Max Graeff

Max Graeff (born November 1, 1895 in Zell (Mosel) ; † May 22, 1973 in Cologne ) was a German entrepreneur .

Life

Max Graeff was the son of the tobacco manufacturer Roman Anton Graeff and his wife Maria Josefine, born in Krefeld , Germany. Thomas (1863-1899). Graeff attended grammar school in Krefeld and passed his matriculation examination there in 1914. After that he began in World War I, a career as an officer in the Schleswig-Holstein Foot Artillery Regiment. 9 in II. Battalion of garrison fortress Ehrenbreitstein in Koblenz . After the war he led from 1919 with a degree in Law continue his doctorate in 1922 with his thesis value terms and in Wertermittelungsgrundsätze Reich private and property tax law to Dr. jur. and then worked as a lawyer in Cologne.

Graeff had been married to Thea Lindgens since March 31, 1928, who was the divorced wife of his war comrade Jostenhans and a daughter of the lead paint manufacturer Adolf Lindgens junior (1856-1941). In Mülheim am Rhein, he joined the chemical factory of his father-in-law, Lindgens & Sons, as a personally liable partner and partner in the company. The entry in the Cologne commercial register was made on August 21, 1934. The chemical company, which Graef managed as a representative for 36 years and which enjoyed international renown, was the first production facility in Germany to produce red lead . Graeff served as a major in the artillery during World War II .

From 1956 to the end of 1958 Graeff was chairman of the board of the potash association, the specialist organization and the employers' association of the potash industry as well as a member of the advisory board of the Association of the Mineral Paint Industry and Deutsche Bank. On August 8, 1957, the Foreign Office announced that Mr. Max Graeff, who had been appointed electoral consul of Ecuador in Cologne and resident in Cologne-Mülheim, had been granted the exequatur (“The consul may exercise his office”) from the federal government . On the occasion of his 65th birthday Graeff, the Federal President for his contribution to the Zinc industry and his involvement in various organizations of the chemical industry , the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class awarded the Federal Republic of Germany.

literature

Heinz-Günther Böse and Alfons Friderichs (eds.): Graeff, Max. In: Personalities of the Cochem-Zell district. Kliomedia, Trier 2004, ISBN 3-89890-084-3 , p. 133.

Web links

Entry on Max Graeff in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database
Portrait of the Lindgens & Sons company

Individual evidence

↑ Concepts of value and valuation principles in realm private and property tax law, university publication , Max Graeff, Gießen 1922. In: opacplus.bib-bvb.de. Retrieved March 17, 2019 .
↑ The spirit of research and entrepreneurship: the Cologne chemist and industrialist Hermann Julius Grüneberg (1827–1894), Ed. Walter Brügelmann, Böhlau Verlag Cologne Weimar Vienna 2006. In: books.google.de. Retrieved March 18, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Graeff, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH	November 1, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH	Zell (Moselle)
DATE OF DEATH	May 22, 1973
Place of death	Cologne

[1] Concepts of value and valuation principles in realm private and property tax law, university publication , Max Graeff, Gießen 1922. In: opacplus.bib-bvb.de. Retrieved March 17, 2019 .

[2] The spirit of research and entrepreneurship: the Cologne chemist and industrialist Hermann Julius Grüneberg (1827–1894), Ed. Walter Brügelmann, Böhlau Verlag Cologne Weimar Vienna 2006. In: books.google.de. Retrieved March 18, 2019 .