Ferdinand Rothe
Ferdinand Rothe (born December 4, 1876 in Cologne ; † February 21, 1959 there ) was a German lawyer and banking specialist.
Career
Rothe was born as the son of the businessman Albert Rothe in Cologne and baptized Catholic. There he attended the grammar Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium and then studied at the Universities of Lausanne , Munich , Berlin and Bonn law . In 1903 he obtained his doctorate in Leipzig. jur., two years later he passed the assessor exam in Cologne .
In 1906 he settled as a lawyer at the Cologne Higher Regional Court and in 1908 became director of the Bergisch-Märkische Bank branch in Cologne. From 1911 to 1937 he was director of the Deutsche Bank in Cologne, with interruptions due to the First World War, in which he served at the front as captain of the reserve in the field artillery . In this position he was closely connected to the economic life of the city of Cologne and the Rhine Province. He was a member of numerous supervisory boards, most recently as chairman of the supervisory board of Westdeutsche Straßenbau- und Asphalt AG Cologne-Deutz, Bayerische Straßenbau- und Asphalt AG Munich and Westdeutsche Kalk-Portland-Zementwerk AG Cologne.
In addition, he held leading positions in the German press. He was chairman of the advisory boards of Wiesbadener Tageblatt GmbH , the Mainzer Verlagsanstalt , the Frankfurter Allgemeine GmbH and the Mainzer Zeitungsverlag .
Awards
- Iron Cross II and I Class (during World War I)
- RK medal 1st class
- Saxon Albrechts Order, 1st class
- Honor plate of Rhineland-Palatinate
- 1926: Honorary Senator of the Technical University of Darmstadt
- Honorary President of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
- 1951: Great Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1956: Goethe badge of the state of Hesse
Web links
- Literature by and about Ferdinand Rothe in the catalog of the German National Library
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- International Biographical Archive 18/1959 from April 20, 1959
- German Biographical Encyclopedia
- Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 2: L-Z. German business publisher, Berlin 1931, DNB 453960294 .
- Robert Steimel: Cologne heads. 1958
Individual evidence
- ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 3, No. 250, December 29, 1951.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rothe, Ferdinand |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and banking specialist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th December 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 21, 1959 |
| Place of death | Cologne |