Diedrich Engelken

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Diedrich Windler Engelken (born December 21, 1882 in Bremen , † January 28, 1957 in Hamburg ) was a German businessman, politician of the NSDAP and Hamburg senator .

biography

Engelken grew up in Bremen and attended grammar school, which he left to do an apprenticeship in his father's raw tobacco import company from 1898 . In 1903 he became a one-year volunteer in the 1st Chevaulegers regiment "Emperor Nicholas of Russia" in Nuremberg .

After his service he returned to Bremen and continued to work in his father's business; In 1907 he became a partner. In the following time he spent several years abroad to buy tobacco there. During the First World War , Engelken was drafted and was a regimental adjutant of the 6th Chevaulegers regiment "Prince Albrecht of Prussia" . In 1916 he was promoted to Rittmeister , later he was port commander of Brăila .

After the war he took with his brother his father's tobacco business JH Engelken & Co and the company C. Goerg & Co . In 1921 both companies moved to Altona and the tobacco trade was given up in favor of tropical fruit imports and exports. Dried fruits were mainly traded.

Engelken joined the NSDAP and became head of the economic policy department, group export and import, of the Hamburg Gaues of the NSDAP. On March 8, 1933, he was elected to the Hamburg Senate under Carl Vincent Krogmann , in a meeting at which the elected members of the KPD could no longer appear. He was responsible for the shipping and trade department and was dismissed from the Senate on July 20, 1933. In August 1933 he was appointed head of the foreign trade department of the Reich Office of German Commerce and in 1934 he was appointed to the economic staff by the Führer’s deputy.

Probably in 1938 Engelken founded the Lower Saxony Marzipan Marmelade and Preserving Factory Gebrüder Engelken & Co in order to use the fruits imported by his other companies. The company had 2 locations, one in Hamburg-Bahrenfeld , where there is evidence that forced laborers were used, and one in Tolkemit .

Engelken was in 1941 on the supervisory board of the Deutsche Zündwaren-Monopolgesellschaft and on the board of the German Yugoslav Chamber of Commerce .

The company JH Engelken & Co still exists in Hamburg-Bahrenfeld today (2010).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fuhrmann, Rainer: Distribution of offices in the Senate 1860-1945, typescript, Hamburg State Archives
  2. ↑ see Herrmann AL Degener : Who is it? Berlin, 1935
  3. ↑ see for example under 2500 companies - slave owners in the Nazi camp system
  4. ↑ see more details here [1]
personal data
SURNAME Engelken, Diedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Engelken, Diedrich Windler (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman, politician of the NSDAP and Hamburg senator
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 1957
Place of death Hamburg