Heinrich Lorenz (politician, 1862)

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Founder of the GBI Großhamburger Funeral Home around 1925. Second from the right is Heinrich Lorenz.

Heinrich Lorenz (born March 8, 1862 in Döbeln , Saxony; † January 21, 1946 in Chemnitz ) was a cigar sorter , consumer cooperative and managing director of the large-scale purchasing company Deutscher Consumvereine m. b. H. (GEG), Hamburg MP, Senator ( SPD ).

Life

Lorenz attended elementary school in Döbeln. From the age of nine he worked in cigar factories, having previously worked in the domestic industry. After his school days he learned the trade of cigar sorter and worked as such in various places in Saxony. In 1889 he became a works manager in a Chemnitz cigar factory. He joined the Social Democrats in 1880 and was active there politically and agitationally at a young age. In 1885 he was elected to the support association of German cigar sorters in Oederan .

Since 1890 he worked in various smaller consumer associations. In 1894 he became managing director of the Allgemeine Konsumverein Chemnitz eGmbH. In 1896, Lorenz was sent to the supervisory board of the Großeinkaufs-Gesellschaft Deutscher Consumvereine mbH (GEG) founded in 1894 for his consumer association. He continued to be politically active for the SPD and became a city ​​councilor for Chemnitz from 1898 to 1902 .

In 1899, at the invitation of the Co-operative Wholesale Society Limited (CWS), he traveled to England with six other members of the GEG's supervisory board, its managing director Ernst August Scherling and another member of the consumer cooperative to get to know the organization and operations of the CWS. For him, as for the other participants, this trip was, in particular, the impetus to push GEG's own production.

In 1902 he followed Adolf Gustav Seifert into positions twice at short notice : for a short time he was chairman of the supervisory board of the GEG and switched to the Schedewitzer Konsumverein. On September 7th he was elected as successor to one of three managing directors alongside Ernst August Scherling and Adolf Seifert. He took up this post on January 1, 1903, which he would hold until his retirement in 1930 with a small interruption.

In 1913 Lorenz was involved in founding Volksfürsorge and was appointed to the board. Lorenz continued to work for the GEG during the First World War and was also elected to the advisory board of the Reich War Food Office in 1916 to help improve the precarious supply situation that prevailed due to the war.

In the new elections for Hamburg's citizenship in 1919, Lorenz won a mandate for the SPD. He was a member of the citizenry until 1921. Lorenz was considered an economist, so he was elected to the Hamburg Senate on March 28, 1919 . When he felt that he could not adequately represent the interests of the workers there, he and Henry Everling resigned on June 30, 1919.

After leaving the Senate, Lorenz was again Managing Director of the GEG. From 1920 Lorenz was a member of the Provisional Reich Economic Council , to which he belonged until 1933.

Lorenz was a member of the board of the Central Association of German Consumers' Associations (ZdK) for many years . There he became chairman of the entire board in 1924, which consisted of honorary and executive members.

Honors

  • On the occasion of his 25th anniversary as managing director at GEG, the company set up a foundation in 1928 that bears his name. She maintained a rest home in Oberhof (Thuringia) for employees of German consumer cooperatives.
  • In Chemnitz a street and a bridge are named after Heinrich Lorenz.
  • A freight motor ship of GKG - Public service carbon trading company (a subsidiary of GEG) - was on March 16, 1954 the 60th anniversary of the founding of the GEG in the name of Heinrich Lorenz baptized. It was built by the Jos. L. Meyer built in Papenburg (Ems). The ship was 78 m long and 12.40 m wide. The load capacity is 3200 tdw, the speed 14 knots. The ship was propelled by two 8-cylinder Deutz diesel engines with 1230 hp each working via an electro-magnetic slip clutch of the AEG on a propeller . It was delivered to the GKG in Emden on July 14, 1954. The shipping company Fisser v. Doornum .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Leo Lippmann : My life and my official activity. Memories and a contribution to the financial history of Hamburg . From the estate, ed. by Werner Jochmann (publications by the Association for Hamburg History, Volume 19), Christians, Hamburg 1964, p. 295.
  2. ^ Wilhelm Fischer: 60 years against 60 years of service to the consumer. 1894-1954. Festschrift Hamburg 1954, plate 81.
  3. ↑ Motor ship for the GEG . In: Hamburger Abendblatt , March 15, 1954, p. 11. Accessed on April 28, 2013.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.abendblatt.de  
  4. ^ New building by Heinrich Lorenz . In: Hamburger Abendblatt , March 16, 1954, p. 9. Accessed on April 28, 2013.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.abendblatt.de  
  5. ^ MS "Heinrich Lorenz" for the GEG . In: Hamburger Abendblatt , July 14, 1954, p. 8. Accessed on April 28, 2013.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.abendblatt.de  

literature

  • Article Lorenz, Heinrich. In: Wilhelm Heinz Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1867-1933. Biographies, chronicles, election documentation. A handbook (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 7). Droste, Düsseldorf 1995, ISBN 3-7700-5192-0 .
  • Heinrich Kaufmann : The large purchasing company of German consumer associations mb H. GEG. For the 25th anniversary 1894–1919. Hamburg 1919
  • Walther G. Oschilewski : Will and Action. The way of the German consumer cooperative movement. Hamburg 1953
  • Wilhelm Fischer : 60 years versus 60 years of service to consumers. 1894-1954. Festschrift Hamburg 1954.
personal data
SURNAME Lorenz, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Senator and managing director in the cooperative sector
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Chub
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1946
Place of death Chemnitz