Henry Axel Bueck

Henry Axel Bueck (born December 12, 1830 in Bischofsburg , East Prussia , † July 4, 1916 in Berlin ) was a German politician and industrial functionary.

Life

In 1873, Henry Axel Bueck became managing director of the newly founded association to safeguard common economic interests in Rhineland and Westphalia and the north-western group of the Association of German Iron and Steel Industrialists . In 1887 he took over the management of the Central Association of German Industrialists (CDI), for which he had worked since it was founded in 1876. In 1904 he also took over the management of the headquarters of the German employers 'associations , the first umbrella organization of German employers' associations. Bueck also played a key role in the creation of the German Colonial Society . He is considered the first professional association manager in Germany and had a decisive influence on the development of the socio-political positions of German industry. Before his career as an association manager, Bueck was a large agricultural landowner.

The organization of employers . Guttentag, Berlin 1904.
The Central Association of German Industrialists and its thirty years of work from 1876–1906 . Guttentag, Berlin 1906.
My CV. (= Contributions to the company's history, new series , volume 1.) Steiner, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-515-07161-X . (Autobiography, edited and with a commentary introduction by Werner Bührer)

Eckhard Hansen, Florian Tennstedt (Eds.) U. a .: Biographical lexicon on the history of German social policy from 1871 to 1945 . Volume 1: Social politicians in the German Empire 1871 to 1918. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2010, ISBN 978-3-86219-038-6 , p. 26 ( online , PDF; 2.2 MB).
Hugo Racine: Bueck, Henry. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 723 f. ( Digitized version ).
Roswitha Leckebusch: Development and changes in the objectives, the structure and the effects of employers' associations . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966.
R. Sonnemann: Bueck, Henry Axel . In: Biographical Lexicon on German History. From the beginning until 1917 . Edited by Karl Obermann et al. Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1967, p. 69.
Fritz Tänzler: The German Employers' Associations 1904–1929. Otto Elsner Verlag, Berlin 1929.

↑ On Bueck's socio-political statements, cf. Collection of sources on the history of German social policy from 1867 to 1914 , Department I: From the time when the Reich was founded to the Imperial Social Message (1867-1881) , Volume 8: Basic questions of social policy in public discussion: churches, parties, clubs and associations , edited by Ralf Stremmel, Florian Tennstedt and Gisela Fleckenstein, Darmstadt 2006, No. 160; see. Collection of sources on the history of German social policy from 1867 to 1914, Section II: From the Imperial Social Message to the February decrees of Wilhelm II (1881-1890) , Volume 2, Part 2: Extension legislation and the practice of accident insurance , edited by Wolfgang Ayaß , Darmstadt 2001, No. 82; see. Collection of sources on the history of German social policy from 1867 to 1914, Section II: From the Imperial Social Message to the February Decrees of Wilhelm II (1881-1890) , Volume 3: Workers' Protection , edited by Wolfgang Ayaß, Darmstadt 1998, No. 139.