Hans Berckemeyer

Hans Berckemeyer (1893/94)

Berckemeyer coat of arms

Hans Berckemeyer (born December 29, 1873 in Zbirow ; † July 19, 1957 in Berlin-Lankwitz ) was a German industrial lawyer in the mining industry .

Life

His father Hermann Berckemeyer (1835–1903) came from Tecklenburg and was general director of the Schwerter iron industry and a member of the Dortmund Chamber of Commerce. Berckemeyer studied law at the Philipps University of Marburg , the Georg-August University of Göttingen , the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and the University of Leipzig . He became a member of the Corps Hasso-Nassovia (1894), the Corps Hildeso-Guestphalia Göttingen (1894) and the Corps Rhenania Bonn (1896). Hasso-Nassovia and Rhenania Bonn later awarded him honorary membership.

After passing the legal traineeship in 1899 and becoming a Dr. iur. doctorate was, he was in 1904 after the Second exam Gerichtsassessor . With Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks-AG since 1903 , he became legal advisor in 1904 and director of Hibernia AG in 1905 . From 1913 to 1929 and from 1934 to 1937 he was general director and chairman of the board of the Oberschlesische Kokswerke und Chemischen Fabriken AG in Berlin . For decades he played a key role in the coke works and their subsidiaries. He wanted to expand the Upper Silesian industrial area to compete with the West German coal and chemical companies.

In 1903 Berckemeyer married Agnes Bröckelmann from Neheim . They had three sons, including Hermann († 1971), a leather manufacturer in Mülheim an der Ruhr , who had owned Wilhelmsburg Castle (Barchfeld) since 1938 .

From 1911/12 Berckemeyer sat in the Provincial Parliament of Westphalia. Before the Reichstag election in 1920 , the German People's Party wanted to win over voters from the German Democratic Party . Since this affected many Jews , Berckemeyer, Reichstag candidate of the DVP, demanded in a letter to Gustav Stresemann a clear distance from anti-Semitism . It would mean "thousands of voters and, above all, huge funds".

From 1922 he sat on the supervisory board of Schering-Kahlbaum AG ; from 1937 to 1945 he was chairman of the supervisory board of the new Schering AG . In the coal mine Concordia he was general manager and chairman .

In 1932 he married Ellen Steck. As a widower, he entered into his third marriage with Ilse Keller in 1950.

He found his final resting place in the Lichterfelde park cemetery .

Supervisory boards

According to documents in the Corps Hasso-Nassovia archive

Chairman

• Schering AG
• Upper Silesian Coke Works and Chemical Factories AG
• Lower Silesian Mining Company , Neuweißstein
• Mining company Concordia AG , Oberhausen
• Borsig-Kokswerke AG , Hindenburg
• Hedwigshütte Kohlen- und Kokswerke AG , Berlin-Stettin
• Tar Products Association of the East, Berlin
• Benzol-Vereinigung des Ostens GmbH, Berlin
• Alpine Chemische AG , Kufstein- Schaftenau
• Carl Coethen GmbH, Greiffenberg
• Duco AG , Berlin-Spindlersfeld
• Katag AG , Bielefeld

Deputy Chairman

• Berlin trading company
• Voigtländer & Sohn AG , Braunschweig
• Pfeilring-Werke AG , Berlin-Charlottenburg

member

• Mining trading company Prague
• Montania trading company for fuels, Berlin-Charlottenburg
• Reichskraftsprit , Berlin
• W. Spindler AG , Berlin-Spindlersfeld
• German Nitrogen Syndicate , Berlin
• Westfälisch-Anhaltische Sprengstoff AG , Berlin

Honorary positions

According to the Corps Hasso-Nassovia archive

• Treasurer of the Reichsgruppe Industrie
• Reich economic judge
• Judge at the court of honor of the Reich Association of German Hunters
• Member of the board of trustees of the Silesian Coal Research Institute of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society
• Member of the Academy for German Law
• Member of the board of directors of the House of German Art
• Member of the Board of Trustees of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
• Member of the Economic Council of the German Academy
• Member of the administrative committee of the Deutsches Museum
• Member of the board of trustees of Deutsche Sporthilfe
• Member of the Reich Committee for Art and Economy

Honors

• Dr.-Ing. E. h. of the Technical University of Wroclaw (1926)
• Honorary citizen of the TH Berlin

literature

• Christopher Kobrak: National Cultures and International Competition. The Experience of Schering AG, 1851-1950 . Cambridge University Press 2002, online version
• Irmtrud Wojak, Peter Hayes: "Aryanization" in National Socialism: Volksgemeinschaft, Raub und Gedächtnis , 2000, online version
• Obituary . Hasso-Nassovia corps newspaper 55, p. 55
• Obituary . Corps newspaper of Hasso-Nassovia 56, p. 43

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Archives Corps Hasso-Nassovia
2. ↑ Berckemeyer-Billmann, Amalie (ed.), History of the Berckemeyer Family, 1385-1929, Osnabrück, 1929 - Volume II: Family Tables. He is also related to the Lauenburg landowner Ernst Philipp Berckemeyer and Felipe de Osma Berckemeyer, the father of Alessandra de Osma, married. from Hanover .
3. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 99/609; 44/213; 12/615
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Christopher Kobrak, 2002
5. ↑ Rudolph Adolph, Rheinische Collector, Bibliophile Profile, Volume 4, 1961, p. 25.
6. ↑ Josef Häming: The Members of the Westphalia Parliament 1826–1978 , 1978, p. 179
7. ^ Concordia colliery (Albert Gieseler)
8. ↑ Dr. Hans Berckemeyer. Friedparks.de, accessed on December 3, 2012.