Carl Ladendorff

Carl Ladendorff (born February 6, 1869 in Borrentin , † 1947 in Berlin ) was a German tax official and politician ( economic party ).

Life

After attending grammar school in Demmin , Ladendorff completed commercial training in his father's business and then worked as a businessman in the milling and bakery trade. He did military service and worked as a deputy sergeant at the Presidium of the Artillery Examination Commission in Berlin . After the First World War he worked as a finance officer at the Reichsbank , most recently as Reichsbankrat.

In the 1920s and 1930s, Ladendorff was chairman of the Association of Berlin House and Landowners and Chairman of the Prussian State Association of House and Landowners Associations . In addition, he was chairman of the supervisory board and co-founder of the Berliner Bank für Handel und Grundbesitz AG and a member of the supervisory board of Mitteldeutsche Boden-Kredit-Anstalt AG in Berlin.

After 1918, Ladendorff initially oriented himself towards the politics of the left-liberal DDP , but then joined the economic party of the German middle class in 1921, for which he was a member of the Prussian state parliament from 1921 to 1932 . From 1924 to the end of 1931 he took over the parliamentary group chairmanship. In this function, he sought rapprochement with the NSDAP and supported parliamentary motions that his party pursued a right course. In October 1931 he was a representative of the economic party at the meeting of the anti-democratic Harzburg Front .

literature

• Ernst Rudolf Huber : German constitutional history since 1789. The Weimar Reich constitution. W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1981, p. 189.
• Georg Wenzel: German business leader . Life courses of German business personalities. A reference book on 13,000 business figures of our time. Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg / Berlin / Leipzig 1929, DNB 948663294 , p. 145.

Web links

• Carl Ladendorff in the online version of the Reich Chancellery Edition Files. Weimar Republic