Ernst Plate

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Ernst Plate (born May 6, 1900 in Hamburg ; † January 14, 1973 ) was a Hamburg senator and manager in the logistics industry.

Life

After completing his apprenticeship as a foreign trade merchant , he joined what was then the Hamburg free port warehouse company in 1926 . There he became an authorized officer in 1930 and a member of the board in 1936. After the Second World War , in 1946 he became chairman of the management board of what is now the Hamburg port and warehouse company (HHLA) .

After the Hamburg Bloc won the state elections on November 1, 1953, the Hamburg FDP nominated its member Plate for the economic department. She promised herself new accents from him in economic development, but above all in port policy. On December 2, 1953, the Hamburg citizenship elected Plate as well as the other candidates of the Hamburg bloc as senators. Until after the state elections in 1957 , he was a member of the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg as Senator for Economics and Transport. From 1961 to 1970 he was a member of the board of directors of the Deutsche Bundesbahn , from 1947 to 1967 President of the Central Association of German Seaport Companies .

During his work, he played a key role in the reconstruction of the port of Hamburg after the severe destruction in World War II.

Individual evidence

  1. Christof Brauers, The FDP in Hamburg 1945 to 1953 , Martin Meidenbauer Verlagbuchhandlung, Munich 2007, page 682.

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