Gotthard Sachsenberg
Gotthard Sachsenberg (born December 6, 1891 in Roßlau ; † August 23, 1961 in Bremen ) was a German naval officer , most recently corvette captain as well as entrepreneur and politician ( economic party ).
Life
(2) Gotthard Sachsenberg (in the white jacket) with comrades (September 1918).
Gotthard Sachsenberg was the son of the secret commercial councilor Dr.-Ing. hc Gotthard Sachsenberg sen. After graduating from elementary school, attending secondary schools in Dessau and Schnepfenthal and graduating from secondary school in Eisenach in 1913 , he initially studied economics. Shortly thereafter, on April 1, he joined the Imperial Navy as a midshipman , completed his basic and on-board training on the training ship SMS Hertha and was then assigned to the naval school.
When the First World War broke out, he was initially deployed on board the liner SMS Pommern . In September 1914 he volunteered for service with the Marine Fliegerkorps as an observer and completed an observer training in Johannisthal and a fighter pilot training at the single-seat combat school in Mannheim from December 1914 to October 1915 . On October 14, 1915, he was promoted to lieutenant at sea and used as an observer and fighter pilot for the Flanders Naval Air Force . In 1917/18 Sachsenberg was the commander of the Flanders Navy Fighter Wing (Kampfgeschwader Sachsenberg), which he founded. For his military achievements he was awarded the Iron Cross of both classes, the Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern with Swords and, after his 15th victory in the air on August 5, 1918, the highest Prussian honorary award, the Order Pour le Mérite .
After the end of the war, the Sachsenberg squadron fought in Latvia on the side of the Latvian independence movement for Kārlis Ulmanis . Sachsenberg supported the use of Junkers aircraft, after which he received 30 Junkers J 9 and 15 J 10 machines .
He resigned from military service in October 1919 and was the founder and head of Ostdeutsche Landwerkstätten GmbH (OLA) in Seerappen in 1920/21 , which was supposed to facilitate the transition to civil professions, primarily to craftsmen and farmers. At the same time, he acted from November 1919 until the company was dissolved in April 1921 as managing director of Lloyd Ostflug GmbH in Königsberg, founded by Junkers, Albatros and Norddeutscher Lloyd . From 1921 he worked for Professor Hugo Junkers in the field of the organization of German and international aviation, initially as an administrative clerk, later as director of the aviation department. After the nationalization of Junkers-Luftverkehrs AG , he headed the sales department of the Dessau Junkers Flugzeugwerke in Berlin . He was also a member of the supervisory board of Oberschlesischen Luftverkehrs AG.
Sachsenberg joined the economic party in the 1920s . In the Reichstag election in May 1928 , he was elected to the German Reichstag for the economic party. Sachsenberg was a member of the Reichstag until July 1932 , at times also as a member of the transport committee. In parliament he represented the constituencies of Breslau and Liegnitz .
From 1934 he managed the family-owned shipyard Gebrüder Sachsenberg AG in Roßlau (Elbe). On July 7, 1934, he was arrested on the orders of Reich Aviation Minister Hermann Göring and then interned for several weeks in the Lichtenburg concentration camp. After the outbreak of World War II , his management authority was revoked because he had refused to convert the company to war production.
In the early 1940s, Sachsenberg acted as managing director of the Sachsenberg subsidiary Land- und See-Leichtbau GmbH based in Berlin. He was also a member of the supervisory board of Gebrüder Sachsenberg AG and Deutsche Vacuum Oel AG in Hamburg .
On February 1, 1941 he was placed at the disposal of the Navy with the rank of lieutenant commander and was subsequently u. a. worked as a technical expert in the foreign / defense office and as head of the front repair works in Nikolayev .
After the war ended in 1945, Sachsenberg moved to West Germany and, together with a former Junkers employee, devoted himself to setting up various companies, including the construction of hydrofoils in Switzerland and Bremen. In addition, he was the initiator of the German Green Cross and co-founder of the Biological Working Group in Lich , today's BAG Health Care GmbH. Sachsenberg died on August 23, 1961 in Bremen of complications from a heart disease.
Foundation, endowment
The Hans Peter, Klaus Sachsenberg Foundation was renamed the Gotthard Sachsenberg Foundation in 1972 in his memory . The chairmen of the board were successively Wilhelm Sachsenberg (1904–1996), Gert Sachsenberg (1924–2001) and Klaus Joachim Sachsenberg (1927–2011).
literature
- Hans Bongers : It was in the air. Memories from five decades of air traffic. Düsseldorf / Vienna 1971.
- Association for the promotion of the Lauenburger Elbschiffahrtmuseum e. V .: Ernst Wilhelm Dietze. A pioneer in river shipbuilding. Lauenburg 1987.
- Karl-Friedrich Hildebrand, Christian Zweng: The knights of the order Pour le Mérite of the First World War. Volume 3: P – Z, Biblio Verlag, Bissendorf 2011, ISBN 3-7648-2586-3 , pp. 172-174
See also
Web links
- Literature by and about Gotthard Sachsenberg in the catalog of the German National Library
- Gotthard Sachsenberg in the database of members of the Reichstag
- Short biography in the files of the Reich Chancellery , accessed on February 14, 2009
- Gotthard Sachsenberg as a naval aviator , accessed on February 14, 2009
- Report by a member of the International Hydrofoil Society about Gotthard Sachsenberg's work for hydrofoil development , accessed on February 14, 2009
Individual evidence
- ^ Gotthard Sachsenberg - German politician. In: peoplepill.com. Retrieved January 10, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sachsenberg, Gotthard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German naval officer, entrepreneur and politician (economic party), MdR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 6, 1891 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rosslau |
| DATE OF DEATH | 23rd August 1961 |
| Place of death | Bremen |