Hermann Ritter (Senator)
Hermann Theodor Ritter (born July 18, 1878 in Bremen , † November 18, 1949 in Bremen) was a German tobacco merchant and Bremen senator .
biography
Ritter was the son of the tobacco manufacturer Franz Ritter (1836-1907). He had the sons Wolfgang (1905–1993) and Helmut Ritter (1907–1968). From 1894 to 1897 he completed a commercial apprenticeship at Louis C. Kalkmann , an overseas company also in the tobacco trade. After completing his military service, he worked for the Keßler & Castendyk raw tobacco shop .
In 1928 he built the Ritter house in Bremen - Schwachhausen , Kurfürstenallee 23.
Entrepreneur
Before 1900, Ritter acquired shares in the Martin Brinkmann tobacco factory in Bremen, which he then acquired in full from Wenzel Brinkmann's widow at the age of 22. In 1900 Brinkmann had 16 employees. The company went through a rapid development. In 1910 the location in Burglesum was given up and production moved to Woltmershausen . Ritter bought companies in Treffurt near Eisenach and in Heidelberg . At the beginning of 1929 he converted the company into the Martin Brinkmann AG stock corporation . His sons were now in management positions in the company, Wolfgang Ritter as a member of the Board of Management and Helmut Ritter as an authorized signatory . Hermann Ritter and his wife Wanda sat on the supervisory board . At that time the company was Europe's largest tobacco factory with around 2,500 employees; in 1933 it had 4,000 employees. After the Second World War, Hermann Ritter was not allowed to run his company himself as an incriminated person ; but he participated in the successful reconstruction.
politics
Ritter was Vice President and President of the Bremen Chamber of Commerce several times between 1915 and 1922 . In the early 1920s he joined the right-wing conservative German National People's Party (DNVP). After the National Socialists came to power , he became a senator for a short time from March 18 to September 30, 1933 under the governing mayor Richard Markert ( NSDAP ). Afterwards he was also active as Bremen State Councilor for economic issues until the end of the Second World War . In Berlin he headed the Tobacco Industry Section. In 1937 Ritter joined the NSDAP and was also a supporting member of the SS .
Honors
- The Hermann-Ritter-Straße in Woltmershausen was named in 1963 after him.
- The rescue cruiser of the German Society for the Rescue of Shipwrecked Hermann Ritter was named after him.
literature
- Friedrich Prüser: Hermann Ritter. In: Otto Heinrich May (Ed.): Niedersächsische Lebensbilder , Vol. V, p. 237.
- Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
- Herbert Black Forest: Ritter, Hermann Theodor. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , pp. 657 f. ( Digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Handbook of German Stock Companies , 37th edition 1932, Volume 3, p. 4682 f.
- ↑ Dieter Pfliegensdörfer: From commercial center to armorers. Economy, the state and the working class in Bremen from 1929 to 1945. University of Bremen Research focus on work and education, Bremen 1986, p. 457.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ritter, Hermann |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ritter, Hermann Theodor (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German tobacco merchant and Senator from Bremen |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 18, 1878 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bremen |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 18, 1949 |
| Place of death | Bremen |