August Servaes
August Servaes (born December 31, 1832 in Düsseldorf , † July 12, 1923 in Gernsbach ; full name Carl Anton Friedrich Hubert Servaes ) was a German industrial manager . From 1873 to 1903 he was CEO of Phoenix AG for mining and smelting operations , and also a member of various interest groups.
Life
August Servaes was the son of the lawyer Franz Joseph Christoph Servaes (* 1801 in Recklinghausen ; † 1857) and his wife Johanne Gertrud Caroline Hubertine Servaes born. Freiin von Franz (* 1807 in Düsseldorf; † 1851).
After graduating from high school in Elberfeld (1851), Servaes first studied law . Subsequently, Servaes joined the administration of Phoenix AG for mining and smelting operations in 1859 and organized the relocation of the group headquarters from Cologne to Laar near Ruhrort . In 1861 he became a board member of Phoenix AG. From 1873 to 1902 he was the company's CEO. He was then a member of the supervisory board until 1920 .
In addition to his actual professional activity, he was also politically active. He played a leading role in founding the Association of German Iron and Steel Industrialists and chaired its founding meeting in Berlin on October 21, 1874. From 1874 until his death in 1923 he was a member of the main board and from 1893 to 1896 deputy president of the association. He advocated a protective tariff policy . In order to assert the interests of the association, he demanded that the bureaucratic channels and the parliament be circumvented if possible and instead to turn directly to Chancellor Otto von Bismarck . On June 17, 1880, under the direction of Servaes, thirteen Rhenish-Westphalian companies decided on a convention to limit pig iron production . From this convention , the Rhenish-Westphalian pig iron cartel developed in the 1880s .
He headed the north-western group of the Association of German Iron and Steel Industrialists as chairman until 1914. He chaired the entire association from 1906 to 1909. He was also a co-founder of the Ruhrort Chamber of Commerce and was its first chairman from 1897 to 1902.
He was also active in local politics. He was a member of the city council of Ruhrort, where he was also Assistant . In a substitute election on February 27, 1879, he was elected a member of the Reichstag for the constituency of Duisburg-Mülheim / Ruhr-Oberhausen (Düsseldorf 6) and joined the national liberal faction , from which he resigned on June 12, 1879 and joined the Joined the Liberal Group on February 27, 1880 .
He carried the honorary title of Commerce Councilor , later a Privy Councilor of Commerce .
August Servaes was married to Maria Angela geb. Surmann (1838–1868) and in second marriage with Marie Amélie Clara Josephina born. Ophoven (1853-1923). The children Johanna, Maria, Martha and Carl-Franz come from both marriages.
literature
- Manfred Rasch, Gerald D. Feldman : August Thyssen and Hugo Stinnes. An exchange of letters 1898-1922 . CH Beck, Munich 2003, ISBN 978-3-406-49637-0 , p. 710.
- Ralf Stremmel: Servaes, August. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 273 ( digitized version ).
- Hans-Ulrich Wehler : From the “German Double Revolution” to the First World War 1849-1914. (= German history of society , volume 3.) CH Beck, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-406-32263-8 , p. 640 f.
Web links
- Family tree August Servaes on www.genealogieonline.nl
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.ihk-niederrhein.de/ihk.asp?his=1.7137.7141.7146&lang=de ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , March 31, 2010; there is also a picture of Servaes
- ^ Geun-Gab Bak: Industrial Interest Policy in the Early Empire. The Association of German Iron and Steel Industrialists 1874–1895. Dissertation, Bielefeld 1987, p. 344 f.
- ^ Geun-Gab Bak: Industrial Interest Policy in the Early Empire. The Association of German Iron and Steel Industrialists 1874–1895. Dissertation, Bielefeld 1987, p. 172 f.
- ↑ http://www.ihk-niederrhein.de/ihk.asp?his=1.12.6190.7137.7139 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , March 31, 2010
- ^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. 2nd edition, Verlag Carl Heymann, Berlin 1904, p. 167.
- ^ A. Phillips: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1883. Verlag Louis Gerschel, Berlin 1883, p. 105.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Servaes, August |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German industrial manager, lobbyist and politician, MdR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 31, 1832 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dusseldorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 12, 1923 |
| Place of death | Gernsbach |