Alfred Hubertus Neuhaus

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Alfred Caspar Hubertus Neuhaus (born December 16, 1930 in Heidelberg ; † February 28, 2016 there ) was a German cigar manufacturer and politician ( CDU ).

Life

Neuhaus studied sociology, law and history. After training in the Netherlands, Brazil and the USA, he worked from 1957 to 1960 as commercial director in the medium-sized electrical company Eltra KG Leicht & Trambauer in Pfungstadt, Hesse.

In 1961 he took over the sole management of the family business August Neuhaus & Cie. Founded in 1886 by his grandfather Caspar August Neuhaus . Cigar factories in Schwetzingen and worked as a cigar manufacturer. In 1976 he took over the management of Intertabaco GmbH , a retail company specializing in tobacco products. With the Engelhardt-Neuhaus group of companies led by his brother Peter, he was one of the six largest manufacturers in Germany and employed around 500 people in Witzenhausen (Hesse) and Schwetzingen (Baden-Württemberg).

In 1971 he became Vice President of the Rhein-Neckar Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Mannheim, and later an honorary member of the plenary assembly of the Rhein-Neckar Chamber of Commerce. From 1961 until the election to the German Bundestag, Neuhaus was a commercial judge at the Mannheim Regional Court. He was a member of the supervisory board of Großkraftwerk Mannheim AG, a member of the supervisory board of Bawex eG (Baden-Württembergische Export-Genossenschaft, Mannheim) as well as a deputy member of the board of directors and a member of the advisory board of Landeskreditbank Baden-Württemberg and a member of the advisory board of Deutsche Bank AG.

Neuhaus was Catholic and had been with Hildegard, born in 1950. Black, married. The marriage had two children.

politics

Neuhaus was state treasurer of the CDU in Baden-Württemberg from 1971 to 1979, where he came into the focus of a party donation affair in this role. He was executive director of the CDU Economic Council.

From 1976 to 1983 he was a member of the German Bundestag . He was elected directly in the Heidelberg-Land - Sinsheim constituency.

Neuhaus was a member of the Labor and Social Affairs Committee, a deputy member of the Committee on Petitions and a deputy member of the Food, Agriculture and Forestry Committee (8th electoral term) as well as a member of the Research and Technology Committee, a deputy member of the Food, Agriculture and Forestry Committee and deputy chairman of the Post and Telecommunications Committee (9th legislative term).

Others

Neuhaus was involved in the German Hunting Association DJV and the State Hunting Association of Baden-Württemberg. He was executive director of the Association of Red Deer Hunters in the Odenwald (1951–1998), member of the executive board of the DJV (1978–2005) and vice-president of the DJV (1982–1988; 1991–1995), chairman of the DJV cloven-hoofed game committee (since 1996) and chairman of the DJV expert group “CIC, International Hunting Conference” (2003–2005). From 1981 to 2005 he was state hunter master of the state hunting association of Baden-Württemberg; his successor was Dieter Deuschle .

On August 6, 1968 the hunting tenant Neuhaus shot the poacher Johann Achleitner on the Zimnitz near Bad Ischl in Austria. Neuhaus left the injured man and only called the rescue in the valley. Achleitner died, Neuhaus was acquitted in the second instance.

Honors

Fonts

  • The Society of Owners , 1969
  • with Ferdinand von Raesfeld: Das Rehwild - Natural History, Hege and Hunting , Parey 1978 (8th edition), ISBN 3490155122
  • Wildlife and the Environment , Parey 1986, ISBN 3490218124

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alfred Hubertus Neuhaus obituary , FAZ , March 4, 2016
  2. ↑ a b c d e Biographical Handbook of the Members of the German Bundestag 1949–2002
  3. ↑ Cigar manufacturers: An industry suffers from the grandpa image , Die Zeit of November 23, 1979, accessed on March 4, 2016
  4. ↑ Happy Fiction , Der Spiegel 35/1990, accessed on March 4, 2016
  5. ^ Neuhaus, Alfred Hubertus , entry on deutsches-jagd-lexikon.de , accessed on March 4, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Neuhaus, Alfred Hubertus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Neuhaus, Alfred Hubertus Caspar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cigar manufacturer and politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg , Baden-Wuerttemberg , Germany
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 2016
Place of death Heidelberg , Baden-Wuerttemberg , Germany