Felix Heumann

Felix Heumann (* 15. January 1869 in Königsberg (Prussia) ; † 9 June 1932 ibid ) was a German mechanical engineering - engineering and business owners . Heumann was a city ​​councilor and president of the Konigsberg Chamber of Commerce and Industry . He was a member of the Prussian State Council from 1921 to 1932 .

Life

Felix Heumann was born to Fritz Heumann (1835–1905). His father was the owner of the machine and wagon factory founded by Leopold Steinfurt in Königsberg, one of the largest industrial companies in East Germany. In 1867 he married Laura Ludowika Ida (1838–1873), the daughter of Leopold Steinfurt and mother of Felix.

Heumann studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University (Berlin-) Charlottenburg , passed the 1st state examination and began a legal clerkship as a government construction manager . He completed his practical training in the railway division of Siemens-Schuckert . In 1905 he took over the management of L. Steinfurt KG from his father , having already become a partner a year earlier . In 1906 the legal form was changed to a GmbH . Konrad Gaedeke , banker at Bankhaus Jacobi and co-founder of Königsberger Zellstofffabrik, was appointed Chairman of the Supervisory Board .

Heumann became a city councilor and in 1918 the first president of the Königsberg Chamber of Commerce and Industry. From 1921 to 1925 he was a member of the Provincial Parliament of the Province of East Prussia . From May 1921 he was a member of the working group in the Prussian State Council for the German People's Party , a mandate that he held until his death in 1932. In 1922 the company was converted into a stock corporation, of which Heumann himself took over as chairman . After the First World War , the plant experienced a brief upswing, as the wagons given abroad as reparations urgently needed to be replaced. The tram business also developed positively. According to an advertising brochure, the company now manufactured all kinds of goods, passenger and special wagons for normal and narrow gauge, tram cars, transport and farm wagons, bodies, drop forgings as mass-produced items, iron and metal castings, but also in particular commercial, furnace and hearth castings Wood material for building and joinery purposes and school furniture.

Heumann himself was a member of the supervisory board of numerous Königsberg companies, sat on the local Königsberg committee of the discount company and was a member of the Reich Economic Council . For his services he was awarded the title of Kommerzienrates and from the University of Königsberg , the honorary doctorate . He died on June 9, 1932, at the age of 63, in his hometown Königsberg.

literature

• Kurt Forstreuter , Fritz Gause (Ed.): Old Prussian Biography . Volume 3, Elwert, Marburg 1975, ISBN 978-3-7708-0504-4 .
• Joachim Lilla : The Prussian State Council 1921–1933. A biographical manual. With a documentation of the state councilors appointed in the “Third Reich”. (= Handbooks on the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties , Volume 13.) Droste, Düsseldorf 2005, ISBN 978-3-7700-5271-4 , page 70.
• Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 4, Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-598-25034-7 , page 806.
• 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 .

Web links

• Felix Heumann in the German biography
• Genealogy of Felix Heumann in Bergischer Datenpool
• Manfred Weigel: The Königsberg industrialists and companies as well as their businesses. in www.ostpreussen.net