Werner Bahlsen

This article describes the entrepreneur Werner Bahlsen, born in 1904. For his son, born in 1949, see Werner Michael Bahlsen

Werner Bahlsen (born March 23, 1904 in Hanover ; † December 21, 1985 in Bad Ragaz / Switzerland ) was a German businessman and factory owner , co-manager of the Bahlsen company , patron and holder of numerous honorary positions.

Life

Early years

Werner Bahlsen was the second son of the company's founder, Hermann Bahlsen . After completing a commercial apprenticeship in a grocery store , he joined the company in 1922. Bahlsen received further training in all departments of the house as well as in corresponding companies in Great Britain, the Netherlands and the USA .

From the late 1920s he ran the Bahlsen company together with his brothers Klaus Bahlsen (1905–1991) and Hans Bahlsen (1901–1959). At the beginning of the Nazi regime , Bahlsen was a sponsoring member of the SS , which he supported financially until 1935. In 1942 he joined the NSDAP . He also managed a biscuit factory managed by the Bahlsen company with around 1,500 employees in occupied Kiev and coordinated the deportation of female forced laborers from the Ukraine to Hanover.

After the Second World War , Werner Bahlsen appeared as an avowed supporter of the social market economy and was a co-founder of the Economic Council of the CDU in Lower Saxony , which he chaired for many years.

In his private life he was a fan of domestic music and hunting .

Honorary positions and patronage

Werner Bahlsen was involved in a variety of ways for the economy and science , for the church and art . From 1967 to 1970 he was chairman of the Hanover Industry Club . He was an honorary senator of the TU Hannover .

In his hometown of Hanover, he sponsored the Kestner Society , the Lower Saxony State Museum , the Academy of Music and the Technical University (TU; today Leibniz University of Hanover).

Honors

Of the numerous honors that Werner Bahlsen received, from his hometown u. a. to call:

• 1969 city ​​plaque
• 1973 Honorary Senator of the Technical University of Hanover
• 1978 " Freiherr vom Stein Prize" for all of his voluntary work

family

Werner Bahlsen's son Werner Michael Bahlsen took over in the late 1990s after Hermann Bahlsen jr. , a nephew of Werner Bahlsen and the son of his brother Hans Bahlsen, gradually took over the management of the family business.

literature

• Walther Killy (ed. F. Vol. 1–4) and Rudolf Vierhaus (ed. F. Vol. 4ff): Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie , vol. 1ff Munich etc. 1995ff; here: vol. 1, p. 268
• Lower Saxony Life Pictures , Vols. 1–9, Hildesheim, Leipzig, 1939–1976; here: Vol. 6 (1969), pp. 91-107
• Bahlsen (Ed.): H. Bahlsens Keksfabrik KG , 1964
• U. Lehmeniek: From the cakes factory to the Bahlsen group , 1996
• Titus Arnu: Hermann Bahlsen , in the series Made in Germany , Ullstein-Buch 35943, Berlin November 1999, ISBN 3-548-35943-4
• Waldemar R. Röhrbein in: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 36f (see web links).
• Waldemar R. Röhrbein (also ed.) In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (ed.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 43.

Web links

• Bahlsen - 6. Werner Bahlsen. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon. Schlütersche, Hanover 2004.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jürgen Dahlkamp : Bahlsen brothers were NSDAP members and SS supporters. In: Der Spiegel , May 17, 2019; Christian Müßgens: The Bahlsen brothers were in the NSDAP. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , May 17, 2019; both accessed on the same day.
2. ↑ Arne Semsrott : New documents: Bahlsen cooperated with the SS and ran a factory in occupied Kiev (update). In: FragDenStaat. May 18, 2019, accessed May 18, 2019 .