Walter Schües

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Walter Schües (born May 1, 1880 in Hamburg ; † April 3, 1948 there ) was a German insurance director and from 1928 to 1948 director of the North German insurance company.

Life

Schües was the son of the insurance broker Oscar Schües and his wife Bertha, b. Franck. After finishing school, he practically learned in commercial, banking and insurance business in Hamburg. On December 29, 1904, he joined his father's company, Carstens & Schües Assecuranzmakler . A good two years later he became co-founder and managing director of the insurance broker company Willis, Faber & Schües in Hamburg, which he left in 1917 to join the board of directors of the North German insurance company. From 1924 to 1928 he was a member of the Hamburg Parliament and a member of the Hamburg Finance Department. Schües was a member of the supervisory board of the Nord-Deutsche-Versicherungs AG of the Hamburgische Bank from 1923, of the port steamship company in Hamburg and of the Germanischer Lloyd in Berlin. In addition, he was a board member of the Association of Hamburg Assecuradeure, was 1st Chairman of the German Transport Insurance Association and Deputy Chairman of the International Transport Insurance Association.

Since 1904 he was married to Anna Dorothea, b. Claussen and had several children with her.

One of his sons was Walter Georg Schües .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death register StA Hamburg-Eppendorf, No. 452/1948
  2. ^ Carstens & Schües. Neue Hamburger Zeitung , January 2, 1905, p. 7. ( digitized version )
  3. ^ Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 2: L-Z. German business publisher, Berlin 1931, DNB 453960294 .
  4. ↑ Marriage register StA Hamburg 11, No. 61/1904
personal data
SURNAME Schües, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Insurance Director, MdHB
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH April 3, 1948
Place of death Hamburg