Michael Jebsen jun.
Michael Jebsen jun. (Born September 13, 1911 in Aabenraa ; † May 1, 2000 there ) was a German shipowner , entrepreneur and chairman of the Knivsberg Society.
life and work
education
Michael Jebsen grew up in Aabenraa and passed his Abitur in 1929 at the Realgymnasium in Flensburg . In the same year he began a commercial apprenticeship in the family company Jebsen & Jessen in Hamburg . This was followed by an internship at the shipping company AP Møller (Maersk-Line) in Copenhagen, whose representation for the China business Jebsen & Co. , Hong Kong , had just taken over at the time. Jebsen then completed additional shipping training with the Deutsche Levante-Linie, which operated a line trip in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea .
Second World War
In 1933 he traveled to Hong Kong on the "Saarbrücken" steamer owned by the Norddeutscher Lloyd shipping company , where he worked both in the shipping department, which looked after the Maersk Line and HAPAG , and in the import and export department. In 1936 he received power of attorney . In 1938 Michael Jebsen took over the management of Jebsen & Co in Canton as a substitute . The Japanese invaded there in October 1938, which caused the southern Chinese trading metropolis to lose its leading role as a hub for trade with the West and subsequently relocated it to Hong Kong. In May 1939 Michael Jebsen was sent to Shanghai , where he took over the management of the long-deficit branch in order to bring it back into profitability and steer it through the chaos of the Second World War .
The difficulties were not lessened by the fact that the owner families never made a secret of their membership of the German minority in North Schleswig . In 1944 Michael Jebsen was taken on as a partner in the company by his cousin Heinz Jessen and after his sudden death four months later he was the sole owner of Jebsen & Co.
post war period
After the end of the war Michael Jebsen stayed in Shanghai until 1949 and only moved the company's headquarters to Hong Kong again in 1950.
In the following years he rebuilt and expanded the company in collaboration with his brother Hans Jacob Jebsen and his cousin Arwed Peter Jessen. The latter he later took on as partners in the company. The companies represented by Jebsen & Co Hong Kong in the following years included u. a. Siemens , Degussa , AGFA , BASF , Merck and Schering . In addition, the company acted as the general importer of the Volkswagen and Porsche car brands . In 1959 Michael Jebsen took over his birth house "Lensnack" from his mother's estate, which he regularly lived in during his four-month stays in Europe each year . Jebsen did not get married. In 1981 he took on Hans Michael Jebsen , the eldest son of his brother Hans Jacob, as a partner in Jebsen & Co and in the following years left him the sole management. Michael Jebsen died in 2000 in his Apenrader house "Lensnack".
Knivsberg Society
After the death of his father Jacob Jebsen , who had handed over the chairmanship of the Knivsberggesellschaft in 1937 to lawyer Sophus Erichsen from Hadersleben, Michael Jebsen joined the company's board of directors in 1953 and took over the chairmanship in 1957. The distance to the National Socialists, which the Jebsens and the Knivsberg Society had always maintained during the Second World War and the occupation of Denmark , saved them after the end of the war and ensured that the Knivsberg was not confiscated after the end of the war.
In 1979 Michael Jebsen was able to greet the then Federal President Walter Scheel on the Knivsberg , which he visited in connection with the first state visit by a Federal President to the German minority in North Schleswig, where he gave a speech and a musical and cultural program in the "Mulde", the amphitheater on the Knivsberg site.
voluntary work
- 1957 to 2000 chairman of the Knivsberg Society
swell
- Nekrolog in Deutscher Volkskalender Nordschleswig, vol. 2001, p. 118
literature
- Emma von Hassel: Michael Jebsen. The life of the ship owner Michael Jebsen and the chronicle of his ancestors. Self-published, Aabenraa 1953
- Adolf von Hänisch: Jebsen & Co. Hong Kong - China trade through the ages 1895–1945. Self-published, Aabenraa 1970
- 100 years of the Knivsberg Festival . Special supplement. In: Der Nordschleswiger - The German daily newspaper in Denmark , 49th volume, No. 133 from June 11, 1994
- Dieter von Hanselmann, Jebsen & Co. LTD, Hong Kong: the company's history from 1945 to the present, self-published, Aabenraa 1989,
- Harboe Kardel : Knivsbergfeste-Knivsbergspiele. 1971
- Nis-Edwin List-Petersen : Jugendhof Knivsberg. Educational facility of the German Youth Association for North Schleswig. Husum Printing and Publishing Company, 1982
- Jürgen Ostwald (ed.): The Knivsberg. 100 years of the German meeting place in North Schleswig Westholsteinische Verlagsanstalt Boyens & Co, Heide, 1994
- Günter Weitling , Jebsen & Co. in China in Gerd Stolz and Günter Weitling, North Schleswig - Landscape-People-Culture, p. 183ff., Husum 2005
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jebsen, Michael jun. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jebsen, Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German shipowner and entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 13, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aabenraa |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 1, 2000 |
| Place of death | Aabenraa |