Alfred Petersen (association official)

Alfred Petersen (born April 9, 1885 in Hamburg ; † June 22, 1960 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German engineer, chairman of the board of the Metallgesellschaft and the first president of the Frankfurt am Main Chamber of Commerce and the German Industry and Trade Conference after 1945.

Life

Alfred Petersen was born on April 9, 1885 in Hamburg, the youngest of eight siblings. He is a brother of Carl and Rudolf Petersen , both of whom were first mayors of the Hanseatic city. After visiting the Wilhelm Gymnasium and his graduation he studied engineering and received his doctorate in 1913 in Berlin to Dr. Ing.Wilhelm Merton , the founder of the metal company, hired the young engineer to set up a scientifically sound and well-equipped laboratory. Petersen joined the Metallgesellschaft in 1913 and was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Metallbank and Metallurgische Gesellschaft in 1917 on Merton's recommendation. In 1932 he became a member of a four-member central committee together with Alfred Merton , Rudolf Euler, the son-in-law of co-founder Zachary Hochschild, and Julius Sommer. Petersen, who had Jewish grandparents on his mother's side, was taken into custody by the Gestapo in September 1938 . He was accused of wanting to set up a foreign competing company. As a result, he gave up his board positions in October. In 1945 he rejoined the metal company as a full board member. In 1946 he was appointed trustee with extensive powers by the Office for Asset Control. He then became chairman of the board of directors and, in 1958, chairman of the supervisory board of Metallgesellschaft.

He was a member of the supervisory board of Vereinigte Aluminum-Werke , Vereinigte Deutsche Metallwerke AG, but also the Siemens companies and the re-established Dresdner Bank .

Association official

After 1945, as the first post-war president of the Frankfurt Chamber of Commerce and Industry , he worked together with the general manager Werner Hilpert to network the Hessian chambers of industry and commerce . Since the US military government of Hesse (OMGHE) initially did not allow the establishment of an IHK association, the working group of the Hessian IHKs founded in 1946 on Petersen's initiative initially acquired the status of an unofficial association. In August 1948 he became chairman of the Association of Chambers of Commerce and Industry of the United Economic Area . From 1949 to 1951 he was the first president of the re-established German Industry and Trade Congress . At its Hamburg conference in early June 1951, he was elected honorary president in memory of this. He also chaired the joint committee of the German commercial economy .

Commitment to research and education

Petersen, a close friend of Otto Hahn , was one of the founders of the Max Planck Society . From 1948 to 1958 he was a member of the Board of Directors and then from 1958 Vice Chairman. He was a board member of the Donors' Association for German Science and the Free German Hochstift

He was a member of the first German Atomic Energy Commission appointed in 1956 by Atomic Minister Strauss from politics, business and science .

He was one of the founding fathers and board members of the "Economic Political Society of 1947" (Wipog), a non-profit association promoting the social market economy . On December 12, 1949, Mainzer Zeitungsverlag and Wipog founded Verlags-GmbH in Frankfurt am Main to publish the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung .

Honors

• Honorary doctorate from the Clausthal mining academy and the Free University of Berlin (1952)
• Honorary President of the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Frankfurt am Main Chamber of Commerce
• Honorary Senator and Citizen of the University of Frankfurt
• Large Federal Cross of Merit with Star (1952)
• Honor (1953) and Goethe plaque (1960) of the city of Frankfurt
• Honorary Senator of the Max Planck Society
• Karmarsch commemorative coin of the Hannoversche Hochschulgemeinschaft (1951)

literature

• Herrmann AL Degener (founder), Walter Habel (ed.): Who is who? The German Who's Who. 13th edition, Arani, Berlin 1958, pp. 960-961.
• News from the Clausthal Mining Academy. Issue 14: 1960/62, p. Vi (excerpt, limited preview in Google book search)
• Detlev Heiden: Socialization Policy in Hesse 1946-1967 (= social and economic history. Volume 4). Lit, Münster / Marburg 1997, ISBN 3-8258-3064-0 , p. 78, note 173 and p. 82.

Individual evidence

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2. ↑ Alfred Petersen: Method for measuring rapidly changing temperatures. Berlin: AW Schade, 1913.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Stefanie Knetsch: Metallgesellschaft's in-house banking institute from 1906 to 1928 . programmatic claim and implementation. In: Contributions to the company's history . tape 6 . Franz Steiner Verlag, 1998, ISBN 3-515-07406-6 , pp. 143 .
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7. ^ Peter Josef Belli: The Lautawerk of the United Aluminum Works AG (VAW) from 1917 to 1948 . an armaments company in regional, national, international and political contexts. LIT Verlag Münster, 2012, ISBN 978-3-643-11716-8 ( online at: books.google.de [accessed December 8, 2014]).
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10. ↑ Now "Dresdner Bank" again. In: Die Zeit, born in 1957, no.21-23 May 1957, accessed on December 8, 2014 . 
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13. ↑ Edgar Wolfrum: The successful democracy . History of the Federal Republic of Germany from its beginnings to the present. In: Series of publications / Federal Agency for Civic Education . tape 641 . Klett-Cotta, 2006, ISBN 3-608-94141-X , p. 690 ( online at: books.google.de [accessed December 7, 2014]).
14. ↑ Together for the economy. In: 150 Years DIHK - The Exhibition. German Chamber of Commerce and Industry, accessed on December 7, 2014 . 
15. ↑ Henning, Eckart; Kazemi, Marion: 50 years of the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science . Chronicle of the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science 1948–1998. Ed .: Archive for the history of the Max Planck Society. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-428-09068-3 .
16. ^ ^{A b c} Michael F. Feldkamp, ​​Inez Müller: Committee for financial issues . In: German Bundestag and German Federal Archives (ed.): The Parliamentary Council 1948–1949 . Files and minutes. tape 12 . Boldt im Oldenbourg Verlag, 1999, ISBN 3-486-56379-3 , p. 446 ( online at: books.google.de [accessed December 7, 2014]).
17. ↑ Manfred Stephany: On the history of NUKEM . 1960 to 1987. BoD - Books on Demand, 2005, ISBN 3-8334-2505-9 , pp. 20 ( online at: books.google.de [accessed December 7, 2014]).
18. ↑ History of WIPOG. Economic Society of 1947 e. V., accessed December 7, 2014 . 
19. ^ Bernhard Löffler: Social market economy and administrative practice . the Federal Ministry of Economics under Ludwig Erhard. In: Quarterly for social and economic history: supplements . Issue 162. Franz Steiner Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3-515-07940-8 ( online at: books.google.de [accessed December 7, 2014]).
20. ↑ Honor plaque. City of Frankfurt: Department of Culture, accessed on December 7, 2014 . 
21. ↑ Goethe plaque. In: Awards & Honors. City of Frankfurt, accessed on February 27, 2020 . 
22. ^ Rüdiger Hachtmann: Science management in the "Third Reich" . History of the General Administration of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society Volume 2. In: History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in National Socialism . tape 15 . Wallstein Verlag, 2007, ISBN 3-8353-0108-X , p. 116 ( online at: books.google.de [accessed December 7, 2014]).
23. ↑ Awards: Karmarsch Memorial Coin. Leibniz Universitätsgesellschaft Hannover, accessed on December 8, 2014 .