Fritz Dettmann (politician)

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Fritz Dettmann , actually: Friedrich Dettmann (born October 15, 1880 in Güstrow , † December 12, 1965 in Düsseldorf ; full name Friedrich Heinrich Theodor Ludwig Dettmann ) was a German entrepreneur and politician ( DNVP ).

Life and work

Friedrich (called Fritz) Dettmann was born on October 15, 1880 as the son of a master carpenter in Güstrow. After attending the secondary school in Güstrow up to the sub-prime , he completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter in his father's company in Güstrow from 1896 and a commercial apprenticeship in wood shops in Güstrow and Lübeck from 1897 . He last worked there as a works foreman.

In 1901 Dettmann joined his father's construction and carpentry business, and he became its manager in 1905. In 1906 he became a co-owner of the resulting Güstrow company, Hanns Böckmann & Co. He held this position until 1917, and from 1909 he was also a member of the board. During this time, the company developed into a semi-industrial door and window factory. In 1913, Dettmann founded a part of the company which, at the beginning of the First World War, mainly manufactured prefabricated wooden houses that were used as barracks and living barracks.

Dettmann got involved in the Güstrow local health insurance fund and established a foundation with which he financially supported the construction of workers' housing estates from 1910 to 1914. The former district of Güstrow-Dettmannsdorf, where new houses were built through pre-financing, was named after him.

In May 1914 Dettmann married the daughter of a merchant, Anna, b. Hirsch (1889–1974). The marriage had three children.

In 1917 Dettmann left the Hanns Böckmann & Co. company. He bought a door and window factory in Schwerin and took over the bankrupt Perzina piano factory. From this he founded the company Deutsche Holzwerke , later Holzwerke Fritz Dettmann , which he managed as owner in the following years. In 1920 he moved the company's headquarters from Güstrow to Schwerin. Two years later he had a large sawmill built in Krakow am See , to which management was again transferred in 1933. During the Second World War , the factories were completely dismantled. At the end of 1945, Dettmann began rebuilding the sawmills, which had to pay repairs over the next three years . From 1948 he expanded production to include furniture.

Dettmann, whose company was now in the Soviet occupation zone or later the GDR , lost its economic existence in the following years. The Deutsche Holzwerke in Schwerin were expropriated in 1948 , his loans were terminated and the newly built company in Güstrow was nationalized. In 1953 he fled to West Berlin . There he looked after other GDR refugees in the Berlin-Charlottenburg church district until 1959 . In 1959 he moved to Düsseldorf, two years later to an old people's home in Benrath . There he died on December 12, 1965 at the age of 85.

politics

During the time of the German Empire (from 1905) Dettmann was a member of the Christian Social Party (CSP), which in 1918 became part of the German National People's Party (DNVP). After the founding of the DNVP, he was elected to the closer state executive committee for Mecklenburg-Schwerin . From 1919 to 1926 he was a member of the Mecklenburg-Schwerin state parliament and city ​​councilor in Güstrow.

From July 28, 1920 to January 12, 1921, Dettmann was Minister of State for Finance in the Reincke-Bloch cabinet of the Free State of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. The country's economic affairs also fell into his portfolio. He also played a key role in the church struggle in Mecklenburg in connection with the Confessing Church .

In 1945 Dettmann was one of the founders of the CDU in the Güstrow district and represented the party in the district council from 1946 to 1950 .

literature

  • Michael Buddrus , Sigrid Fritzlar: State governments and ministers in Mecklenburg 1871–1952. A biographical lexicon. Edition Temmen , Bremen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8378-4044-5 , page 118 f.
  • Helge bei der Wieden : The Mecklenburg Governments and Ministers 1918–1952. (= Writings on Mecklenburg History, Culture and Regional Studies , Volume 1.) 2nd, supplemented edition, Böhlau, Cologne et al. 1978, ISBN 3-412-05578-6 , p. 43.
  • Our Mecklenburg, Heimatblatt for Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania , ISSN  0173-7333 , No. 171 of November 25, 1962.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Dettmann, Friedrich. In: Michael Buddrus, Sigrid Fritzlar: State governments and ministers in Mecklenburg 1871–1952. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2012, p. 118.
  2. ↑ a b Dettmann, Friedrich. In: Michael Buddrus, Sigrid Fritzlar: State governments and ministers in Mecklenburg 1871–1952. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2012, p. 119.
personal data
SURNAME Dettmann, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dettmann, Friedrich (real name); Dettmann, Friedrich Heinrich Theodor Ludwig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneurs and politicians (DNVP)
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Guestrow
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1965
Place of death Dusseldorf