Henry Everling

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The young Henry Everling around 1910
Bust of Henry Everling in the Hamburg Cooperative Museum
“Production” children's recreation home in Haffkrug in 1919 with President Friedrich Ebert (second from left) and Henry Everling to the right. Gustav Noske (fourth from left). Since 1948 Henry Everling House of the PRO Foundation and since 1974 senior recreation facility
Ship model of the fish steamer "Henry Everling" (built at the Rickmers shipyard in 1955 Bremerhaven)

Henry Everling (born August 19, 1873 in Braunschweig ; † May 16, 1960 in Hamburg ) was a goldsmith and silversmith, Hamburg parliamentarian , senator ( SPD ) and managing director of various consumer cooperative companies.

Life

Everling spent his school and apprenticeship time in Braunschweig. There he learned the profession of goldsmith and silversmith , until 1900 he worked in this profession. He moved to Hamburg and was involved in founding the consumer, building and savings association "Production", registered cooperative with limited liability, based in Hamburg. From 1900 he worked as a health insurance employee in Hamburg, this position he gave up in 1908 when he was appointed full-time secretary at Produktion eGmbH . In 1913 he was elected to the executive board, responsible for the in-house production operations, bakery, mill and slaughterhouse, and negotiator for army deliveries. In this position he worked with Max Mendel . In addition to its own network of shops, the “Produktion” cooperative also included many food production companies that were classified as important to the war effort. For this reason Everling also worked for his cooperative during the First World War . There he modernized and reorganized the slaughterhouse and canned meat production for the army. The overcapacities created in this way far exceeded the needs of the members of the cooperative and were therefore a burden on the consumer cooperative independence in the following years.

On July 16, 1919, President Friedrich Ebert and Reichswehr Minister Gustav Noske visited the PRO children's recreation home in Haffkrug on the Baltic Sea with Henry Everling and other members of the “Production” board . The home had been financed from the profits of the cooperative's war production and was to be recognized as an exemplary social institution.

In the new elections for Hamburg's citizenship in 1919, Everling won a mandate for the SPD , he was a member of the citizenship until 1921.

Gravestone Henry Everling , Ohlsdorf Cemetery

Everling was considered an economist, so he was elected to the Hamburg Senate on March 28, 1919 . But since he felt that he could not adequately represent the interests of the workers there, he and Heinrich Lorenz resigned on June 30, 1919.

Everling was re-elected managing director in production and in 1921 a managing director of the Großeinkaufs-Gesellschaft Deutscher Consumvereine mbH (GEG). Everling held this office until October 1935, when he was removed from office by the National Socialists after they came to power .

In 1933 Everling helped the future mayor of Hamburg, Max Brauer , whom he knew from working together in "Production", to escape by giving him his passport.

During the Second World War Everling was arrested several times.

On May 30, 1945, Everling was reinstated by the British occupation authorities as chairman of the board of directors of the large purchasing company of German consumer cooperatives in Hamburg - an office that he held until 1949, and he also served on several supervisory boards.

Deep Sea Fishing Society

Hunger and the inadequate supply of food for the German population in the post-war period prompted Henry Everling to set up a public fishing fleet. After 1945 he improved the supply of fish to the population by setting up the Community High Sea Fisheries Society (GHG) in Bremerhaven . The GHG was a subsidiary of the Großeinkaufs-Gesellschaft Deutscher Konsumgenossenschaften mbH (GEG). The fish, especially the herring , was always, but most of all, a "cheap, valuable, fat and protein-rich raw material of the sea" and an "indispensable food", and he wanted to tap it "as close as possible to the raw material source", true to the cooperative mantra: no intermediate stage. On August 1, 1948 - after long negotiations - the Gemeinwirtschaftliche Hochseefischerei-Gesellschaft GmbH, the GHG, was founded with its headquarters in Bremerhaven with a share capital of 2 million DM. In the course of their existence, the 27 GHG fish steamers have borne the names of well-known trade unionists and members of the cooperative. In 1970 the GHG with its systems and ships was sold to an Oetker company , the market leader.

He was also a member of the Zone Advisory Board for the British Zone of Occupation. From October 1953 until his death in 1960 he was a constitutional judge at the Hamburg Constitutional Court .

Henry Everling was buried in the Ohlsdorfer Friedhof in Hamburg, grid square T 25 (south of Kapellenstrasse , east of Waldstrasse ). He received a state funeral . The funeral speeches were given by Max Brauer and Erich Ollenhauer .

Honors

Henry-Everling-Hof in Hamburg-Hamm building cooperative of free trade unionists

Also named after Henry Everling:

literature

Web links

Commons : Henry Everling  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrich Bauche - Look closely, contributions to the history of Hamburg's society, edited by Jürgen Bönig, Rolf Bornholdt and Wolfgang Wiedey, VSA-Verlag, Hamburg 2019, p. 270
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ↑ Peter Müller: On the history of GHG Gemeinwirtschaftliche Hochseefischerei GmbH, Bremerhaven (GHG) by Peter Müller ( Memento from February 24, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), accessed November 4, 2019
  4. ^ Henry Everling, The Development for the Common Economy, Hamburg 1948
  5. ^ H. Everling, Die Hochseefischerei, a new field for the free community economy, consumer cooperative review (from 1950 "The consumer"), 3rd year / no. 19 of May 7, 1949, p. 149
  6. ↑ Armin Peter: Folk food fish: Henry Everling and the Gemeinwirtschaftliche Hochseefischerei-Gesellschaft, lecture on November 2nd, 2019, 14th conference on cooperative history, Hamburg.
  7. ↑ Celebrity Graves
  8. ↑ Hamburger Morgenpost of May 17, 1960 and Hamburgere Echo of May 21, 1960
  9. ↑ Honors and prizes from the university. In: uni-hamburg.de. Retrieved April 18, 2019 .
  10. ^ Website of the Henry Everling House on pro-haffkrug.de
  11. ↑ Gemeinwirtschaftliche Hochseefischerei GmbH, Bremerhaven, (GHG) ( Memento from February 24, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) on werften.fischtown.de, accessed on April 7, 2008.
personal data
SURNAME Everling, Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag, Hamburg Senator and honorary citizen of Hamburg
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH May 16, 1960
Place of death Hamburg