Otto Gademann

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Otto Gademann (born May 23, 1892 in Apolda ; † March 20, 1971 in Lucerne ) was a German lawyer .

Career

Gademann spent the first five years of his life in his hometown Apolda. When his father was offered the management of the Guttmann textile wholesaler, the family moved to Munich in 1897. The father's commercial skills and expertise soon brought the family prosperity and reputation. She moved into a spacious villa on Flüggenstrasse in Nymphenburg.

Son Otto attended the Theresien-Gymnasium , where he passed his Abitur, and started studying law at the University of Munich . The First World War interrupted his training. Between 1914 and 1918 he was a participant in the war, then legal advisor to the Bavarian Rescue Service. In 1921 he was promoted to Dr. juris utriusque doctorate. At first he worked in a law firm on Stachus , later he set up his own law firm in Schwanthalerstraße . In 1924 he was Hermann Kriebel's defense lawyer in the Hitler trial .

Friendly neighborly relationships existed with the Reiner family, the owners of the telephone factory Ms. Reiner Munich. After the death of the company founder, the widow Therese Reiner Gademann asked to look through the books. He uncovered irregularities in the management and was appointed trustee of the company after the managing director was dismissed. Later he was given the management of the plant for the renovation, and in 1939 he became a partner in the company. He renewed the machine park and won new clients, including Siemens & Halske , for whom he became a supplier. As part of the emergency program of the Bavarian government during the economic crisis, the Reinersche Telefonfabrik received an order from the Bavarian Post to build intermediate points, and a desk phone was developed for the railroad. A three-pin railway socket with a plug was developed.

The economic upswing initiated by Gademann continued. During the rearmament of the Wehrmacht, he won the order to produce field telephones for the army, as well as flap cabinets and multiple fields for switching centers. For the Army Research Institute in Peenemünde , the company supplied measuring devices and apparatus for calculating and controlling the missile trajectories. He also remained an important supplier for the Reichsbahn. During the air raids on Munich he had parts of the production outsourced to Lindenberg (Allgäu) and Oberammergau. After the end of the war, he rebuilt the badly damaged production facilities on Munich's Jahnstrasse.

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SURNAME Gademann, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Apolda
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 1971
Place of death Lucerne