August Dierks

August Dierks (born May 19, 1899 in Borkum ; † March 16, 1983 in Bremerhaven ) was in-house counsel and managing director of the Bremerhaven Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

biography

Dierks was the son of a master carpenter. He attended the secondary school of the Wilhelm Raabe School in Geestemünde . He studied economics and was awarded a Dr. rer. pole. PhD.

He began his work as an assistant at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Geestemünde. In 1924 he became deputy lawyer and from 1932 alongside Dr. Jung to the Chamber's legal counsel with equal rights. In the 1920s he supported Lord Mayor Walter Delius in setting up deep-sea fishing. From around 1926 until the 1960s he was the honorary managing director of the Association of German Deep Sea Fisheries . In 1943 he became the general manager of the Gau Chamber of Commerce East Hanover in Hanover . After his release from an internment camp , he worked from 1949 as managing director of the Bremerhaven Chamber of Commerce and Industry .

From 1947 to 1977 he was chairman of the Bremerhaven Society in 1947 . He supported the establishment of the German Maritime Museum and was chairman of the board of trustees and member of the museum's administrative board.

Honors

• 1979: Senate Medal for Art and Science of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen
• 1979: Merit Medal of the City of Bremerhaven

Works

• From the past and present of deep sea fishing. In: Paul Schroedter, Gustav Schroedter (Ed.): 100 years of shipping. Shipbuilding, ports. Shipping publishing house "Hansa" C. Schroedter & Co., Hamburg 1964.
• with Hans Georg Prager, at home in storms. Salvage motor ship Seefalke and his companions. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft , 1983, ISBN 3-78-220215-5 .
• August Dierks (edited with the participation of the Bremerhaven Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Bremerhaven City Council): Bremerhaven - seaside city with superlatives . 20 brush drawings, Bremerhaven 1968.
• Bremerhaven, active city in the North Sea wind. Becoming, fate and essence of a port city. Text: August Dierks, Eugenie v. Garvens; Ed .: Chamber of Commerce and Industry Bremerhaven with the participation of the City Council of Bremerhaven. Industrial u. Chamber of Commerce, Bremerhaven 1959.

literature

• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
• Hartmut Bickelmann (ed.): Bremerhaven personalities from four centuries . A biographical lexicon. Bremerhaven City Archives, 2005. ISBN 978-3-923-85126-3 .