Erich Rabbethge

Erich Rabbethge (born May 22, 1870 in Einbeck , † March 28, 1934 in Bergen ) was a German entrepreneur.

Life

Rabbethge's father ran the Karl Rabbethge & Co. - sugar factory and agriculture in Einbeck. His grandfather was the well-known sugar manufacturer Matthias Rabbethge , founder of today's KWS Saat . After graduating from high school in Kassel, Erich Rabbethge began to study law, political science and natural sciences at the Kaiser-Wilhelms-Universität Strasbourg in 1887 . In 1889 he became active in the Corps Palatia Strasbourg . When he was inactive , he moved to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin and the Technische Hochschule Braunschweig . In addition, he completed practical training as a farmer and businessman.

His father died in 1893. Rabbethge broke off his training and took over his father's company. In 1900 he became a board member of the Klein Wanzleben sugar factory. Economically it was very successful. After participating as a cavalry captain in the First World War until 1916 , he succeeded in stabilizing the sugar factory in Klein Wanzleben and in expanding the company.

Rabbethge was active in various ways in lobby organizations and economic associations. He was chairman of the Magdeburg-Braunschweiger Cane Sugar Association and the Association of German Sugar Beet Growers . He was a member of the association committee of the Association of the German Sugar Industry. He was a member of the boards and supervisory boards of numerous banks and companies in the sugar industry and founded Deutsche Zuckerbank AG . He was chairman of the supervisory board of Deutsche Kredit- und Handelsgesellschaft AG , Deutsche Zuckerbank AG and Zuckerraffinerie Magdeburg AG .

In 1927 he was one of the participants in the Paris Sugar Conference . In the following period he led the German delegation in the negotiations on the regulation of global sugar production and consumption.

His brothers were Oskar Rabbethge and Otto Rabbethge .

Awards

• Commerce Council (1912)
• Dr. phil. hc of the Friedrichs University Halle (1919)
• Order of the Red Eagle
• Iron Cross 2nd and 1st class
• Prussian military service award, 1st class
• Red Cross Medal (Prussia)
• House Order of the White Falcon , Knight
• Royal Crown Order (Prussia) III. class
• Cross of Merit for War Aid (Prussia)

Works

• Folk nutrition in the new marketing year , 1916
• Potato supply , pig farming, fat supply , 1916
• Ensuring the people's food , 1917
• National nutrition 1917/1918 and proposals for changing the food economy , 1917
• Our food industry after peace . Journal of the German Sugar Industry 44 (1919), p. 13
• The development of the German beet seed cultivation . Journal of the German Sugar Industry 44 (1919), p. 298 ff.
• Food industry . Journal Centralbibliothek Zuckerindustrie 28 (1919/20), p. 609.
• Economy and finance . Journal Centralbibliothek Zuckerindustrie 29 (1920/21), p. 218.
• Latest documents on international negotiations - The German standpoint . Journal of the German Sugar Industry 55 (1930), p. 1363 f.
• Files on the international negotiations . Journal of the German Sugar Industry 56 (1931), p. 128 ff.
• The German economic crisis and German agriculture . Journal of the German Sugar Industry 56 (1931), p. 1245.
• Course of the last international negotiations . Journal of the German Sugar Industry 57 (1932), p. 288 ff.
• The international sugar negotiations in Hague . Journal of the German Sugar Industry 57 (1932), p. 1036 f.
• The future of our sugar industry . Journal Centralbibliothek Zuckerindustrie 40 (1932), p. 665.
• with Franz von Papen : position and tasks of the entrepreneur in today's new state . Journal of the German Sugar Industry 58 (1933), p. 40.
• Report on the latest international sugar negotiations . Journal of the German Sugar Industry 58 (1933), p. 413 ff.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Kösener corps lists 1910, 181 , 88

literature

• Walter Wöhlert: Rabbethge, Erich. In: Guido Heinrich, Gunter Schandera (ed.): Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon 19th and 20th centuries. Biographical lexicon for the state capital Magdeburg and the districts of Bördekreis, Jerichower Land, Ohrekreis and Schönebeck. Scriptum, Magdeburg 2002, ISBN 3-933046-49-1 , p. 563 f.
• Rabbethge, Erich. In: Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 2: L-Z. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1931, DNB 453960294 , p. 1462.

Web links

• Erich Rabbethge in the online version of the Reich Chancellery Edition Files. Weimar Republic