Waldemar Braun

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Waldemar Braun (born November 10, 1877 in Saint Petersburg , Russian Empire , † June 11, 1954 ) was a German entrepreneur.

ancestors

His father Wunibald Braun was the eldest of eight children of the Hessian court clerk Konrad Braun. He was a German industrialist, co-founder and commercial head of the measurement and control technology company Hartmann & Braun AG, which he founded with Wilhelm Eugen Hartmann (1853–1915) . His uncle was the Nobel Prize winner Ferdinand Braun . His brothers Franz Braun, Leonhard Braun and Robert Hartmann-Kempf joined the plant and its administration over the years and took over the management.

Life

Waldemar Braun attended grammar school in Frankfurt am Main and studied law and political science at the universities of Freiburg , Berlin and Marburg . In 1897 he became a member of the Corps Suevia Freiburg .

After graduating as Dr. iur. at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg he became a Prussian court trainee in 1900. In 1904 and 1905 he was on leave to travel abroad to France and England. In 1911 he took up a position as a district judge in Neuwied .

In 1912 his father Wunibald died. Waldemar Braun retired from civil service in 1913 and became in-house counsel at Hartmann & Braun AG in Frankfurt am Main . In 1920 he joined the company's board of directors. He expanded the company and led the reconstruction after the destruction of the World War. His grandson Wilfried Braun (born June 30, 1917 † August 10, 1999) took over the management of the company as the third generation.

Braun was also a member of the supervisory board of Commerz- und Privatbank AG . He was on the board of the Association of Central German Industrialists. V. in Frankfurt am Main, was a member of the local Chamber of Commerce and Industry and a member of the board of the Reich Association of German Industry . From 1938 to 1944 Braun was chairman of the Frankfurt Physics Association .

Honors

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 , Sp. 290.
  • Reichs Handbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft - The handbook of personalities in words and pictures . First volume, Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, ISBN 3-598-30664-4
  • Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German Who's Who . 12th edition, Arani, Berlin 1955.
  • Walther Killy and Rudolf Vierhaus (eds.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 2. Saur, Munich et al. 1995.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 36 , 517
personal data
SURNAME Braun, Waldemar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 1954