Otto Wiedfeldt

Otto Wiedfeldt

Otto Wiedfeldt (born August 16, 1871 in Thüritz , Altmark , † July 5, 1926 in Essen ) was a German politician and economist.

Life

Important stages in his career in the higher administrative service represented his work in the Reich Office of the Interior from 1908 to 1910 and 1914 to 1917. In the meantime, he worked as a ministerial director in the Japanese Ministry of Railways. In 1918 he took over the chairmanship of the board of directors of Friedrich Krupp AG in Essen and at the same time the chairmanship of the Essen Chamber of Commerce. On March 21, 1922, upon appeal by Rathenau  and Eberts , Wiedfeldt was appointed the first German ambassador to Washington after the resumption of diplomatic relations after the First World War . On January 31, 1925, he handed over the management of the embassy to Counselor Dieckhoff . From the end of April 1925 to May 26, 1926, Wiedfeldt returned to the Krupp company as a member of the supervisory board and delegate for financial matters to the board of directors.

On July 5, 1926, Wiedfeldt succumbed to leukemia. He was buried on July 8th in the Meisenburg cemetery in Essen-Bredeney.

Honors

According to him, which is Wiedfeldtstraße named in Essen.

literature

• Ernst Schröder: Otto Wiedfeldt. A biography . 2nd revised edition. Schmidt Verlag, Neustadt / Aisch 1981 (EA Essen 1964).
• Eckhard Hansen, Florian Tennstedt (Eds.) U. a .: Biographical lexicon on the history of German social policy from 1871 to 1945 . Volume 1: Social politicians in the German Empire 1871 to 1918. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2010, ISBN 978-3-86219-038-6 , p. 172 f. ( Online , PDF; 2.2 MB).
• Martin Wiehle : Altmark personalities. Biographical lexicon of the Altmark, the Elbe-Havel-Land and the Jerichower Land (= contributions to the cultural history of the Altmark and its peripheral areas. Vol. 5). Dr. ziethen verlag, Oschersleben 1999, ISBN 3-932090-61-6 .
• Uwe Kessler: On the history of management at Krupp. From the beginning of the company to the dissolution of Fried. Krupp AG (1811–1943) (= supplement to the journal for corporate history . Volume 87). Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-515-06486-9 .
• Johannes Hürter (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Volume 5: Bernd Isphording et al. (Arrangement): T – Z. Supplements. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-71844-0 , p. 274 f.

Web links

• Newspaper article about Otto Wiedfeldt in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .