Dietrich Hahlbrock
Dietrich Werner Hahlbrock (born May 7, 1923 in Hameln ; † January 29, 2012 in Hamburg ) was a German manager in the cattle and meat industry . He was CEO of the Nordfleisch Group (today Vion NV ) and in this position was appointed General Manager in 1976.
Life
Dietrich Hahlbrock's father, Heinrich Hahlbrock, was a partner in what was then a very successful glove factory in Hameln . His mother, Margarete Hahlbrock, b. Zippel came from a Hamburg merchant family. After he had attended elementary school in Hameln, his parents moved with him and his older sister to Timmdorf near Malente in Schleswig-Holstein in 1933 . The father had bought a farm there after selling his shares in the factory. The family lived there economically more modestly but happily. Dietrich Hahlbrock attended the Johann-Heinrich-Voss-Gymnasium in Eutin.
After graduating from high school, he was drafted into the Wehrmacht as a reservist in 1942 and was released as a lieutenant in the naval flak in Kiel in 1945. Immediately after the Second World War studied Hahlbrock at the University of Kiel agriculture and in 1951 with the theme was agricultural overproduction possibilities increase in earnings in the circle Eutin: attempt to determine credit reserves in agriculture doctorate .
Hahlbrock placed his further professional career at the service of the agricultural cooperative system , whose adaptation to the modern requirements of the market he saw as an urgent goal. He acquired the necessary tools during his work at the Eutin purchasing and sales cooperative and at the headquarters of the Raiffeisenverband Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, where he was primarily entrusted with looking after the local cooperatives after his examination as an association auditor. He also worked in public relations and in the cooperative training system.
On July 1, 1957, Hahlbrock entered the service of what was then Schleswig-Holsteinische Viehverwertung eGmbH (SHV), Hamburg and later Raiffeisen Viehzentrale Schleswig-Holstein (RVZ), Hamburg, which was later renamed Nordfleisch eG Raiffeisen Vieh- und Fleischzentrale Schleswig-Holstein wore. In the same year he was appointed managing director of the cooperative, of which he was chairman from 1968 until he retired in 1988.
Under his leadership, the cooperative company experienced a steep upward trend, both in terms of sales (from 1957 to 1987 from 100 million DM to around 1.8 billion DM) and in the early adaptation of the company to the modern requirements of the Market was expressed. As part of this adjustment, a number of subsidiaries were founded in the 1960s. These included, for example, Nordfleisch Aktiengesellschaft with four mail order slaughterhouses and an animal meal factory, as well as Nordfleisch sales company as the central meat sales organization. Further subsidiaries and affiliated companies were also acquired: Bonn-Fleisch Ex- und Import GmbH, Fleischzentrale Südwest / WÜCO-Gruppe in Württemberg and the meat trading company Heidebrecht & Kluge in Berlin. In the last year of its activity, the Nordfleisch-Verbund slaughtered around 1.4 million pigs and around 407,000 cattle.
The Nordfleisch Group, under the direction of Dietrich Hahlbrock, also created an integral pig marketing chain , ranging from breeding to advice and sales, the foundations of which were an in-house breeding program with corresponding breeding facilities, as well as the Nordferkel and Nordfleisch producer groups established in the course of this development .
As part of his cooperative activity, he was a member of several supervisory boards and advisory boards of the cooperative association (including Norddeutsche Genossenschaftsbank in Hanover (today DZ-Bank ), Raiffeisen HaGe in Kiel ( main cooperative north ) and R + V Versicherung in Wiesbaden).
In 1982 Dietrich Hahlbrock received the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class, for his services in the cooperative sector and for promoting cooperative farmers in the livestock and meat industry . In 1988 he received the Raiffeisen Gold Medal, the highest award of the German Raiffeisen Association .
On December 31, 1988, Hahlbrock retired.
In 1947 Dietrich Hahlbrock married Betty Marie Godt from Nortorf . The couple had four sons.
Dietrich Hahlbrock died on January 29, 2012 at the age of 88.
literature
- Dissertation University of Kiel 1951: About possibilities of increasing agricultural yield in the district of Eutin.
- 50 years of the cooperative cattle center in Schleswig-Holstein. Commemorative publication by Raiffeisen Viehzentrale Schleswig-Holstein eG, 1979
- 25 years of Nordfleisch AG 1960-1985. Series of publications by the Raiffeisenverband Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg eV Kiel, issue 37, Kiel 1986
- Interview of the daily newspaper Die Welt as part of the series Hamburg Top Managers as a guest of WELT on October 29, 1986
- "Cattle and pig farming is the strongest leg of agriculture" Guest article in Die Welt on August 26, 1987
- Festschrift: "A life for the cooperative cattle and meat industry", speeches on the occasion of the farewell to Dr. Dietrich Hahlbrock retired on December 20, 1988 in Kiel
- Like samizdat. In: Der Spiegel . 3, 1975, pp. 32-33.
Individual evidence
- ↑ cor: Dutch buy Nordfleisch group from Hamburg. In: The world. 11 November 2003
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hahlbrock, Dietrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hahlbrock, Dietrich Werner (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German manager in the livestock and meat industry |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 7, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamelin |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 29, 2012 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |