Martin Nathusius (manufacturer)

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Martin Nathusius (born March 8, 1883 in Magdeburg , † March 4, 1941 in Munich ) was a Prussian officer and German industrial manager .

family

Nathusius was the youngest of four children of the owner of the Magdeburg tobacco factory Gottlob Nathusius , Gottlob August Nathusius (1849–1906), and Catherina Adelheid Nathusius née. von Raabe (1857–1920) born. His paternal grandfather was Moritz Nathusius, also a tobacco manufacturer; the maternal grandfather was Colonel Rudolf von Raabe. A great-great-grandfather of Nathusius was Friedrich August von Haeseler . His older brother was Gottlob Moritz Nathusius . After the death of the father, Nathusius' mother went into a second marriage with the general director of the Magdeburg fire insurance company , Hermann Vatke (1844-1927).

On October 3, 1906, Nathusius married Margarete Polte (1886–1977), one of two daughters of the Magdeburg entrepreneur Eugen Polte . The couple had two sons: Hans (1907–1977) and Alfred Nathusius (1912–1974). Nathusius' brother-in-law was Arnulf Freiherr von Gillern (1884–1944).

soldier

Nathusius was a student at the humanistic grammar school of Our Dear Women in Magdeburg. Before graduating from high school , he joined the Royal Prussian Cadet Corps, first he was in the Voranstalt ( Cadet House ) in Oranienstein Castle , and later in the Prussian Main Cadet Institute in Groß-Lichterfelde . After graduating there, he was assigned to the Rhenish Cuirassier Regiment No. 8 "Graf Gessler" in Cologne in 1902 . In 1908 he was adjutant to the regiment there , and in 1911 he was promoted to first lieutenant.

In August 1914 he moved to France for the First World War . Since October 1914 he was Rittmeister . He was also appointed adjutant to the General Command of the VIII Reserve Corps . In 1916 he was transferred to the General Staff . After various general staff assignments (such as the Ia of the 54th Infantry Division ) at the front, he was posted to the Prussian War Ministry in Berlin from 1917 until the end of the war . He took his leave in 1920 as a major. He was the bearer of the Iron Cross 1st and 2nd Class, the House Order of Hohenzollern with Swords and other awards.

Study and job

After leaving the army, Nathusius initially - at the age of 37 - made up his Abitur. Then he began to study economics at the universities in Berlin and Würzburg, which he completed in 1926 with a doctorate ( summa cum laude ). Afterwards, Nathusius was initially an intern and later an employee of the agricultural machine factory HF Eckert AG in Berlin-Lichtenberg .

From 1922 to 1926 he was director and deputy member of the board of the machine and armatures factory Magdeburg-Buckau AG . In 1926 he became a co-owner of the Polte-Werke Armaturen- und Maschinenfabrik founded by his father-in - law, who had died in 1911 , which he ran together with his brother-in-law von Gillern.

Nathusius succumbed to a protracted illness in Munich in 1941 which forced him to resign from the management of Polte-Werke AG as early as 1939.

Functions

In addition to his work as managing director at Polte-Werke, Nathusius was committed to the development of the economy in Magdeburg and the surrounding area. In 1929 he was elected a member of the Magdeburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry , where he took over the office of Vice President in early 1931. In addition to his presidium work on general economic issues, he devoted himself particularly to the problem of low water regulation in the Elbe .

Nathusius was convinced of the National Socialists' economic consolidation plans. As political leader of the NSDAP he was from 1935 to 1940 as the successor to Johannes Müller the Gau economic advisor in Gau Magdeburg-Anhalt . Nathusius was SS-Sturmbannführer and since 1934 councilor of the city of Magdeburg. From 1930 he was also chairman of the Elbebund , an association of various chambers of industry and commerce.

He was also chairman of the main committee for industrial air protection formed by the Reichsstand der Deutschen Industrie and chairman of the Harmoniegesellschaft , a society founded in 1783 to promote culture in Magdeburg. He was also a member of the German Men's Club and the Roland Association . From 1928 Nathusius was a member of the German Society for Metallurgy (metal and ore) .

