Johannes Tiedke

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Johannes Tiedke (* 1881 in Zehdenick ; † March 30, 1947 in Sielbeck near Eutin ) was a German lawyer and insurance director.

career

Johannes Tiedke was the son of the Brandenburg pastor Albert Heinrich Eduard Tiedke. From 1900 to 1908 he studied in Paris and Berlin Jura , where he had to his living self-financing.

Tiedke initially worked as a lawyer in Zehdenick and Duisburg . In 1920 he was director of Victoria Insurance in Berlin. During the period of inflation , Tiedke saved the company from major financial losses, which earned him the reputation of a successful manager in the insurance industry.

Headquarters of the old Leipzig insurance company in Leipzig from 1934

On October 1, 1922, Tiedke joined the management of the old Leipzig insurance company . In the successor of Hofrat Dr. Theodor Walther received the post of General Director (CEO) Tiedke in 1927. Under his leadership, Alte Leipziger Lebensversicherung was expanded to become the second largest insurance company in Germany.

In 1932 the life insurance company formed a joint venture with the Leipziger Feuer-Versicherungsanstalt, which initially consisted of mutual use of the external organizations. From January 1, 1933, Tiedke also took over the management of the Leipzig Fire Insurance Company.

In 1934, the external organization was reorganized, which significantly expanded new business so that the insurance portfolio rose to 914 million Reichsmarks by 1939 .

Johannes Tiedke had a negative attitude towards National Socialism . He did not join the NSDAP and refused to work in the "Insurance" working group of the German Labor Front . In 1934 he dismissed two chairmen of the National Socialist company organization without notice because of political agitation at work.

In 1939 he was arrested by the Gestapo and relieved of all his offices because on September 1, 1939, he forbade Hitler's war speech from being listened to as a community reception on the radio in the rooms of the Alte Leipziger.

In the anniversary volume of the Alte Leipziger Lebensversicherung from 1955 it says:

“General Director Tiedke had decidedly opposed to complying with demands of the National Socialists if he considered them to be incompatible with the interests of the insured, the companies and their employees. He was in constant defensive struggle and resistance against the party. With him, a man was unjustifiably reprimanded and forced into inactivity, who had rendered invaluable services not only to the companies but also to the entire German insurance industry through his work in the professional associations and on the advisory board of the insurance supervisory authority. "

- 125 years old Leipzig mutual life insurance company

Gerald D. Feldman judged that Johannes Tiedke was one of the few leading insurance managers who maintained a remnant of decency and a certain distance from the regime.

In April 1946, the former General Director Tiedke, who was already seriously ill at the time, traveled from Leipzig to Bad Gandersheim under adventurous circumstances to support the rebuilding of the old Leipzig insurance company as chairman of the supervisory board. He died during a stay in the Haus Sielbeck sanatorium in Schleswig-Holstein .

Other offices

Tiedke was also chairman of the Leipzig private insurance association and deputy chairman of the employers' association of German insurance companies. He also served as a Reich Labor Judge.

family

Johannes Tiedke was with the pianist Paula, born in Kellinghusen . Wischmann, married. The marriage had three children:

  • Gisela (1911–1991), pianist, married to Vollrat Knebusch (1905–1944), last owner of the Greven estate
  • Wolfgang (1913–1987)
  • Ingeburg (1920–2018)

Works

  • Johannes Tiedke: Poems. Self-published, Leipzig 1933.

literature

  • Tiedke, Johannes . In: Georg Wenzel: German business leader . Life courses of German business personalities. A reference book on 13,000 business figures of our time. Hanseatic Publishing House , Hamburg / Berlin / Leipzig 1929, DNB 948663294 .
  • Leipzig life insurance 1830–1930. Memorandum for the centenary . Private print, Leipzig 1930.
  • Old mutual life insurance company in Leipzig. 125 years . Frankfurt am Main 1955.
  • Roland Knebusch: Happiness and suffering in Greven. In: Mario Niemann (ed.): Rural life in Mecklenburg in the first half of the 20th century. Rostock 2009, ISBN 978-3-938686-41-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In 1921 the Assekuranz-Kompass records him as director of Victoria. Assecuranz-Compass, Volume 1, 1921, p. 335 and 344
  2. ^ Roland Knebusch: As general director of insurance in the Third Reich; in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, November 17, 1998, No. 267, p. 11
  3. ^ Old Leipzig mutual life insurance company. 125 years. Frankfurt am Main 1955, p. 39.
  4. ↑ Jürgen Jeske : An alliance not just for life - the Nazis were also well insured: Gerald D. Feldman's large study casts dark shadows on the company; in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, October 9, 2001, No. 234, p. L41; It is a book review of: Gerald D. Feldman: "The Alliance and the German Insurance Industry in National Socialism 1933 to 1945". Translated from the English by Karl Heinz Siber. Verlag CH Beck, Munich 2001
  5. ↑ Tiedke, Johannes . In: Georg Wenzel: German business leader. Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg 1929, p. 2287.
personal data
SURNAME Tiedke, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German insurance director
DATE OF BIRTH 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Zehdenick
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 1947
Place of death Sielbeck at Eutin