Chinese home in Hamburg

Hamburg is home to the world’s only Home for Chinese Sailors. Its origins go back a hundred years and also tell the story of the Chen family. The duties may have changed, but the ownership remains – soon to be in its fourth generation.

Let the other sailors spend their money in brothels. For beer and Korn and whatever else promises distraction on the Reeperbahn. But not the Chinese. Because the Chinese, at least according to Martin Chen, head of the Home for Chinese Sailors in Hamburg, are family people. Hard-working and pragmatic to boot. That’s why his father founded the first branch in Eppendorf. Of all places, Chinese sailors were supposed to stay in the mansion district between merchants and gentlemen’s clubs since 1962.

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