Hermann Rodewald (politician)

Hermann Emil Otto Rodewald (born March 13, 1869 in Bremen ; † January 15, 1945 there ) was a German merchant and senator in the Senate of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen ( DNVP ).

biography

Family, education and work

Rodewald was the son of the merchant Georg Hermann Rodewald (1814-1891) and Marie Christine Verena Gildemeister, related to Otto Gildemeister , four-time mayor of Bremen. He was married to Beatrice Packer, who came from Bristol, and after her death in second marriage to Anna Auguste Clausen. His sister was the women's rights activist and politician (DVP) Dr. Verena Rodewald (1866-1937). The family was very wealthy.

Rodewald became a businessman like his father. He was in the management and since 1924 on the supervisory board of the North German wool combing & worsted spinning mill .

In 1924 he also took on the office of President of the Bremen Chamber of Commerce . In the 1920s he was a member of the supervisory board of the Deutsch Überseeische Bank in Berlin. From the 1930s to 1940s he was a member of the Bremen Advisory Board of Deutsche Bank .

politics

Rodewald became a member of the national-conservative German National People's Party (DNVP) in 1918/19 .

After the First World War in 1919/1920 he was a member of the constituent Bremen National Assembly . From 1920 to 1925 he was a senator in the Senate under Mayor Martin Donandt (non-party).

literature

Delmenhorster Bibliography 1741 to 2011: Hermann Rodewald (1869-1945) - multi-layered role play as a businessman, industrialist and politician . In: HuH ( Hus un Heimat, supplement to the Delmenhorster Kreisblatt ), vol. 56, 2005, no. 52, p. 48.

Individual evidence

^ Herbert Black Forest : History of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen. Volume III pp. 453, 465, 528. Edition Temmen, Bremen 1995, ISBN 3-86108-283-7 .

personal data
SURNAME	Rodewald, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Rodewald, Hermann Emil Otto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German businessman and politician (DNVP)
DATE OF BIRTH	March 13, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bremen
DATE OF DEATH	January 15, 1945
Place of death	Bremen

[1] Herbert Black Forest : History of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen. Volume III pp. 453, 465, 528. Edition Temmen, Bremen 1995, ISBN 3-86108-283-7 .