Paul Reymann

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Paul Reymann (1879–1933)

Johannes Paul Max Reymann (born September 18, 1879 in Neuschönefeld , † June 13, 1933 in Lübeck ) was a German naval officer and director of the shipyard of Henry Koch .

Life

Paul Reymann, son of the factory owner Max Reymann and his wife Antonie, nee Vitzthum, and brother of Vice Admiral Max Reymann (1872–1948), commander of the auxiliary cruiser Kaiser Wilhelm der Große, attended the König-Albert-Gymnasium in Leipzig from Easter 1890 to Easter 1897 .

He then joined the Imperial Navy as a midshipman and completed the Kiel Naval School , which he graduated on July 25, 1898 with the highest commendation for excellent knowledge. On March 9, 1900, he was appointed ensign at sea . In 1908 he received command of the SMS Vulkan as a lieutenant commander .

From 1909 to 1910 Reymann was commissioned with the inspection of the torpedo system . On March 22, 1914, he received the patent as a corvette captain . During the First World War , he was an admiral staff officer with the naval chief of the high seas, responsible for the operational implementation of the submarine war . As such, he took part in the Battle of the Skagerrak . In 1918 he was appointed chief of the submarine operations department at the Navy's Grand Headquarters. Reymann spoke out on the staff of the naval command against the plan to deliver England a "last battle" .

With the rank of frigate captain , he left the navy in 1920 and joined the board of directors of Otto-Werft AG in Harburg . On March 22, 1922 Paul Reymann was commercial director board member of the shipyard Henry Koch AG in Lübeck, where he shortly before during the Great Depression occurred insolvency died of the company.

Paul Reymann was married to the woodcarver Charlotte Jagenberg (born April 20, 1891 in Altenkirchen ) since 1919 . The marriage had a son and two daughters. He was a member of the city ​​council and the Lübeck Chamber of Commerce and Industry .

Orders and decorations

literature

  • Eberhard von Mantey : Our Navy in World War 1914–1918. Weller, Berlin 1928.
  • Georg Wenzel: German business leader . Life courses of German business personalities. A reference book on 13,000 business figures of our time. Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg / Berlin / Leipzig 1929, DNB 948663294 , p. 363.
  • Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 2: L-Z. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1931, DNB 453960294 , p. 398.
  • Heinz Haaker: The "Henry Koch AG shipyard". A chapter in Lübeck's shipbuilding and industrial history. Kabel, Hamburg 1994 (writings of the German Shipping Museum, 37).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ König Albert-Gymnasium (Royal High School until 1900) in Leipzig (Ed.): Student album 1880–1904 / 05 , Friedrich Gröber, Leipzig 1905.
  2. ^ Gerhard Granier: Magnus von Levetzow. Harald Boldt Verlag, Boppard am Rhein 1982, p. 50.
  3. ↑ Heinz Haaker, p. 90.
  4. ↑ Ulrike Wolff-Thomsen: Lexicon of Schleswig-Holstein female artists . Ed .: Städtisches Museum Flensburg. P. 268. Westholsteinische Verlagsanstalt Boyens & Co., Heide 1994, ISBN 3-8042-0664-6 .
personal data
SURNAME Reymann, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reymann, Johannes Paul Max (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German naval officer, most recently frigate captain, board member and director of the Henry Koch AG shipyard
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuschönefeld
DATE OF DEATH June 13, 1933
Place of death Lübeck