Hans Louis Ferdinand von Loewenstein zu Loewenstein
Hans Louis Ferdinand von Loewenstein zu Loewenstein (born January 9, 1874 in Hanover ; † February 14, 1959 in Zurich ) was a German manager , politician and member of the Reichstag during the National Socialist era.
origin
His parents were the Prussian major Otto von Loewenstein zu Loewenstein (1835-1909) and his wife Emma von Dehn-Rothfelser (1848-1926), a daughter of District Administrator Otto von Dehn-Rothfelser .
Life
Loewenstein attended secondary school in Giessen and Marburg . He then studied mining at the Philipps University in Marburg and at the Clausthal mining academy . In 1894 he became a member of the Corps Teutonia Marburg . He passed the legal traineeship on July 17, 1897 and the assessor examination on October 15, 1901 . During this time he first worked in the West Recklinghausen mountain area. In 1902 he went to the administration of the Royal Coal Mines in Dortmund. From October 15, 1903, he was a member of the management and in 1906 managing director of the Association for Mining Interests in the Upper Mining District Dortmund (called mining association). In 1908 he became managing director of the Essen Zechenverband Essen . He took part in the First World War as a captain in the Landwehr.
From 1933 to 1937 he was managing director of the Ruhr district group of the coal mining specialist group. In 1938 he retired. He lived in Essen .
family
Loewenstein married Freda von Arnim-Suckow (1882–1942) in Karlsruhe in 1908 , a daughter of Major Theodor von Arnim-Suckow and Kathrine Hall Winsloe . The couple had two sons and two daughters.
politics
Loewenstein was a member of the DNVP . In 1919 he became a member of the business association for the promotion of intellectual reconstruction forces , which was secretly an important financier for the right-wing Hugenberg Group . In 1931 he took part in the Harzburg Front . In 1931 he became a member of the Society for the Study of Fascism , which acted as a link between conservative circles and the NSDAP . He took part in the secret meeting of February 20, 1933 , at which an election campaign fund of 3 million Reichsmarks for the NSDAP and the black-white-red battle front was decided.
On November 12, 1933, he was elected to the Reichstag . There he joined the NSDAP faction as an intern and stayed until the 1938 Reichstag election .
Other offices
Loewenstein was a member of numerous committees, bodies and associations. These included:
- Main committee of the Reich Association of German Industry
- Large committee of the Association of German Employers' Associations
- Expert committee for state railway affairs in the Ruhr coal district
- Technical-Scientific Expert Committee for Coal Mining in the Reich Coal Council
- Committee for Social Policy Issues at the Essen Chamber of Commerce and Industry
- International Association for Legal and Economic Philosophy
- Institute for Business Cycle Research
- Association of German Engineers
- Shipbuilding Society
- Association of German Ironworkers
- Association to combat common diseases in the Ruhr area
- Association for family welfare in the administrative district of Düsseldorf
- Board member of the Deutsches Museum
Awards
- 1909: Order of the Crown, 4th class
- 1909: Landwehr service award, 2nd class
- 1914: Iron Cross 2nd class
- 1818: Cross of Merit for War Aid
- 1918: Wound badge in black
- 1918: Knight of Honor of the Order of St. John
- 1923: Dr.-Ing. e. H.
- 1923: Honorary citizen of the Clausthal Mining Academy
literature
- Loewenstein to Loewenstein, Hans, Louis, Ferdinand, von. In: Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 2: L-Z. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1931, DNB 453960294 , p. 1147.
- Walter Serlo: The Prussian Bergassessors . 4th edition. Essen 1933, p. 208.
- Erwin Dickhoff: Essen heads. Who was what Richard Bracht, Essen 1985, ISBN 3-87034-037-1 .
- Evelyn Kroker : Loewenstein, Hans von und zu. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , p. 102 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Friedrich Schunder: The von Löwenstein - History of a Hessian Family , Lübeck 1955, 2 volumes and family tables, Volume 1 (representation), Volume 2 (Regesta and documents 1160–1539), pp. 266–271 (Volume 1).
- Erich Stockhorst: 5000 people. Who was what in the 3rd Reich . Arndt, Kiel 2000, ISBN 3-88741-116-1 (unchanged reprint of the first edition from 1967).
Web links
- Hans Louis Ferdinand von Loewenstein zu Loewenstein in the database of members of the Reichstag
- Hans Louis Ferdinand von Loewenstein zu Loewenstein in the online version of the Reich Chancellery's files edition . Weimar Republic
- Detailed biography on www.seite119.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 102 , 793
- ^ Gerhard Schulz: Between Democracy and Dictatorship. Constitutional politics and imperial reform in the Weimar Republic . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1963-92, Volume 3, p. 558.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Loewenstein zu Loewenstein, Hans Louis Ferdinand von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mining engineer, industrial manager and economic politician (DNVP), MdR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 9, 1874 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 14, 1959 |
| Place of death | Zurich |