Gerhard Beier (Manager)

Gerhard Beier (born January 23, 1920 in Halberstadt ; † May 28, 2006 in Bremen ) was a German manager and chairman of the board of the Bremer Lagerhausgesellschaft (BLG).

biography

Beier graduated from high school and then had to serve as an officer in World War II . After the war he was a dock worker in Bremen. In 1946 he became an employee of the Senator for Ports, Shipping and Transport in Bremen. In the 1950s he took a leading position at the shipping association for the Weser region .

In 1957 he was appointed deputy member of the board of the Bremer Lagerhausgesellschaft (BLG). From 1960 he was then a member of the BLG board. As early as 1962 he became the company's spokesman and in 1970 he was CEO of BLG as a stock corporation. From the 1960s to the 1980s it was - as it was called - "the soul of the ports of Bremen", the motor for port development. At that time , the port senators were Georg Borttscheller (FDP) and Oswald Brinkmann (SPD), with whom he jointly introduced container transport - long before Hamburg - in the Bremen / Bremerhaven port group (Bremen-Neustadt 1964, Bremerhaven 1968 with the Container Terminal Bremerhaven ). He retired in 1985.

Honors

• In 1966 he was the clerk of the merchant class at the Schaffermahlzeit in Bremen.

swell

• Karl Marten Barfuß, Hartmut Müller, Daniel Tilgner (eds.): History of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen from 1945 to 2005 . Volume 2: 1970-1989. Edition Temmen , Bremen 2008, ISBN 978-3-8378-1020-2 .