Harald Mandt
Harald Mandt (born April 13, 1888 in Kiel , † January 27, 1974 in Hamburg ) was a German insurance manager.
Life
Harald Mandt was the son of the imperial naval officer Rear Admiral Otto Mandt . After attending school in Kiel , Wilhelmshaven and Berlin , he studied law , political science and economics in Greifswald , Berlin and as a Rhodes scholar in Oxford ( Brasenose College ). There he was a member of the "Hanover Club" in 1912 , a German-British debating club under the leadership of Albrecht Graf von Bernstorff , which existed from 1911 to 1913 and was supposed to promote mutual understanding. He received his doctorate as Dr. iur. After military service in 1912/13, he served on the Eastern Front in Russia from 1914 to 1919 in the First World War . He worked for the Mutzenbecher Group abroad for many years .
He joined the Albingia Insurance Company , where he was promoted to general manager in 1930. From 1956 to 1970 he was chairman of the supervisory board , whose honorary president he became after his departure. After 1945 he was the first president of the General Association of the German Insurance Industry . In the meantime, he worked for eight years as managing director of an Argentine reinsurance company in Buenos Aires .
Since 1907 a member of the Corps Pomerania Greifswald , he became a corps bow bearer of the Saxonia Göttingen in 1959 . He was chairman of the Universitätsgesellschaft Hamburg and in 1956/66 as the first German vice-president of Rotary International .
The Albingia educational center in Hamburg-Rissen was named "Harald-Mandt-Haus" after him.
Awards
- Honorary Senator of the University of Hamburg (1959)
- Large Federal Cross of Merit with a star
- Commander of the British Empire (CBE)
literature
- Wolfgang von der Groeben: Directory of the members of the Corps Saxonia zu Göttingen 1844 to 2006 , Düsseldorf 2006, p. 173
- Elly Countess Reventlow (ed.): Albrecht Bernstorff in memory . Self-published, Düsseldorf 1952.
- Who is who? The German Who's Who , XV, Berlin 1967
Web links
- Literature by and about Harald Mandt in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Reventlow (Ed.), Contribution by Harald Mandt, p. 26
- ^ Karsten Plöger: The Hanover Club, Oxford (1911-13): Student Paradiplomacy and the Coming of the Great War . In: German History , Vol. 27 (1994), Issue 2, pp. 196-214.
- ↑ Dissertation: On the history of the English House of Lords: With special consideration of the constitutional crisis of 1910-11
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 53 , 601; 45 , 931
- ^ Club and membership directory of Rotarians in the Federal Republic of Germany 2002/2003
- ↑ Honorary Senators of the University of Hamburg ( Memento of the original dated December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The CBE is the highest order level in the UK prior to ennoblement
Harald Mandt (1948–1951) | Karl Haus (1951–1953) | Werner Plath (1953–1958) | Rolf Raiser (1958–1961) | Werner Plath (1961–1962) | Emil Frey (1962–1966) | Ernst Meyer (1966–1972) | Hermann Stech (1972–1973) | Otto Vossen (1973–1975) | Arno Paul Bäumer (1975–1979) | Georg Büchner (1979–1993) | Bernd Michaels (1993-2003) | Bernhard Schareck (2003–2008) | Rolf-Peter Hoenen (2008–2012) | Alexander Erdland (2012–2017) | Wolfgang Weiler (since 2017)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mandt, Harald |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German insurance manager |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 13, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kiel |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 27, 1974 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |