Gustav Brecht (business manager)

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Heinrich Theodor Gustav Brecht (born January 9, 1880 in Lübeck , † October 9, 1965 in Bad Wiessee ) was a German mechanical engineer and business leader.

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Gustav's last parents' house in Lübeck

Brecht was the son of Walther Brecht (1841-1909), director of the Lübeck-Büchener railway and member of the Lübeck citizenship, and his wife Regina Erdmuthe Marie (born June 9, 1856 in Weissenfels ; † March 8, 1928 in Berlin ), which one Daughter of Theodor Weishaupt . The couple married on June 11, 1876 in Berlin and had two daughters and two other sons in addition to Gustav, including Arnold .

Brecht attended the humanistic branch of the Katharineum in Lübeck and left school at Easter 1898 with the Abitur (together with Gustav Radbruch and Hermann Link ). From October 1898 to October 1900 he completed a degree in mechanical engineering at the TH Braunschweig . He then served as a one-year infantry volunteer in Weimar . From October 1901 he studied again at the TH Berlin-Charlottenburg . In December 1903 he passed the test for engine drivers at the Royal Prussian Railway Directorate Altona .

In March 1904, Brecht passed the first main examination for government building supervisor in Berlin. On April 17 of the same year, he received the patent and entered the civil service. He then became a graduate engineer at the TH Berlin. From 1904 to 1906 he trained at the Royal Prussian Railway Directorate in Essen and at Siemens-Schuckert in Berlin. In May 1907 he passed the 2nd state examination to become a government architect. He then learned in the private sector and at the Halle Railway Directorate. In 1912 he received a call as an unskilled worker in the Ministry of Public Works . Here he worked on and represented bills for the Prussian state parliament. These were related to the electrification of Berlin's light rail and suburban railways. Both houses of the state parliament approved the drafts in 1913.

During the First World War , Brecht fought on the Western Front in 1914/15 and was taken prisoner. From 1918 he worked for the Reich Economic Office in the field of energy management. There he also worked as a Privy Councilor. From 1920 to 1923 he had a position in the self-governing organization of the German coal industry, at the end of the day he was Deputy Reich Coal Commissioner.

In October 1924, Brecht moved to the delivery commission in Paris . There he was busy with deliveries of coal repairs. The following year he became a member of the board of the Rheinische AG for lignite mining and briquette production (RAG). A little later he took over the chairmanship of the board. In the course of the takeover of the majority of shares by Rheinisch-Westfälische Elektrizitätswerke, Brecht was committed to ensuring that the interests of free shareholders were taken into account.

In 1934 the RAG became a founding member of the Braunkohle-Petrol AG (BRABAG). Brecht created the distribution key for the shares and was a leading member of the company's supervisory board . As one of the main initiators, he took part in the construction of the hydrogenation plant in Wesseling and the establishment of Union Rheinische Braunkohlen fuel AG (UK), where he took over the chairmanship of the supervisory board in 1937. After the end of the Second World War , Brecht was imprisoned for a long time by the Allies for employing forced labor in the Wesseling hydrogenation plant. In 1947 he was reappointed to the UK supervisory board. Later he was on the supervisory boards of Bayer AG , Agfa AG and again at BRABAG.

Since the marriage on April 11, 1912 in Brussels, Brecht was married to Norah Deppe (born April 8, 1888 in Antwerp , † November 19, 1969 in Bad Wiessee). The couple had three sons.

literature

  • Reichs Handbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft - The handbook of personalities in words and pictures . First volume, Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, ISBN 3-598-30664-4
  • Hedwig Seebacher: Brecht, Gustav . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 7. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1985, pp. 30-31.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hedwig Seebacher: Brecht, Walther . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 7. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1985, p. 32.
  2. ^ Hermann Genzken: The Abitur graduates of the Katharineum zu Lübeck (grammar school and secondary school) from Easter 1807 to 1907. Borchers, Lübeck 1907 ( digitized version ), no. 1071
  3. ↑ Helmut Maier: Community research, authorized representatives and knowledge transfer. The role of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in the system of war-relevant research under National Socialism. Wallstein Verlag, 2007, p. 477.
  4. ^ Hans-Christoph Seidel: The Ruhr mining in the Second World War. Collieries, miners, forced laborers. Klartext Verlag, 2010, p. 156 and 621.
  5. ↑ Jens Adamski: Forced Labor in the Mine. Klartext verlag, 2005, p. 351 f.
  6. ↑ From the company , Die Zeit of March 27, 1952, accessed on July 18, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Brecht, Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brecht, Heinrich Theodor Gustav (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mechanical engineer and business leader
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 1965
Place of death Bad Wiessee