Heinrich Lahusen

Heinrich ( "Heinz") Ludwig Lahusen (* 14. September 1894 in Delmenhorst , † 10. December 1943 in Traben-Trarbach ) was a German businessman and board in & North German Wool Combing Kammgarnspinnerei ( Nordwolle ).

biography

Lahusen was the son of Johann Carl Lahusen , who ran the North German wool combing & worsted spinning mill in Delmenhorst from 1888 to 1921. His mother was Armine Mathias (1867-1919). He grew up with eight other siblings in the Lahusen villa in Delmenhorst. He was the younger brother of Georg Carl Lahusen , who headed the company - now headquartered in Bremen - from 1921 until bankruptcy in 1931.

After graduating from high school, he studied at the technical universities in Gdansk and Hanover and graduated as a graduate engineer. In 1923 he became a member of the board of the family business Nordwolle. In 1931 the Nordwolle Group went bankrupt and ended his career as an entrepreneur. He and his brother were arrested in 1931 on suspicion of bankruptcy and released in December 1931 on bail. The bankruptcy had an impact on the national and international economic crisis. The process dragged on initially. He and his brother G. Carl Lahusen had to face criminal proceedings for bankruptcy crimes, balance sheet disguise, breach of trust and credit fraud . On December 29, 1933, he was sentenced to a fine of 20,000 Reichsmarks and two years and nine months' imprisonment. The appeal before the Reichsgericht was rejected in 1934. The judgment was controversial because of its political circumstances. The manor at Blumenow in Mecklenburg-Strelitz, which he acquired in 1926, with its castle, park and garden, was sold as bankruptcy in 1932.

Others

• The Lahusen family's life's work is presented in the Delmenhorst factory museum.
• The Lahusenstraße in Delmenhorst bears the family name.

literature

• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Birth register of StA Delmenhorst, No. 394/1894
2. ↑ Death register StA Traben-Trarbach, No. 89/1943