Werner Blunck

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Werner Blunck (born May 28, 1901 in Kiel , † June 2, 1988 in Hanover ) was a German lawyer , businessman , economist and politician ( FDP ).

Life

Blunck completed his Abitur at a reform high school in Kiel in 1920 and then began an apprenticeship at a bank until 1922. He then studied law and political science at the universities in Kiel and Hamburg. In 1925 he passed the diploma examination as an economist and received his doctorate in 1926.

Between 1927 and 1928 he held various volunteer positions in industry and administration. Between 1928 and 1938 he was employed by the city administration of Hanover (welfare office) as a scientific consultant. In 1938 he took up a job at HW Appel Feinkost-AG , Hanover. He married Hildegard, the daughter of the entrepreneur Heinz Appel .

In May 1933, the year the National Socialists seized power , Blunck became a member of the Sturmabteilung (SA). One month after the " Röhm Putsch " he resigned from the SA in August 1934 and joined the German Labor Front (DAF) and the National Socialist People's Welfare (NSV).

During the Second World War , Blunck participated in the war from 1939 to 1945; As a military administrator he was assigned to the Poltava Economic Command, which was subordinate to the Economic Staff East , in the German-occupied Ukraine .

After the end of the war, Blunck was appointed authorized signatory of Appel in 1947 , member of the board in 1948 and general director in 1958 .

Also after the war, Blunck became chairman of the FDP of the Hanover City District Association. Blunck belonged to the Lower Saxony state parliament from 1959 to 1967 and was deputy chairman of the FDP parliamentary group until May 30, 1961.

Blunck became a member of the administrative board of the University of Göttingen. Furthermore, he was chairman or member of the board of various socio-political working groups and employers' associations as well as chairman or member of the board of various business associations. He became a member of the general assembly of the Hanover Chamber of Commerce and Industry . Blunck was appointed to the advisory board member of Deutsche Bank AG , Hanover branch and vice-president of the EEC association of the delicatessen industry.

After the stroke of his father-in-law Heinz Appel, Werner Blunck took over as CEO of Appel Feinkost Aktiengesellschaft in 1958 .

In 1962, the enthusiastic skater and lover of church and chamber music became consul of Iceland .

Honors

literature

  • Peter Hoffmann, Edmund Budrich (Red.): Lower Saxony Lexicon , 1st edition, ed. from the Lower Saxony State Center for Political Education , Wiesbaden: VS, Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2004, ISBN 3-531-14403-0 , p. 34
  • Stephan A. Glienke: The Nazi past of a later member of the Lower Saxony state parliament. Final report on a project of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen on behalf of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Published by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Revised reprint of the first edition . Hanover 2012, p. 57 f., 73 ( Online , PDF; 868 kB).
  • Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, pp. 39–40.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Waldemar R. Röhrbein : BLUNCK, Werner. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 59.
  2. ↑ Waldemar R. Röhrbein: APPEL, Heinz. 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. 30; online through google books
personal data
SURNAME Blunck, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (FDP), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH June 2nd, 1988
Place of death Hanover