Otto Benecke (entrepreneur)

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Otto Benecke (born July 14, 1895 in Hanover ; † December 31, 1970 there ) was a German entrepreneur, association official and first honorary citizen of Vinnhorst .

Life

Otto Benecke was born in the early days of the German Empire . After the First World War , in 1919 he joined the company JH Benecke , which had emerged from the former Royal Growth Machery in front of the Steinthore and which he transformed into a modern plastics processing plant in the following decades.

In 1924 the entrepreneur was elected as a member of the German People's Party (DVP) in the Hanover Citizens' Committee and held this office until 1928.

Also at the time of the Weimar Republic , Benecke became a member of the board of directors of Sparkasse Hannover in 1932 , where he worked until the end of National Socialism . In the meantime, in the year the National Socialists came to power in 1933, he became a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP), and remained so until 1945. Benecke also worked as a supporting member of the SS in 1933 and until the beginning of the Second World War .

In 1936 Otto Benecke met Rudolf Diels , who was later transferred to Hanover as district president . The two had frequent contact in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Diels gave lectures to industrialists at Benecke. Benecke, on the other hand, represented Diels in his absence on difficult questions regarding the sale of a property in Twenge near Langenhagen .

During the war years 1940 to 1945 Otto Benecke acted as a member of the city ​​council of Hanover - insofar as the “Führer State” allowed this . During this time he was also a supporting member of the National Socialist Aviation Corps (NSFK) from 1941 to 1945 . In 1943 the entrepreneur employed forced labor .

After the end of the Third Reich , Otto Benecke was initially classified in Category III in the denazification process , and later in Category V.

In 1959 the plastics manufacturer took over the chairmanship of the Federation of German Industries (BDI) in the Lower Saxony regional association.

In 1962 Otto Benecke was awarded the Great Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany .

When the JH Benecke company celebrated its 251st company anniversary in 1969 and at the same time the 50th anniversary of its boss Otto Benecke's service, the then Federal Minister of Economics, Karl Schiller , wrote according to the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung on October 15th of that year:

“As chairman of the Association of the German Floor Covering, Plastic Foil and Coating Industry for many years, Otto Benecke has also stood up for the interests of the entire industry and, as a co-founder and chairman of the EEC Association , has also earned the merit of the growing together of industry in the common market made and gained recognition. "

Beneckeallee

Building of today's Benecke-Kaliko AG in Hanover

The street, which was laid out in 1914 in Vinnhorst as a connection from the Schulenburger Straße to the Alt-Vinnhorst street, which was later named after the popular name Flügeldamm , was renamed in 1958 after Otto Benecke, as the street led to the then company JH Benecke .

literature

  • Benecke report. JH Benecke GmbH's company journal , year 1971, issue 1

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Helmut Zimmermann : Beneckeallee , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 36
  2. ↑ a b c Klaus Wallbaum: The defector. Rudolf Diels (1900-1957). The first Gestapo head of the Hitler regime , at the same time dissertation in 2009 at the University of Hanover under the title Rudolf Diels (1900 to 1957) , Frankfurt am Main; Berlin; Bern; Bruxelles; New York, NY; Oxford; Vienna: Lang, 2009, ISBN 978-3-631-59818-4 , passim ; Preview over google books
  3. ^ Wolfgang Leonhardt : Beneckeallee , in ders .: "Vinnhorst." Village and district with history (s) , Norderstedt: Books on Demand, 2015, ISBN 978-3-7357-6841-4 ; Preview over google books
  4. ^ A b Wolfgang Leonhardt: "Hannoversche Stories". Reports from different parts of the city. Working group district history List . Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2009/2010, ISBN 978-3-8391-5437-3 , pp. 123f .; Preview over google books
  5. ↑ a b c d e f N.N. : Stoffert / Robert in the list of street names to be retained (of the state capital Hanover), ed. by the Urban Remembrance Culture team under the working title Scientific analysis of eponymous personalities , downloadable from the hannover.de website in the version dated September 29, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Benecke, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and first honorary citizen of Vinnhorst
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 1970
Place of death Hanover