Heinrich Plett

Heinrich Plett (born June 19, 1908 in Kassel , † January 14, 1963 in Hamburg ) was a German manager and chairman of the board of the housing company Neue Heimat .

biography

After he had obtained the secondary school leaving certificate, Plett worked as a bank clerk in Kassel from 1924. He worked for the State Hypothekenbank in Berlin and later in the mortgage department of an insurance company. In 1929 he obtained his Abitur in evening classes. He then studied economics.

As a union and SPD member, he was arrested by the National Socialists for one day on November 28, 1933 because of the risk of blackout. The arrest was in connection with the rolling up of the Red Shock Troop resistance group in Berlin. The Plett family was friends with the Zinn family, who also came from Kassel. Karl Zinn was one of the leaders of the Red Shock Troop. In 1933, Plett became office manager of the Berlin brokerage firm DE Moeller, a company that provided employment to Social Democrats, and in 1936 head of the mortgage brokerage and construction finance department at Dresdner Bank headquarters in Berlin. During the Second World War he took over the management of a non-profit housing association in Gotenhafen . He served as a naval war administration inspector during the war. In 1940 he also became an auxiliary policeman and in 1944 he was called up for service in the Wehrmacht .

Pillow stone for Heinrich Plett , Ohlsdorf cemetery

After 1945 he became active again in the union and the SPD . From 1946 he worked for the non-profit housing and settlement company Neue Heimat Kassel. On January 1, 1950, he became managing director and chairman of the board of Neue Heimat Hamburg (NHH) and he held this position for 13 years until his death. His successor was his deputy Albert Vietor , who also came from the NH-Kassel. During his time on the board, NHH bought shares in numerous construction companies in Hamburg, Bremen ( GEWOBA , 1953), Munich and other cities. In 1954 the German Federation of Trade Unions (DGB) decided to subordinate all of its own housing companies to the NHH. The large group Neue Heimat was created with around 200,000 apartments (around 1963). Plett engaged well-known urban planners and architects such as Ernst May , Alvar Aalto , Franz Ruf , Friedrich Spengelin , Otto Gühlk , Hans Bernhard Reichow , Karlaugust Orf, Max Säum and Günther Hafemann for social housing .

He founded u. a. a cooperative ring and various self-help organizations.

Heinrich Plett was buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg, grid square Z 15 (south of the northern pond ).

Honors

• The Plettstraße in the Munich large housing estate Neuperlach , where the headquarters of the New Home Bavaria was formerly located, was named after him.
• The Heinrich-Plett-Strasse in Hamburg bears his name.
• There is also Heinrich-Plett-Strasse in Kassel , where the AVZ site of the University of Kassel and a high-rise housing estate of the Neue Heimat are located.
• In the Bremen district of Huchting , Heinrich-Plett-Allee is one of the main roads. This district is characterized by the apartment buildings of the Neue Heimat.
• There is also Heinrich-Plett-Strasse in Frankfurt- Frankfurter Berg .
• Bremerhaven in the district Leherheide a Heinrich-Plett-Straße.

Web links

• Hamburg Architecture Archive

literature

• Dennis Egginger-Gonzalez: The Red Assault Troop. An early left-wing socialist resistance group against National Socialism. Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3867322744
• Dennis Egginger: The Red Assault Troop. In: Hans Coppi , Stefan Heinz (ed.): The forgotten resistance of the workers. Trade unionists, communists, social democrats, Trotskyists, anarchists and forced laborers (= history of communism and left-wing socialism. 16). Dietz, Berlin, 2012, ISBN 978-3-320-02264-8 , pp. 91-106.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Celebrity Graves