Hermann Warmbold

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Von Papen's cabinet. Warmbold standing in the middle. (1932)

Hermann Warmbold (born April 21, 1876 in Klein Himstedt ; † March 11, 1976 in Tegernsee ) was a German minister of state , farmer , agricultural scientist , politician and economic manager .

Life and work

Warmbold was married to Eleonore (Ella) Wagemann, daughter of the Senate President at the Higher Regional Court of Hamm Friedrich Wagemann. His brother-in-law was Ernst Wagemann , who worked out the Wagemann plan in 1932.

After graduating from high school, he first worked in agriculture and then became a one-year volunteer in the 2nd Hannoversches Infanterie-Regiment No. 77 in Celle , most recently as First Lieutenant dR Warmbold then began studying agriculture and economics at the universities of Göttingen and Bonn , that he obtained with the doctorate to Dr. phil. finished (Dissertation: Investigations into the biology of nitrogen-fixing bacteria. A contribution to the knowledge of the changes in the nitrogen content of the undeveloped arable land ). From 1907 to 1910 he was general secretary of the Chamber of Agriculture in Hanover and from 1907 to 1911 he was general secretary of the main agricultural and forestry association in Lüneburg .

Warmbold went to Estonia in the Russian Empire in 1911 and was a financial expert for the knighthood there until 1913. At the same time he managed a manor near Reval , which he managed as an experimental estate . From 1913 to 1917 he headed the economic administration department at the Agricultural University in Berlin . After completing his habilitation, he was professor of agricultural economics at the Hohenheim Agricultural University from 1915 to 1919 . At the same time, he acted for a short time as director of the university and ensured that Margarete von Wrangell could continue her research on phosphoric acid at the university.

During the time of the Weimar Republic , Warmbold was ministerial director in charge of the domains department in the Prussian Ministry of Agriculture, Domains and Forests from 1919 to 1921 and retired from civil service in 1922. From 1922 to 1931 he was a board member of BASF and from 1926 to 1931 member of the board of IG Farben . After the Second World War , he emigrated to Chile , worked as an advisor on agricultural matters to the Chilean government and participated in the separation of IG Farben.

Public offices

Warmbold did not belong to any party and was Minister for Agriculture, Domains and Forests in the Prussian state government led by Prime Minister Adam Stegerwald from April 21 to November 7, 1921 .

Because it was feared that the appointment of IG Farben board member Hermann Schmitz as Reich Minister of Economics in 1932 would trigger critical publications in the Hugenberg press about the financial irregularities at IG Farben, the choice fell on Hermann Warmbold, who was a member of the IG Farben supervisory board at the time . Schmitz joined an economic advisory council of the Reich government together with 24 other industrialists, including Paul Silverberg , Albert Vögler , Georg von Schnitzler and Otto Wolff . Warmbold was appointed Reich Minister of Economics to the government headed by Chancellor Heinrich Brüning on October 9, 1931 , but left the government on April 28, 1932. From June 1, 1932 to January 28, 1933 he was again Reich Minister of Economics in the cabinets of Reich Chancellors Franz von Papen and Kurt von Schleicher . At the beginning of June 1932 he also took over the provisional management of the Reich Labor Ministry .

Honors

  • Honorary doctorate (Dr. hc) from the agricultural universities of Hohenheim and Berlin

literature

  • Philippe Myohl, Lukas Gisin: Life and work of Prof. Dr. Hermann Warmbold . Aarau, 2007.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hohenheim's directors, rectors and presidents ( memento from March 25, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ A b Jens Ulrich Heine: Board of Directors & Destiny . VCH Verlagsgesellschaft, Weinheim 1990 pp. 148–150
  3. ↑ Gabriele Katz: Stuttgart's strong women . Theiss, Darmstadt 2015, p. 104-105 .
  4. ^ Gerhard Schulz, Von Brüning zu Hitler , De Gruyter Verlag, Berlin, New York 1992, pp. 613–624.
  5. ↑ Federal Archives: Cabinet Brüning 2nd Economic Advisory Board
personal data
SURNAME Warmbold, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German farmer, agronomist, manager and politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Klein Himstedt
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 1976
Place of death Tegernsee