Franz Heinrich Witthoefft
Franz Heinrich Witthoefft (born November 19, 1863 in Kirchwerder ; † July 6, 1941 Lütjensee in the Trittau office ) was a wholesale merchant and Hamburg senator.
Life
After finishing school at Fritz Louis Nirrnheim's (1830–1906) high school in St. Georg, Witthoefft made a commercial apprenticeship. He then went from Hamburg to Antwerp for the export company Arnold Otto Meyer and from 1885 to Singapore for 16 years . From 1901 Witthoefft continued to work in Hamburg for Arnold Otto Meyer, of which he was a partner.
In the twenties Witthoefft became chairman of the supervisory board of Commerzbank and he was president of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce from 1919 to 1923 . From January 19, 1919 to May 21, 1920 Witthoefft was a member of the DVP in the Weimar National Assembly . In 1919 he became a member of the business association for the promotion of intellectual reconstruction forces , which provided the capital for the press empire of Alfred Hugenberg . From November 1924 until its dissolution in December 1933, Witthoefft was president of the Übersee-Club in Hamburg, which promoted free trade .
Witthoefft was a member of the Hamburg citizenship for his party throughout the Weimar Republic . From April 5, 1928 to September 15, 1931, Witthoefft was Senator in the Hamburg Senate as the successor to Max Schramm for the DVP. In 1931, during the economic crisis, the Hamburg Senate was reduced from 16 to 12 members and Witthoefft left the Senate again. He later became a member of the NSDAP .
In November 1932 he was one of the signatories of a petition from industrialists and bankers to Paul von Hindenburg calling for Hitler's chancellorship . In 1932 he became a member of the Keppler Circle, later the Friends of the Reichsführer SS .
He was a member of the supervisory board of C. Lorenz AG .
literature
- Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Frankfurt am Main 2005, p. 682
- Ursula Büttner : Political new beginning in difficult times . State Center for Political Education, Hamburg 1994.
- Anne Lena Meyer: Franz Heinrich Witthoefft, businessman . In: Olaf Matthes / Ortwin Pelc : People in the Revolution. Hamburg portraits 1918/19. Husum Verlag, Husum 2018, ISBN 978-3-89876-947-1 , pp. 195–197.
Web links
- Literature by and about Franz Heinrich Witthoefft in the catalog of the German National Library
- Newspaper article about Franz Heinrich Witthoefft in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
- Franz Heinrich Witthoefft in the database of members of the Reichstag
Individual evidence
- ↑ The President of our Chamber of Commerce from 1665 until today. (No longer available online.) Hamburg Chamber of Commerce, archived from the original on April 16, 2014 ; accessed on March 29, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Henning Timpke (Ed.): Gleichschalt des Landes Hamburgs . Frankfurt am Main 1964; Information in the list of persons on page 327.
- ↑ Handbook of Deutsche Aktien-Gesellschaft 1932, Volume 2, p. 2222.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Witthoefft, Franz Heinrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Witthoeft, Franz Heinrich; Witthöft, Franz Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German banker, Hamburg senator and politician (NSDAP, DVP), Member of the Bundestag |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 19, 1863 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kirchwerder |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 6, 1941 |
| Place of death | Lütjensee , Trittau Office |