Peter van Aubel
Peter van Aubel (born June 5, 1894 in Düsseldorf ; † April 10, 1964 there ) was a German economist and association official.
Career
The son of a foreman completed after primary school first commercial training and entered in 1914 - shortly before the outbreak of the First World War - in the upper fifth of the high school one. Wounded several times in the war and honored, he graduated from high school at the end of the war in a short course for combatants and then began studying economics , business administration and law in Bonn, Göttingen, Berlin and Cologne. Like many of his contemporaries, he temporarily financed his studies as a working student and was also involved in developing student self-administration. Together with Otto Benecke , Arnold Bergstraesser , Hermann Mitgau and Robert Tillmanns , he was one of the founders of the German student body in 1919 and took over as Benecke's successor in 1920/21. In this role he played a key role in founding the German Student Union and the German National Academic Foundation .
After he had to temporarily break off his studies for economic reasons, van Aubel worked temporarily as a consultant in the Prussian Ministry of Culture under Carl Heinrich Becker in 1921/22 and then went into industry. After completing his doctorate (1925 in Cologne), van Aubel worked as a manager at Phönix AG for mining and smelting operations in the merger negotiations for the formation of Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG and then headed its corporate accounting department.
From 1931 onwards, at the request of Oskar Mulert , van Aubel was chairman of the board of the business consultancy of German cities AG founded by the German Association of Cities and the municipal business associations . After the end of the Second World War , at the request of Konrad Adenauer , he took over the management of the re-established German Association of Cities . He stayed in office until 1951. From 1949 to 1955 he was the first president of the German Hospital Society (DKG) in office.
Memberships
- Founding and honorary chairman of the German Hospital Society
- Founding board of the German National Academic Foundation (1948)
- Member of the Science Council (1957–63)
- Board of Directors of the Stifterverband for German Science
- Honorary board member of the Association of German Student Unions
- President of the Schmalenbach Society for Business Administration (1960/61)
Awards
- Iron Cross 1st and 2nd class
- Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1954)
- Honorary doctorate (Dr. jur.hc) from the University of Cologne (1954)
- Honorary doctorate (Dr. med. Hc) from the Medical Academy Düsseldorf (1959)
literature
- Rüdiger Robert Beer: In memory of Peter van Aubels , In: Der Städtetag 6/1964, pp. 265–270.
- Robert Tillmanns (Ed.): Order as a goal. Contributions to contemporary history (commemoration for van Aubel's 60th birthday), Stuttgart 1954.
Web links
Peter van Aubel (1946–1951) | Otto Ziebill (1951–1964) | Werner Bockelmann (1964–1968) | Bruno Weinberger (1968–1986) | Ernst Pappermann (1986–1990) | Jochen Dieckmann (1990–1999) | Stephan Articus (1999–2016) | Helmut Dedy (since 2016)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Aubel, Peter van |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German economist and association official |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 5, 1894 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dusseldorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 10, 1964 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |