Paul Klaproth

Paul Klaproth on the telephone;
Drawing by August Heitmüller , around 1929

Paul Klaproth (born October 11, 1862 in Gotha , † May 19, 1947 in Zurich ) was a German commercial councilor , consul general and banker who, through supervisory board mandates, exerted influence on the economic and industrial development of various companies in the greater Hanover area.

Life

Building of the Hanover Bank on George Square , where Chief Executive Paul Klaproth the merger with the Deutsche Bank initiated

Paul Klaproth came to Hanover from Mannheim at the end of the 1890s , where he was then a member of the board of the Hannoversche Bank for more than a quarter of a century . He later became a member of the supervisory board of Deutsche Bank and chairman of the committee for the branches of Deutsche Bank in Hanover.

From 1900 he sat as a representative of Deutsche Bank on the supervisory board of Teutonia Misburger Portland-Cementwerk AG , where he was chairman of the supervisory board from 1908 until his departure on June 30, 1933.

Also for Deutsche Bank, Klaproth sat on the board of the Misburg Portland-Cementfabrik Kronsberg AG from 1902 . In addition, he headed Hanomag's supervisory board for almost two decades .

Klaproth maintained close relationships with the Braunschweigische Bank and the Hildesheimer Bank , both of which he wanted to take over. As General Director of the Hannoversche Bank, who had extensive correspondence with Paul Mankiewitz , the board spokesman of Deutsche Bank, Klaproth saw the 1920 "[...] merger with Deutsche Bank [... as] the high point of his career".

As director of Deutsche Bank, he also sat on the supervisory boards of Deutsche Bank in Berlin, the Preußische Boden-Credit-Aktienbank in Berlin and the Herrenhausen brewery in Hanover. In accordance with his influence and his services to the common good, he was awarded the honorary title of Commerzienrat .

On July 1, 1922, the Technical University of Hanover awarded Paul Klaproth an honorary citizen .

For his contributions to the industry honored him Technical University Braunschweig the honorary doctorate (as Dr.-Ing. Eh ).

Klaproth also performed the duties of the Royal Bulgarian Consul General. In spring 1928 he left Hanover and moved to Zurich.

Paul-Klaproth-Strasse

The 1922 in Hanover district Linden-south -scale Paul Klaproth Street , one access road to the site of the Hanomag, was renamed in 1936 in Hanomagstraße and later canceled, including in the private plant. (Instead, the neighboring former Hamelner Straße has had the name Hanomagstraße since 1967. )

Archival material

As archival documents by and about Paul Klaproth found, for example:

for the period from 1904 to 1919 a proof of Klaproth's income and assets in the Lower Saxony State Archives (Hannover location) in register 141, no. 288 ;
Correspondence between Paul Klaproth and Paul Mankiewitz around the time of the merger of the Hannoversche Bank with the Deutsche Bank in the archive of the Historical Institute of the Deutsche Bank .

Web links

Andreas-Andrew Bornemann: … Hanomag administration building II (Paul-Klaproth-Straße) , front of the digitized postcard from an unidentified artist, on the postkarten-archiv.de page in the version dated October 12, 2016
Historical archive of Deutsche Bank / sources on the history of Deutsche Bank and its predecessors on deutsche-bank.de

Remarks

↑ Notwithstanding this, the same source on page 59 mentions the period from 1909 to 1938 as Klaproth's time as chairman of the supervisory board of Teutonia.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Helmut Zimmermann : Hanomagstrasse. In other words: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 105.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f N.N. : Kommerzienrat Klaproth. In: Hanoverian heads from administration, economy, art and literature. Vol. 1, Verlag H. Osterwald, Hanover 1929.
↑ ^a ^b Gerd Meier: Origin, development and structural change of the Portland cement industry in the Hanover area from 1878 to 1989. Dissertation 2001 at the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University of Hanover, p. 59 (footnote 374, information from: Werkgeschichtliche Aufzüge der Nordcement - Handbuch Deutscher Aktiengesellschaft , edition 1911/12, p. 1366 - report of the management board of Teutonia on the financial year 1912), downloadable (PDF, technical information library ).
↑ ^a ^b ^c Gerd Meier: Origin, development and structural change of the Portland cement industry in the Hanover area from 1878 to 1989. P. 93 (according to footnote 604, the information comes partly from the report of the board of directors on the business year 1932).
↑ ^a ^b Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter . 2007, p. 44, ( books.google.de , limited preview).
^ ^A ^b Lothar Gall , Gerald D. Feldman , Harold James , Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich , Hans E. Büschgen : Klapproth. In: The Deutsche Bank, 1870–1995. Special edition for the shareholders of Deutsche Bank, 71. – 85. Tausend, Verlag CH Beck, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-406-38945-7 ; ( books.google.de ).
↑ Christian-Alexander Wäldner: The Technical University of Hanover and the withdrawal of academic titles during the Nazi era. Results of Hanoverian processes taking into account the case of Walter Dux (= history. Vol. 122), also a master's thesis 2012 at the university. Lit, Hannover / Berlin / Münster 2012, ISBN 978-3-643-11908-7 , p. 117, ( books.google.de ).

personal data
SURNAME	Klaproth, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German banker and business leader
DATE OF BIRTH	October 11, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH	Gotha
DATE OF DEATH	May 19, 1947
Place of death	Zurich

[5] Notwithstanding this, the same source on page 59 mentions the period from 1909 to 1938 as Klaproth's time as chairman of the supervisory board of Teutonia.

[Straßennamen-1] Helmut Zimmermann : Hanomagstrasse. In other words: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 105.

[Hannoversche_Köpfe-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f N.N. : Kommerzienrat Klaproth. In: Hanoverian heads from administration, economy, art and literature. Vol. 1, Verlag H. Osterwald, Hanover 1929.

[Meier59-3] Gerd Meier: Origin, development and structural change of the Portland cement industry in the Hanover area from 1878 to 1989. Dissertation 2001 at the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University of Hanover, p. 59 (footnote 374, information from: Werkgeschichtliche Aufzüge der Nordcement - Handbuch Deutscher Aktiengesellschaft , edition 1911/12, p. 1366 - report of the management board of Teutonia on the financial year 1912), downloadable (PDF, technical information library ).

[Meier93-4] Gerd Meier: Origin, development and structural change of the Portland cement industry in the Hanover area from 1878 to 1989. P. 93 (according to footnote 604, the information comes partly from the report of the board of directors on the business year 1932).

[HBL-6] Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter . 2007, p. 44, ( books.google.de , limited preview).

[Aktionäre-7] A ^b Lothar Gall , Gerald D. Feldman , Harold James , Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich , Hans E. Büschgen : Klapproth. In: The Deutsche Bank, 1870–1995. Special edition for the shareholders of Deutsche Bank, 71. – 85. Tausend, Verlag CH Beck, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-406-38945-7 ; ( books.google.de ).

[8] Christian-Alexander Wäldner: The Technical University of Hanover and the withdrawal of academic titles during the Nazi era. Results of Hanoverian processes taking into account the case of Walter Dux (= history. Vol. 122), also a master's thesis 2012 at the university. Lit, Hannover / Berlin / Münster 2012, ISBN 978-3-643-11908-7 , p. 117, ( books.google.de ).