Oscar Rabbethge

Oscar Rabbethge (born December 16, 1880 in Einbeck ; † 1965 ) was a German sugar industrialist.

family

Oscar Rabbethge belonged to a family of sugar manufacturers. His grandfather was Matthias Rabbethge , his father Carl Rabbethge, the namesake of Carl Rabbethge & Comp. oHG - sugar factory and agriculture in Einbeck. His brothers were Erich Rabbethge and Otto Rabbethge . His son-in-law was Carl-Ernst Büchting .

Life

After graduating from secondary school in Goslar, Oscar Rabbethge studied chemistry at the universities of Tübingen, Strasbourg, Berlin and Basel. In 1901 he became a member of the Corps Palatia Strasbourg . In 1904 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD. After graduating, he worked as a sugar chemist and farmer. From 1910 to 1950 he was a board member of the Klein Wanzleben sugar factory. Rabbethge & Giesecke AG and from 1951 to 1965 chairman of the supervisory board of the company that was now called Kleinwanzlebener Saatzucht, formerly Rabbethge & Giesecke AG .

Rabbethge was a member of the supervisory board of Deutsche Kredit- und Handelsgesellschaft AG in Berlin, Kant Schokoladenfabrik AG in Wittenberg and Gebr. Allendorff GmbH in Schönebeck on the Elbe. In 1935 he inherited the Carl Rabbethge & Co. company from his brother Otto, who had died childless .

During the First World War he was Rittmeister of the Reserve in Dragoon Regiment No. 16.

Awards

• Iron Cross 2nd and 1st class
• Wounded badge
• Honorary doctorate from a Dr. agr.hc of the University of Göttingen, 1950
• Large Federal Cross of Merit, 1955

literature

• Rabbethge, Oscar. In: Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 2: L-Z. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1931, DNB 453960294 , pp. 1462–1463.
• Werner Haufe:  Rabbethge, Matthias Christian. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , pp. 61-63 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 33 , 132