Georg Keidel
Georg Keidel (born October 27, 1875 in Philippsburg , † March 20, 1957 on the train between Bruchsal and Karlsruhe) was a German farmer and agricultural functionary.
Life
Georg Keidel came from an old farming family in Baden. His father was the agricultural director of the Waghäusel sugar factory . He attended the secondary school in Heilbronn . After his first practical agricultural activities in northern and southern Germany, he studied agriculture at the Hohenheim Agricultural University and became a member of the Corps Germania Hohenheim . He graduated as a qualified farmer. He then traveled to the province of Poznan , Bohemia and Switzerland for study purposes. He found his first job as an agricultural clerk at the Waghäusel sugar factory. In 1915 he became general director of the Hungarian-German Agricultural Corporation based in Budapest , a company with 30,000 hectares of land and 23,000 head of cattle.
In 1926 Keidel returned to Baden and became President of the Association of Baden Agricultural Cooperatives in Karlsruhe . In 1929 he merged the previously separate associations in the north and south of Baden. He was a board member of the Baden Chamber of Agriculture and the Mannheim Product Exchange and was a member of the State Railway Council. He was a member of the supervisory boards of Regeno Lebensversicherungsbank AG and Regeno insurance companies of the Reich Association of German Agricultural Cooperatives AG, both based in Berlin.
After the National Socialist seizure of power , he refused to join the NSDAP. As a result, he was removed from office and temporarily detained. After the end of the Second World War he was again President of the Association of Agricultural Cooperatives in Baden and was a member of the boards of the Mannheimer Milchzentrale AG and the German Cooperative Fund in Frankfurt am Main .
The Lord Mayor of Freiburg, Eugen Keidel, and Walter Keidel , the chairman of the Central Cooperative of the Raiffeisen Karlsruhe, were his sons.
Awards
- Dr. agr. hc from the Hohenheim Agricultural University
- Great Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany , 1952
- Golden Raiffeisen Medal from the German Raiffeisen Association
literature
- Keidel, Georg. In: Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 1: A-K. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, DNB 453960286 , p. 900.
- Georg Keidel in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
Individual evidence
- ^ Address list of the Weinheimer SC. 1928, p. 201.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Keidel, Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German farmer and agricultural official |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 27, 1875 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Philippsburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 20, 1957 |
| Place of death | between Bruchsal and Karlsruhe |