Eric Schlubach

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Eric Waldemar Terito Maiite rai Schlubach (born July 25, 1878 in Valparaíso , Chile , † October 20, 1962 in Hamburg ) was a German frigate captain and entrepreneur .

Life

He was born in Valparaíso in Chile as the second eldest son of the Hamburg businessman Heinrich Schlubach and his wife Margret, the granddaughter of a Tahitian princess, and according to family tradition he was given the Tahitian nickname Terito Maiite rai . He had four sisters and three brothers. The family moved to Hamburg in 1882, where he grew up in a wealthy family in a villa on the banks of the Alster , Schöne Aussicht No. 16. In 1896 he graduated from the Hamburg Johanneum .

On April 7, 1897, he joined the Imperial Navy to become a naval officer and was trained on the SMS Stosch . From 1903 to 1905 he was deployed in the East Asian Squadron of the Imperial Navy on the ships SMS Fürst Bismarck and SMS Luchs in China , Korea , Japan and Siberia , where he experienced the Russo-Japanese War .

After his return, he married Emma Mercedes Bock on March 30, 1906 (* May 6, 1883, † April 25, 1977). The couple lived in Kiel and had three children: Jürgen Schlubach (1907–1954, businessman), Hildegard (1909–1996, married to the banker Enno Ercklentz and with him emigrated to the USA in 1929) and Hans Schlubach (* 1913, businessman, Emigrated to the USA in 1937). Schlubach continued to work in the Navy, in 1907 on the SMS Lothringen and then at the Kiel Military Academy with the rank of lieutenant captain .

During the First World War , Schlubach first came to SMS Germany , became a corvette captain and later a frigate captain . With the Kiel sailors' uprising in November 1918, Schlubach's work in the navy was also ended.

On January 1, 1923, Schlubach joined the company Schlubach & Thiemer & Co. , founded by his father and which has been managed by Walther Dauch as managing director since 1914 .

Schlubach was a member of the DNVP , which he represented in the Hamburg Parliament from 1924 to 1927 . As a representative of the liberal wing, he was accused of collaborating with the banker Max Warburg in a party meeting by the anti - Semite of the German faith, Alfred Conn . Until 1927 Schlubach was consul of the Republic of Guatemala in Hamburg.

In 1931 Schlubach & Co. had to file for bankruptcy as a result of the global economic crisis . After that, Eric worked for other companies. B. 1936 on the supervisory board of Allgemeine Feuer Assekuranz AG in Hamburg .

During the Second World War , Schlubach served again as a frigate captain in the Navy . During the attack on the Soviet Union from the summer of 1941 to October 9, 1941, he was the fortress and local commandant of what was then Windau (now Ventspils) in Latvia .

In 1958 he published experiences from his military service in East Asia as a book under the title " Travel Letters from the Far East ". He died four years later and was buried in the family grave at the Ohlsdorf cemetery .

Fonts

  • Travel letters from the Far East 1903-1905, letters from a young naval officer to his mother while he was in command of the cruiser squadron. Hans Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1958, 115 pp.

Literature and Sources

  • Dieter Bromund: Schlubach - The first 125 years. Hamburg 1991.
  • Bert Hoppe: Soviet Union with annexed areas I: Occupied Soviet areas under German military administration, Baltic States and Transnistria , Oldenbourg Verlag , Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-486-58911-5 .
  • Sönke Kunkel, Christoph Meyer: Departure into the Postcolonial Age: Globalization and the Non-European World in the 1920s and 1930s , Campus Verlag, Hamburg 2012
  • Hamburg State Archives, inventory 731-1, No. 601

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ranking list of the Imperial German Navy 1899, p. 99
  2. ↑ Ranking list of the Imperial German Navy 1899, p. 27
  3. ↑ Ranking list of the Imperial German Navy 1904
  4. ↑ a b Tombstones Hamburg-Ohlsdorf 0065 at genealogy.net
  5. ^ Ellis Island and other New York passenger lists, 1820-1957 on Eric Schlubach at myHeritage.de
  6. ↑ Ranking list of the Imperial German Navy 1908
  7. ↑ Official gazette: Supplement to the Hamburg Law and Ordinance Gazette: Schlubach, Thiemer GmbH & Co.KG: From the limited partnership are on 3l. December 1922 the two limited partners resigned. Eric Waldemar Terito Maiite rai Schlubach, businessman, in Hamburg, joined as a partner , Hamburg 1923
  8. ↑ "Alfred Conn: The real gentleman in Hamburg is Warburg, he stands behind the people's party Dauch and thus also behind its partner Schlubach ..." quoted from: Reinhard Behrens: Die Deutschnationalen in Hamburg 1918-1933 , Universität Hamburg 1973, 453 p ., P. 301
  9. ↑ Bromund 1992, pp. 43-47
  10. ↑ Die Versicherung, Vol. 11, p. 490
  11. ↑ Hoppe (2011), p. 557 with note 20 and document VEJ 7/26 of July 15, 1941
personal data
SURNAME Schlubach, Eric
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eric Waldemar Terito Maiite rai Schlubach
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German merchant and frigate captain
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Valparaíso , Chile
DATE OF DEATH October 20, 1962
Place of death Hamburg