Gustav Wilhelm Harmssen

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Gustav Wilhelm Harmssen (born March 26, 1890 in Bremen , † May 19, 1970 in Bremen) was an industrial clerk and Senator from Bremen .

biography

education and profession

Harmssen attended secondary school in Bremen. He completed a business apprenticeship and became an industrial clerk. He was director from 1933 and from 1942 board member of Atlas-Werke AG Bremen . From 1954 he became chairman of the board at Atlaswerke.

politics

From 1945 until his resignation in 1953, Harmssen was a semi-official Senator for economic issues and foreign trade in the Bremen Senates Vagts , Kaisen I , Kaisen I , Kaisen II , Kaisen III and Kaisen IV . He was a competent and successful critic of the dismantling policy of the post-war period. In 1949 he became a representative of Bremen in the Federal Council . Harmssen was initially independent, then from 1948 a member of the BDV , which had been part of the FDP since 1948 .

Further offices and memberships

Harmssen was a plenary member of the Bremen Chamber of Commerce from 1945 to 1959 and consul general of Sweden from 1952 . In addition, he was chairman of the supervisory board of the jute spinning and weaving mill in Bremen, founded by Albert Haasemann in 1888, as well as in the executive and supervisory bodies of the Bremen Kunsthalle , the Deutscher Werkbund , the Theater Bremen GmbH , the Bremer Lagerhaus Gesellschaft , the Stadtwerke Bremen AG and others. a. of the Association for Public Pools in Bremen.

He was a commercial member of the Haus Seefahrt Foundation since 1946.

Honors

  • According to him, was Senator Harmssen Street in current named.

See also

literature

  • Theodor Spitta: New beginning on ruins . R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-486-55938-9
  • Horst Adamietz: The first chapter . Bremen citizenship, Bremen 1975.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl H. Schwebel: "Haus Seefahrt" Bremen: his merchants and captains . Krohn, Bremen 1947, p. 76.
personal data
SURNAME Harmssen, Gustav Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman, senator, consul general and politician (BDV, FDP), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH May 19, 1970
Place of death Bremen