Hermann Victor Hugo Huebbe

Hermann Victor Hugo Hübbe (born June 11, 1901 in Mexico City , † October 7, 1972 in Hamburg ) was a German-Mexican banker and from 1933 to 1937 President of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce .

Family and work

Hermann Hübbe was the eldest son of the banker Anton Hübbe (1872-1943) and his wife Ana de Chapeaurouge (1880-1946), who came from the Mexican branch of the long-established Hamburg senatorial families Chapeaurouge .

He first attended the German School in Mexico City before returning to Germany with his parents in 1911. He continued his school career until 1912 at the Goethe-Gymnasium in Frankfurt am Main and then at the Johanneum in Hamburg. After completing a commercial apprenticeship at the Hamburger Reismühle A. Lüthke & Co, from July 1921 onwards, Hübbe initially worked for three years in the branch of the German-South American Bank (DSB) in Buenos Aires and then joined the J. Henry Schroeder Banking Corporation in New in 1924 York .

In 1932 he followed his father as director of the Hamburg branch of the German-South American Bank. In contrast to his father, who had acted against National Socialism as President of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce until 1931, Hübbe had already become a member of the NSDAP in 1931 and has now turned the DSB branch into a “National Socialist model company”. So he fired all Jewish employees until August 1933. In 1937 Hübbe was appointed to the board of directors of the DSB in Berlin , but after the start of the war in 1939 he did his military service in the High Command of the Wehrmacht and then moved to the Reich Security Main Office , where he was responsible for general economic matters in the context of counter-espionage in Department IV E 2 is.

After the war he was interned by the British in Neuengamme from 1945 to 1947 . Classified as exonerated in the denazification , he returned to his old position at the German-South American Bank in 1948. Between 1948 and 1950 he also headed the working group that existed between the German South American Bank and the Hamburger Kreditbank in the field of international business. After retiring from the Executive Board due to age, he moved to the DSB Supervisory Board in 1966 and remained there until his death in 1972.

Volunteering

On June 16, 1933 Hiibbe was - the President of the now - just two years after his father conformist and after the leadership principle restructured Hamburg Chamber of Commerce elected, at the instigation of the Nazi Gauleiter and Reich Governor in Hamburg Karl Kaufmann . Seventeen members, including all Jewish and half-Jewish members such as Rudolf Petersen , Franz Rappolt and Max Warburg , had to resign from this Chamber of Commerce plenary . Among the new members were "outspoken partisans of the National Socialists" like the businessman Joachim de la Camp or the coffee broker and National Socialist Mayor Fritz Meyer . Hübbe released the long-time syndic and head of the Commerzbibliothek , Eduard Rosenbaum , into early retirement, saying that it must be hard to belong to such a rootless race . However, when the Reich Ministry of Economics wanted to take over the supervision of the Chamber of Commerce in August 1934, Hübbe also insisted on its independence. Under the influence of his father and his national-liberal friends in the Chamber of Commerce, Huebbe allowed the official communications to continue from the Jewish company Ackermann & Wulff Nachflg. were printed and in May 1936 issued an order that information about the Aryan status of a company owner would only be given to public corporations because, as President, he did not want to actively participate in anti-Jewish boycotts of trade.

He headed the Chamber until he moved to Berlin on April 6, 1937. As early as 1936, Hübbe was appointed to the Committee for Foreign Advertising at the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda as a member of the Advertising Council of German Business . In 1937 he became a member of the board of trustees for the Hamburg SA convalescent home in Merkendorf, which was run under the Wilhelm Bolz Foundation from 1940. In Berlin, on March 14, 1938, Huebbe was appointed head of the newly established Chamber of Commerce for the Nordmark economic district by the Reich Ministry of Economics and is a member of the advisory board of the foreign trade office for Hamburg and Nordmark.

In Hamburg, Hübbe succeeded his father in 1934 as chairman of the Latin American Association Hamburg-Bremen eV , which was founded in the same year from the office of the German Chambers of Commerce in Latin American countries (GELATEINO), was chairman there until 1939, then as deputy chairman. He was also one of the co-founders of the German Ibero-America Foundation of the Ibero-American Institute and the German Bolivar Society.

family

Hermann Hübbe married Ingeborg Schröder (1903–1975) in 1925. He is Hermann Reusch's brother-in-law through his sister Ana Elisabeth (1903–1975) .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The time in which conscience was silent , homepage of the Latin America Association Hamburg-Bremen eV  ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Under German management , article in the taz of April 1, 2003
3. ^ Ralf Ahrens: Die Dresdner Bank 1945 - 1957, Oldenbourg Verlag 2007, pp. 118f.
4. ^ The attitude of the Chamber of Commerce and Hamburg merchants to the National Socialist Jewish policy , Hamburg Chamber of Commerce on Hamburg.de
5. ↑ Michael Werner: Foundation City and Bourgeoisie: Hamburg Foundation Culture from the Empire to National Socialism , Walter de Gruyter 2011, p. 408f.
6. ↑ The time in which the conscience was silent , homepage of the Latin American Association Hamburg-Bremen eV  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

literature

• Uwe Bahnsen : Hanseatic people under the swastika. The Hamburg Chamber of Commerce and the merchants in the Third Reich. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 2015.
• Michael Werner: Foundation city and bourgeoisie: Hamburg's foundation culture from the Empire to National Socialism , Walter de Gruyter 2011
• Ralf Ahrens: The Dresdner Bank 1945 - 1957 , Oldenbourg Verlag 2007
• Cornelia Rau-Kühne: Between “responsible sphere of activity” and “domestic splendor”. On the interior view of business- middle-class families in the 20th century in Dieter Ziegler (Ed.), Big Citizens and Entrepreneurs: The German Business Elite in the 20th Century , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2000, pp. 215–248.

Web links

• CV at www.hamburgerpersoenlichkeit.de
• Family tree on geneanet.org
• Newspaper article about Hermann Victor Hugo Hübbe in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .