Arnold Petzet

Arnold Erich Julius Petzet (born September 8, 1868 in Breslau ; † August 22, 1941 in Ebenhausen (Upper Bavaria)) was a German shipping company director and president of the Bremen Chamber of Commerce .

biography

Petzet was the son of a newspaper editor from Augsburg and Munich . He attended grammar school there and then studied law at the University of Munich and the University of Breslau . He initially worked for the Prussian State Railways . In 1899 he was transferred to Bremen and appointed to the government council in 1902 .

During this time he made his first contacts with the North German Lloyd (NDL) in Bremen. In 1906, when Heinrich Wiegand was general director of the NDL, he was appointed to the board of directors of the shipping company . He took over the management of the inland transport department and the welfare institutions of the NDL. He was represented on a number of supervisory boards. He initiated the establishment of several travel agencies. The America trip of the new German Ocean Shipping Company (DOR) in the First World War by the merchant submarines Germany and Bremen fell within his area of ​​responsibility. In 1927 he left the board of directors of the NDL.

He and NDL director Cornelius Edzard supported the first east-west flight over the North Atlantic from 1928 through the aviation pioneers von Hünefeld , who was press officer at NDL from 1923, and through Köhl .

In 1928 he was President of the Bremen Chamber of Commerce . After his active time in the NDL and in the Chamber of Commerce, he lived in Bavaria .

literature

• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .