Albert Vietor
Albert Vietor (born May 16, 1922 in Kassel ; † November 26, 1984 in Ronco sopra Ascona ) was a German manager and long-time chairman of the housing company Neue Heimat .
Career
Vietor originally learned the profession of grocer. In 1945 he returned to Kassel from a Soviet prisoner-of-war camp , where he became an employee of the Neue Heimat on December 1 of the same year. Also in 1945 he became a member of the SPD and joined the DGB trade union Bau-Steine-Erden .
In 1950 he moved to the Neue Heimat Hamburg, where he was appointed authorized signatory on May 1st . In 1954 he became commercial director of Neue Heimat and in 1958 rose to the position of deputy chairman.
Albert Vietor had been chairman of Neue Heimat since 1963 and held this position for 19 years. In 1982 he was deposed because of his involvement in the Neue Heimat scandal . On January 25, 1983, the Neue Heimat group published excerpts from an independent report by the auditing firm Treuarbeit , from which it emerged that Vietor had caused the company a loss of 105 million DM (around 103,000,000 EUR today) through private transactions. Vietor retired into private life and died two years later.
Vietor left behind his wife Gerda, with whom he had been married since April 1946, and two daughters.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Died: Albert Vietor , obituary in Der Spiegel 49/1984, accessed on October 29, 2019.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vietor, Albert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German manager, chairman of the Neue Heimat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 16, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | kassel |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 26, 1984 |
| Place of death | Ronco sopra Ascona |