Hermann Carl Vering

Hermann Carl Vering (born September 15, 1879 in Lübeck , † March 3, 1955 in Hamburg ) was an industrialist , politician of the DVP and Hamburg senator.

Empire

Vering grew up in Hamburg, he attended Wilhelm-Gymnasium and then did an apprenticeship in the banking and trading company Hesse, Newman & Co.

When his father's company, C. Vering, received the order in 1899 to build a port in the newly won Tsingtau , Vering also took part in the project on site. After a year Vering made a trip to Port Arthur , fell seriously ill and had to return to Europe. After he had recovered from his illness, Vering did his military service as a one-year volunteer in the Dragoon Regiment "König" (2nd Württemberg) No. 26 in Cannstatt . In the following years he studied for a few semesters at the commercial college in Frankfurt am Main , before working for Krabb & Co in Buenos Aires and Montevideo for a few years . From 1908 he returned to Hamburg to join his father's company.

Vering became authorized signatory of the construction company C. Vering, managing director of Veringschen properties on Wilhelmsburg GmbH and director of Terrain-Aktien-Gesellschaft Wohldorf-Ohlstedt . He worked there until the outbreak of the World War .

During the First World War, Vering took part as a brigade adjutant for his regiment, mainly in Macedonia . At the end of the war he was dismissed as Rittmeister. He then returned to Hamburg.

Weimar Republic

In order to counter the November Revolution, Vering organized resident police in Hamburg who wanted to restore the status quo that existed before the revolution in Hamburg. As a result of the elimination of the workers-dominated national armed forces following the brawn riots, the anti- republican resident armed forces and, together with the free corps, gained military power in Hamburg. The Free Corps Leader Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck officially appointed Vering to be the leader of all Hamburg Resident Services, which in mid-July 1919 comprised around 30,000 men. During the Kapp Putsch in Hamburg, Vering refused to use the resident defense against the putschists. After the failed coup, Vering transferred these units to the Escherich (Orgesch) organization.

In the following years Vering worked again in his father's company until he was elected to the Senate for the German People's Party on March 18, 1925 , to which he belonged until April 4, 1928. He mainly represented the internal administration department.

In 1928 Vering became the owner of the Oskar Gossler oHG company , which at that time was primarily a ship supplier, but was also producing seals itself.

Period of National Socialism and the post-war period

In the National Socialist German Reich , Vering held the title of Wehrwirtschaftsführer at least in 1940 ; he was the head of the technical supplies department in Essen . He also sat on the supervisory boards of various companies that were important to the war effort, such as the Hanseatische Acetylen-Gasindustrie Aktiengesellschaft or Nagel & Kaemp AG .

During the Second World War , Vering fought in the Wehrmacht from 1941 to 1945 as a lieutenant colonel in the reserve in France and Russia , where he was taken prisoner. Vering was released in autumn 1945 and returned to Hamburg. Above all, he rebuilt his Oskar Gossler company.

He immediately became politically active again and together with Erich Röper founded the Association of Members and Friends of the German People's Party , which Paul de Chapeaurouge also joined. In April 1946 Vering turned to the Father City Association of Hamburg founded by de Chapeaurouge . In 1953, Vering was elected Hamburg constitutional judge by the Hamburg citizenship , an office he held until his death two years later.

literature

• Vering, Enno: C. Vering: the history of the oldest German civil engineering company , Heidelberg, 2001. (p. 377ff)

swell

1. ^ Werner Jochmann : Hamburg. History of the city and its inhabitants, Vol. 2, Hamburg 1986, p. 185. At the time of the Kapp Putsch, Jochmann speaks of 37,000 members of the vigilante groups.
2. ^ Fuhrmann, Rainer: Distribution of offices in the Senate 1860-1945, typescript, Hamburg State Archives
3. ↑ The company still exists today see archive link ( Memento from September 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive )