Günther Wever

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Günther Wever (born September 25, 1920 in Berlin-Steglitz ; † August 19, 2004 in Essen ) was a German fighter pilot, lawyer , lawyer and industry manager (as director of Preussag AG ).

Life

Günther Wever was the first of the two sons of General Walther Wever and his wife Hertha geb. Suadicani. Wever passed his Abitur at the grammar school in Berlin-Zehlendorf . After his labor service he joined the Air Force as a flag junior and was promoted to lieutenant in 1940 . He came to Northern France for Destroyer Squadron 2, where he participated in the beginning of the Battle of Britain in early August 1940 . A car accident brought him to the headquarters of the V Flieger Corps for a short stay in the hospital. In the spring of 1941 he was transferred to Destroyer Squadron 26, where he took part in the Balkans and Crete campaigns as adjutant of Group II and, from June 1941, the Russian campaign . In 1942 he came, meanwhile promoted to lieutenant , as a teacher at the Luftkriegsschule 2 in Berlin-Gatow . In 1943 he was assigned to the command staff of the Luftwaffenkommando Mitte - later the Reich Air Fleet - in Berlin as an orderly officer .

From the summer semester of 1946, he first studied philosophy and then law at the University of Würzburg . After his first state examination in law in Würzburg, he did a legal clerkship in the higher regional court district of Hamm (mostly in Essen), which he completed in 1953 with the assessor examination at the State Justice Examination Office in Düsseldorf.

Professional career

From 1953 he was a legal assistant at the Association of Public Transport Companies, today's Association of German Transport Companies , based in Essen. In 1956 he switched to Bochumer Bergbau AG as a lawyer . After the coal mines in the Bochum area had been closed, he applied to the Preussische Bergwerks- und Hütten AG ( Preussag ) , the first public limited company , where he took up the position of legal counsel for the coal mines in Ibbenbüren in 1961 . In 1965 he was transferred to the company's headquarters in Hanover . As director of Preussag, he was in charge of the entire board secretariat. In 1985 he retired.

family

Günther Wever married Ingeborg Ballas, daughter of the lawyer, notary and in-house officer of Friedrich Krupp AG Walter Ballas and his wife Edith geb. Lingenbrink. The marriage has two children.

Awards

literature

  • Walther Wever: Family Chronicle. Volume 1. 4th edition, Barsinghausen 2007.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Petroleum & Coal, Natural Gas, Petrochemical , German Society for Mineral Oil Science and Coal Chemistry, Industrieverlag von Hernhaussen KG., 1981, p. 276
personal data
SURNAME Wever, Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German fighter pilot, lawyer, attorney and industry manager
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Steglitz
DATE OF DEATH August 19, 2004
Place of death eat