Anton Cornelius Huebbe

Anton Cornelius Hübbe (born April 30, 1872 in Hamburg ; † March 23, 1943 ibid) was a German banker and from 1927 to 1931 President of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce .

Family and work

Anton Hübbe was born as the 17th child of the Hamburg hydraulic engineering director and ship registrar Hugo Hübbe (1813-1896).

He first attended the Hamburg private school of Theodor August Bieber (1839-1912), before he began a commercial apprenticeship in 1888. In 1892 he left Germany and moved to Mexico , where he found a job at the Scherer & Cie bank. On November 18, 1899, he married Ana de Chapeaurouge (1880-1946) from the Mexican branch of the long-established Geneva and later Hamburg senator family Chapeaurouge , granddaughter of Frédéric de Chapeaurouge . In 1903 Lübbe became a partner in the Scherer & Cie bank and later became the Royal Norwegian Consul in Mexico.

In 1910 he resigned as a partner and returned to Germany. From January 1, 1911, he was a member of the board of the German-South American Bank in Berlin and director of its Hamburg branch. In this role he advised the bank, which was only founded in 1906, on the establishment of branches in Latin America. As early as November 1911, Huebbe was simultaneously a director in the parent company of the German-South American Bank, the Dresdner Bank and head of its Hamburg branch. In 1911 and 1912 he also worked as an honorary commercial judge . In 1931 Huebbe finally moved up to the board of directors of Dresdner Bank, while his son Hermann Victor Hugo Huebbe followed him into the post of chairman of the board of the German-South American bank. During these years he was a member of the supervisory boards of the following companies: Hamburger Bank von 1923 AG, HAPAG , Vereinigte Jutepinnereien und Webereien AG (chairman), Deutsche Maizena-Werke AG (deputy chairman), Deutsche Werft AG (deputy chairman), Assecuranz-Union von 1865, Woermann-Linie AG, Deutsche Ost-Afrika Linie AG, Kühltransit AG (Leipzig-Hamburg) and Hamburger Hochbahn AG. He was also a member of the board of trustees of the Neue Sparkasse from 1864 .

In 1942 he left his position on the board of directors at Dresdner Bank and died a year later at the age of 69. He left his wife and five children: Hermann Victor Hugo (1901–1972), Ana Elisabeth (1903–1975), wife of Hermann Reusch , Helena Maria (* 1905), Nora Margaretha (1910–1970) and Victoria Barbara (* 1916).

Volunteering

On May 17, 1919, Hübbe was elected to the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce for the first time and was initially a member of the Hamburg deputation for indirect taxes and duties in 1919/1920 . From 1921 to 1934 he headed the office of the German Chambers of Commerce in Latin American countries (GELATEINO). In 1926, Hübbe was elected Vice President of the Chamber of Commerce and a member of the commission for the examination due to refusal of admission to the stock exchange. From January 3, 1927 to January 2, 1931 he held the office of President of the Chamber of Commerce and from 1927 to 1930 he was a member of the Hamburg deputation for trade, shipping and industry. After his presidency he took over the chairmanship of the banking department in 1931. He also chaired the department for judicial settlement cases as well as the chamber's admission and examination office for publicly appointed auditors. From 1937 he was elected vice-president for another two years.

In addition to his offices in the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce, he worked as chairman of the board of the Hanseatic Stock Exchange , chairman of the Association of Members of the Stock Exchange and the Admission Board for Securities, and deputy chairman of the board of the general stock exchange. He was also a member of the court of honor of the Hamburg Stock Exchange. From 1921 to 1933 he was chairman of the Latin America Association in Hamburg, which was founded in 1916 .

Anton Lübbe was considered to be one of the last liberal-conservative merchants in Hamburg's organized economy, who was alien to anti-Semitism and who tried to oppose the government's ideological and political claims to shape during the emergence of National Socialism . As a close friend of Max Warburg , he co-financed a publication ( Keep the gate open ) in 1931 , in which democratic politicians in Hamburg warned of Hitler .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Genealogy by Anton Hübbe on Geneanet
2. ↑ ^{a b} The time when conscience was silent. In: tantotiempo.de. Accessed January 30, 2019 . 

literature

• Uwe Bahnsen : Hanseatic people under the swastika. The Hamburg Chamber of Commerce and the merchants in the Third Reich. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 2015.
• Cornelia Rau-Kühne: Between “responsible sphere of activity” and “domestic splendor”. For the interior view of bourgeois families in the 20th century. In: Dieter Ziegler (Ed.): Upper citizens and entrepreneurs: The German business elite in the 20th century. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2000, pp. 215–248.

Web links

• CV at www.hamburger-persoenitäten.de
• Newspaper article about Anton Cornelius Hübbe in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .