Kurt Beindorff

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Kurt Beindorff (born July 12, 1894 in Hanover ; † February 21, 1968 there ) was a German engineer, manufacturer and business leader.

Life

Kurt Beindorff was born in 1894 as the son of the Pelikan entrepreneur Fritz Beindorff and his wife Elisbeth, a daughter of the company founder Günther Wagner. Kurt was the younger brother of Günther Beindorff and Fritz Beindorff junior. In 1923 Kurt Beindorff married Martha Linnfeld .

After attending school, Kurt Beindorff began as an apprentice in the technical departments of Günther Wagner in Hanover and Vienna, the later Pelikan factories of his father, before joining Hanomag and the Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft (AEG). Beindorff then attended the Royal Higher Mechanical Engineering School in Altona near Hamburg , before doing his military service in the First World War . After all, Beindorff was only able to complete his studies in Altona in 1923. After completing his studies, Kurt Beindorff returned to his father's company, for which he was granted power of attorney in 1925 , before going on a study trip to the United States .

August 2015: Former building of Günther Wagner packaging works , here Gate 2 of the Silgan Closures in Hansastraße at the north port of Hanover

In 1928 Kurt Beindorff took over both the management and the operational management of the company, which was inaugurated in the same year as Blechwerk Günther Wagner for packaging at the north port , which from 1939 traded under the name Günther Wagner - Verpackungswerke . The company, which emerged from an establishment founded as a workshop at Günther Wagner / Pelikan-Werke in 1905, was expanded by Kurt Beindorff - not least through numerous own machine designs - into a high-performance plant for the German packaging industry.

During the Second World War , around 2,000 forced laborers from all over Europe, but mostly from Poland and the Soviet Union, were exploited on the grounds of the Günther Wagner packaging works. The inhumane conditions of the so-called " labor education camp " set up on the company premises brought many victims their deaths. In an additional so-called “foreigners weekly barracks ”, many newborns of the forced laborers died due to malnutrition and inadequate medical care.

In 1952 Kurt Beindorff took over the overall management of Günther Wagner / Pelikan-Werke, and represented the interests of the industry as a member of supervisory boards and advisory boards of various commercial enterprises . After the death of his brother Günther in 1952, Kurt Beindorff became a full member of the Hanover Chamber of Commerce and Industry in 1953, like his father and his two brothers before him .

In 1954 Beindorff was appointed Honorary Consul of Greece . The hunter and "[...] promoter of art and culture" was awarded the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Order of Merit in 1957 .

In the mid-1960s, Kurt Beindorff was counted among the 30,000 "leading" personalities among industrialists, bankers and nobles in Germany.

Kurt Beindorff died in Hanover in 1968. He was buried in the family's mausoleum at Gut Auermühle .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ n.v . : Beindorff, Kurt in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library , last accessed on December 9, 2016
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Beindorff, (3) Kurt. In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 47f .; online through google books
  3. ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Beindorff, (4) Martha. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 55f.
  4. ↑ o. V .: Against forgetting / inauguration of the Hansastraße memorial on the hannover.de page from September 25, 2015, last accessed on December 9, 2016
  5. ↑ Albert Lefèvre: Personal data , in ders .: 100 years Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Hanover. Mission and fulfillment. 1866 - 1966 , Wiesbaden: baco - Verlag für Wirtschaftspublizistik H. Bartels KG, printing: H. Osterwald, Hannover, 1966, pp. 237–265; here: p. 243
  6. ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Beindorff, (3) Kurt. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 55.
  7. ↑ Max Kruk : The upper 30,000 industrialists, bankers, nobles , Wiesbaden: Betriebswirtschaftlicher Verlag Gabler, 1967, ISBN 978-3-663-12666-9 and ISBN 3-663-12666-8 , p. 140; online through google books
personal data
SURNAME Beindorff, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer, manufacturer and business leader
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1968
Place of death Hanover