Hermann Götz (politician, 1888)

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Hermann Götz (born November 30, 1888 in Wertheim ; † October 21, 1971 there ) was a German entrepreneur and Baden-Württemberg local politician. From 1946 to 1948 he was District Administrator of the Tauberbischofsheim district .

Life

1988–1918: Apprenticeship and first years of work

Hermann Götz was born on November 30, 1888 in Wertheim as the son of a shipper. From 1894 to 1902 Götz attended the Wertheim elementary school. He then went on to do an apprenticeship in his father's company, a sand dredging with mail order business, and in the Valentin Herz shipping company until 1905. He learned the professions of boatman and dredger operator. From 1908 to 1910 Götz attended the commercial school in Mannheim in two four-month periods . From 1910 Hermann Götz initially worked as a commercial clerk at a Mannheim shipping company before taking over the management of the Rheinstern shipping company from 1912 to 1913. From 1913 to 1915 Götz worked as a correspondent for a freight forwarding company in Rotterdam and as a dispatcher for various shipping companies.

Between 1915 and 1918 Götz completed military service in the First World War .

1918–1945: Time in East Prussia until the Second World War

After the First World War, Götz moved to East Prussia . From 1918 to 1919 he initially worked as a commercial clerk at a shipping company in Königsberg . In 1919 Götz founded the company Wasser-Transport-Vermittlung GmbH in Königsberg and subsequently built it up. From 1920 to 1945 he worked as an independent entrepreneur.

From 1922 to 1925 Götz acted as chairman of the East Prussian private boatmen's association in Königsberg. In 1926 he founded the Ostpreußische Binnenschiffer-Kreditgenossenschaft GmbH and managed it until 1935. In 1930 he took over a passenger shipping company and from the same year also ran a spa and hotels in Rossitten and Kranzbeek . Between 1938 and 1941 Götz managed an agricultural property in Rossitten. In 1938 he also set up a café in town.

1945–1954: expulsion and return to Wertheim

After the end of the Second World War , Götz was expelled from East Prussia and returned to his native town of Wertheim. From 1946 to 1948 Götz worked as district administrator of the district Tauberbischofsheim . He then ran the Wertheim glass instrument factory as an independent entrepreneur until 1954 and, from 1954, a thermometer trade.

1955–1971: time in Heidelberg and death in Wertheim

In 1955 Götz changed his field of activity again and ran a passenger shipping company on the Neckar in Heidelberg until 1967 . Götz died in Wertheim on October 21, 1971.

Götz was non-party. He was a member of the East Prussian State Railway Council Königsberg, waterways advisory council in East Prussia and a member of the Königsberg Freight Committee for East Prussia.

literature

  • Wolfram Angerbauer (Red.): The heads of the upper offices, district offices and district offices in Baden-Württemberg from 1810 to 1972 . Published by the working group of the district archives at the Baden-Württemberg district assembly. Theiss, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-8062-1213-9 , pp. 282 .

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e f g h Wolfram Angerbauer (Red.): The heads of the upper offices, district offices and district offices in Baden-Württemberg 1810 to 1972 . Published by the working group of the district archives at the Baden-Württemberg district assembly. Theiss, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-8062-1213-9 , pp. 282 .