Heinrich Wilhelm Ahrens

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Heinrich Wilhelm Ahrens (born July 21, 1903 in Bremen , † December 5, 2002 in Bremen) was a German lawyer , businessman and manager in the insurance industry .

biography

Ahrens was born in 1903 in Bremen as the son of the Bremen insurance salesman Wilhelm Ahrens. After attending the Bremen secondary school , he studied law and political science in Göttingen , Tübingen and Hamburg . In Göttingen he became a member of the Holzminda fraternity in the summer semester of 1922 . Due to the inflation of 1923, he interrupted his studies in order to complete it after a commercial apprenticeship at the Bremen import and export company Schütte, Bünemann & Co. at the University of Tübingen, among other things as a student of Walter Eucken . After passing the economist exam he was in 1929 in Hamburg Curt Eisfeld and Ernst Bruck with a dissertation on the export credit insurance to Dr. rer. pole. PhD. He then completed a practical training at various insurances ( Colonia , Alliance , hamburgers General, North Star , Hermes Kreditversicherungs AG ) before 1931, founded in 1866 by his grandfather Conrad Heinrich Diedrich Ahrens company Heinrich Ahrens and related insurance company Ahrens, Drechsler & Dettmann (Allianz, Hermes, Colonia) and HW Schulte ( Skandia ) entered. After he became an authorized officer in 1932 , his father took him on as a partner in 1935 .

At the World War II he took part in 1939 in the western campaign as a platoon leader and company commander in the infantry regiment 58 and in the Soviet Union , first as aide in the regimental headquarters of Infantry Regiment 58, and finally as Ic of the 6th Infantry Division , before the collapse of Army Group Center it on 29 June 1944 was taken prisoner of war by the Soviets for 10 years ; initially four years in northern Russia as a forest and collective farm worker ; Then after solitary confinement , various stays in prison and interrogations by the MWD , he was sentenced to 25 years of forced labor because of his service as an Ic , of which he had to work for three years in Stalingrad as a construction worker in road construction , rail laying and scrap sorting. He was only able to return to his homeland in January 1954.

Ahrens turned back to his insurance companies, which he headed as a senior partner. He became a member of the Bremen Chamber of Commerce and the Bremen Cathedral Convention . In 1973 he merged his companies with the renowned Bremen companies Carl Bölken Söhne and A. Fr. Wickeland to form a larger group of companies that specialized as an insurance group in industrial and transport insurance .

In 1997 he was rehabilitated by the military college of the Supreme Court in Belarus "... for lack of a crime." Based on his experiences in the post-war period, he campaigned for German-Russian understanding.

Ahrens belonged to a Freemason lodge in Bremen and was a member of various soldiers' associations, since 1997 of the Association of German Soldiers . He died in Bremen in 2002 at the age of 99.

Publications

  • Export credit insurance as a business problem of private credit insurance. Rostock 1929 (dissertation University of Hamburg).

literature

  • Dr. Heinrich Ahrens 70 years old. In: Bremer Nachrichten of July 21, 1973.
  • Dr. Heinrich Ahrens is 90 years old. In: Bremer Nachrichten and Weser-Kurier from July 19, 1993.
  • Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . Volume 1: A-K. 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X , p. 17.
  • Obituary by Dirk von Grone: In Memoriam Dr. Heinrich Wilhelm Ahrens. In: Soldier in the People. 2003.
  • Hans-Hermann Rudolph (ed.): Alte-Herren-Zeitung of the fraternity Holzminda. Göttingen 2003, pp. 12-16.
  • Erika Thies: The car from the citizens' park tombola 1954. In: Weser Kurier from January 24th, 2011.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. List of the members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934. S. 5.
  2. ↑ http://www.boelken.de/
  3. ^ Margeritha Gries: Journey to Rshew. Soldiers are the best friends of peace. In: Kurier am Sonntag, June 18, 1993, Bremen.
personal data
SURNAME Ahrens, Heinrich Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ahrens, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman and manager in insurance
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH December 5, 2002
Place of death Bremen