Hans Avé-Lallemant

Hans Avé-Lallemant (born July 15, 1888 in San Cristóbal , Venezuela , † May 4, 1945 in Berlin ) was a German company director. From 1922 he was second director, from 1936 chairman of the board of Feldmühle Papier- und Zellstoffwerke Aktiengesellschaft .

Life

His father Johannes Avé-Lallemant (* 1855; † 1911) was a Hamburg merchant who worked in Venezuela. His mother, Ana Maria Boué, was a Venezuelan, daughter of a businessman. Hans Avé-Lallemant grew up in Venezuela and later attended the Johanneum Scholars' School in Hamburg and the Friedrichsgymnasium in Breslau . After a commercial apprenticeship in Hamburg and military service as a one-year volunteer in 1909/1910 with the Dragoon Regiment "King Friedrich III." No. 8 in Oels , he gained international experience as a commercial volunteer in Paris and in the USA .

In 1912 he took up a position at the Vulcan shipyard in Hamburg , but in 1913 he switched to the Vulcan shipyard in Stettin as an authorized signatory . During the First World War he served as a reserve lieutenant from 1914 to 1916 and was awarded the Iron Cross 1st class . In the summer of 1916, however, he returned to his position at the Vulcan shipyard in Stettin, where he remained until 1922.

In 1922 he became the second director of Feldmühle Papier- und Zellstoffwerke Aktiengesellschaft , the largest German paper manufacturer at the time, based in Stettin. In 1936 he became the company's CEO. He was also Venezuela's Honorary Consul in Szczecin from 1923 . In 1938, Feldmühle moved the company's headquarters from Stettin to Berlin. During the Second World War Avé-Lallemant was awarded the War Merit Cross 1st Class and the Knight's Cross 1st Class of the Order of the Lion of Finland .

Hans Avé-Lallemant was first married to Else Nebel, the daughter of a medical councilor. After her death in 1923 he married Waldlieb von Ramin, daughter of Eduard von Ramin from the Pomeranian noble family von Ramin . From 1925 to 1938 Avé-Lallemant lived with his family in Brunn near Stettin in the Ramin mansion, the so-called Brunn Palace. In 1938 he moved with his family from Brunn to Berlin-Dahlem .

In Berlin, towards the end of the Second World War, Hans Avé-Lallemant was shot by plundering Red Army soldiers . His widow survived him by almost 50 years. His son Eberhard Avé-Lallemant became a private lecturer in philosophy in Munich.

literature

• Eckhard Wendt: Stettiner Lebensbilder (= publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania . Series V, Volume 40). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-412-09404-8 , pp. 41–42.