Konrad Niethammer

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Paul Konrad Friedrich Niethammer (born October 14, 1863 in Kriebstein ; † September 14, 1931 there ) was a German entrepreneur and national liberal politician . He was the owner of the Kübler & Niethammer paper factory near Kriebstein and a member of the Saxon state parliament.

Live and act

The son of the paper entrepreneur and member of the Reich and Landtag Albert Niethammer (1831–1908) and his wife Jenny geb. Crusius († 1912) attended grammar school in Dresden-Neustadt from 1876 to 1883 . He then studied in Tübingen , Berlin and Leipzig the law . After completing his studies with a PhD jur. had completed, he worked as a trainee lawyer in Dresden from October 1887 to July 1889 . After traveling to America and Canada in 1891/92, he followed in his father's footsteps as an entrepreneur. From 1892 he worked as a paper manufacturer in Kriebstein and in 1910 took over the extensive company as the sole owner under the name Kübler & Niethammer , which included a number of paper and wood pulp mills and a sulphite pulp mill. With 1,100 employees, the company was one of the largest in its branch in the German Reich. In 1912 Niethammer's fortune was given as 7.7 million Reichsmarks. For his entrepreneurial work he was appointed to the Secret Commerce Council.

Niethammer was a member of the Chemnitz Chamber of Commerce and a city councilor in Waldheim . From 1908 he was a deputy member of the Railway Council. In a by-election, which had become necessary due to the resignation and death of Richard Rühlmann , in 1908 he won a seat in the 9th constituency of the Saxon state parliament , of which he was a member until the November Revolution of 1918 . During this time he was deputy chairman of the national liberal parliamentary group . As a result, he also belonged to the Saxon People's Chamber and until 1926 the Landtag during the Weimar Republic , now for the German People's Party .

Niethammer was also a member of the supervisory board of Allgemeine Deutsche Creditanstalt and, since 1919, a board member of the Association of Saxon Industrialists . He was chairman of the supervisory board of the printing paper syndicate in Berlin , of the employers' association of Saxony and of the association of Saxon paper manufacturers. He was also a member of the Evangelical Saxon State Synod . In 1926 he received an honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Dresden .

Niethammer had nine children. Four of his sons, Wilhelm, Gerhard, Ralf and Horst Niethammer, initially became co-owners of his father's company on March 15, 1931, and his successors after his death. Another son of Konrad Niethammer is the ornithologist Günther Niethammer .

literature

  • Elvira Döscher, Wolfgang Schröder : Saxon parliamentarians 1869–1918. The members of the Second Chamber of the Kingdom of Saxony in the mirror of historical photographs (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and the political parties. Vol. 5). Droste, Düsseldorf 2001, ISBN 3-7700-5236-6 , p. 434.
  • Josef Matzerath : Aspects of Saxon State Parliament History - Presidents and Members of Parliament from 1833 to 1952. Saxon State Parliament, Dresden 2001, DNB 964520273 , pp. 117, 156.
  • Swen Steinberg: Corporate culture in an industrial village. The Kübler & Niethammer paper mills in Saxony (1856–1956) (= writings on Saxon history and folklore. Vol. 52). Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2015, ISBN 3-86583-746-8 , pp. 104-134.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Honorary doctoral students of the TH / TU Dresden. Technical University of Dresden, accessed on February 3, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Niethammer, Konrad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Niethammer, Paul Konrad Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German paper entrepreneurs and politicians (NLP, DVP), MdL (Kingdom of Saxony, Free State of Saxony)
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Kriebstein
DATE OF DEATH September 14, 1931
Place of death Kriebstein