Hermann Paech

Hermann Paech (born May 4, 1877 in Cottbus , † September 23, 1956, presumably in Hamburg ) was a German shipyard manager .

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Paech was born in Cottbus and attended the Technical University of Charlottenburg . He then worked as a construction clerk for the Imperial Navy . From 1909 to 1903 he constructed ships of the line as a department head in the Berlin Reichsmarineamt . Afterwards he supervised the naval construction in the Hamburger Vulkanwerft and other shipbuilding companies.

In 1920 Paech moved from the navy , which was significantly reduced due to the war, to the Hamburg shipyard Janssen & Schmilinsky , which he managed for several years. The company has been building tugboats and harbor, small and special ships since 1858. In 1932 the shipyard began building larger ships in new buildings in Tollerort , but miscalculated and went bankrupt in December 1928. In January 1929 the Howaldtswerke in Kiel took over the company, and at the beginning of 1930 also the Vulkan shipyard. As they concentrated on expanding the Vulkan shipyard, they closed the Tollerort site in 1931. Paech took over management positions in the entire Howaldtswerke Hamburg group and rose to the board in 1935.

During the Second World War , Paech organized the production. During this time, in 1939, he signed a National Socialist operating code. From 1940 he campaigned for company social welfare such as old age and company medical care. He organized accommodation for apprentices, a rest home in Malente-Gremsmühlen and a children's home in the Lüneburg Heath . From 1941 he called for perseverance in his company magazine, loyal to the regime.

In 1942 Paech took over the chairmanship of the board of directors of the Weft and was named Wehrwirtschaftsführer on the occasion of his 65th birthday . Shortly before the end of the war, he resigned from office on March 22, 1945.

literature

• Christian Ostersehlte: Paech, Hermann . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 6 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8353-1025-4 , p. 241 .