Ernst Possel

Ernst Possel with his 2nd wife Anneliese, around 1938

Ernst August Gustav Possel (born September 17, 1887 in Osnabrück , † July 20, 1940 in Saanen , Bernese Oberland ) was a German industrialist, member of the Provisional Reich Economic Council and banker.

Life

Coming from a merchant family in Osnabrück, Possel took part in training courses of the National Association for Liberal Germany, headed by Wilhelm Ohr , after completing school in the lower primary and commercial training in a white goods wholesaler , and in 1910 he became secretary (editor) of the left-liberal daily newspaper for Western Pomerania in Greifswald. At the same time he became party secretary of the SPD in Greifswald. In 1911 he married the daughter of the city music director Käthchen Hundhammer, with whom he had four children.

In 1915 he joined the group of pacifists who gathered around the magazine Das Forum , published by Wilhelm Herzog , with whom he was in contact until his death.

From 1917 to 1920 he was a member of the board of the Reich Committee for Vegetable and Animal Oils and Fats after two years as an authorized signatory. In 1917 he was a member of the board of directors of the German Oil Mills Business Association . He was appointed a member of the Foreign Trade Committee for Oils and Fats in 1920. At the interest group of German oil factories he performed tasks as chairman.

From June 8, 1922 to April 6, 1933 he was a member of the Provisional Reich Economic Council .

At Arnold Willemsen's request, he became a member of the presidency of the Association of German Oil Mills from May 29, 1922. At the Reichsverband der Deutschen Industrie in Berlin, he worked in the specialist group for oils and fats as a member of the board. He was also active in the Reich Working Group on oils and fats .

From October 9, 1929 or February 13, 1930 (date of swearing in) to August 12, 1932, he was a member of the board of directors of the Prussian Central Cooperative Bank , where he was responsible for credit transactions with commercial and other financial institutions as well as with rural financial institutions was responsible for the agricultural trade. Under the von Papen government, the first directors were immediately dismissed for political reasons, initially Dr. Herbert Lauffer and Ernst Possel. With the beginning of the National Socialist government, all of Possel's other activities in associations ended. Most of his board members have now been fired.

Approx. From 1934 to 1937 he was finally a member of the board of directors of Mitteldeutsche Kraftwerk Magdeburg AG (MIKRAMAG), which he brought with him at the end of 1931 by arranging a loan from a Swiss banking consortium. From around 1938 he stayed for political reasons in England and especially in Switzerland, where he finally died in the Hotel Gstaad Palace, with whose director he was on friendly terms.

chairman of the supervisory board

• Koch's Ölwerke AG, Harburg-Wilhelmsburg
• Lueneburg Margarinewerk "Union" GmbH, Lueneburg
• Margarinewerke Dr. A. Schröder, Berlin
• C. & G. Müller Speisefettfabrik AG, Berlin-Neukölln, Stettin and Königsberg
• W. Vassmel & Co. AG, Osnabrück
• Oldenburger Margarinewerke AG, Hoykenkamp
• Sales group of German oil mills AG, Hamburg
• Westfälische Süßrahm-Margarinewerke Jul. Eick GmbH, Herford
• Sunlicht Gesellschaft AG, Mannheim
• United Chemical Works AG, Charlottenburg
• A. Motard & Co. AG, Spandau

Member of the supervisory board

• Dresdner Speisefettfabrik AG, Dresden
• United Seifenfabriken AG, Hamburg and Stuttgart
• Deutsche Genossenschafts-Hypothekenbank AG, Berlin
• Deutsche Landesbankenzentrale AG, Berlin
• Heimbank AG

Member of the board

• Central German power plant Magdeburg AG

literature

• Directory of directors and supervisory boards
• Alfred Bozi, Otto Sartorius (Ed.) The German Economy , Berlin 1926
• Georg Wenzel: German business leader . Life courses of German business personalities. A reference book on 13,000 business figures of our time. Hanseatic Publishing House , Hamburg / Berlin / Leipzig 1929, DNB 948663294 .
• Herrmann AL Degener , who is it? , Berlin 1928
• Herrmann AL Degener, who is it? , Berlin 1935 (Nekrolog)
• Curriculum vitae in the GStA PK, I Rep. 84a 11150 Bl 138b-139a