Andrew Thorndike (General Manager)
Andrew Thorndike (born August 30, 1878 in Geisenheim , † April 15, 1950 in Stuttgart ), also Andrew Thorndike III , was a German general director.
Life
Thorndike was the son of the wine wholesaler Andrew Thorndike II and his wife Auguste nee. Frey. After a commercial apprenticeship at the export house Hecht, Pfeiffer & Co in Berlin from 1898 to 1901, he completed a degree at the Leipzig Commercial College from 1901 to 1903 , which he completed as a business graduate. He then studied from 1903 to 1905 at the University of Leipzig and from 1905 to 1907 at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen . There he received his doctorate in 1907 with Prof. Dr. Fritz Fleiner on the subject of the legal capacity of the workers' professional associations .
From 1908 to 1913 Thorndike worked for the metal company in Frankfurt am Main, then through the mediation of the media entrepreneur Alfred Hugenberg from 1913 to 1918 at Friedrich Krupp AG in Essen. From March 1914 he headed the statistical office there, and in July 1915 he was also head of the Krupp news office.
In 1918 Thorndike officially entered the service of Hugenberg, whose confidante he was for decades. Initially he was managing director of Hugenbergs Auslands GmbH until 1920 . From 1920 to 1932 he was general director of Ala-Werbung-AG . From 1932 to 1944 Thorndike was managing director of August Scherl GmbH. He also represented Hugenberg's interests on several supervisory bodies, including a member of the board of directors of the Deutsche Lichtbild-Gesellschaft and a member of the supervisory board of UFA . He retired in 1944.
Andrew Thorndike III was married to Irmgard Moritz (1883–1936). The couple had three daughters and a son, who would later become director Andrew Thorndike .
literature
- Rolf Aurich: Thorndike, Andrew. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 26, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-428-11207-5 , p. 202 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Immo Eberl , Helmut Marcon (edit.): 150 years of doctorate at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Tübingen: biographies of doctors, honorary doctors and post-doctorates, 1830-1980 . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1984, p. 93.
Web links
- Andrew Thorndike Entry in: Directors 'and Directors' Address Book , 1930.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Andrew Thorndike. In: German business leader . Hanseatic Publishing House, Hamburg 1929.
- ^ Scott C. Steward, John Bradley Arthaud: A Thorndike family history. Descendants of John and Elizabeth (Stratton) Thorndike. Newbury Street Press, Boston, Mass. 2000, p. 276.
- ↑ Immo Eberl, Helmut Marcon (edit.): 150 years of doctorate at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Tübingen: biographies of doctors, honorary doctors and habilitation graduates, 1830-1980 . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1984, p. 93.
- ↑ Dankwart Guratzsch : Power through organization. The foundation of the Hugenberg press empire. Bertelsmann, Düsseldorf 1974, ISBN 3-571-09011-X , p. 204 fn. 117. Hugenberg described Thorndike in a letter in June 1950, according to Guratzsch, as the “oldest employee”.
- ↑ Mentioned in Mémoires de Guerre , 12/03 / 13--00: 42: Allgemeine Werbung GmbH
- ↑ Heidrun Holzbach: The "Hugenberg System". The organization of bourgeois collection politics before the rise of the NSDAP . Stuttgart 1981, p. 302.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Thorndike, Andrew |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German general director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 30, 1878 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Geisenheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 15, 1950 |
| Place of death | Stuttgart |