Ferry from Berghes

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Ferry von Berghes (born November 15, 1910 in Schöneberg ; † December 24, 1981 ) was a German lawyer , manager and politician ( FDP ).

Life

The son of the major and general staff officer Curt von Berghes († 1939) and Herta von Gahlen, daughter of the mining entrepreneur Hugo von Gahlen , attended high school and then studied law and economics . After passing the first state examination in law , he completed his preparatory service at courts. Following the second state examination in law, he entered the Prussian civil service as a government assessor.

After the death of his father in 1939, Berghes took over his duties as an asset manager, shareholder and owner of an estate in the Eifel. He was a member of the SS and held the rank of Untersturmführer . In 1939 he became a member of the supervisory board of Deutsche Erdöl AG (DEA) in Hamburg , to which he belonged without interruption until 1962, since 1960 as deputy chairman. He was also a member of the supervisory board of Mannesmann AG . In 1947 he leased the Bergfeld Castle, which was owned by the family, to the Josefs-Gesellschaft , which converted it into a healing facility for bone and joint tuberculosis.

Berghes joined the FDP, for which he ran unsuccessfully in the state elections in Rhineland-Palatinate in 1959 . In the same year, in addition to his functions in the private sector, he became State Secretary with cabinet rank in the Ministry of Economics and Transport of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate . During this period, the department was headed by no minister, it was headed directly by Prime Minister Peter Altmeier . In the Bundestag elections in 1961 and 1969 , he ran for the German Bundestag , but won no mandate.

At the instigation of the chairman of the supervisory board, Franz Heinrich Ulrich , Berghes was appointed chairman of the DEA board in 1962 as the successor to the late Günther Schlicht ; Hermann Eicher took over his role as State Secretary . Although a modernization process began at DEA, the company had to lower the dividend several times in the following years. Concerned about the growing influence of foreign companies, he tried in 1965 to convince Chancellor Ludwig Erhard to unite the national independent mineral oil companies into one group. Despite the capital increase, DEA was taken over by Texaco in the second half of the 1960s , and from 1970 onwards it operated as Deutsche Texaco AG. Berghes had to resign as chairman of the board in 1967 and returned to the supervisory board.

Ferry von Berghes was married to Rose-Marie Astrid Clementine, Countess von Bethusy-Huc (* 1915) since May 5, 1951. The couple had a daughter and two sons.

literature

  • Ferry von Berghes , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 37/1964 of August 31, 1964, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely available)
  • Berghes, Ferry von . In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Baack to Bychel] (=  KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 91 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 568 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Deutsche Erdöl-AG. Internationally available . In: Der Spiegel . No. 39 , 1962, pp. 57-58 ( online - Sept. 26, 1962 ).
  2. ^ Press reports from the Third Reich 1935-1945 (AK). Institute for German Aristocracy Research, accessed on January 8, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Ursula Quickert: Eisenschmitt has new lords of the castle from Trier. In: Trierischer Volksfreund . October 16, 2011, accessed January 8, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Kurt Wendt: On the paths of de Gaulle. In: The time . September 24, 1965, accessed January 8, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Hans Otto Eglau : First set. The powerful of the German economy. Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1980, ISBN 3-404-60053-3 , p. 193.
  6. ^ Deutsche Erdöl-AG. Red Star from Texas . In: Der Spiegel . No. 18 , 1966, p. 54-55 ( Online - Apr. 25, 1966 ).
personal data
SURNAME Berghes, Ferry von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, manager and politician (FDP)
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Schöneberg
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 1981