The economic structure of the Magdeburg-Anhalt district. From regional economic advisor Dr. Nathusius

Publications

  • Chamber of Commerce and Industry Magdeburg (ed.): The united front of the Elbe economy. Rally of the Elbe Federation in Hamburg on September 14, 1933. (with speeches by Martin Nathusius, Carl Vincent Krogmann and others) Magdeburg 1933.
  • The economic structure of the Magdeburg-Anhalt district. In: Magdeburger Kultur- und Wirtschaftsleben , No. 8 (from September 1936).

literature

  • Pedigree of the brothers Hans and Alfred Nathusius. In: Ancestral lines from all German districts. (Supplement to the monthly archive for clan research and all related areas ), Verlag für clan research and heraldry, Görlitz 1935.
  • The German Leader Lexicon 1934/1935. Stollberg, Berlin 1934.
  • Herrmann AL Degener (Ed.): Degeners Who is it? , 10th edition, Degener, Berlin 1935.
  • Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 2: L-Z. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1931, DNB 453960294 , p. 1304.
  • Horst-Günther Heinicke: Nathusius, Hermann Johannes Joachim Martin, Dr. rer. pole. In: Guido Heinrich (Ed.): Magdeburger Biographisches Lexikon. Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg 2004.
  • Martin Nathusius: The "Magdeburg Line" of the Nathusius family, illustrated line of trunks. o. V. (printed by IRL Imprimeries Reunies Lausanne), Saint-Sulpice (Switzerland) 1985.
  • Lilly von Nathusius: Johann Gottlob Nathusius (1760–1835) and his descendants as well as his nephew Moritz Nathusius with his descendants. Detmold 1964, p. 225.
  • Hermann Teschemacher, Walter Günther: Handbook of the structure of the commercial economy. 3rd volume, Lühe & Co., 1937, p. 80 and p. 207.
  • 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 , column 1578.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lilly von Nathusius: Johann Gottlob Nathusius. (compare literature )
  2. ↑ The factory was founded by Johann Gottlob Nathusius .
  3. ↑ The grandmother Ottilie von Raabe was born von Haeseler.
  4. ^ Hermann Vatke (born December 19, 1844 in Magdeburg; † July 9, 1927); since April 10, 1899 general director of the Magdeburg fire insurance company , 1917 retirement and entry into the supervisory board - Hartmut Greulich: Vatke, Hermann. at feuerwehr-geschichte.wikia.com , last accessed on May 30, 2016
  5. ↑ Arnulf von Gillern was a son of Lieutenant General Arthur von Gillern. He studied at the Technical University (Berlin-) Charlottenburg and at the Military-Technical Academy. He became an officer and was an orderly officer in the 33rd Field Artillery Brigade during the First World War. His wife was Katharina geb. Polte. In addition to his functions at Polte-Werken, von Gillern was the owner of a manor on Schmark-Ellguth in the Trebnitz district in Silesia (today Poland) - August Bornemann in: Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon
  6. ↑ Martin Nathusius: The Magdeburg Line. (compare literature )
  7. ^ Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldatisches Führertum . Volume 9, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, 1942, p. 153. ( Preview on Google Books )
  8. ↑ From May to November 1916, the division saw extensive action in the Battle of Verdun, especially in the fight for Fort Douaumont. In 1917, it saw action in the Third Battle of Ypres, suffering heavy losses
  9. ↑ a b Reichs Handbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft . Volume 2, Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1931, p. 1304.
  10. ↑ The former C. Louis Strube AG in Magdeburg-Buckau was taken over by Polte-Werke in 1913 and renamed.
  11. ↑ a b c Horst-Günther Heinicke: Nathusius, Hermann Johannes Joachim Martin. In: Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon (see web links )
  12. ^ Letter quotation (Roland archive 411) at: Volkmar Weiss: The genealogical association "Roland" (Dresden) from 1933 to 1945, Part II: In the shadow of the Nuremberg laws. ( online at www.v-weiss.de )
  13. ↑ Michael Rademacher: Handbook of the NSDAP Gaue 1928-1945. EV, 2000, p. 130.
  14. ↑ Manfred Schoeps: The German gentlemen's club. A contribution to the history of young conservatism in the Weimar Republic. 1974, p. 252. ( Preview of Google Books )
  15. ↑ Zeitschrift für Metallkunde , Volume 20 (1928), p. 36. ( Preview of Google books )
personal data
SURNAME Nathusius, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and economic functionary, Prussian officer
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH March 4, 1941
Place of death Munich