Louis Leisler Kiep

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Louis Leisler Kiep (born January 10, 1884 in Glasgow ; † June 30, 1962 in Kronberg / Taunus ) was a German entrepreneur and naval officer. From 1924 to 1934 he was a member of the board of the Hamburg-America Line (Hapag).

Life

Kiep was born the son of the Hamburg timber merchant Johann Nikolaus Kiep (1847–1935), German consul in Glasgow, and his wife Charlotte (née Rottenburg; 1858–1939). The mother grew up as a foster child in the household of her uncle Louis Leisler (chemicals dealer in Glasgow and distant descendant of Jakob Leisler ). She passed his name on to her son. His younger brother was the diplomat Otto Kiep . Louis Leisler Kiep attended Hillhead High School Glasgow until 1898 , then the Ilfeld Abbey School in the Harz Mountains, where he passed the Abitur.

He joined the Imperial Navy in 1901 , completed naval officer training by 1904, and from 1910 to 1912 Kiep was trained at the Kiel Naval Academy . During the First World War he was used in various theaters of war, including a. in the Skagerrakschlacht (1916), where he served as first officer of Admiral Scheer , and as a staff officer in the Albion company for the occupation of the island of Ösel (1917) and in the Finland intervention . At the end of the war in November 1918 he was a representative of the Navy in the German Armistice and Peace Commission in Spa and Versailles . As a corvette captain , he took his leave in 1919.

In 1910, in Frankfurt am Main, Kiep married Eugenie vom Rath, daughter of the national liberal politician and entrepreneur Walther vom Rath (chairman of the Hoechst supervisory board ). The couple had two daughters and three sons, including the later CDU politician Walther Leisler Kiep .

After studying economics took place in 1920 his doctorate at the University of Frankfurt Dr. rer. pole. He then worked in leading positions in civil shipping, initially as in-house counsel and managing director of the Association of German Shipowners . From 1923 he worked for the Hamburg America Line (Hapag), and in 1924 he became a member of the board. From 1926 he headed the Passage Department and the Aviation Department. He was involved in the drafting of the Union contract between Hapag and North German Lloyd . After the National Socialists seized power in 1933, he was appointed to the newly formed State Council of Hamburg. Because of alleged irregularities in the management of Hapag, Kiep resigned from its management board and from the State Council in 1934. From 1936 he worked in Istanbul as an advisor to the Turkish government (under President Kemal Ataturk ) on shipping issues. From 1940 to 1943 he was General Director of the Hamburgische Landesbank .

After the Second World War, Kiep returned to positions of responsibility. He was in the management and on the supervisory board of several companies in the chemical industry. a. Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Farbwerke Hoechst AG (from 1952). In addition, from 1952 he was President of the Hessen State Association of the German Red Cross , based in Frankfurt.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stefan Manz: Migrants and internees. Germans in Glasgow, 1864-1918. Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden / Stuttgart 2003, pp. 62–63.
  2. ↑ Otto Carl Kiep: My way of life 1886-1944. Records while in custody. Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2013, p. 24.
  3. ↑ a b c d Hans Jaeger:  Kiep, Louis Leisler. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-428-00192-3 , p. 592 ( digitized version ).
  4. ^ Ernst Christian Schütt: The Chronicle of Hamburg. Chronik Verlag, 1991, p. 458.
  5. ↑ Henning Timpke: Documents on the conformity of the state of Hamburg 1933. European publishing house, Frankfurt am Main 1964, p. 131.
  6. ↑ Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who . XII. Edition of Degeners who is it ?, Berlin 1955, p. 578.
personal data
SURNAME Kiep, Louis Leisler
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leisler Kiep, Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and officer
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Glasgow
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 1962
Place of death Kronberg im Taunus