Max Ketels
Max Detlev Ketels (born January 8, 1889 in Husum , † August 29, 1968 in Hamburg ) was a German businessman and Hamburg senator.
Ketels went to school in Husum and did a banking apprenticeship there. After a short job as a bank employee in Berlin , Ketels came to Hamburg in 1911 and took over the management of a small soap factory, in 1914 he became a co-owner of the company now known as Binder & Ketels. His co-owner Adolf Binder died in 1917 and Ketels continued to run the company alone. In 1926 the United soap factories in Stuttgart were taken over.
In 1932 the merger with the Berlin Palmoliv GmbH took place to form Palmoliv Binder & Ketels GmbH, which was now half a subsidiary of Colgate-Palmolive . On December 4, 1945, Ketels was appointed to the Petersen Senate , where he headed the administration for trade, shipping and trade . He was a member of the Senate until November 15, 1946.
From 1946 to 1948 he was a member of the Economic Council of the United Economic Area . From 1948 to 1957 he was a member of the Presidium of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce . Ketels was one of the founders of the Hamburg CDU and was its chairman from at least 1946 to 1948. On July 2, 1954, Ketels was awarded the Great Federal Cross of Merit in recognition of his achievements in the economic reconstruction of Hamburg. Ketels was a managing partner of Palmolive Binder Ketels GmbH until at least 1959 . From 1948 to 1963 he was a member of the supervisory board of the Vereinsbank Hamburg , from 1953 as chairman. He was also a member of the Blohm & Voss Supervisory Board .
Individual evidence
- ↑ New Hamburg Press of January 12, 1946
- ↑ see evening paper of 200 of August 28, 1995, page 12 From Max Ketels to Dirk Fischer - the chairpersons ( Memento of July 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ See Welt No. 151, July 3, 1954
Hans EB Kruse | Max Ketels | Otto Borgner | Karl Schiller | Ernst Plate | Carl-Gisbert Schultze-Schlutius | Paul Luigs | Edgar Engelhard | Helmuth Kern | Wilhelm Nölling | Jürgen Steinert | Volker Lange | Wilhelm Rahlfs | Hans-Jürgen Krupp | Erhard Rittershaus | Thomas Mirow | Gunnar Uldall | Axel Gedaschko | Ian Karan | Frank Horch | Michael Westhagemann
Franz Beyrich (October 1945 – November 1945) | Johannes Speckbötel (1945) | Otto Wilhelm Wendt (1945–1946) | Max Ketels (1946–1948) | Hugo Scharnberg (1948–1954) | Josef von Fisenne (1954–1956) | Hugo Scharnberg (1956–1958) | Erik Blumenfeld (1958–1968) | Dietrich Rollmann (1968–1973) | Jürgen Echternach (1974–1992) | Dirk Fischer (1992-2007) | Michael Freytag (2007-2010) | Frank Schira (2010–2011) | Marcus Weinberg (2011–2015) | Roland Heintze (since 2015)
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ketels, Max |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ketels, Max Detlev (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German senator and businessman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 8, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Husum |
| DATE OF DEATH | 29th August 1968 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |