Theodor Sonnemann

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Theodor Sonnemann (right), 1960
Theodor Sonnemann (left), 1959

Johannes Carl Adolf Theodor Sonnemann (born September 2, 1900 in Hildesheim , † September 6, 1987 in Bonn ) was State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and President of the German Raiffeisen Association .

Life

Theodor Sonnemann was born in Hildesheim in 1900 as the son of the engineer Hans Sonnemann and his wife Julie. In 1918 Sonnemann joined the Navy as a midshipman . In December 1918 he took part in a naval tower company in a fight in the Baltic States against the Bolsheviks . From autumn 1919 he began studying economics , political science and history at the Georg-August University in Göttingen and from April 1921 at the University of Rostock . Joined the Holzminda fraternity . In 1920 he worked in a leading position in the suppression of the communist uprising in the Ruhr area. In 1922 he received his doctorate from the University of Rostock on the subject of Heinrich Oppermann and Hanoverian Liberalism as a Dr. phil. At the same time he joined the Redaria-Rostock fraternity with a second band. Within the German Burschenschaft he was active for more than 15 years as a member of the university policy committee from 1920 , later as a member of the main committee and the honorary council.

This was followed by professional activities at the Hanover Chamber of Industry and Commerce, the agricultural professional representation and as syndic of the Reichslandbund in Burgdorf and Celle . In 1936 he was dismissed without notice due to differences with the National Socialist rulers. From 1936 employment as a military economics officer, since 1939 advisor in the military economics and armaments office at the high command of the armed forces . After that he was again deployed in the war (including from August to October 1944 as the flotilla commander of the 13th landing flotilla), most recently as a corvette captain of the navy, as the flotilla commander of the 7th artillery carrier flotilla.

On February 13, 1945, Sonnemann lost his wife and two daughters in the bombing raid on Dresden . From 1945 professional activities followed in the district office of Gifhorn , in the regional food office and in the Hanover Chamber of Agriculture. From 1947 to 1949, Sonnemann was the general manager of the Association of the Lower Saxon Rural People and from 1949 to 1961 he was State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Forestry . In 1953 he married Margarethe Pochadt, a secretary of Konrad Adenauer . From 1961 to 1963 he was Vice President, then President of the German Raiffeisen Association .

Awards

Publications

  • The woman in national defense , 1939
  • The economy as a weapon of war , Berlin 1941 and 1943.
  • Forms and thoughts. From a life for the state and the people. Stuttgart, Hanover 1975.
  • The new center and the cooperatives. Göttingen 1977.
  • Humanity still has a chance. Alternatives for the world of tomorrow. Hamburg 1977.
  • Born in 1900. Up and down in the flow of time. Wuerzburg 1980.
  • A youth under black-white-red. In: Rudolf Pörtner (Ed.): Childhood in the Kaiserreich. Memories of times gone by. Munich 1989, pp. 128-135.

Among the books and writings published by Sonnemann, the work "Gold in the War Economy" (1944, Junker & Dünnhaupt Berlin publishing house) should be mentioned. It is one of the few books that, based on the function of gold in the monetary system, extensively examines the role of gold in the war economy of different epochs, with a special focus on the gold policy of England in the 19th century and especially that of the USA in the 20th century. Sonnemann recognizes the importance of gold in the historical context, but regards its position as no longer given with reference to the pre-war and war economy of the "Third Reich" in modern economics and war economy.

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , pp. 456-458.
  • Theodor Sonnemann in: Paul Swiridoff : Portraits from the German economy. Pfullingen 1966, p. 98.
  • Freedom and order. Festschrift for the 70th birthday of Dr. Dr. hc Theodor Sonnemann. Bonn 1970.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Registration of Theodor Sonnemann in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ↑ a b Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. List of the members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934. P. 472.

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personal data
SURNAME Sonnemann, Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sonnemann, Johannes Carl Adolf Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd September 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Hildesheim
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1987
Place of death Bonn