Wilhelm Ashoff (entrepreneur, 1857)

Wilhelm Ashoff (born July 31, 1857 in Altena ; † July 13, 1929 there ) was a German entrepreneur.

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He attended secondary school in Altena and obtained primary school in Siegen . After completing his commercial apprenticeship, he joined Basse & Selve in 1874 , which was founded in 1861.

He worked in this company for 53 years and rose to become authorized signatory , director and general manager. After the company became Selve AG in 1921 and became Berg-Heckmann-Selve AG in 1927, he resigned from the Management Board in 1927 and moved to the Supervisory Board in 1928 as the first deputy chairman. Since 1899 he had been a general representative in the company.

He distinguished himself by promoting community work in the brass , copper, nickel and aluminum industries and was a member of the boards of various associations. He also supported the Kaiser Wilhelm Society . He participated in the settlement of conflicts of interest with the workers.

Since 1904 Ashoff was a member of the DDP and sat in the district council and in the magistrate of the city of Altena. In 1919 he ran for the Prussian constitutional assembly , but was not elected.

Functions

• 1st deputy chairman of the supervisory board of Selve-Automobilwerke AG
• Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce for the Lenne region of the Altena district and for the Olpe district from 1904 to 1929
• Member of the County Council and the Municipal Council of the city Altena
• Committee member of the Central Association of German Industrialists
• Member of the provisional Reich Economic Council
• Member of the main committee and foreign trade committee of the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry
• Member of the state committee of the Prussian chambers of industry and commerce
• Member of the main committee of the Reich Association of German Industry
• Chairman of the specialist group on the metalworking and semi-finished metal industry of the Reich Association of German Industry
• Chairman of the Central Association of the German Metal, Rolling Mill and Metallurgical Industry
• Member of the association for common economic interests in Rhineland and Westphalia
• Member of the board of directors of the copper sheet syndicate in Kassel
• Member of the Board of Directors of the Copper Pipe Association in Cologne
• Member of the board of the German Copper Wire Association
• Member of the Board of the Aluminum Rolling Mills Association

Awards

• 1923: Appointment as Dr.-Ing. honorary by the Clausthal Mining Academy
• Honorary Chairman of the Association of the German Brass Works Association
• Appointment to the Royal Prussian Council of Commerce

literature

• Georg Wenzel: German business leaders. Hanseatic Publishing House, Hamburg / Berlin / Leipzig 1929.
• Alfred Bozi , Otto Sartorius: The German economy. Berlin 1926.
• Karin Jaspers / Wilfried Reinighaus: Westphalian-Lippian candidates for the January elections in 1919. A biographical documentation , Münster: Aschendorff 2020 (publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia - New Series; 52), ISBN 9783402151365 , p. 29f.