Johann Wilhelm Ludowici

Johann Wilhelm Ludowici (born March 29, 1896 in Jockgrim ; † 1983 ) was a German entrepreneur in the brick industry and a National Socialist functionary.

Life

Born the son of the brickworks owner Wilhelm Ludowici , he attended the secondary school in Munich and studied at the Technical University of Karlsruhe , the Technical University of Munich , the Technical University of Berlin and the Technical University of Aachen . After graduating as Dr.-Ing. In 1920 he joined his father's company, the Ludowici brickworks . In 1925 he became a partner . Ludowici joined the NSDAP in 1923 .

In addition, he was chairman of the supervisory board of Tonwarenindustrie AG (Wiesloch), Ludwigshafener Walzmühle AG and Birkenfelder Ton- und Ziegelwerke GmbH (Birkenfeld), deputy chairman of the supervisory board of Frankfurter Baustoff-Beschaffungs AG, department of German clinker and brickworks (Meerholz) and Member of the supervisory board of the Bürgerbräu brewery in Ludwigshafen.

Ludowici was the deputy of the Nazi chief ideologist Alfred Rosenberg in the Combat League for German Culture (KfdK) . From 1933 he headed the Reichsheimstättenamt of the German Labor Front (DAF) . In addition, from March 1933 he was the NSDAP's representative for all settlement tasks and the settlement representative on the staff of the Führer’s deputy . With his Academy for State Research and Planning, founded in 1935, he influenced regional social planning. From 1935 to 1937 the journal Reichsplanung was published, organ of the Academy for State Research and Planning .

Ludowici became honorary deputy of the Reich Commissioner for Settlements Gottfried Feder in May 1934 . The creation of this office was justified with the need to bundle the competencies of this area. At the same time, the home office of the NSDAP was integrated into this commissariat. In this way the NSDAP succeeded in breaking through and fixing its influence on the former competencies of the respective state ministries. One of Ludowici's clerks was Martin Kornrumpf , who later worked for the National Socialist Reichsarbeitsgemeinschaft für Raumforschung (RAG) ( Atlas Bavarian Ostmark ), which, together with the Reich Office for Spatial Planning (RfR), had previously caused the loss of power in Ludowici's Academy.

After 1945 Ludowici designed spherical houses , preserved prototypes can be found in Jockgrim and Neupotz . Ludowici wrote several scientific papers on civil engineering and thermodynamics .

Fonts (selection)

The German settlement plant. Heidelberg 1935.
Industrial relocation. (= Series of publications by the Office of the Settlement Commissioner of the NSDAP , Volume 3.) Munich 1935.
Depoletarianization. The meaning of the new management. In: Völkische Wissenschaft , 2nd year 1934/1935, pp. 66–78.
The relocation of industry from the city to the countryside. Their impact on housing and settlement policy. In: Völkischer Beobachter , No. 290 of October 17, 1934.

literature

Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 2: L-Z. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1931, DNB 453960294 , p. 1162.
Rüdiger Hachtmann : The economic empire of the German labor front 1933-1945. (= History of the Present , Volume 3.) Wallstein, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8353-1037-7 .

Web links

Literature by and about Johann Wilhelm Ludowici in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ Rüdiger Hachtmann: The economic empire of the German labor front 1933-1945. P. 441

^ Dieter Münk: The organization of space in National Socialism. A sociological investigation of ideologically based models in architecture, town planning and spatial planning of the Third Reich. (= Pahl-Rugenstein Hochschulschriften , Volume 284.) Bonn 1993, p. 487.

^ Wolfgang Freund: Race and population policy in an expanding Gau. Rheinpfalz - Saarpfalz - Westmark . In: Jürgen John, Horst Möller , Thomas Schaarschmidt (eds.): The NS-Gaue . Regional middle authorities in the centralized “leader state”. Munich 2007, pp. 334–347, here p. 338.

^ Rudolf Baade: Capital and Housing in Berlin 1924 to 1940. Public funding in the Weimar Republic and in the Nazi state. (= Berlin research by the Historical Commission in Berlin , Volume 3.) Berlin 2004, p. 172.

↑ Stefan Grüner: Planned "economic miracle"? Industrial and structural policy in Bavaria from 1945 to 1973 . R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2009, p. 238 .

personal data
SURNAME	Ludowici, Johann Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German entrepreneur in the brick industry, Nazi functionary
DATE OF BIRTH	March 29, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH	Jockgrim
DATE OF DEATH	1983

[1] Rüdiger Hachtmann: The economic empire of the German labor front 1933-1945. P. 441

[2] Dieter Münk: The organization of space in National Socialism. A sociological investigation of ideologically based models in architecture, town planning and spatial planning of the Third Reich. (= Pahl-Rugenstein Hochschulschriften , Volume 284.) Bonn 1993, p. 487.

[3] Wolfgang Freund: Race and population policy in an expanding Gau. Rheinpfalz - Saarpfalz - Westmark . In: Jürgen John, Horst Möller , Thomas Schaarschmidt (eds.): The NS-Gaue . Regional middle authorities in the centralized “leader state”. Munich 2007, pp. 334–347, here p. 338.

[4] Rudolf Baade: Capital and Housing in Berlin 1924 to 1940. Public funding in the Weimar Republic and in the Nazi state. (= Berlin research by the Historical Commission in Berlin , Volume 3.) Berlin 2004, p. 172.

[5] Stefan Grüner: Planned "economic miracle"? Industrial and structural policy in Bavaria from 1945 to 1973 . R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2009, p. 238 .