Rudolf ten Hompel
Rudolf ten Hompel (born February 10, 1878 in Recklinghausen , † September 3, 1948 in Munich ) was a German industrialist and politician ( center ).
Live and act
Youth and Life in the Empire
Rudolf ten Hompel was the eldest son of August ten Hompel, a member of the board of directors at Wicking's Portland cement works, which were based in Recklinghausen - later in Münster. Ten Hompel's mother Henriette was a daughter of the founder of the Wickingwerke, Adolf Wicking . Ten Hompel attended a grammar school in Recklinghausen and later the secondary school in Paderborn. He studied at the Royal Mechanical Engineering School in Hagen and at the Technical University of Hanover , where he obtained a degree in engineering. He then rounded off his training with economic studies at the University of Munich . In Munich he became an active member of the Catholic student union Saxonia in the KV , in 1925 he became an honorary philistine of the Gothia-Hanover union in the KV .
Ten Hompel initially worked in the textile industry. From 1901 to 1903 he traveled to England and the USA to expand his economic and technical knowledge. In 1905 he came to the board of the Westdeutsche Terrain- und Baubank (Essen-Ruhr). In 1914 he joined the Wicking Portland cement and water lime works founded by his grandfather. From 1915 he was a member of the board of directors.
Life in the Weimar Republic
Having promoted to general director of the family company, ten Hompel built up Germany's largest cement group in the 1920s. As early as 1917, thirteen previously independent Westphalian cement works were taken over by Wickingwerke. In the West German Cement Association, the Wickingwerke accounted for more than 50% of the companies involved. The strengthened market position of the ten Hompel group was expressed in a new, modern, high-performance plant built between 1928 and 1930 in Neuwied . During the global economic crisis , in particular due to the collapse of the Danat Bank ( Darmstädter and Nationalbank ), the Wicking Group got into difficulties and was transferred to the rival company Dyckerhoff from Wiesbaden .
In addition to his work as a cement manufacturer , ten Hompel was a member of the Reich Association of German Industry (RDI). In 1922 he was awarded the academic degree of Dr. phil. hc. awarded.
After the First World War ten Hompel began to be politically active in the Catholic Center Party. He was the organizer and chairman of the party's economic advisory council. For this he was a member of the Berlin Reichstag from 1920 to 1928 as a member of constituency 17 "Westphalia North". In 1921 ten Hompel, together with Ludwig Kaas and Adam Stegerwald, tried to persuade Cologne's Lord Mayor Konrad Adenauer to make himself available for the office of Reich Chancellor .
Late years of life
After the company's demise, ten Hompel withdrew from the public. In 1935 he was charged by the Münster District Court with embezzlement, bankruptcy, property shifts and forgery and sentenced to three years in prison and a fine of 22,000 Reichsmarks. After 1939 the Villa ten Hompels became the property of the Reich. The family moved to Munich, where ten Hompel was the managing director of a building materials company.
Estate and memory
His estate is now kept in the Federal Archives in Koblenz under the reference number "NL 133" . It contains, among other things, the manuscript for ten Hompel's unpublished memoirs. In addition, there are minutes and material collections from his parliamentary activities as well as minutes of meetings of the government faction and intergroup meetings and documents on social, financial and economic policy .
In Münster, the Villa ten Hompel built in the 1920s - today a memorial for the crimes of the police during the Nazi era - commemorates the former owner.
Fonts
- Memorandum on the development of unification efforts in the German cement industry with special consideration of the situation of the Rhenish-Westphalian cement industry (1916)
- Development and business policy of the Wicking Group (1932)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Georg May: Ludwig Kaas , 1982, p. 570.
literature
- Corinna Fritsch: Rudolf ten Hompel (1878-1948). From the life of a Westphalian industrialist and member of the Reichstag. Münster, 2002 (Villa ten Hompel, Schriften, 2)
- Barbara Gerstein: ten Hompel, Rudolf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 594 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Siegfried Koß, Wolfgang Löhr (Hrsg.): Biographical Lexicon of KV. 2nd part (= Revocatio historiae. Volume 3). SH-Verlag, Schernfeld 1993, ISBN 3-923621-98-1 , p. 59.
Web links
- Literature by and about Rudolf ten Hompel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Newspaper article about Rudolf ten Hompel in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
- Rudolf ten Hompel in the database of members of the Reichstag
- Rudolf ten Hompel in the online version of the Reich Chancellery Edition Files. Weimar Republic
- From the life of the "cement king" ten Hompel. (Press and Information Office of the City of Münster from June 19, 2002)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ten Hompel, Rudolf |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hompel, Rudolf ten |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German industrialist and politician (center), MdR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 10, 1878 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Recklinghausen |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 3, 1948 |
| Place of death | Munich |