support for humanitarian causes is part of the Lauritzen family philosophy. During WWII, the family supports aid to Norway and Finland and the evacuation of Danish Jews to Sweden. The family sets up a shelter for the elderly and an infants' clinic in Ditlev Lauritzen’s home, and during and after the war, they organise the gathering of windfall fruit, which volunteers make into jam for needy families. |