Albert Neuhaus

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Albert Neuhaus (2nd row, 3rd from left) in the first Luther cabinet, 1925
Family grave in the Reformed Cemetery Hochstrasse in Wuppertal

Albert Neuhaus (born July 9, 1873 in Glasgow , Scotland ; † April 29, 1948 in Wuppertal - Elberfeld ) was a German lawyer , administrative officer and politician ( DNVP ). During the Weimar Republic in 1925 he was Reich Minister of Economics .

Life

Albert Neuhaus came from a Rhenish factory owner family that was initially based in Westphalia and later moved to the Bergisches Land. After graduating from high school in Neuwied , he began studying law and economics in Heidelberg and in 1893 became a member of the Corps Suevia Heidelberg . He continued his studies at Bonn University , where he passed the first state examination in law. In 1896 he was at the University of Erlangen for doctor of law doctorate . He then worked as a legal advisor at the banking house H. Albert de Bary & Co. in Antwerp . In 1901 he passed the second state examination in law.

Neuhaus joined the Prussian administrative service as an assessor in 1901 . He initially worked as a legal advisor to the government in Düsseldorf and in 1903 switched to the Prussian Ministry of Trade and Industry in Berlin as an unskilled worker . In 1909 he was appointed to the Government Council, in 1910 to the Upper Government Council and Lecturing Council and in 1914 to the Secret Upper Government Council. In 1918 he was appointed head of the ministry's trade policy department as a ministerial director and real secret supreme government councilor. After retiring from civil service at the end of 1920, he worked in the private sector.

Neuhaus joined the German National People's Party (DNVP) and had been a member of the government led by Chancellor Hans Luther as Reich Minister for Economic Affairs since January 15, 1925 . During the negotiations on the Locarno Treaties , the German Nationals refused to recognize the western border established in the 1919 Peace Treaty of Versailles , thus triggering a government crisis. Even before the treaties were ratified, the DNVP parliamentary group withdrew its ministers from the cabinet. On October 25, 1925, Neuhaus left the Reich government together with the other two ministers, Martin Schiele and Otto von Schlieben . The DVP politician Rudolf Krohne was entrusted with the management of the business of the Reich Minister of Economics .

Albert Neuhaus was married to Aletta Dorothea, called "Letti", a daughter of the doctor and university professor Dittmar Finkler . At the end of the 1920s he lived on Handelstrasse in Berlin's Hansaviertel .

literature

  • Neuhaus, Albert. In: Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 2: L-Z. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1931, DNB 453960294 , p. 1316.
  • Armin Danco: The Yellow Book of the Corps Suevia zu Heidelberg, 3rd edition (members 1810–1985), Heidelberg 1985, No. 789
  • Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE). 2nd Edition. Volume 7 (Menghin - Pötel), KG Saur, Munich / Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-25037-8 , p. 412.
  • Herrmann AL Degener (Ed.): Who is it? - Our contemporaries. IX. Output. Verlag Herrmann Degener, Leipzig 1928, p. 1111.

Web links

Commons : Albert Neuhaus  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kösener corps lists 1910, 121 , 829
  2. ^ Adoption of the DNVP ministers; Filling of the vacated ministerial posts. In: files of the Reich Chancellery. The Luther I / II Cabinets, Volume 2, Document No. 208, Council of Ministers of October 26, 1925, 12 noon
personal data
SURNAME Neuhaus, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, administrative officer and politician (DNVP)
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Glasgow , Scotland
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 1948
Place of death Wuppertal - Elberfeld