Ove Skafte Rasmussen

Ove Skafte Rasmussen (born May 28, 1909 in Zschopau , Saxony , † December 23, 1995 in Maintal ) was a German-Danish entrepreneur .

Childhood, youth and family

He was born the third of four children of the Danish engineer and DKW founder Jørgen Skafte Rasmussen (1878–1964) and his German wife Johanna Clementine Therese Liebe (1884–1973). He had a sister, Hildegard Ilse (1905–1939), and two brothers, Hans Werner (1906–1945), and Arne (1912–1994).

Like his two brothers, he first attended the Free School Community of Wickersdorf and then from May 1, 1925, together with his younger brother Arne, the reform pedagogical school by the sea founded by Martin Luserke on the North Sea island of Juist , where he and Hubert H. Kelter , the later , in 1929 Managing Director of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce , and Alfred Döblin's son , Peter, passed the matriculation examination under very difficult climatic conditions .

education

He then studied at the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich Economics and a PhD in duplicate to the Dr. oec. publ. et rer. pole. During his studies in Munich until the beginning of 1934 he acted as one of the shop stewards of his former rural education home , who informed and advised the parents of potential private students.

Professional development

In 1931 his father founded the Industrie-Verwaltungs- und Treuhand GmbH Marienberg, in which he owned Ove. As managing director of Eisenwerk Erla GmbH , which his father had taken over in 1928, he negotiated in 1936 on behalf of and under the authority of his father with President Kurt Nebelung and the authorized signatory Engler of the Saxon State Bank and the Reich Ministry of Aviation (RLM) in Berlin. For example, it was about Eisen- und Flugzeugwerk Erla GmbH , which produced the small aircraft “DKW Erla” designed by Franz Xaver Mehr . The ministry pursued the goal of “acquiring the shares in foreign hands for reasons of defense policy”. The Reich Ministry of Finance agreed; the company shares taken over by Rasmussen went to the Luftfahrt-Kontor-Gesellschaft mbH Berlin , a cover company of the RLM to conceal the armaments secretly pursued by the National Socialists . Ove Skafte Rasmussen succeeded in the negotiations in largely rejecting the financial deductions demanded by the negotiating partners. Nevertheless, his father, who was involved in the vehicle and aviation industry, was particularly bitterness about the actions of the National Socialists.

In 1936 Ove married Martha Brenner, in 1939 their son Jörgen Skafte jun. and daughter Ilse Kristine was born in 1941.

Between 1937 and 1945 Ove Rasmussen was the sole director of Metallwerke Zöblitz AG in the Ore Mountains , which his father had acquired in 1922. While his parents had fled the advancing Red Army to Flensburg in 1945 and returned to Denmark in 1948, Ove Skafte Rasmussen stayed in the "Rasmussen Villa" in Zschopau, an experience that he processed in 1973 in a book. In 1948 he first moved to Wiesbaden with his family.

In 1949 Ove founded Rasmussen GmbH in Hochstadt near Frankfurt am Main , a supplier to the automotive industry. There he developed a hose clamp that was sold under the brand name Norma and which became a major economic success from the 1950s onwards due to the steadily growing automobile production.

After 1990, Ove Rasmussen bought the hose clamps product area from the Solidor combine in Heiligenstadt, Thuringia, with whom he had business connections during the GDR era.

In his old age, he advised and sponsored the 1st Lower Bavarian Automobile and Motorcycle Museum in Adlkofen near Landshut in Lower Bavaria .

He died at the age of 86.

Works

• The competitiveness of the German automotive industry with special consideration of recent experiences . Public Economics Dissertation, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Regensburg 1934.
• with Inger Rasmussen: Fortid i Bloustrød . Museum forums for Hørsholm and Omegn. 1973

Honors

• The DKW Motorrad Club e. V. organizes an annual Ove Rasmussen commemorative trip

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hans Christoph Graf von Seherr-Thoß: Jørgen Skafte Rasmussen . In: Neue Deutsche Biografie (NDB), Vol. 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , pp. 162 f. From: deutsche-biographie.de, accessed on May 14, 2017
2. ↑ 1929: By plane to the Abitur ( Memento of the original from March 31, 2016 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. . From: edwj.de, accessed on May 14, 2017 
3. ↑ Leaflets of the outer community of the Schule am Meer Juist (North Sea), 8th circular, April 1931, p. 31.
4. ^ Peter Kohl / Peter Bessel: Auto Union and Junkers: History of the Mitteldeutsche Motorenwerke GmbH Taucha 1935–1948 . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2003. ISBN 978-3515080705 , pp. 41, 85, 105.
5. ^ Sächsisches Staatsarchiv, Staatsarchiv Leipzig, 20783, Erla-Werke, No. 029, July 17, 1936
6. ↑ Karl-Dieter Seifert: DKW and the Erla-Me aircraft: 1926 to 1945 . Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2011. ISBN 978-3866808522 , p. 87
7. ^ Sächsisches Staatsarchiv, Hauptstaatsarchiv Dresden, 11814, Sächsische Staatsbank, No. 458, July 17, 1936
8. ↑ Markus Bulgrin: The history of the hose clamp . From: normagroup.com, accessed May 12, 2017
9. ↑ Werner Deggim: Lived diversification . (PDF file; 152 KB) Address to the shareholders of Norma Group SE at the Annual General Meeting on June 2, 2016 in Frankfurt am Main, p. 2
10. ↑ Norma in Gerbershausen looks back on an eventful history . In: Thüringer Allgemeine, August 15, 2015. From: thueringer-allgemeine.de, accessed on May 7, 2017
11. ↑ Automobiles - contemplative . From: automuseum-adlkofen.de, accessed on May 14, 2017
12. ↑ 26. Ove Rasmussen commemorative trip . From: dkw-motorrad-stammtisch.de, accessed on May 14, 2017