Lürssen

Fr. Lürssen Werft GmbH & Co. KG
Company typeGmbH
IndustryShipbuilding
Founded1875 (1875)
FounderFriedrich Lürssen
Headquarters,
Germany
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Peter Lürssen (CEO)
ProductsYachts
Naval ships
Revenue1.83 billion
Number of employees
1,935
DivisionsFr. Lürssen Werft
Lürssen Logistics
Lürssen Yachts
Lürssen Schacht-Audorf (Rendsburg)
Lürssen Berne-Bardenfleth
Websitewww.luerssen.de
Footnotes / references
Slogan: my firm shall be known as the leader in both quality and performance.
(Friedrich Lürssen, 1875)

Lürssen (or Lürssen Werft) is a German shipyard with headquarters in Bremen-Vegesack and shipbuilding facilities in Lemwerder, Berne and Bremen-Fähr-Lobbendorf.

Lürssen designs and constructs yachts, naval ships and special vessels. Trading as Lürssen Yachts, it is one of the leading builders of custom superyachts such as Paul Allen's Octopus, David Geffen's Rising Sun, and Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Azzam, the second largest private yacht in the world at 180 m in length after the REV Ocean.