Karl Haniel

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Karl Haniel

Karl Haniel (born February 12, 1877 in Koblenz , † October 30, 1944 in Dabringhausen ) was a German civil servant and entrepreneur .

Education and civil service

Karl Haniel was born as the son of District Administrator Paul Haniel and Ida Nobiling (1851–1942). The great-grandson of the entrepreneur Gerhard Haniel studied law in Bonn, where he became a member of the Corps Guestphalia Bonn , and joined the Prussian judicial service in 1901 as a court trainee. A year later he received his doctorate. jur. From 1903 he worked as a government trainee with the government in Düsseldorf . In 1907 he was appointed government assessor. From 1909 Haniel was employed in the Reich Office of the Interior . Between 1912 and 1915 Haniel officiated as district administrator for the Merzig district in what was then the Prussian part of what was later to become Saarland.

From 1915 to 1917 Haniel worked in the civil administration of the province of Hainaut in occupied Belgium. From 1917 he was head of administration for the province of Wallonia. In 1919, Haniel took temporary retirement to take on responsibilities in the family business.

Entrepreneur

Haniel was the managing director of Haniel & Lueg from 1920. From 1921 he was also chairman of the supervisory board of the Oberhausen Gutehoffnungshütte , which at that time was still majority owned by the Haniel family . In this role he accompanied the expansion into southern Germany operated by the then GHH boss Paul Reusch , including the takeover of MAN, which laid the foundation for today's MAN SE. He was also a member of the HAPAG supervisory board . In 1920 he bought into the newspaper publisher Knorr & Hirth, which owned, among other things, the Münchner neue Nachrichten .

From 1928 to 1944, Haniel was chairman of the industry club in Düsseldorf .

Interest politics

From 1928 onwards, Haniel belonged to the Ruhrlade , an influential lobby group for leading Ruhr industrialists. At the end of the Weimar Republic , Haniel was one of Franz von Papen's supporters . Like other like-minded entrepreneurs, at the beginning of January 1933 he became familiar with the idea of ​​a future government by Adolf Hitler . In his memoirs, the managing director of Münchner neue Nachrichten Anton Betz wrote about a meeting with Haniel on February 11, 1933:

“Haniel said that the new cabinet must be supported without reservation; if Hitler had let off steam, he would soon be pushed. One must now also recognize the good sides of National Socialism. For the Ruhr area, National Socialism means redemption from communism. "

family

His wife Edith was the daughter of the needle manufacturer Richard Schleicher from Schönthal . They had two adopted sons. From 1927 to 1928 he had Haniel Castle , known as "The Great House", built in Dabringhausen for his family and himself . According to his own statements, problems arose with the National Socialists because his wife was “not purely Aryan”. Haniel died of a stroke on October 30, 1944 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Eugen Haniel ( Memento from December 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on www.saarland-biografien.de
  2. ↑ Hans Spethmann: Franz Haniel, his life and his works. Ruhrort, 1956, page 6
  3. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 12 , 665
  4. ↑ Holdings: Haniel, Karl (1877-1944) Chairman of the Supervisory Board GHH Gutehoffnungshütte Aktienverein, Oberhausen, Dept. 130, Rheinisch-Westfälisches Wirtschaftsarchiv
  5. ^ Paul Hose: The political, economic and social background of the Munich daily press between 1914 and 1934. Methods of influencing the press. 1990, ISBN 3631426313
  6. ↑ Peter Langer: Paul Reusch and the synchronization of the "Münchner Neuesten Nachrichten" 1933. In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte . 53rd year, issue 2, April 2005, pages 203–240 ( online ; PDF; 8.2 MB)
  7. ↑ Gerhard Schulz: Between Democracy and Dictatorship: Constitutional Policy and Reich Reform. P. 127 ( online )
  8. ↑ Daniela Kahn: The control of the economy through law in National Socialist in National Socialist Germany. 2006, p. 66 ( online )
  9. ^ Anton Betz: The tragedy of the "Münchner Neuesten Nachrichten" 1932/33 . in: Emil Dovifat: Karl Bringmann (Ed.): Journalism . Düsseldorf 1961, Volume 2, p. 34
  10. ↑ Michaela Paus: Once upon a time, even the nobility met here. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , April 21, 2008 ( online )

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personal data
SURNAME Haniel, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Koblenz
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 1944
Place of death Dabringhausen