Wilhelm Eich (politician, 1889)

Grave in the forest cemetery in Bad Homburg vd Höhe.

Wilhelm Karl Eich (born December 14, 1889 in Langenberg ; † December 2, 1966 in Berlin ) was a German business economist and long-time Berlin FDP politician.

Life

After completing a commercial apprenticeship and studying, Eich passed his degree in business administration, lived in Berlin from 1917 and worked in business until 1933; then he practiced his profession as an independent auditor and tax consultant. In 1932 he also became a lecturer for balance sheets and business taxation at the TH Berlin ; there he was one of the founders of the Institute for Auditors.

During the Nazi era , Eich was a supporting member of the SS. In 1943 he became an honorary professor at the TH Berlin; In 1945 Eich received a teaching position at the University Institute for Economics in Berlin and took over its management when it was relocated to West Berlin a few years later . There he created a new discipline at the FU in 1949 with the chair for auditing and tax consulting - he taught there until 1958.

Eich had been a zone board member in East Berlin until 1948 of the Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP ), which he co-founded ; At the beginning of 1951, after he moved to West Berlin in 1949 , the Governing Mayor Ernst Reuter ( SPD ) appointed Eich for the FDP as Berlin Senator for Economics and Food. He also exercised this position under Reuter's successor Walther Schreiber ( CDU ).

After the FDP left the government as a result of its electoral defeat in December 1954 and Otto Suhr became the new head of government, Eich also left his office in January 1955.

In 1959, in recognition of his services, he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit with a Star.

Web links

• Biography on the website of the Berlin Senate

Individual evidence

1. ^ Peter Mantel: Business Administration and National Socialism: An Institutional and Personal History Study . Wiesbaden: Gabler, 2010, ISBN 978-3-8349-8515-6 , p. 6774