Anton Rodatz

Johannes Anton Rodatz (born August 24, 1866 in Hamburg ; † November 2, 1926 there ) was a businessman, industrialist and Hamburg senator.

Life

Rodatz attended the Nirrheinsche School in Hamburg until 1883. He then did a commercial apprenticeship in his father's wool trading company, Bischoff & Rodatz . In 1886 he did his military service as a one year old volunteer in the 1st Guard Regiment on foot in Potsdam and became a lieutenant in the reserve . Rodatz worked in England and North America for the next two years . In 1889 Rodatz returned to Hamburg and entered his father's business, in 1891 he obtained power of attorney there and later became a partner. The company Bischoff & Rodatz was later integrated into the North German wool combing & worsted spinning mill , whereby Rodatz remained a partner and became a member of the management. Rodatz volunteered as a poor carer before he was elected to the Hamburg citizenship by the landowners in 1904 . There he joined the parliamentary group of the Left and was sent to the building deputation and the finance deputation. In 1906 he was elected secretary, later he was a tax assessor. He belonged to the citizenry until his election to the Senate on July 17, 1914 for Senator Robert Heidmann . Rodatz was the first and, besides Ludwig Wiesinger, the only member of the Left Party to be elected to the Senate. As a senator, he worked in the lighting deputation and in the fire box deputation, as well as in some war-related commissions. After the political upheaval, Rodatz resigned from the Senate on March 28, 1919, and from then on he devoted himself to managing the company, which was now renamed the Altona-Bahrenfeld star worsted spinning mill .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Membership directory of the Hamburg citizenship, 1907
2. ^ Adolf Buehl : From the old council chamber: Memories 1905-1918, Hamburg 1973, p. 21
3. ↑ Hamburger Fremdblatt No. 304 of November 3, 1926, issue 2, page 5