Ferdinand Beit (politician)

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Ferdinand Hermann Georg Beit (born April 19, 1858 in Hamburg ; † November 27, 1928 ) was a German entrepreneur, politician of the German Democratic Party (DDP) and member of the Hamburg parliament .

Life

Beits father Ferdinand Beit Senior (1817-1870), a doctor of doctor, was a chemist and Hamburg entrepreneur who under the umbrella company & Beit Co. , the Beit & Philippi - Chilesalpeterfabrik and subsequent chemical factory for book and stone inks in Hamburg-Winterhude on Goldbekkanal founded . He was also a partner in the Elbhütten-Affinier- und Handelsgesellschaft , from which he separated the Beitsche Silberscheide in 1866 and transformed it into Norddeutsche Affinerie AG , today's Aurubis , with the help of the Norddeutsche Bank . He also participated in the founding of Badische Anilin- & Soda-Fabrik AG (BASF), which was merged into IG Farben AG in 1924 .

His mother Johanna (1829–1915) was the daughter of the Mannheim banker Seligmann Ladenburg . His cousin was the British- South African gold and diamond magnate and later patron Alfred Beit .

Ferdinand Beit Junior attended the secondary school of the reform pedagogue Wichard Lange . After finishing school, he learned for three years at the export and import company Philippi & Speyer . After his military service as a “ one-year volunteer ”, which he completed in Altona , he left Germany for a long time and when he returned he got into his father's export and import business. In 1885 he became an investor in Heinrich Alfred Michahelles' companies . Ten years later, the two partners founded a large sugar refinery in Schulau with its own rail connection and Elbe feeder, which employed 500 workers within a few years. To facilitate production, one of the first electric rack railways, the Schulau sugar factory , was put into operation in 1901 .

Villa Beit: Entrance to the Milky Way

After the death of his mother Johanna, Ferdinand Beit lived in the Villa Beit Milchstraße and Harvestehuder Weg in Hamburg-Pöseldorf, built in 1890/1891 by Martin Haller .

politics

Beit was involved in the "Association of Hamburg Citizens to St. George from 1886". There he was a champion against the emerging anti-Semitism , especially in the 1890s . In St. Georg, one of his opponents was primarily the leading Hamburg anti-Semite and later member of the Reichstag, Friedrich Raab . In 1900 he was defeated by him in a runoff election for the chairmanship of the citizens' association. Thereupon he left the association on the grounds: "A liberal man who believes in political honor must turn his back on such an association."

Beit was elected to the Hamburg parliament for the first time in 1895. The election slogan was New Blood - after the experiences of the Hamburg cholera epidemic of 1892 . At first he was a member of the left parliamentary group, but when it moved more and more to the right, he left it and became a co-founder of the United Liberals and later the German Democratic Party (DDP). In March 1919 he became a member of the first Hamburg citizenship of the Weimar Republic for the DDP . Beit sat there for his party until 1924.

Honors

In the Hamburg district of St. Georg, the former "Hohe Strasse" was renamed Ferdinand-Beit-Strasse in 1948.

Literature and web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dieter Thiele / Reinhard Saloch, From Wiesengrund to the industrial belt, canal trips through past and present, Barmbek history workshop, 2002, page 83
  2. ↑ With success came the poison, Norddeutsche Affinerie has existed for 125 years, Hamburger Abendblatt No. 135 of June 13, 1991, page 18 (PDF file; 1.56 MB)
  3. ↑ see NDB entry on Ferdinand Beit (1817–1870)
  4. ↑ Alfred Beit. Hamburger and Diamantenkönig, family table Beit page 139 (PDF file; 4.32 MB)
  5. ↑ see article 100 years of St. Marien in Wedel in the Hamburger Abendblatt dated June 12, 2004, accessed on September 8, 2008 under [1]
  6. ^ Ralf Lange : Architekturführer Hamburg , Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-930698-58-7 also as a google book
  7. ^ Daniela Kasischke-Wurm: Anti-Semitism in the mirror of the Hamburg press during the Kaiserreich, p. 327ff.
  8. ↑ Membership directory of the Hamburg citizenship 1859 to 1959, short biographies, copies of the Mönckeberg collection, Von AZ, Volume 1 of 8
personal data
SURNAME Beit, Ferdinand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beit, Ferdinand Hermann Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician of the DDP, MdHB
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 1928