Otto Flohr

This article is about the politician. For the ship, see Otto Flohr (ship) .

Otto Friedrich Carl Flohr (born January 17, 1869 in Bremen ; † July 26, 1942 in Bremen) was a Bremen businessman, politician ( DNVP and NSDAP ), member of the Bremen citizenship and senator .

biography

Family, education and work

Flohr was the son of the businessman and owner of the tobacco and commission business Flohr & Comp. Karl Gerhard Flohr. He attended the old grammar school in Bremen. He then worked for the tobacco company Natermann & Hurm . For the company he was in Argentina active and founded the tobacco company Flohr & Co . In 1903 he worked in Bremen to buy tobacco for an Argentine company. In 1909 he became the Bolivian consul for the state of Bremen.

In 1909 he became chairman of the supervisory board of the "Nordsee" Deutsche Hochseefischerei AG , remained in this position until 1926 and took over this office again from 1934 to 1940. Flohr was a member of the supervisory board of Midgard Deutsche Seeverkehrs-AG , Visurgis Heringsfischerei-AG and finally chairman of the supervisory board of Eiswerke Huxmann AG as well as the board of the United Workshops for Art in Crafts AG .

Flohr married Emmy Elisabeth (Elli) Volkmann (1884–1972) in 1904, the second of the four daughters of the German businessman and American consul in Odessa, Johann Hermann Volkmann. The children Lizzie, Otto, André and Irmgard came from the marriage.

politics

After the First World War he became a member of the right-wing conservative DNVP. From January 1, 1931 he was a member of the Bremen citizenship . After the National Socialists came to power , he became Finance Senator in Bremen on March 18, 1933. In 1933 Flohr joined the NSDAP after the DNVP was dissolved in June 1933. For a short time he was from March 1933 to September 30, 1933 as deputy mayor of the acting mayor and chairman of the Senate Richard Markert . He tried to administer his office, which he held until his death, objectively. The main building of the former Raschens shipyard at Admiral-Brommy-Weg 10 in Bremen - Burglesum later served as the Hofmeierhaus for the country estate of Senator Otto Flohr.

Honors

• The fish steamer Otto Flohr , put into service in 1939 , bore his name. The ship was later taken over into the service of the Navy as an auxiliary minesweeper M 1801 , was given to France as spoils of war in 1945 and returned to Germany under the name Saarland in 1951. Renamed in Prussia in 1954 , she operated as a fishing steamer until 1962, before she was scrapped.
• The steamer Otto Flohr of Deutsche Fischerei AG from Geestemünde was launched in 1923 and stranded off Iceland in 1925 .

See also

• List of Bremen Senators

literature

• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
• Hans-Jürgen Heise, Rüdiger Hülper, Dieter Kokot: The fish steamer Otto Flohr In: Men from Morgenstern, Heimatbund at the mouth of the Elbe and Weser , yearbook 87, 2008, p. 257 ff.
• Obituary in Bremer Nachrichten on July 28, 1942.

Web links

• Newspaper article about Otto Flohr in the press kit of the 20th century of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .