Heinrich Dräger

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Otto Heinrich Dräger (born July 2, 1898 in Lübeck ; † June 28, 1986 ) was a German manufacturer, economist and social scientist . From 1928 to 1984 he headed the Drägerwerk Heinrich & Bernhard Dräger in Lübeck, founded by his grandfather .

life and work

His parents were the manufacturer Bernhard Dräger and Elfriede Stange, his grandfather the company founder of the Drägerwerke Johann Heinrich Dräger . Heinrich Dräger married Ruth Maria Stubbe in 1925, Emma Cornehls in 1938 and Lisa Jansen in 1947 . Eleven children came from the three marriages, including Christian Dräger .

Dräger dedicated some of his writings to topics related to job creation , property policy , maintaining the ecological balance , and development and population policy . In 1932 he published a brochure on job creation, which was significantly influenced by Gottfried Feder and Werner Daitz . From Dräger's foreword it can be inferred that this text was met with “abrupt rejection” by the “middle-class bourgeois parties” and that social democracy was “thoroughly hostile” to his idea. After he got to know Gottfried Feder and Werner Daitz and had an insight into the essence of the National Socialist movement, it became clear to him that “the ideas of these people derive the thoughts of his work”. In his opinion, his idea could only be put into practice “from this world of ideas and the will to power” of the Nazi movement. After a detailed and formative “exchange of ideas” with Feder and Daitz, the work was finally published as Volume 41 in the National Socialist Library series . Dräger explicitly emphasized that “no National Socialist wrote this work”, only a German citizen. He also attributes his idea to the fact that it corresponds to the will of the “overwhelming majority of the German people”. Feder attested to him "unequivocally" that "his whole mindset led to a purely National Socialist view of the economy [...]."

During the Second World War , the Drägerwerke manufactured, among other things, the “people's gas mask ”. During this time, around 1,200 of the 7,000 employees at Dräger were forced laborers . In addition, the Hamburg-Wandsbek satellite camp was set up on the company premises in 1944 , in which around 500 female concentration camp prisoners had to work in production.

But Dräger also protected a number of Jewish employees and friends as well as the Catholic philosopher Hans Blumenberg . The most spectacular rescue operation concerned the Silten family of pharmacists from Berlin.

Dräger, who holds a doctorate in economics, also acted as a patron . He contributed to the preservation of natural and cultural monuments, promoted the excavations of Lübeck's old town and other archaeological research, reconstruction and restoration measures in Lübeck, the creation of a Dräger leisure park and a hiking trail on the Wakenitz . In 1974 he founded the Dr. Bernhard Dräger Foundation for the promotion of popular and youth education and the Elfriede Dräger Memorial Foundation for the preservation of cultural assets. Another foundation in 1975 enabled the city of Lübeck to set up the Drägerhaus Museum as an extension of the Behnhaus Museum .

In 1982 the Lübeck citizenship made Heinrich Dräger an honorary citizen.

Grave of the Dräger family in the Burgtorfriedhof
Memorial stone for Heinrich Dräger on the factory premises at the Dräger Forum

Awards

Fonts

  • The Inst people or Insten in Schleswig-Holstein. Their history, their significance for large-scale operations and their remuneration . Diss. Agricultural University Berlin . Langensalza 1927
  • Job creation through productive credit creation. A contribution to the question of economic recovery through the so-called "feather money". Franz-Eher-Verlag , Munich 1932. Series: National Socialist Library, 41. Ed. Gottfried Feder
    • New version: job creation through productive credit creation , with statements by Heinrich Brüning [u. a.] and with a foreword by Ernst Wagemann . In cooperation with the Study Society for Money and Credit Management. Econ, Düsseldorf 1954
  • The illusion of our productivity. A discussion book with statistical documents and expert reports on the relationships between productivity, wages, social pension and price . Edited in conjunction with the Study Society for Money and Credit Management. Econ, Düsseldorf 1961
  • The big goal: social justice through a controlled market economy . Stuttgart 1976
  • Too little work for too many people. Possible solutions to the employment problem . Bonn Aktuell, Stuttgart 1984 ISBN 3-87959-220-9 (future; volume 7)

literature

  • Bernhard Lorentz: Industrial elite and economic policy 1928 - 1950. Heinrich Dräger and the Drägerwerk . Schöningh, Paderborn 2001, ISBN 3-506-75255-3 Zugl .: Dissertation Humboldt University Berlin 1998/99
  • Heinrich Dräger. In: Olaf Matthes and Bardo Metzger (eds.): Bergedorfer Personenlexikon . Hamburg, 2003 ISBN 3-935987-03-X , pp. 56f.
  • Peter Guttkuhn: Heinrich Dräger 80 years. In: Father-city sheets. Lübeck, 29th year, 1978, p. 36
  • Peter Guttkuhn: Honorary Citizen Heinrich Dräger. In: Father-city sheets. Lübeck, 33rd year, 1982, p. 86
  • Stefan Romey: A concentration camp in Wandsbek . Forced labor in the Hamburg Drägerwerk. VSA-Verlag , Hamburg 1994 ISBN 978-3-87975-613-1
  • Martin Thoemmes : Heinrich Dräger. In: Alken Bruns (Ed.): Neue Lübecker Lebenslaufen , Wachholtz, Neumünster 2009, ISBN 978-3-529-01338-6 , pp. 175-182
  • Welf Böttcher, Martin Thoemmes: Heinrich Dräger. A biography , Wachholtz, Neumünster 2011 ISBN 978-3-529-06123-3

Web links

Commons : Heinrich Dräger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

swell

  1. ↑ see: Preface, pp. 3–6
  2. ↑ [1] 2014 Drägerwerk AG & Co. KGaA, page 29. Last accessed on June 11, 2016 6:00 pm
  3. ↑ Susanne Krejsa: Search for traces . The Nazi lawyer and rescuer Helmut Pfeiffer . Past Publishing , Berlin 2011, ISBN 3-864-08003-7
  4. ↑ Susanne Krejsa and Johanna Lutteroth: Rescue operation in World War II: Dräger's expensive deception , one day , Spiegel online , accessed on May 20, 2012
  5. ↑ Well-known personalities and honorary citizens of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck: Dr. Heinrich Dräger, 1899 - 1986 ( Memento from February 2, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ refers to an idea of ​​Gottfried Feders, who (along with Werner Daitz ) had "strong influence" on the script (cf. Dräger's preface, p. 5).
  7. ↑ The new version has been freed from extensive takeovers from various Nazi economic journals.
  8. ↑ Dräger was the founder of this "study society", s. Jens Flemming et al., Die Republik von Weimar, 2: The socio-economic system. Athenäum Verlag , Düsseldorf 1979 ISBN 3761072252 , p. 390
personal data
SURNAME Dräger, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur, economist and social scientist
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 1986