Andreas Braß

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Andreas Braß , also Andreas Brass (* 1894 ; † after 1942) was a German manager and functionary.

Life

From 1913 Braß was a volunteer at the Bayerische Versicherungsbank . From 1915 he did military service in the First World War . He returned in 1917 after being wounded. He became a sales representative of the Bayerische Versicherungsbank and was chief inspector from 1928 and district director from 1931.

After the seizure of power by the Nazis, he was in May 1933 Commissioner of the German Labor Front for the Bavarian consumer cooperatives. In autumn 1933 he became director and in 1936 general director of Deutsche Lebensversicherung Gemeinnützige AG .

politics

After the November Revolution he was active in a right-wing extremist "Resident Defense". In November 1923 he took part in the Hitler putsch . Braß had been a member of the NSDAP since 1923 and became a member again in early July 1925. In 1925/26 and again from 1930 he was an honorary local group leader of the NSDAP in Kirchseeon . From 1932 to 1934 he was district leader of the NSDAP in the Ebersberg district . From 1935 to 1937 he was head of the NSDAP in Fehrbellin . From May 1937 he was district leader z. b. V ..

He was Standartenführer since 1937, later Oberführer in the NSKK .

In addition, the representative of the Reichsachwalters of the German Labor Front for the insurance companies, head of the main office in the Reichsleitung of the NSDAP and bearer of the golden party badge (party book number 10675) from January 21, 1937 head of the economic group "private insurance" and until 1939 chairman of the Reichsverband der Privatversicherung .

In addition, he was appointed head of the private insurance business group for a period of two years in 1937 , as Christian Oertel had to resign.

In mid-1939 he fell out with Robert Ley and was released. He was initially unemployed for two years and in 1941 temporarily took over the management of a food wholesaler in Poznan . In 1942 he was expelled from the NSDAP and again unemployed.

Publications

  • Current issues in the German insurance industry , Stuttgart 1938.
  • Insurance in the economy - 2 lectures , in: Neumanns Zeitschrift für Versicherungswesen, Berlin 1937.
  • The meaning and essence of life insurance - Lecture at the events of the German Employees, Insurance Section , in: Neumanns Zeitschrift für Versicherungswesen, Berlin 1935.

literature

  • Rüdiger Hachtmann: The economic empire of the German labor front 1933-1945. Wallstein, Göttingen 2012 ISBN 978-3835310377 , pp. 192, 197.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Friedrich Hartmannsgruber: The Hitler Government, Part 4, R. Oldenbourg, 2005, p. 272 Online
  2. ↑ a b c On his work in: Gerald D. Feldman: The alliance and the German insurance industry, 1933–1945, pp. 207 to 222
  3. ↑ Hans J. Ehler: The association amalgamations in private life insurance . From the Association of German Life Insurance Companies to the Association of Life Insurance Companies e. V. 1869-1996. Chronicle of events and developments. Verlag Versicherungswirtsch., 2003. ISBN 978-3-899-52086-6 (p. 73 ff.)
  4. ^ Peter Koch: History of the insurance industry in Germany . Verlag Versicherungswirtsch., 2012. ISBN 978-3-899-52371-3 (p. 285)
personal data
SURNAME Braß, Andreas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brass, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German manager and functionary
DATE OF BIRTH 1894
DATE OF DEATH after 1942