Otto Henneberg-Poppenbüttel

Otto Albert Adolph Hermann Henneberg-Poppenbüttel (born March 27, 1905 as Otto Albert Adolph Hermann Henneberg in Poppenbüttel ; † December 15, 1986 in Hamburg ) was a German farmer and politician .

ancestors

Otto Henneberg belonged to the Henneberg family from Braunschweig . The family had owned land in the center of Poppenbüttel, which was under the rule of Pinneberg, since 1855. In the following years it took over almost the entire area and supplied the city of Hamburg with milk from here. Otto Henneberg's great-great-uncle named Ernst Henneberg had worked in Hamburg as a Brunswick postal director. Grandfather Bruno Henneberg took over and renewed another farm. He also belonged to the Stormarn district assembly, participated in the Kiel provincial parliament and in the Prussian House of Representatives.

Otto's father was the farmer Eduard Henneberg (1866–1940). He headed the Poppenbüttel office from 1895 to 1919 and was a member of the Schleswig-Holstein Chamber of Agriculture from 1900 to 1920. He brought the Poppenbütteler Hof, the Marienhof and the Gut Treudelberg together to form an area of ​​2,200 acres. In 1909 he had to sell Treudelberg to the landowner Heinrich Dreckmann. Nevertheless, the companies of the Hennebergs were considered to be the largest and best-known farms in the region until the First World War . In 1930 Eduard Henneberg transferred most of the land to the Alster-Terrain-AG, which he co-founded in 1910 . During the First World War, the company ran into economic problems. Henneberg sold other lands that were rededicated as building land. For example, the “Eichenredder” settlement was built on top of it. The area belonging to Henneberg could still be considered extensive when Otto Henneberg joined the company in 1933.

The work of Otto Henneberg

Otto Henneberg received lessons from a tutor in his youth. He then attended the Johanneum's school of scholars . He then learned and volunteered at the company Schuback & Sons of the Amsinck family . He then went to Austria for a three-year forestry training course. In 1933 his father Eduard Henneberg lost all honorary positions. In the same year Otto Henneberg took over the management of Alster-Terrain-AG and managed its fortunes until 1937. In 1940 he inherited the Marienhof, which was still family-owned. Although he had been a member of the Stahlhelm from 1933 to 1935 and then joined the National Socialist People's Welfare , he remained politically inactive during the Nazi era .

After the end of the war, Hans Schlange-Schöningen founded the Christian Democratic Party (CDAP) in October 1945 . Otto Henneberg was supposed to build the party in Hamburg together with Otto Wendt and Wilhelm Burchard-Motz . The CDAP joined forces with the Hamburg Christian Democratic Party (CDP) under the brief chairmanship of Otto Wendt, who gave Henneberg the task of establishing the party in the northern part of the city. Since Henneberg wanted to prevent a comprehensive land reform, which the leadership of the CDU in Berlin did not reject at least initially, Henneberg was only partially euphoric and tried to prevent such a reform.

In February 1946 the British occupiers established the Appointed Hamburg Citizenship . Henneberg did not move in as the appointed representative of the farmers. The CDP, which was renamed the CDU a little later, nominated him as a candidate for the first free elections in autumn 1946. As chairman of the Alstertal district association, he wrote a “Political Confession” that appeared in the Hamburger Allgemeine Zeitung . In it he called for private property to be retained, a policy of European unification to be pursued and Protestants and Catholics to be united. The British military government spoke out against Henneberg's candidacy, but in December 1946 appointed him to the denazification committee of the Hamburg hunters' association.

In 1947 Henneberg became a member of the advisory committee of the Alstertal local office and in 1949 a district representative in Wandsbek. In 1956/57 he took over the deputy state chairmanship of the CDU in Hamburg. In the 1957 election he was elected to the citizenry, to which he belonged for four years. During this time he also worked in the tax court and in the state hunting council. He also sat on the church council and on the synodal committee of the Probstei Stormarn. From 1954 to 1970 he was chairman of the Alster Club. From 1970 to 1979 he was Jägermeister in Hunting District II in Hamburg. As an honorary officer, he had sovereign rights to supervise 70 hunters in the districts of Wandsbek, North and Central.

Henneberg grave complex , Hamburg-Bergstedt cemetery

Honor and aftermath

In 1970 the Hamburg Senate allowed Henneberg to add the addition "Poppenbüttel" to his surname as a sign of recognition of his services. Henneberg himself founded the Otto Henneberg Poppenbüttel Foundation . This looked after the Marienhof and an adjacent arboretum with an area of ​​35,000 square meters. She also supported Henneberg Castle .

Henneberg also supported the Henneberg stage named after him . This Low German amateur theater has been performing in the Hospital of the Holy Spirit since 1981 .

literature

• Helmut Stubbe da Luz : Henneberg-Poppenbüttel, Otto . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 5 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8353-0640-0 , p. 182-184 .