Felix Prentzel
Felix Alexander Prentzel (born March 9, 1905 in Koblenz ; † October 6, 1993 in Bad Soden am Taunus ) was a German industrial lawyer.
Life
Until 1945
The Catholic Felix Prentzel came from a family of civil servants in Lower Saxony on his father's side. The maternal ancestors were entrepreneurs. As the son of Alexander Prentzel , he attended Görres-Gymnasium (Koblenz) and a gymnasium in Berlin . After graduating from high school, he studied mining and metallurgy and law at the Technical University of Berlin from 1923 to 1927 . In 1925 he was accepted into the Corps Marchia Berlin . As a graduate engineer , he was in 1929 at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen for Dr. iur. PhD. He then went to the Prussian Mining Authority for further training. There he passed the state examination in 1931 and was appointed mountain assessor. Study visits to the United States, Canada and Eastern Europe followed. He resigned from civil service in 1935 and went to the central finance administration of IG Farben in Berlin as a consultant in the economic policy department . In 1939 he married Lily Weber-Andreae in Frankfurt am Main ; the marriage resulted in two daughters and a son. In the same year, Prentzel was transferred to the IG Farben Chemicals Sales Group in Frankfurt and was granted power of attorney in 1940 . In 1941 he was drafted into the armed forces and, through the mediation of the Reich Ministry of Economics, was appointed as a military administrative superior in the economic staff east of the high command of the armed forces , which later became the field management office. The Eastern Economic Staff was responsible for the exploitation of the occupied territories in the Soviet Union . Among other things, Prentzel organized large shipments of coal . Later he was appointed head of the industrial department with the rank of colonel at the headquarters of the field management office in Berlin .
post war period
From 1947 to 1954 he worked first in the Central Economic Office in Minden and then as a ministerial director and sub-department head in the Federal Ministry of Economics . In 1955 he was appointed to the board of DEGUSSA in Frankfurt am Main. From 1959 to 1970 he was its chairman and then moved to the supervisory board.
After retiring in 1970, he lived with his wife in a residential building belonging to the Augustinum Group in Bad Soden , most recently almost blind .
Business associations
- President of the Association of the Chemical Industry (1968/69)
- Supervisory boards
Honors
- Great Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1966)
- Great Cross of Merit with Star (1971)
- Grand Decoration of Honor in Silver with the Star for Services to the Republic of Austria (1973)
literature
- Mechthild Wolf: Prentzel, Felix Alexander , in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 20 (2001), p. 699 f. Online version
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Peter Schuchardt: Felix Prentzel . Berliner Märker sheets No. 92 v. Oct. 1994, Appendix.
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 91/633.
- ↑ Dissertation: The legal situation in the shutdown of potash plants .
- ^ Prentzel, Felix Alexander (German biography)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Prentzel, Felix |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Prentzel, Felix Alexander (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German business lawyer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 9, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Koblenz |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 6, 1993 |
| Place of death | Bad Soden am Taunus |