Clemens von Velsen
Clemens von Velsen (born September 21, 1905 in Berlin ; † September 29, 1983 in Hanover ) was a German engineer, mining assessor, general director and President of the Chamber of Commerce.
Career
Velsen's parents were the officer and businessman Stefan von Velsen (1876–1969) and Lilia von Oesterreich (1881–1964).
Clemens von Velsen attended the University of Heidelberg and the Technical University of Berlin and completed his studies with a degree in engineering. Since 1924 he was a member of the Corps Guestphalia Heidelberg . From 1932 to 1934 he worked as an authorized signatory at the Carl Alexander coal mine.
In 1934 he moved up to the board of the Prussian Mining and Huts AG , of which he was a member until 1945. From 1947 he was a member of the management of the mineral oil company OLEX and, after its merger, from 1950 to the management of the BP gasoline and petroleum company . From 1956 he was on the board of the United Kali-Werke Salzdetfurth AG in Hanover and was chairman of the board there from 1961 to 1971. From 1970 to 1976 he was chairman of the Hanover Industry Club .
Awards
- City plaque Hanover
- IHK ring of honor
- 1983: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
literature
- Klaus Broichhausen, Klaus Wiborg: merchants and corporations in the north of Germany. Hanseatic and Hanoverian between Wolfsburg and Waterkant , Munich; Vienna; Basel: Desch, [1974], p. 321 and others.
- 1991. Chamber of Commerce and Industry Hannover-Hildesheim. 125 years of the Hannover-Hildesheim Chamber of Commerce and Industry , Hannover: IHK, 1991, p. 36f.
- Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Velsen, Clemens von. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 369.
Web links
- Short biography at the Federal Archives
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c o.V. : Velsen, Clemens von in the database of Lower Saxony people (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library [undated], last accessed on February 2, 2018
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 64 , 1081
- ^ A b Rudolf Klein : Lower Saxony Lexicon . Everything worth knowing about the state of Lower Saxony , Frankfurt am Main: Umschau-Verlag, 1969, p. 387
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Velsen, Clemens von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mining engineer and manager |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 21, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 29, 1983 |
| Place of death | Hanover |