Adolf Franz Samwer

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Adolf Franz Samwer (* July 8, 1895 in Gotha ; † September 30, 1958 in Schielberg ) was a German politician ( GB / BHE , later CDU ) and a manager in the German insurance industry.

family

Adolf Franz Samwer was the second son of the General Director of Gothaer Life Insurance Bank for Mutuality Karl August Friedrich Samwer and his wife Gertrud, née. Stem.

Life

Samwer also began his professional career in the insurance industry and in 1923 became district director of the Allianz insurance company in Halle (Saale) . As early as 1924, he moved to the newly acquired subsidiary Bayerische Versicherungsbank AG as a director in Berlin for Allianz . In 1928 he became director of Allianz in Cologne .

From 1931 to 1945 he was general director of the Karlsruher Lebensversicherungs-AG and in this position in 1940, among other things, on the Badisch-Pfalz advisory board of Deutsche Bank . For career reasons, he joined the NSDAP in 1936 ( membership number 3,464,251, entry backdated to May 1, 1933), served up Nazi giants in Baden and acted as trustee of the Alsatian insurance company Rhein und Mosel against its former general director André Mouchard. Since Mouchard had used a forged power of attorney at the time to substantiate his powers, Samwer's reaction to reporting this to the responsible economic authority in Strasbourg for insurance reasons is understandable and had nothing to do with National Socialist activities. After 1945 he had to leave the Karlsruher Lebensversicherungs-AG due to the above-mentioned allegations, the accuracy of which cannot be verified beyond doubt, despite an elaborate justification. From then on he worked as an economic expert.

Samwer began to become politically active again in post-war Germany. In 1951 he was elected to the city council in Karlsruhe and won there in 1952 in the election for mayor 6,186 or 9.1% of the vote. In 1952/53 he was a member of the constitutional state assembly of Baden-Württemberg .

He was a member of the German Bundestag as a replacement for Eduard Fiedler from October 15, 1953 until the end of the 1957 legislative period . Elected for the GB / BHE, he resigned from the parliamentary group and the party after the events of the Federal Party Congress in 1954 on July 12, 1955 with the group around Waldemar Kraft and Theodor Oberländer and lost the office of parliamentary director of the GB / BHE parliamentary group. On July 15, 1955, he first became a guest of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group , which he also joined after joining the CDU on March 20, 1956. In the federal election in 1957 , he was not re-elected because of a hopeless place on the list.

From 1957 until his death in a car accident in 1958, Samwer was once again active in the insurance business as CEO of Deutsche Krankenversicherung .

Samwer was married. He had a son, Ludwig Samwer, who was missing in World War II since the first week of July 1944, and a daughter.

Fonts

  • as editor: Hundred Years of Karlsruhe Life Insurance. 1835-1935. A commemorative publication. G. Braun, Karlsruhe 1935.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Honorary Citizen's Letter of December 31, 1930
  2. ^ Pfarramt Tharandt, baptism register number 337/7 from 1864.
  3. ^ Deutsche Bank Annual Report 1940. ( Memento of August 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Documents for the Annual General Meeting on April 18, 1941. Retrieved on February 5, 2010.
  4. ^ Gerald D. Feldman: The alliance and the German insurance industry. 1933-1945. Translated from English by Karl Heinz Siber. Beck, Munich 2001, pp. 547-550.
  5. ↑ Peter Koch: Adolf Samwer , Baden-Württembergische Biographien, Volume VI, W. Kohlhammer Verlag Stuttgart 2016, p. 425f.
  6. ↑ Results of the mayoral elections in Karlsruhe from 1948 onwards ( Memento of October 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved on February 5, 2010.
  7. ↑ We'll pull it off. In: Der Spiegel , from September 25, 1957, pp. 18-20.
  8. ^ List of the descendants of Carl August Samwer, typescript based on documents from Dr. jur. Sigmar-Jürgen Samwer from June 21, 2011.

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personal data
SURNAME Samwer, Adolf Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (GB / BHE, CDU), MdL, MdB
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Gotha
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 1958
Place of death Schielberg