Eugene Koengeter

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Eugene Koengeter

Eugen Köngeter (born August 30, 1880 in Stuttgart , † July 25, 1945 in Düsseldorf ) was a German businessman and politician (DVP).

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Eugen Köngeter attended the Oberrealschule and the Realgymnasium in Stuttgart. From 1897 to 1898 he did his military service in Stuttgart. This was followed by commercial training at home and abroad. In 1903 he became authorized signatory of the tube syndicate in Düsseldorf . In 1906 he became commercial director and board member of what was then AG Lauchhammer (Central German Steelworks). In 1912 he became the company's general commercial director. In August 1914 he took part in the First World War as a Landwehr officer. In 1917, Köngeter was assigned to the Berlin War Resource Department under Walther Rathenau , where he took over the military management of the coal supply for the armaments industry. Until the end of 1919 he worked in the Ministry of Demobilization and for the Reich Commissioner for Coal Distribution. In this capacity he held a leading position in supplying coal to post-war Germany.

At the end of 1919, Köngeter left the AG Lauchhammer and took over the management of the Reich Coal Council , which was formed on the basis of the Coal Industry Act of 1919 , a position he was to hold until 1921. From April 1921 to mid-1927, Köngeter acted as general director of the Stumm Group (Stumm GmbH) in Neunkirchen an der Saar. However, his residence was already in Düsseldorf at this time. In 1927 he became a member of the board of the Northwestern Group of the Association of German Iron and Steel Industrialists as well as a member of the main board of the entire association, board member of the association for the protection of common economic interests in Rhineland and Westphalia and board member of the Reich Association of German Industry. In addition, he was a member of the Düsseldorf City Council until 1929, a member of the Düsseldorf Industry Club and the Düsseldorf Chamber of Commerce and Industry, a deputy member and permanent expert on the Economic Affairs Committee and an honorary doctorate .

As a representative of the Rhenish heavy industry, Köngeter belonged to the Reichstag parliamentary group of the German People's Party (DVP) for two electoral terms from 1924 to 1930 .

Köngeter's son was the architect Walter Köngeter .

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  • The Coal Industry Act and the Coal Trade . Lecture given at the general meeting of the Central Association on June 26, 1920 in Berlin. Berlin 1920.
  • To socialize mining. Reporting . 1920.
  • Report on the state of the coal industry and on the implementation of the Spa Agreement, submitted at the meeting d. Imperial Coal Council on Oct. 14, 1920 . 1920.
  • Status of work in the field of fuel economy. Report to the technical-economic expert committee for fuel use at the Reich coal council . Berlin 1920.
  • Minutes of the lecture of the representative of the Reich Commissioner for Coal Distribution on the coal situation, held in the Reich Ministry of Economics on July 8, 1919. General Director Köngeter as representative of the Reich Commissioner for Coal Distribution . 1920.
  • National economic tasks and possibilities of plant breeding . Düsseldorf 1934.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erich Matthias , Rudolf Morsey : Sources for the history of parliamentarism and the political parties . P. 133.
  2. ↑ Hans Jürgen Meinik: Walther Rathenau and the socialization question . 1973, p. 273.
  3. ^ Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk: The great time of fire. The way of the German industry . 1959, p. 556.
personal data
SURNAME Köngeter, Eugene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman and politician (DVP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH July 25, 1945
Place of death Dusseldorf