August Rosterg
August Rosterg (* 20th February 1870 in masses ; † 13. November 1945 in Stockholm ) was a German industrialist. As General Director of Wintershall AG , he had a decisive influence on German potash mining .
Life
Rosterg came from a Westphalian mining family. From 1898 he worked as a drilling engineer at Wintershall AG , today K + S AG , which commissioned him to manage the shaft construction in Heringen (Werra) .
In 1916, Rosterg was appointed General Director of Wintershall AG. In 1921 he sat on the supervisory board of Westfalenbank AG . After the First World War , Wintershall was expanded to become Germany's leading potash company mainly through August Rosterg and the industrialist Günther Quandt (1881–1954), Magda Goebbels ' first husband . In 1926 Rosterg took over the chairmanship of Wintershall and obtained the majority of the shares. The potash company was practically owned by Rosterg. In 1944 he went to Sweden, where he died in November 1945.
Involvement in National Socialism
Rosterg belonged to a group of industrialists who provided Hitler with 25 million Reichsmarks in 1931 in the event of a left- wing coup . Rosterg wrote articles for the Völkischer Beobachter and had been a member of the Keppler Circle since 1932, which after 1933 was transformed into the " Friends of the Reichsführer SS ".
In November 1932 he was among the signatories of the industrialists ' petition for Hitler's chancellorship. He took part in the secret meeting of industrialists with Hitler on February 20, 1933 , at which campaign aid of 3 million Reichsmarks was decided for the NSDAP . In 1940 Rosterg became a member of the supervisory board of Kontinentale Öl AG (Konti Öl).
Honors
Today a street in the East Hessian mining town of Neuhof is named after Rosterg. A street in Heringen was named after Rosterg. A building at the Wintershall headquarters in Kassel also bears his name.
literature
- Uncle Timm's hut . In: Der Spiegel . No. 45 , 1968 ( online ).
- Manfred Rasch: Rosterg, August. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 98 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Page to the August-Rosterg-Haus
- Experience growth - The history of the K + S Group 1856–2006 ( Memento from February 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 20.61 MB)
- Newspaper article about August Rosterg in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Henry Ashby Turner (ed.): Hitler up close, notes of a confidante 1929-1932 . Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Vienna 1978, p. 372 ff.
- ^ Submission by industrialists, bankers and great agrarians to President von Hindenburg dated November 19, 1932
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rosterg, August |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German industrialist, General Director of Wintershall AG |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 20, 1870 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Crowds |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 13, 1945 |
| Place of death | Stockholm |