Gerd Beug

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Gerd Friedrich Carl Beug (born April 23, 1882 in Stralsund ; † February 1, 1961 in Marburg ) was a German engineer and industrialist.

Life

Gerd Beug was the son of the Stralsund ship owner, businessman, factory owner and Norwegian Vice Consul Carl August Beug and his wife Clara Biener. After graduating from high school in Stralsund at Easter 1901, he completed practical training in the railway workshops in Eberswalde, Kattowitz, Magdeburg-Buckau, Stralsund, Zerbst, Dessau and Kiel. From 1902 to 1907 he studied engineering at the Technical Universities of Berlin-Charlottenburg and Danzig, and from 1905 at the philosophical faculty of the University of Kiel. In 1902 he became a member of the Corps Guestphalia in Berlin . In 1905 he joined the Corps Holsatia in Kiel . After completing his studies at TH Danzig as a Dipl.-Ing. In 1907 he joined the company C. A. Beug founded by his grandfather Jacob Carl August Beug in Stralsund as co-owner and head of the iron foundry and machine works department . Together with his brother Karl Friedrich Beug , he ran the company until it was confiscated by the Soviet military administration in Germany in March 1948.

Gerd Beug was 2nd deputy chairman and treasurer of the Association of the German Agricultural Machinery Industry and a member of the board of the German Agricultural Society's equipment committee. Since 1936 he was the Royal Swedish Vice Consul.

In April 1948 Gerd Beug was arrested without giving any reason. In July 1949 he was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Soviet military tribunal in Greifswald on charges of crimes against humanity, which was reduced to 15 years by an amnesty. On Boxing Day 1955 he was released early from the Bautzen correctional facility and lived with his daughter until his death. Beug was married on September 17, 1909 to Anna Charlotte Gronow, the daughter of Ernst August Friedrich Gronow .

Awards

The Corps Guestphalia Berlin made Gerd Beug an honorary member on June 23, 1956.

Fonts

  • History of the little circle of high school primary students in Stralsund from 1874 to 1924 . 1924 (together with Rudolf Knütter)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 75/395
  2. Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 4/222
  3. Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 81/465
  4. Martin Holz: Evacuates, refugees and displaced persons on the island of Rügen 1943-1961 . P. 92
  5. a b Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 2/223

Friedrich Prüser , Thomas Achelis: List of members Corps Holsatia 1813–1963 , 356, 955