Otto Hoyer

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Johann Heinrich Hoyer (born October 10, 1883 in Oldenburg (Oldb) , † August 23, 1949 there ) was a German manufacturer and local politician . In the 1930s and 1940s he headed the Oldenburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry , brought it closer to the National Socialists and was a member of the NSDAP himself .

Life

Hoyer was the son of the businessman Ernst Hoyer (1856–1917) and his wife Johanna geb. Sjöström, a descendant of the Hoyer family of merchants and industrialists who immigrated from Denmark. He attended high school and completed a commercial training in his father's wine and spirits company before studying economics in Marburg . During his studies he became a member of the Hasso-Borussia Marburg team . He then did an apprenticeship as a wine maker and visited various wineries in Germany and abroad for further training .

In the middle of 1907 he joined his father's company as a partner. During the First World War , the company, like numerous other companies, suffered great damage due to the forced closure due to the drafting of almost all employees. As captain of the reserve, Hoyer himself stood at the front from mobilization to the armistice . After the war he was gradually able to compensate for the damage. In 1926 he also took over his uncle Ferdinand Hoyer's (1859–1925) porcelain and glassware business.

Furthermore, Hoyer was also involved as the head of the trade and trading association co-founded by his ancestor Christian Hoyer (1794–1865) . In 1945 he re-founded this association. From 1922 to 1927 he was a member of the Oldenburg City Council , to which he belonged as a member of the German People's Party . Furthermore, Hoyer was active in the association work on the board of the working committee founded in Munich to maintain the federal structure of Germany For Reich and Heimat from May 1930.

Above all, however, Hoyer was from 1925 to 1934 and from 1935 to 1942 President of the Oldenburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry, which emerged from the trade and industry association in 1924 . As a principled opponent of party politics and parliamentarism of the Weimar Republic , whose tax policy he saw responsible for the economic crisis and the numerous company closings, he used his position to bring the chamber closer to the Oldenburg NSDAP in a constant fight against “the party state”. As early as March 1932, Hoyer first made contact with leading National Socialists in the region. In 1933 he joined the NSDAP. In the same year the Reich Minister of Economics appointed him chairman of the board of the Bremen Foreign Trade Office for the Weser-Ems area.

Works

Hoyer was also active in family research and published his results in two publications:

  • The Hoyer family in Oldenburg. In: Oldenburg yearbooks. Volume 26. 1919/20, pp. 358-360.
  • Contributions to the history of the Oldenburg i. O. resident family Hoyer from Hojen in Jutland. 3 booklets. Oldenburg. 1927.

family

In 1911 Hoyer married Margarethe Denstorff, with whom he had three children.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Berthold Ohm and Alfred Philipp (eds.): Directory of addresses of the old men of the German Landsmannschaft. Part 1. Hamburg 1932, p. 220.

literature

personal data
SURNAME Hoyer, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hoyer, Otto Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman and local politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Oldenburg (Oldb)
DATE OF DEATH August 23, 1949
Place of death Oldenburg (Oldb)