Franz Horster

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Franz Horster (born September 9, 1887 in Kerpen , † September 15, 1953 in Wuppertal ) was a German entrepreneur and politician ( center ).

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German Empire (1887 to 1919)

Horster was born the son of the District Court Councilor and Privy Councilor Wilhelm Horster (1852-1928) and his wife Emilie (née Du Mont; 1864-1947). The paternal grandfather, Franz Horster (1813–1889) was a landowner, the maternal grandfather, Johann Michael Hermann Josef Hubert Du Mont (1838–1896), a tobacco manufacturer in Cologne and cousin of the publisher Joseph Du Mont .

After attending elementary school and high school, Horster studied law at the University of Bonn . In 1910 he received his doctorate there. jur. and passed the first state law examination. In parallel to his studies, he completed an apprenticeship at A. Schaaffhausen Bank Association in Bonn .

From 1910 to 1912 Horster worked for the Banque Internationale de Bruxelles , then until 1914 at the London branch of the Dresdner Bank in order to gain international experience and improve his foreign language skills. In 1914 he appeared as Counsel in the firm Basse & Selve in the Sauerland Altena one, part of the non-ferrous metal processing, foundries, rolling mills and wire drawing entertained. At around the same time Horster also became managing director of the Altena Chamber of Commerce. In 1917 Horster married Maria Sonntag (* 1884), a daughter of Konradin von Sonntag (1859–1914), colonel and commander of the 65 Field Artillery Regiment, and Auguste Marie Acker in Stuttgart . The marriage produced a son and a daughter.

Weimar Republic and the National Socialist Period (1919 to 1945)

Horster became politically active in the Catholic Center Party at the latest in the Weimar period . From 1921 to 1924 Horster was a member of the Prussian state parliament . In 1924 he was appointed to the board of Basse & Selve . In 1927 he became general director of Berg-Heckmann-Selve AG, which was created through the takeover of C. Heckmann AG and C. Berg AG. Three years later, in 1930, this was transferred to the " United Deutsche Metallwerke AG ", a step in which Horster was significantly involved. The resulting new large corporation for processing iron, aluminum, copper and nickel moved into its headquarters in Frankfurt am Main in 1934. Within this conglomerate - of which Basse & Selve formed the core - Horster took over the management of the Altena branch of the large company.

On March 30, 1928, Horster entered the third Reichstag of the Weimar Republic, elected in December 1924, in the replacement procedure for the late MP Anton Rheinländer , in which he represented constituency 18 (Westphalia-South) until the new Reichstag election in May 1928. In addition, Horster was also a city councilor in Altena and a functionary of various economic associations, such as the Economic Association of German Brass Works eV, the Association of German Copper Wire Pullers, the Economic Association of Non-Ferrous Metals eV and the special ring for heavy metal processing in the Westphalia-South district.

On May 1, 1937, Horster became a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP).

Post-war period (1945 to 1954)

After the Second World War, Horster played a decisive role in the reconstruction of the German metal industry. In his old age Horster was still a board member of the United Deutsche Metallwerke KG as well as the Federal Association of German Industry (1945–52) and the Presidium of the Nonferrous Metal Association (1951–53). In an obituary, Horster was praised as a man whose work “always placed the general welfare of the economy above individual interests” and in whom German industry had an “exemplary personality [...] [and] a capable entrepreneur [...] [and] clever Consultant “lost.

estate

Horster's estate is now stored in the Westphalian Economic Archive Foundation in North Rhine-Westphalia under the signature N29. It comprises materials from the years 1916 to 1952 and is two boxes in size. It contains correspondence (with Konrad Adenauer , Hermann Pünder and Hermann Josef Abs , among others ), technical records (e.g. on ammunition production in the First World War), a report on a trip to America in 1937, and company history manuscripts on Basse & Selve .

Fonts

  • Increasing the share capital of a public company using the voluntary reserve fund. Bonn 1910, (dissertation)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation 1933-1945. Droste-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1991, ISBN 3-7700-5162-9 , p. 298.
  2. ^ The time of September 24, 1953.
  3. ^ The time of September 24, 1953.

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SURNAME Horster, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneurs and politicians (center), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Kerpen
DATE OF DEATH September 15, 1953
Place of death Wuppertal