Hermann Josef Werhahn

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Hermann Josef Werhahn (born April 7, 1923 in Neuss ; † July 20, 2016 there ) was a German businessman and entrepreneur .

Life

Hermann Josef Werhahn was the youngest son of Wilhelm Werhahn , the founder of Wilh. Werhahn KG , and his wife Magdalena, née Cremer. On May 2, 1950, Hermann Josef Werhahn married the youngest daughter of the then Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer , Libet Werhahn-Adenauer (1928–2019) in the basilica of Maria Laach Monastery . The marriage had five children.

After graduating from the Quirinus Gymnasium in Neuss in 1941, Werhahn was obliged to serve in the Reich Labor Service , and shortly afterwards to the Wehrmacht . He was able to return to Neuss in 1947 from being a prisoner of war in the Soviet Union . After an apprenticeship at the private bank Wilh. Werhahn in the Neusser Königsstraße he was in the family business Wilh. Werhahn KG. From 1966 to 1990 he was personally liable and authorized to represent Wilh. Werhahn KG.

Werhahn held numerous executive and supervisory board mandates, including at RWE , Hoesch AG , the construction company Strabag , Rheinland-Versicherung and several breweries ( Wicküler brewery , Gesenberg brewery, Bodden brewery) and mines ( Basalt-Actien-Gesellschaft ), Banks (private bank Wilh. Werhahn, Commerzbank) and machine factories.

Together with co-author Wolfgang Heintzeler, Werhahn published the book “Energy and Conscience” in 1983, a justification for his personal commitment to the pebble bed reactor constructed by Rudolf Schulten . He had been a member of the industrial advisory board of the Jülich nuclear research facility since 1963 .

Werhahn was Vice President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IHK) Middle Lower Rhine, a member of the Mittelstands- und Wirtschaftsvereinigung (MIT) of the CDU, of which he was an honorary member in Neuss, and a member of the Association of Catholic Entrepreneurs (BKU). In 1987 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit First Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hermann Josef Werhahn's obituary notice. Retrieved July 23, 2016 .
  2. ^ Neuss mourns Hermann Josef Werhahn. Retrieved July 22, 2016 .
  3. ↑ At the age of 90: Adenauer's youngest daughter died . In: Spiegel Online . February 4, 2019 ( spiegel.de [accessed February 4, 2019]).
  4. ↑ a b c The senior of the Werhahn family is dead. Accessed July 21, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Obituary notice of Wilh. Werhahn KG. Retrieved July 26, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Werhahn, Hermann Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuss
DATE OF DEATH 20th July 2016
Place of death Neuss