Paul Roediger

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Paul Roediger (born August 16, 1859 in Frankfurt am Main ; † February 18, 1938 there ) was a German business lawyer.

Life

His father Conrad Roediger was a secret councilor and director of the Main-Neckar Railway . Grandfather Ludwig Roediger had been a student at the Wartburg Festival and afterwards, despite persecution in Frankfurt, had received a professorship at the municipal grammar school. Paul Roediger studied law at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen from 1878 and received his doctorate. jur. After completing his judicial training, he initially worked as an in-house attorney at Frankfurter Metallgesellschaft under Wilhelm Merton , later became its director for many years from 1889 to 1911 and finally, after 25 years in the operational area, a member of its supervisory board. During his time as a member of the board of directors of the metal company, the major expansion took place before the First World War . With his help, the Metallgesellschaft founded the first corporate credit institute of a German industrial company. With regard to the orientation of this bank, there were different opinions between the main shareholder of the metal company Merton and Roediger, in particular on the question of whether the group bank should hold its own block of shares in the metal company, which Rödiger strictly rejected.

He belonged to the circle of business friends and employees of the metal company who were involved in the metallurgical company in 1897 when it was spun off . The company was led by Curt Adolph Netto , later known as Lurgi , and was successful as a plant manufacturer.

In addition to his work for Metallgesellschaft, he was chairman of the supervisory board of Rawack & Grünfeld Aktiengesellschaft in Berlin, deputy chairman of the supervisory board of printing press manufacturer Koenig & Bauer Aktiengesellschaft in Würzburg, and a member of the supervisory boards of German Brown, Boveri & Cie in Mannheim , and Kraftanlagen AG in Heidelberg (today Kraftanlagen Heidelberg GmbH ) as well as the general energy supply AG in Heidelberg. In Switzerland he was a member of the boards of directors of Brown, Boveri & Cie Aktiengesellschaft and Motor Columbus AG for electrical companies , both in Baden , where he was also Chairman of the Board of Directors. In addition, he was a member of numerous other management boards of foreign group and subsidiary companies of the metal company.

Merton partly involved his senior staff in his philanthropic engagements for the Frankfurt welfare, partly also to cover up their own use of funds through them as straw people. In addition to other employees, Paul Roediger was among the shareholders when the Institute for Common Welfare was converted into a GmbH in 1896 . However, as early as 1899 Wilhelm Menton took back all of the shares in this company.

As an art lover and lover, Paul Rödiger was President of the Board of Directors of the Frankfurter Kunstverein and was a member of other boards of art and museum associations.

Honors

Roediger was appointed to the Prussian judiciary .

literature

  • Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 2: L-Z. German business publisher, Berlin 1931, DNB 453960294 .
  • Susan Becker: Multinationality has different faces: Forms of international business activities of the Société Anonyme des Mines et Fonderies de Zinc de la Vieille Montagne and the Metallgesellschaft before 1914. Stuttgart 2002.
  • Stefanie Knetsch: Metallgesellschaft's in-house banking institute in the period from 1906 to 1928. Stuttgart 1989.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Holdings of the Institute for Common Welfare in the Hessian Economic Archive
personal data
SURNAME Roediger, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German business lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 1938
Place of death Frankfurt am Main