Ottomar Benz

Ottomar Benz (born June 7, 1880 in Sonneberg , † January 20, 1960 in Berlin ) was a German politician and banker .

Life

Born in Sonneberg in the Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen , the son of a senior forestry councilor studied law and economics at the universities in Munich, Berlin and Jena. In 1903 he made his doctorate . After working as an assessor at the district office in Saalfeld , he was mayor of Hildburghausen from 1908 to 1913 and district administrator of the Sonneberg district from 1914 to 1917 . In 1915 he was appointed to the state capital of Meiningen as a government councilor in Saxony- Meiningen . After the November Revolution , the Meiningen Landtag elected the non-party Ottomar Benz as a civil servant state councilor in the new government of the Free State of Saxony-Meiningen on November 12, 1918 . Here he took over the finance and state domains departments , which he also represented in the regional government of Saxony-Meiningen from 1920 to 1921. At the same time he was a state councilor in the newly formed state of Thuringia , where he held the position of finance minister . In 1922 Benz became a member of the board of directors of the Bank for Thuringia in Meiningen and then a member of the board of the Disconto-Gesellschaft , which took over the Bank for Thuringia in 1926. From 1929 he worked for Deutsche Bank in the head office in Berlin , which merged with the Disconto-Gesellschaft. After the Second World War, Ottomar Benz was a board member of Deutsche Centralbodenkredit-AG in West Berlin from 1945 to 1955, after which he retired.

literature

• Kuratorium Kulturstadt Meiningen (Ed.): Lexicon on the history of the city of Meiningen. Bielsteinverlag, Meiningen 2008, ISBN 978-3-9809504-4-2 .