Helmuth Poensgen

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Helmuth Poensgen

Helmuth Poensgen (born April 6, 1887 in Düsseldorf , † March 22, 1945 in Ratingen ) was a German industrialist .

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Helmuth Poensgen came from the well-known Düsseldorf industrialist family Poensgen , which originated in the Schleiden / Eifel area and was the son of the industrialist Reinhard Poensgen (1860-1924) and Elilie Barthelmeß (1865-1946) and the grandson of Julius Poensgen . After graduating from what was then the municipal grammar school in Düsseldorf, he studied law and political science in Lausanne , Tübingen and Bonn . From 1906 he was a member of the Corps Rhenania Tübingen .

After the First State Exam doctorate he in 1910 at the University of Bonn to Dr. phil. ( Economics ). At the First World War he took as a lieutenant of the reserve part, was on the western front wounded in 1916 and 1917 and received the EK II and I . Because of his wounding, he was employed from 1917 in the Phoenix AG headquarters for mining and smelting operations in Hörde / Westphalia. He then moved from 1919 to 1921 as a consultant in the Reich Ministry of Economics in Berlin . From 1921 to 1923 he was a managing board member of the Association of German Silk Weavers in Krefeld . In 1924 he returned to Phoenix AG and was appointed a member of the board in 1926. In the same year Phoenix AG merged with the Thyssen Group , Rheinische Stahlwerke , Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks-AG and a number of other mining companies to form the United Stahlwerke AG . This mining group, which consists of iron, steel and mining companies and is based in Düsseldorf, thus became one of the largest German companies. Helmuth Poensgen was appointed to the management board of Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG in 1926 and held this position until his death in March 1945. He was also chairman of the supervisory board of the family company Gebr. Poensgen AG , whose origins go back to 1847.

Around 1928 he joined the German National People's Party like his cousin Ernst Poensgen and other parts of the family . On October 11, 1931, he took part in the meeting of the Harzburg Front with Alfred Hugenberg and Adolf Hitler .

Helmuth Poensgen showed an early interest in modern art and promoted young talent and artistic events. He maintained close contact with the Düsseldorf gallery owner Johanna Ey ( mother Ey ), whose gallery, under the programmatic name Junge Kunst - Frau Ey, became the focus of the artist group Das Junge Rheinland . He followed the example of his prominent relatives Ernst Poensgen , Carl Rudolf Poensgen and Gustav Poensgen . The Ernst Poensgen Foundation for Art and Science in Düsseldorf and the Carl Rudolf Poensgen Foundation established in honor of Carl Rudolf Poensgen in 1956 to promote young entrepreneurs commemorate them .

family

Helmuth Poensgen was married to Ursula von Ditfurth (born September 7, 1898 in Greifswald , † 1945), daughter of the royal family. Prussian major general Bodo Borries of Ditfurth (1852-1915), from 1901 to 1910 at the part of a German military mission in the former Konstantin Opel under the Sultan Abdülhamit II. The rank of Ottoman General Lt. ( " pacha was used as the inspector of the Turkish military schools"). His four children are Brigitte (1922–1986), married to Thilo von Boehmer (1911–1997), Gisbert (1923–2011), Gerrit (1926–2012) and Helmuth junior. (1927-2011). Helmuth Poensgen died together with his wife Ursula from an aerial bomb on March 22, 1945 in Ratinger " Poensgenpark ".

Work (selection)

  • Helmuth Poensgen: The Landesbank of the Rhine Province , 1910, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot

Literature and Sources

  • Edmund Strutz (Ed.): German Gender Book , Volume 123, Second Eifel Volume, pp. 283 ff, Verlag von CA Starke, 195
  • Werner Plumpe : Co-determination in the Weimar Republic, case studies on Ruhr mining and the chemical industry , pp. 257 ff, 1999, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, ( ISBN 978-3-486-56238-5 )
  • Josef Wilden: Five Poensgen create a new Düsseldorf , Düsseldorf, 1942
  • From Heinrich Kellerter, Ernst Poensgen: The history of the Poensgen family ; Ed .: A. Bagel-Verlag, Düsseldorf, 1908
  • Alfred Reckendrees: The “Stahltrust” project. The foundation of the Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG and its corporate development 1926–1933 / 34 . Series of publications for the journal for corporate history, 5th Munich: CH Beck Verlag, 2000, ISBN 3-406-45819-X

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1798–1910 . Publishers of the Academic monthly books, Starnberg 1910, p. 196 ( No. 574 p. 872 digitized [PDF; 54 MB]).
  2. ^ Hugo Weidenhaupt: Düsseldorf: The industrial and administrative city (20th century) . In: Hugo Weidenhaupt (Ed.): Volume 3 of Düsseldorf: History from the origins to the 20th century , Schwann im Patmos-Verlag, 1989, ISBN 9783491342231 , p. 310.
  3. ^ Karl Dietrich Bracher : The dissolution of the Weimar Republic. A study on the problem of the decline in power in a democracy. 5th edition, Ring, Villingen 1971, p. 362
personal data
SURNAME Poensgen, Helmuth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 1945
Place of death Ratingen