Otto Wenzel (journalist)

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Otto Wenzel (born December 30, 1840 in Crossen (Oder) ; † February 7, 1929 in Berlin-Friedenau ) was a journalist, cooperative director and became known for his involvement in the introduction of the "General Normal Accident Prevention Regulations" in German industry.

Life stations

After graduating from high school in Sorau ( Niederlausitz ), Wenzel studied mathematics at the University of Greifswald from the summer semester of 1860 . There he became a member of the Greifswald fraternity Rugia in 1860 . In 1862 he moved to the Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Berlin, where he became a member of the Arminia fraternity in Berlin in 1862 . In 1865 he became general secretary of the German Journalists' Day and worked in the editorial department of the magazine Zukunft . At the same time he was parliamentary correspondent in the Prussian state parliament , in the North German Reichstag and in the customs parliament .

In the 1860s he also worked as deputy chairman of the Berlin workers' association. In 1872 Wenzel was involved in founding the Verein für Socialpolitik .

He experienced the war of 1870/71 in the Guard Fusilier Regiment . After the war he became Reichstag correspondent for the Spenersche Zeitung in 1871 and, after it was discontinued in 1874, for the Hamburger Nachrichten . From 1877 to 1907 he was general secretary of the association he co-founded to protect the interests of the chemical industry . In addition, from 1881 to 1884 he was a research assistant at Deutsche Bank Berlin , where he headed the statistical office as Georg von Siemens' assistant , and from 1882 to 1887 he worked at the Brockhaus Lexicon . When the trade association for the chemical industry was founded on September 11, 1885, Wenzel was appointed its first director - with effect from October 1, 1885 - until his retirement in 1908 in Berlin. In addition, he was editor-in-chief of the journal Die Berufsgenossenschaft from 1886 to 1908 . For many years he was treasurer of the Berlin Press Association and, in 1910, played a key role in founding the Reich Association of the German Press . During the First World War he signed up for civil service and was from the end of 1914 to the beginning of 1919 as a shop steward at the headquarters for foreign permits for chemical products . In 1922 the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Greifswald awarded him an honorary doctorate. From 1910 until his death he was a member of the supervisory board of Schering-Kahlbaum AG.

family

On October 26, 1878 Otto Wenzel married Ida Anna Clara Kruse. After the death of his first wife in 1909, Wenzel married Johanna Marie Roggenbau a second time on June 14, 1910, and both marriages produced three children.

Association activities (summary)

  • Deputy chairman of the Berlin workers' association
  • Secretary General of the German Journalists' Day
  • Treasurer of the Berlin Press Association
  • Co-founder of the Reich Association of the German Press
  • Secretary General of the Association for the Protection of the Interests of the Chemical Industry
  • Director of the trade association for the chemical industry

Publications (selection)

  • Chemical industry wages , 1882.
  • The trade association (editorial office), 1886–1908.
  • Address book and list of goods for the chemical industry of the German Reich (edited by Otto Wenzel), Berlin: Mückenberger, 1.1888 - 11.1910.
  • Wenzel's list of goods for the chemical industry of the German Reich (ed. Von Wegner, Hermann), Berlin: Urban & Schwarzenberg 1940, 20th edition, 336 pp.
  • Wenzel's address book and list of goods for the chemical industry in the Federal Republic of Germany and West Berlin (with colleagues from Gunnar Mückenberger / edited by Hermann Wegner), Munich a. Berlin: Urban & Schwarzenberg, 21st edition, 1953.
  • A contribution to the life story of Heinrich von Kleist , o. O. u. J.

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 6: T-Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-8253-5063-0 , pp. 265-266.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ B [ernhard] Lepsius : Otto Wenzel. In: The chemical industry. No. 45 v. November 12, 1927 pp. 1167-1169.
  2. ↑ 125 years VCI - lectures on the anniversary - http://www.vci.de/default2~rub~736~tma~0~cmd~shd~docnr~76500~nd~,n02,~ond~n02~snd~~ shmode ~ .htm
  3. ↑ M [ONTY] J [acobs] : Dr. Otto Wenzel + , obituary in: Vossische Zeitung of February 7, 1929 - evening edition
  4. ↑ Festschrift on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the trade association for the chemical industry, Verlag Chemie, Berlin, 1935.
personal data
SURNAME Wenceslaus, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Journalist, German cooperative director, involved in the introduction of the “General Standard Accident Prevention Regulations” in German industry
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Cross (or)
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 1929
Place of death Berlin