Hugo Kanter

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Stumbling block for Hugo Kanter on Brabandtstrasse in Braunschweig

Hugo Kanter (born on September 27, 1871 in Breslau ; died on November 17, 1938 in Berlin ) was a German university professor , from 1924 to 1933 in-house counsel at the Braunschweig Chamber of Commerce and Member of the Braunschweig Landtag .

Life

Hugo Kanter was born in Breslau in 1871. He came from a large Jewish merchant family. He graduated from high school in Wroclaw and then studied economics , law and political science at the Universities of Wroclaw , Munich , Freiburg , Heidelberg , Berlin and Frankfurt am Main . He was graduated from Heidelberg University in 1901 with his dissertation The development of the trade in ready-to-use goods from the middle of the 18th century to 1866 as Dr. phil. PhD. Kanter worked for the Association of the German Textile Finishing Industry in Düsseldorf from 1897 to 1902 .

Activity in Braunschweig

In 1902 he settled in Braunschweig , where he initially worked as an assistant and then as an economic adviser to the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IHK) Braunschweig at Brabandtstrasse 11. From 1924 to 1933 he was in-house counsel at the IHK. From 1908, Kanter held lectures on commercial and industrial accounting at the Braunschweig Technical University . In 1923 he was appointed associate professor for private economics.

During the First World War he was entrusted with the tasks of the war economic organization. In 1916 he took over the management of the vegetable canning war company in Braunschweig mbH. After the end of the war, he became managing director and board member of the Association of German Canning Manufacturers in Braunschweig in 1919 . After the end of the war, Kanter, who was close to the liberal German Democratic Party, was a member of the Braunschweig State Parliament for the first electoral period (1918–1920).

Kanter lived in Braunschweig at Lützowstrasse 1.

time of the nationalsocialism

During the Weimar Republic , Kanter had already expressed his rejection of the economic ideas of the National Socialists in several articles. After the seizure of power , he had to resign from the Chamber of Commerce on March 28, 1933. The teaching post at the TH Braunschweig was withdrawn from him in 1933 because he was Jewish. The Braunschweiger daily newspaper loyal to the regime commented on March 31, 1933 as follows:

"We are particularly pleased to see this Jew leave his office, as we have had years of unrelenting and conscious enmity with him on both sides."

On May 10, 1933, a book burning took place in front of the Braunschweig Castle , during which the works of three Braunschweig professors, Helmut von Bracken , August Riekel and Hugo Kanter, were thrown into the flames.

After his impeachment , Kanter fell into a deep depression and first emigrated to Switzerland, but returned to Germany. He last lived in Berlin, where he ended his life a few days after the November pogroms in 1938 .

family

Hugo Kanter was married to the Protestant Marianne geb. Schultz (died November 2, 1981). He was not a practicing Jew, but a "non-Aryan Christian" of the Protestant faith. The marriage remained childless.

Fonts (selection)

  • Commercial professional knowledge. Dr. Serger & Hempel, 1928.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brunswick address book 1930 : Entry Kanter, Hugo, Dr. phil., lawyer at the Chamber of Commerce, professor at the Technical University, Lützowstr. 1
  2. ↑ Jörg Leuschner, Karl Heinrich Kaufhold, Claudia Märtl (eds.): The economic and social history of the Braunschweigische Land from the Middle Ages to the present, Volume III: Modern times. Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim 2008, ISBN 978-3-487-13599-1 , p. 456.
  3. ↑ Jörg Leuschner, Karl Heinrich Kaufhold, Claudia Märtl (eds.): The economic and social history of the Braunschweigische Land from the Middle Ages to the present, Volume III: Modern times. Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim 2008, p. 457.
  4. ↑ Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon . 19th and 20th centuries. Hahn, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 988.
  5. ↑ Uwe Lammers: Syndic Hugo Kanter "... one of the smartest and always a decent person". In: Braunschweigische Heimat, 2004, 90 (2), p. 11.
  6. ↑ Uwe Lammers: Syndic Hugo Kanter "... one of the smartest and always a decent person". In: Braunschweigische Heimat 2004, 90 (2), p. 9.
personal data
SURNAME Kanter, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German university professor and in-house counsel
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH November 17, 1938
Place of death Berlin