Fritz Sureth

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Fritz Sureth (right)

Fritz Sureth (born December 1, 1897 in Solingen , † January 5, 1978 in Kiel ) was a German businessman, economic expert and politician.

Life

Sureth first attended the secondary school in Hamborn . Between the two world wars, after completing a commercial apprenticeship and preparatory assistance in industry, he worked as a factory director, bank advisor and self-employed businessman in Berlin. During the Second World War he was used as Corvette Captain MA in the reserve, among other things as commander of a naval artillery unit on the Black Sea coast. After the Second World War he was first head of the district office of Travemünde . In February 1946 he was appointed head of the Schleswig-Holstein Agriculture Office under the British military government . From 1947 to 1965 he worked in the Ministry of Economics and Transport of the State of Schleswig-Holstein, where he rose from state director to state secretary from 1952 under the economics minister Hermann Böhrnsen (CDU). He shaped the economic development of the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein and structured its banking system through the newly founded Landesbank and Girozentrale Schleswig-Holstein in cooperation with the other development banks in the state, such as the Economic Development Fund (WAK) , which is important for housing construction , today Investitionsbank Schleswig-Holstein , or the Lübeck ship mortgage bank, which is so important for the state's shipbuilding industry .

Fritz Sureth represented the state of Schleswig-Holstein in its important participation and influence interests, for example on the Howaldtswerke supervisory board as deputy chairman (1959–1966) and as a member of the board of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Zeitungsgemes Bauen eV (1948–1952 and 1954–1956). The chairman of the Association of German Shipowners, Prof. Rolf Stödter, commented on Sureth:

“Finally, Fritz Sureth from Kiel was a personality of special proportions and a unique charisma, first state director, then state secretary in Schleswig-Holstein. With an impetuous forward thrust, with a rare willingness to work and a good sense of proportion for what was feasible in the situation at the time, he achieved some things for the Schleswig-Holstein shipowners (and thus for the shipowners par excellence) and for the shipyards in his area that someone else could hardly have achieved . He really deserves the name 'Lion of Kiel', which I once gave him after a turbulent meeting in Bonn. "

Fritz Sureth was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit with a Star in 1966 after he retired in November 1965 . In retirement in 1966, Prime Minister Franz Meyers hired him to be the representative for the Ruhr area , based in Essen . This obligation was resolved after the constructive vote of no confidence in Meyers by his successor, Prime Minister Heinz Kühn, in 1967.

literature

  • Christian Ostersehlte: From Howaldt to HDW . Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Hamburg 2004, p. 396 ff. ISBN 3-782209168

Web links

Commons : Fritz Sureth  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schleswig-Holstein only introduced the promotion of state secretaries in 1964 under Prime Minister Helmut Lemke . Mirror online
  2. ↑ Gerhard Schneider: Lübeck's banking policy through the ages (1898-1978) , Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1979, p. 221
  3. ↑ Stödter: Fateful Years. P. 213, quoted from Ostersehlte: Von Howaldt zu HDW, p. 396.
personal data
SURNAME Sureth, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician, State Secretary in Schleswig-Holstein
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Solingen
DATE OF DEATH 5th January 1978
Place of death Kiel