Albert Messenger
Albert Joachim Werner Bote (born May 13, 1889 in Bremen ; † February 27, 1961 in Bremen) was a German entrepreneur and politician ( NLP , DVP , later BDV , FDP ).
biography
education and profession
Bote lost his father at an early age and had to help out in his mother's business as a schoolboy. He completed a commercial apprenticeship. He then worked for the US company Cotten-Warehouse . He served as a soldier in the First World War. After the war his company relocated to Rotterdam . In 1920 he became head of the European business of his company in Rotterdam and from 1931, after the company's return, he managed the company in Bremen.
In the 1930s he was a board member and then a board member of the Bremen Cotton Exchange Association . He was later head of the Cotton Commission. In 1935 he resigned his offices in the cotton exchange in protest against the rulers at the time in Bremen. From 1949 to 1951 he was President of the Cotton Exchange.
politics
Bote was a board member of the National Liberal Party (NLP) during the German Empire . During the time of the Weimar Republic was a board member of the liberal German People's Party (DVP).
After the Second World War he helped found the Bremen Democratic People's Party (BDV), and served as its treasurer until 1951. From 1946 to 1951 he was a member of the Bremen citizenship and chairman of the BDV and BDV / FDP parliamentary groups. In 1948/49 he was also a member of the Parliamentary Council for Bremen at the State Council of the American Occupation Area . In 1951, after the transition of the BDV to the FDP, he became a member of the Free Democratic Party (FDP). In 1952 he was a representative of the Liberal Circle in the Bremen FDP, who feared that the FDP could move too far to the right. He and other members were expelled from the FDP in 1953 and reinstated in 1955. From 1957 to 1958 he was deputy state chairman of the FDP Bremen.
Other offices
Bote was the accounting officer of the Inner Mission in Bremen for two decades . The foundation of the Friedehorst establishment in Lesum with the Friedehorst Foundation in the Bremen Diakonie played a decisive role .
He was a member of the Protestant Confessing Church . From 1938 to the 1950s he was the builder (church council) of the Bremen parish of Our Dear Women .
Honors
- The Albert Messenger Street in Bremen at the freight village (GVZ was after) named him.
literature
- Theodor Spitta , Ursula Büttner , Angelika Voss-Louis: A new beginning on ruins: the diaries of Bremen's Mayor Theodor Spitta 1945–1947. Oldenbourg, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-486-55938-9 , p. 109/110.
- Karl Stoevesandt : Messenger, Albert Joachim Werner. In: Historical Society Bremen, State Archive Bremen (Ed.): Bremische Biographie 1912–1962. Hauschild, Bremen 1969, p. 71 (column 1) to 72 (column 1).
- Monika Porsch: Bremen Street Lexicon. Complete edition. Schünemann, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-7961-1850-X .
Individual evidence
- ^ Magnus Buhlert : Liberals in the citizenry. epubli, Bremen 2013, p. 56.
Albert Bote (1946–1951) | Hermann Wenhold (1951–1952) | Kurt Entholt (1952–1953) | Heinz-Georg Rehberg (1953–1954) | Georg Borttscheller (1954–1959) | Werner Ehrich (1959–1967) | Paul-Heinz Schubert (1967–1969) | Harry John (1969–1975) | Horst-Jürgen Lahmann (1975–1983) | Claus Jäger (1987–1991) | Heinrich Welke (1991–1995) | Uwe Woltemath (2007-2010) | Oliver Möllenstädt (2010–2011) | Lencke Wischhusen (since 2015)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Messenger, Albert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bote, Albert Joachim Werner (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German entrepreneurs and politicians (NLP, DVP, BDV, FDP), Member of the Bundestag |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 13, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bremen |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 27, 1961 |
| Place of death | Bremen |