Kaspar Asshoff

Kaspar Aßhoff (born June 20, 1898 in Oberense , Soest district; † April 26, 1945 in Berlin ) was co-founder and first general manager of the Reichsinnungsverband des Kraftfahrzeughandwerk in Berlin (today: Central Association of the German Motor Vehicle Industry ).

Life

Kaspar Aßhoff was born the eldest son and second of six siblings. His parents were farmers and landowners. After graduating from the Mariengymnasium in Werl in 1915 , he took part in the First World War as a lieutenant .

From 1917 to 1919 he studied law at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster. There he joined the Catholic student association VKDSt. Saxonia Münster in the CV . In 1919 Kaspar Aßhoff continued his studies at the University of Cologne , and in 1921 received his doctorate in political science (Dr. rer. Pol.) Under the dean's office of the professor of business administration Eugen Schmalenbach . When studying in Cologne in 1919, she also joined the Rappoltstein Catholic student association .

From 1926 onwards, Aßhoff initially worked as managing director of the “Westphalian-Lippian handicrafts” in Dortmund. On May 1, 1935, together with Friedrich Stupp, he founded the Reichsinnungsverband des Kraftfahrzeughandwerk in Berlin and was its first general manager. The predecessor organization of today's Central Association of the German Motor Vehicle Trade represented the motor vehicle trade as an independent trade for the first time.

During the Second World War , Aßhoff continued to work for the guild association. While his family was evacuated at the end of the war, Kaspar Aßhoff stayed there until the capture of Berlin, and died on April 26, 1945 under unexplained circumstances. Rumor has it that in the last days of the war while trying to leave Berlin on his own, he was picked up in Spandau by the commandos of the Waffen SS and hanged.

See also

• Central Association of the German Motor Vehicle Industry

Individual evidence

• History of the automotive industry 1909–1984; Bartsch-Verlag, KG Ottobrunn, 1984, 1st edition
• Resistance and persecution in the CV, Society for Student History and Student Customs V., Munich 1983; Clemens Schmitz, Essen.