Max tom Dieck

Bank director (1) on a trip to the Principality of Lübeck (1907)

Max Wilhelm Eduard tom Dieck (born January 25, 1869 in Oldenburg ; † January 8, 1951 there ) was a German politician ( FVP , DDP , FDP ). He was Lord Mayor of the City of Oldenburg.

Life

Max tom Dieck was the son of the Oldenburg magistrate actuary and accountant Eduard Heinrich Friedrich tom Dieck (1838–1909) and his wife Agnes Helene Charlotte, nee. Hammje (1841-1909). After attending secondary school, he completed an apprenticeship at the Oldenburgische Landesbank and the Frankfurt banking house Erlanger & Sons . After a time at the Schwarzburgische Landesbank, he returned to the Oldenburgische Landesbank, whose director he was from 1898 to 1928. From 1907 to 1919 he was also chairman of the trade and commerce association.

From 1905 to 1908 and from 1916 to 1917 Max tom Dieck was a member of the Oldenburg state parliament for the Progressive People's Party (FVP). In the Weimar Republic he was in the leadership of the Oldenburg German Democratic Party (DDP) and from 1931 to 1933 he was a member of the city council. After the end of National Socialist rule , tom Dieck was reappointed a member of the Oldenburg City Council by the British military government in autumn 1945. In addition, he was unanimously elected Lord Mayor of Oldenburg on November 28, 1945. In the elections in October 1946 he won a seat on the city council as an FDP candidate, but was defeated in the mayoral election against the candidate of the CDU , Walter Diekmann .

Max tom Dieck was married to Helene, born in 1899. Klaue (1878–1967), the marriage had a son.

literature

• Hans Friedl: Dieck, Max Wilhelm Eduard tom. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , pp. 146-147 ( online edition of the Oldenburg State Library, section CD ).

Web link

• Lord Mayor of Oldenburg