Richard Kaselowsky (entrepreneur, 1888)

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Richard Kaselowsky (born August 14, 1888 in Bielefeld ; † September 30, 1944 in an air raid ) was a German entrepreneur .

Life

Kaselowsky was the eldest son of the entrepreneur Richard Kaselowsky and his wife Elise Pauline Kaselowsky nee. Delius. In 1907 he passed the Abitur in Bielefeld. He studied law at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin and the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg . From 1908 to 1910 he completed a banking apprenticeship at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Disconto-Gesellschaft in Bochum. He began his military service as a one-year volunteer on October 1, 1910 with the 7th Field Artillery Regiment in Munich, but was released early in 1911 due to illness. He then completed an apprenticeship at the Delbrück, Schickler & Co. bank in Berlin, where he met Rudolf Oetker (1889–1916), the son of the pharmacist and entrepreneur August Oetker . From April 1913 he continued his training at a London bank.

In 1914 Kaselowsky became a poultry farmer and founded a model poultry farm as a teaching and breeding institute near Bad Nauheim . In 1916 he was drafted into military service. During the service, however, he studied at the University of Frankfurt and was there in July 1919 with his thesis "The RWTH Kuxenmarkt " doctorate .

In 1919 he married Rudolf Oetker's widow Ida Oetker geb. Meyer . With this step he joined the company Dr. Oetker and soon became a partner. In 1920 he effectively took over management of the company. At that time, the company already had over 600 employees. He continued the founder's success and expanded production and sales abroad as well.

Kaselowsky was also chairman of the supervisory board of Chemische Fabrik Budenheim AG in Mainz, Gundlach AG in Bielefeld, member of the supervisory board of Vogt & Wolf AG in Gütersloh , the Hamburg South American Steamship Company (later shipping company Hamburg Süd ), as well as deputy chairman of the supervisory board of Kochs Adler sewing machines AG (today Dürkopp Adler AG ), Gebrüder Borchers AG and Deutsche Bank AG . In 1926 he founded a stud for thoroughbred breeding in Ebbesloh (today part of Gütersloh) .

Kaselowsky became a member of the NSDAP on May 1, 1933 , later also an SS-Gruppenführer and a member of the Friends of the Reichsführer SS . He died on September 30, 1944 together with his wife Ida and their daughters Ilse and Ingeborg in an attack by US bombers on the city of Bielefeld in the basement (private bunker) of his villa when the house was hit. Richard Kaselowsky Junior was the only descendant to survive .

In the post-war period, Kaselowsky was highly controversial in Bielefeld, especially during the dispute over the name of the Kunsthalle Bielefeld, which was co-financed by his stepson Rudolf-August Oetker . While the Oetker family wants to emphasize his role as father and successful entrepreneur and describes him as a victim of the World War because of his death, others criticize that his closeness and that of the company to National Socialism were never sufficiently reflected. The book “Dr. Oetker and National Socialism, The History of a Family Business 1933-1945 ”is dealing with Kaselowsky's SS past, it was commissioned and financed by the Oetker family. Today the Ida and Richard Kaselowsky Foundation established by the Oetker family supports social and charitable causes.

Kaselowskystraße and Hochstraße

In 1998 a majority of the SPD and the Greens in the city council deleted Kaselowsky's name from the name of the art gallery after long debates. On the occasion of Rudolf-August Oetker's 85th birthday in 2001, the street on which Kaselowsky's villa was located was renamed Kaselowskystraße . After 2001 there were protests against the street naming. In 2016 the municipal bodies decided to rename the street to Hochstraße. The renaming was completed on February 17, 2017.

literature

  • 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 , column 1095.
  • Czeslav Sawicki: The Oetker company in the time of National Socialism. In: Wolfgang Ehmer, Uwe Horst, Helga Schuler-Jung (eds.): Province under the swastika. Dictatorship and resistance in Ostwestfalen-Lippe. AJZ-Verlag, Bielefeld 1984, ISBN 3-921680-38-7 , pp. 153-164. ( Excerpt online)
  • Rüdiger Jungbluth: The Oetkers. Business and secrets of Germany's most famous economic dynasty . Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-593-37396-3 .
  • Jürgen Finger, Sven Keller , Andreas Wirsching : Dr. Oetker and National Socialism. History of a family business 1933–1945 . CH Beck Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-406-64545-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Taken over by Deutsche Bank AG in 1917
  2. ↑ Wirsching et al. (2013), p. 41 ff. ( Limited preview on Google Books )
  3. ^ Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945. 2nd updated edition, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 300.
  4. ↑ August Oetker: My father was a National Socialist . In: Die Zeit Online of October 16, 2013, accessed on October 17, 2013
  5. ^ Neue Westfälische, February 16, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Kaselowsky, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Bielefeld
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 1944
Place of death Bielefeld