Alexander Becker (entrepreneur)

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Alexander Becker (born August 24, 1878 in Gelnhausen ; † February 25, 1939 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German entrepreneur . He was a board member of Metallgesellschaft Aktiengesellschaft in Frankfurt am Main and a member of the supervisory boards of numerous companies, including the Budenheim chemical factory.

Life

He was a school friend of the industrialist Richard Mertonwho promoted him. In 1910, Alexander Becker became a deputy member of the board of directors and deputy director of the Metallbank and Metallurgical Society in Frankfurt am Main, which he joined when he was 27 years old. In 1920 he was appointed full board member and director. When the merger to Metallgesellschaft Aktiengesellschaft took place in 1928, Alexander Becker became its full board member. The metal company initially specialized in trading in metals and supplied the surrounding industrial companies with raw materials. Due to the constantly increasing demand for metals, the metal company under Alexander Becker also participated in various mining and smelting works, in ore and metal trading and in metal processing companies in Germany and abroad.

He took part in the First World War in Hussar Regiment No. 17 and was adjutant for the inspection of the replacement squadrons in Hanover . At the end of the war he was dismissed as first lieutenant in the reserve and was a comrade to Rudolf Oetker . The latter got him in 1927 a position on the supervisory board of his company (CFB).

The entrepreneur Richard Kaselowsky was a confidante of Alexander Becker, for whom he occasionally worked as a negotiator.

In 1929, Alexander Becker was already director of Metallgesellschaft AG

Alexander Becker lived in Frankfurt am Main, Arndtstrasse 49.

literature

  • Herrmann AL Degener : Degeners Who is it? , Berlin 1935, page 78.
  • Address Book of Directors and Supervisory Boards , 1939, page 272.
  • Stefanie Knetsch: The Group's own banking institute of the Metallgesellschaft in the period from 1906 to 1928 , Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1998, page 112.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chemische Apparatur , Volumes 26-27, 1939, page 200.
  2. ↑ Michael Roth: The last memory of the "Metallgesellschaft" is deleted , in: Frankfurter Allgemeine from February 19, 2004.
  3. ↑ Dr. Oetker and National Socialism , 2013, page 84.
  4. ↑ Felix de Taillez: Two civil life in the public , page 165th
  5. ↑ Deutscher Wirtschaftsführer , 1929, page 31.
personal data
SURNAME Becker, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Gelnhausen
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1939
Place of death Frankfurt am Main