Hugo Brandt (businessman)

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Hugo Brandt (born March 16, 1845 in Hamburg ; † March 21, 1933 there ) was a businessman and Hamburg senator.

Brandt's father was a respected underwriter ; the family had lived in Hamburg since the middle of the 18th century. After finishing school in Hamburg, Hugo Brandt first went abroad. In 1865 he began a commercial apprenticeship at the import and export company Carl Geo. Heise in Hamburg. He then spent a few years in the West Indies . On January 1, 1879, he became a partner in the Carl Geo company. Heise, he left the company on June 30, 1931.

In 1892 Brandt was elected to the Hamburg parliament, where he joined the right-wing parliamentary group. At times he was a member of the finance deputation , the deputation for indirect taxes and the orphanage college.

Until his election to the Senate on December 2, 1901 , he was a member of the citizenship in place of the retired Senator Adolph Ferdinand Hertz . In the Senate, he worked for a long time as President of the Cemetery Deputation and from 1911 as Deputy President of the Finance Department under Arnold Diestel . From the first year of the war, Brandt was chairman of the commission for war supplies.

“When food provisions for the entire Reich deteriorated in 1916, it was believed in Hamburg that the War Supply Commission had failed. Instead of its members, other personalities were appointed to the management of the newly formed War Supply Office. It was not taken into account that the large purchases of rice , meat , coffee and other things, which made the situation in Hamburg better than in other cities, were mainly due to Senator Brandt. He was recalled from his post on August 31, 1916. "

- Leo Lippmann

On March 28, 1919, he resigned from the Senate. Brandt was considered very wealthy with an estimated fortune of 4.3 million marks in 1912.

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  • Obituary in Hamburg Foreign Gazette No. 81 of March 22, 1933
  • Private company documents Carl Geo. Hot

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Leo Lippmann : My life and my official activity. Memories and a contribution to the financial history of Hamburg. From the estate, ed. by Werner Jochmann , Hamburg 1964., p. 207.
  2. ↑ Rudolf Martin (Hrsg.): Yearbook of the wealth and income of millionaires in the three Hanseatic cities (Hamburg, Bremen, Lübeck). Berlin 1912, p. 11.
personal data
SURNAME Brandt, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Senator and businessman
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH March 21, 1933
Place of death Hamburg