Franz Henkel

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August 1946: Facsimile signatures for the “ Council of the Capital of Hanover” from Lord Mayor Franz Henkel (left) and Senior City Director Gustav Bratke

Franz Wilhelm Henkel (born March 19, 1882 in Oschersleben , † June 14, 1959 in Ilten ) was a German businessman , local politician and Lord Mayor of Hanover .

Life

Born during the founding of the German Empire in 1882 in the district town of Oschersleben in what was then the Kingdom of Prussia , Franz Henkel lived in Hanover from 1893 and attended various public schools in Sarstedt and Hanover . He then completed an apprenticeship as a technical businessman.

Letterhead with a bird's eye view of the historic site of the Orpil soap factory with two sidings and freight wagons between the factory halls and reference to the port of Linden

In 1912, Henkel and a partner , who left the company after a short time, founded Henkel & Co. in Linden , which initially mainly produced detergents , curd soap and floor care products and later also operated as the Orpil soap factory .

After the First World War, Franz Henkel founding member of the 1918 incurred was German Democratic Party (DDP) and was responsible for the entire duration of the Weimar Republic, a member of the Executive Board of the party until its dissolution after the seizure of power in 1933 by the Nazis . In the period of National Socialism that followed, Henkel was arrested and mistreated several times.

Pre-printed signatures of the Hanoverian Lord Mayor and the City Director Bratke under a certificate of “honorary duty fulfilled” for the removal of rubble ,
form from August 1946, Verlag Th. Schäfer

According to the city of Hanover's address book from 1942, Franz Henkel lived in the building at Lüerstraße 8 in what was then the Hindenburg district and now the Zoo district during the Second World War and the air raids that followed soon after . He was also the owner of two buildings at the former address Dincklagestrasse 1A and 2 , where the sculptor August Waterbeck was one of his tenants. But the offices of the Orpil soap factory, which were also located there, were in almost the immediate vicinity of the NSDAP - Gauleitung Süd-Hannover-Braunschweig .

After the world war, which ended in Hanover after the invasion of American troops before the capitulation of the Third Reich , Franz Henkel already participated in April 1945 - together with Kurt Pentzlin , Christian Kuhlemann and Hans-Joachim Fricke - as a contact person for the British military government the rapid rebuilding of the economy. In April 1945, Henkel was appointed to the main committee for reconstruction .

Also in 1945, Henkel, as a representative of what was now Orpil-Seifen-Werk Dr. Wirth & Co., Inh. Franz Henkel, Hanover , in particular commissioned with the establishment of the Hanover Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IHK), as its President he then served from 1945 to 1953. From 1953 to 1959 he then served as an honorary member of the IHK presidium.

Also in 1945, Franz Henkel was elected first chairman of the Lower Saxony state association in the newly founded Free Democratic Party (FDP) . He was also a member of the board of the German Peace Society and the League for Human Rights in Hanover.

As set up by the British military government councilor Franz Henkel worked from January to October 1946, first as mayor of Hannover until May 1947 then only as deputy mayor, having already April 20, 1947 Member of appointed Hanoverian Landtag had become, later Lower Saxony Landtag , and there, until the end of the 1st electoral period on April 30, 1951, he performed the duties of deputy parliamentary group leader of the FDP.

The state parliament elected Henkel as a member of the first federal assembly , which elected Theodor Heuss as federal president in 1949 .

Franz Henkel died in Ilten in 1959.

Honors

  • 1952: Cross of Merit (Steckkreuz) of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • 1953: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

literature

Web links

Commons : Franz Henkel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Klaus Mlynek: Henkel, Franz Wilhelm , in: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present . Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 164 u. ö.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Barbara Simon (arrangement): Henkel, Franz , in this .: Members of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994: Biographisches Handbuch, ed. by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament, 1996, p. 155
  3. ^ A b Franz B. Döpper : Orpil soap factory Dr. Wirth GmbH + Co. KG , in Franz B. Döpper: Hanover and its old companies. Edited by the Association of German Economic Historians. Pro Historica, Hamburg 1984, ISBN 3-89146-002-3 , p. 123
  4. ↑ a b c Compare the Hanover address book from 1941: Part II, p. 54
  5. ^ Klaus Mlynek: Second World War. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , pp. 694f.
  6. ^ Klaus Mlynek: Hindenburg, Paul von Beneckendorff uv In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 296
  7. ^ Klaus Mlynek: Second World War. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 994f.
  8. ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Pentzlin, Kurt. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 281; online through google books
  9. ↑ Albert Lefèvre: Personal data , in ders .: 100 years Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Hanover. Order and fulfillment , Wiesbaden: baco-Verlag für Wirtschaftspublizistik H. Bartels KG, 1966, pp. 237–268; here: pp. 239, 242
personal data
SURNAME Henkel, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Henkel, Franz Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (DDP, FDP), Member of the State Parliament, Lord Mayor of Hanover
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Oschersleben
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 1959
Place of death Ilten