Hermann Wenhold

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Hermann Wenhold (born March 14, 1891 in Bremen , † March 15, 1976 in Bremen) was a savings bank director, businessman and a German politician ( FDP ) and Senator of Bremen .

biography

Wenhold studied law and political science after completing a commercial apprenticeship . He was from 1922 to 1931 director of the Sparkasse Bremen and then business and later co-owner of CF Corssen & Co .

During the Second World War, the company set up a branch in the small Polish town of Radzyń Podlaski in the General Government , where, like a number of other German overseas companies, it was involved in the exploitative occupation economy. Because of his commercial achievements for the German war economy, Wenhold was awarded the National Socialist honorary title of military economic leader by the Reich Ministry of Economics in 1942 .

His Wenhold house in Bremen-Riensberg was designed by the architect Emil Fahrenkamp from Düsseldorf in 1927. Around 1953/54 Wenhold was chairman of the foreign trade advisory board at the Federal Ministry of Economics (BMWi) and vice-president of the Bremen Chamber of Commerce as well as a member of several committees of the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DIHT). From July 1955 to 1958 he was General Commissioner of the Federal Republic for the preparation of the 1958 World Exhibition in Brussels .

Wenhold founded the Bremen regional association of the German Red Cross in 1945 and was its president until March 30, 1946. He had been a commercial member of the Haus Seefahrt Foundation since 1947. From 1958 to 1975 he was a member of the board of trustees of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom .

politics

Wenhold belonged to the Bremen citizenship from 1919 to 1933 . Initially a member of the DDP , from 1930 he was a member of its successor party , the German State Party , of which he was parliamentary group leader in the citizenry from 1930 to 1933.

After the Second World War , Wenhold took part in the founding of the Bremen Democratic People's Party , which became the Bremen regional association of the FDP in the early 1950s .

Wenhold was Senator for Finance in Bremen in Senate Vagts and Senate Kaisen I for a short time from June 13, 1945 to March 30, 1946 . He was followed by Senator Dr. Wilhelm Nolting-Hauff . From 1951 to 1955 Wenhold was again a member of the Bremen citizenship . In 1951/52 he was chairman of the FDP parliamentary group and a member of the FDP federal executive committee .

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literature

Individual evidence

  1. Linne, Karsten (2001): German African companies in the "Osteinsatz". In: 1999 16 (1), pp. 49-90., Here pp. 68-69
  2. State Archives Bremen, 3-H.1./946.
  3. ^ Karl H. Schwebel : Seafaring House Bremen. His merchants and captains . Krohn, Bremen 1947, p. 76.