Ernst Glässel
Gustav Ernst Glässel (born June 21, 1878 in Altona ; † September 7, 1950 in Bremen ) was a Bremen shipping company director and entrepreneur.
biography
The Hamburg- based ship broker Glässel was director of the Roland-Linie shipping company from 1905 . Between 1925 and 1928, Norddeutsche Lloyd took over a number of shipping companies, including a. the Roland-Linie, the HABAL and the Argo Reederei .
In 1926 Glässel became a deputy on the Lloyd board, which had been led by Lloyd board member Carl Stimming since 1920 . The expansive and increasingly decisive Glässel was soon the real driving force at Lloyd. The massive expansion of the Lloyd's fleet was financed with the help of American loans. In 1929 and 1930 the two large passenger steamers, the turbine ships Bremen and Europa with 51,656 GRT and 49,746 GRT respectively, were put into service.
From 1931 to 1932, Glässel was a member of the Lloyd's board of directors alongside Stimming. The Great Depression of 1929, which began in the United States , was also to hit German shipping companies. In 1930, Lloyd and HAPAG therefore signed a union agreement for cooperation. In 1932, the NDL got increasingly into an economic crisis: layoffs (around 5000 employees), wage cuts and balance sheet losses characterized this period.
The illiquidity of Lloyd led to the dismissal of Glässel, and on February 19, 1934, the Reich Minister of Transport appointed the chairman of the Association of German Shipowners Essberger as “ trustee of the Reich government for the reorganization of the ailing shipping companies - Lloyd and HAPAG Maritime Shipping ”. Rudolph Firle became General Director of the NDL from 1933.
In this context, Glässel wrote numerous memoranda on the reorganization of German shipping, the rapid regulation of which was demanded by all shipping circles in Bremen, and offered his cooperation to the new Senate under Richard Markert after the National Socialists came to power in Bremen on April 1, 1933.
In 1934 Glässel founded its own import and export company in Bremen. From 1945 to 1949 he was Vice President of the Bremen Chamber of Commerce .
Ernst Glässel was a commercial member of the Haus Seefahrt Foundation since 1918.
In Bremen-Mitte a street was named after Glässel.
literature
- Rolf Engelsing: Glässel, Gustav Ernst. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 422 ( digitized version ).
- Dirk J. Peters (Ed.): The North German Lloyd. Hauschild Verlag , Bremen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89757-360-4 .
- Dieter Pfliegensdörfer: From trading center to armaments smiths . Economy, state and working class in Bremen from 11929 to 1945 (research focus “work and education”; vol. 5). University of Bremen, Bremen 1986.
- Karl Heinz Schwebel : “House Seafaring” Bremen. His merchants and captains . Krohn, Bremen 1947.
- Theodor Spitta : New beginning on ruins, 1945–1947. The diaries of the Mayor of Bremen Theodor Spitta 1945–1947 (Biographical sources on German history after 1945; Vol. 13). Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-486-55938-9 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dieter Pfliegensdörfer: From a trading center for armorers. Economy, state and working class in Bremen from 1929 to 1945 , p. 111.
- ↑ Dieter Pfliegensdörfer: From a trading center for armorers. Economy, state and working class in Bremen from 1929 to 1945 , p. 432.
- ^ Karl Heinz Schwebel: "House Seafaring" Bremen. His merchants and captains , p. 76.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Glässel, Ernst |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Glässel, Gustav Ernst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German shipping company director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 21, 1878 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Altona |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 7, 1950 |
| Place of death | Bremen |