Otto Uebele

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Otto Uebele (born June 30, 1876 in Künzelsau ; † May 14, 1956 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German coffee exporter.

Life

Otto Uebele lost his father at the age of twelve. He attended a school in Stuttgart and then completed an apprenticeship as a businessman in Künzelsau. After completing his military service, he worked first on Lake Constance and then in Le Havre before emigrating to Santos in 1900 . There he became an authorized signatory and later also a partner in the company Theodor Wille & Co .; from 1919 he was company manager. Between the two world wars, he was considered the world's largest coffee exporter. During the Second World War he supported the FBI in Brazil .

Otto Uebele, who was the German consul in Santos for a long time, returned regularly to his hometown, where he became an honorary citizen in 1920. In 1912 he had a summer house built in Künzelsau, later he donated the purchase price of the Würzburg building, which was used as a tax office from 1934 to 2005 and is now part of a hotel, as well as the town hall, which was built in 1937. He also wanted to celebrate his 80th birthday in Künzelsau; however, he died on the way.

Konsul-Uebele-Straße in Künzelsau is named after Otto Uebele. In 2006 an exhibition about Otto Uebele was shown in Künzelsau.

Otto Uebele had been a member of the Corps Saxo-Thuringia Munich since 1922 .

literature

  • Siegfried Zimmermann: Theodor Wille 1844-1969. Hamburg: Hanseatic Mercury, 1969
  • Biography in: Stefan Kraut, Lively Rooms. A documentation about the Anne-Sophie-Haus and the Würzburg building in Künzelsau. Künzelsau: Swiridoff, 2006. Pages 65–82

Web links

  • CV (PDF file; 32 kB)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.kaffeetraditionsverein.de/index.php?title=Otto_Uebele&printable=yes&printable=yes
  2. ↑ Ladislas Farago , Burn After Reading. The Espionage History of World War II , US Naval Inst. Pr. 2003, ISBN 978-1591142621 , p. 202
  3. ↑ http://www.kuenzelsau.de/cms/index.php?PHPSESSID=4f5176fa5eeef67013e06fc7b67be3bd&get=924  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.kuenzelsau.de  
  4. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated August 24, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hotel-anne-sophie.de
  5. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated July 31, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenzelsau.de
  6. ↑ http://www.stimme.de/hohenlohe/nachrichten/kuenzelsau/wahl2;art1912,781168
  7. ^ Corps Saxo-Thuringia Munich, directory of members (as of October 1, 1937)
personal data
SURNAME Uebele, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German coffee exporter and German consul in Santos
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Künzelsau
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 1956
Place of death Frankfurt am Main