Max Knüttel

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Max Knüttel (born January 24, 1883 in Barmen ; † March 4, 1955 ) was a German architect and manager in the construction industry . Among other things, he was a member of the board of the Berlin construction company Boswau & Knauer AG.

Life

Max Knüttel attended a secondary school and a building trade school , then he studied at the Technical University (Berlin-) Charlottenburg . He got his first job in the Berlin architecture firm Altgelt und Schweitzer . In 1908, at the age of 25, he became managing director of the Arnold Kuthe construction company . At the beginning of 1924 he changed to the management of the construction company Boswau & Knauer AG .

During the Great Depression to Knüttel committed as a member of the National Federation of German Industry and the German Employers' Associations for the abrogation of labor law formulated so-called " compulsory arbitration " in collective disputes between workers and employers . Instead, in order to revive the German economy , he wanted to achieve a reduction in wage costs of up to 25 percent through “free agreements with employees” . The wage subsidies should also be abolished, instead the companies themselves should be subsidized . For this purpose, Knüttel sought out Chancellor Heinrich Brüning on January 29, 1931 , together with other employer representatives, namely Ludwig Kastl , Roland Brauweiler , Rudolf Blohm ( Blohm & Voss ), Abraham Frowein and Friedrich Dorfs ( Krupp-Hüttenwerk Rheinhausen ). The ministerial directors Viktor von Hagenow and Heinrich Vogels as well as the Reich Finance Minister Hermann Dietrich and Reich Labor Minister Adam Stegerwald also took part in the meeting. Stegerwald resolutely opposed the demands of the employers' representatives to repeal the arbitration, although he too saw major, but reformable, deficiencies in the procedural procedure. Abolition would bring the Social Democrats into opposition to the incumbent government and would promote a right-wing extremist government, even a dictatorship .

The demands of Max Knüttel and other representatives of large-scale industry were apparently not met before the end of the Weimar Republic; instead, less than two years after the meeting in Berlin, the National Socialists actually came to power .

Max Knüttels grave is in the forest cemetery Zehlendorf (department VII W 115).

Awards

The Technical University of Braunschweig awarded Knüttel an honorary doctorate (Dr.-Ing. E. h.) On December 22, 1931 and made him an honorary senator on January 3, 1953 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Knüttel, Max in the database of the German Federal Archives with data from the files of the Reich Chancellery for the time of the Weimar Republic (1919–1933)
  2. ↑ a b tombstone of Max Knüttel . Billiongraves. Retrieved August 3, 2018.
  3. ↑ a b N.N .: Holdings B3 / files of honorary senators and honorary citizens ( memento from February 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) in the university archive of the Technical University of Braunschweig, downloadable as a PDF document
  4. ↑ a b Tilman Koops (edit.): [822] No. 229 / Note from the Ministerialrat Vogels on a meeting with representatives of industry and the employers' association on January 29, 1931, 12.30 p.m. In: Die Kabinette Brüning I and II (1930–1932) , edited for the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences by Karl Dietrich Erdmann and for the Federal Archives by Wolfgang Mommsen (until 1972) with the participation of Walter Vogel (until 1978), Vol. 1: Documents , Hans Booms, Publisher: Boldt, Boppard am Rhein, 1982/1990; online via the website of the Federal Archives
personal data
SURNAME Knüttel, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and business manager
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Barmen
DATE OF DEATH March 4th 1955