Wilhelm Beumer

Wilhelm Beumer. Photography by Julius Cornelius Schaarwächter

Wilhelm Beumer (born August 3, 1848 in Obrighoven-Lauerhaas , † December 29, 1929 in Hamburg ) was one of the most influential administrators of heavy industry in the German Empire.

Life

Wilhelm Beumer's father Jakob Philipp Beumer was an elementary school teacher and popular writer. The mother was Anna Sibylla geb. Bold. Beumer attended elementary school and high school in Wesel . He then studied Protestant theology , languages and economics. In 1871 he was supported by the University of Jena to Dr. phil. PhD . After graduating, Beumer was a teacher at the secondary school in Wesel for two years , then for fifteen years at the municipal high school in Witten .

Association representative

In the fall of 1887, Beumer took over the post of general secretary of the association for the protection of common interests in Rhineland and Westphalia . Associated with this was the same position in the Northwestern Group of the Association of German Iron and Steel Industries . There was Gustav Jung , a close friend. It retained both positions until the mid-1920s. During the Weimar Republic , Beumer was, alongside Axel Bueck and Alexander Tille, the most influential association managing director in heavy industry . Together with Bueck and other industry representatives, Beumer traveled to England after the great miners' strike of 1889 to study the labor relations there. The organization of trade unions was also examined. Ultimately, however, the aim was to collect arguments against the emerging trade union movement in Germany. In 1904 Beumer played a key role in the creation of central employer organizations. As deputy managing director, he also played an important role in the Central Association of German Industrialists . Among other things, Beumer was responsible for the communications of the Langnam Association. In addition, he headed the economic section of the magazine for the German ironworks steel and iron . In addition, he published several political and economic writings. He was a board member of numerous economic and technical associations and societies. Beumer also belonged to educational associations.

politics

He was a supporter of Otto von Bismarck's protective tariff policy , whom he visited several times even after his release. He supported the alliance of industry and large-scale agriculture. As a member of the National Liberal Party , he sat in the Prussian House of Representatives from 1893 to 1918 . In the House of Representatives he represented constituency 4 (Hagen – Schwelm) from 1893–1898, then constituency 5 (Essen – Mülheim an der Ruhr – Duisburg – Ruhrort). He sat in the Reichstag (German Empire) from 1901 to 1907.

literature

A. Plate: Handbook for the Prussian House of Representatives. Edition for the 20th legislative period. Berlin 1904, p. 293
Josef Wilden: Beumer, Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 196 f. ( Digitized version ).
Achim Knips: German employers' associations in the iron and metal industry, 1888–1914. Steiner, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-515-06748-5 ( digitized version )
Wilhelm Beumer: The educational associations as educational institutions for self-help: Lecture, given on October 6, 1901 on the XXXIII. Association days of Rheinisch-Westfälischer Bildungsvereine ... Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf

Web links

Wilhelm Beumer in the database of members of the Reichstag
Biography of Wilhelm Beumer . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)

Individual evidence

↑ Dissertation: De decalogo: dissertatio quam scripsit et pro summis in philosophia honoribus .
^ Mann, Bernhard (edit.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives. 1867-1918 . Collaboration with Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh and Thomas Kühne. Düsseldorf: Droste Verlag, 1988, p. 66 (handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties: vol. 3).

personal data
SURNAME	Beumer, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German industrial representatives and politicians (National Liberal), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	August 3, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH	Obrighoven loathing
DATE OF DEATH	December 29, 1929
Place of death	Hamburg

[1] Dissertation: De decalogo: dissertatio quam scripsit et pro summis in philosophia honoribus .

[2] Mann, Bernhard (edit.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives. 1867-1918 . Collaboration with Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh and Thomas Kühne. Düsseldorf: Droste Verlag, 1988, p. 66 (handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties: vol. 3).