Wilhelm Nicolaus Dannhof

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Wilhelm Nicolaus Dannhof (born April 30, 1870 Homburg vor der Höhe ., † before 1955) was a German bank director and industrialist .

Commerz- und Privatbank Chemnitz

Wilhelm Dannhof was initially an authorized signatory and head of the branch of the Chemnitzer Bank-Verein in Aue i. Erzgebirge, then he was employed in the main branch in Chemnitz, first as an authorized signatory, then as a second member of the board. There he ran the business together with the Secret Commerce Councilor General-Consul Otto Weissenberger and the banker Carl Degenhardt. When the association was taken over by Commerz- und Privatbank in 1922 , Dannhof was taken over as director of the Chemnitz branch. He exercised this office together with Friedrich von Auw and Alfred Reich. In the course of 1925, Dannhof left the management.

Astra works

Dannhof and his family were major shareholders in Astrawerke AG in Chemnitz, which had been founded in 1921 by John E. Greve . Greve and the Dannhof family each held the same capital in the company. From 1929 Astrawerke was the market leader for the manufacture of calculating and accounting machines in Europe. In 1938 the company had a workforce of 1,800. During the Second World War , the Astra participated in arms production ; In its Plant II, the company had already started the "manufacture of complex weapon parts" in 1937. During the Second World War, inmates from concentration camps were often sent to the Astrawerke for forced labor , so the premises became a satellite camp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp . On May 1, 1944, the armaments factory was named a "National Socialist Model Factory". This year the workforce increased to 2,653 employees. The Astrawerke eventually developed into an arms factory with an armaments share of over 80 percent in 1944. Wilhelm Dannhof was the company's deputy chairman, and his son Erich Dannhof was also a member of the Astrawerke's supervisory board.

After the end of the war, the complete dismantling of Plant II was ordered in the Soviet occupation zone , so that the former partners had to leave in the following years. Astrawerke AG was charged as a war criminal and the company was made a state-owned company . During the GDR government, the company belonged to the Robotron combine . From 1990 to 1993 the company was entered in the commercial register as Robotron Ascota AG.

further activities

Wilhelm Dannhof was active in the following companies and associations:

  • Cotton spinning mill Gelenau AG (Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board)
  • Maschinenbau-Anstalt Moll AG (member of the supervisory board)
  • Moll-Werke AG (Chairman of the Supervisory Board in 1920)
  • Chemnitz Bank Management Association (Chairman)
  • Metropol-Theater AG, Chemnitz ( Chairman of the Supervisory Board )
  • Bauverein Westend GmbH, Chemnitz (Managing Director)

origin

Wilhelm Dannhof was a member of the Hessian Dannhof family and son of the Homburger Schullpedell Kaspar Dannhof and his wife Elise Charlotte Dannhof. The director of the Landgräflich-Hessischen conc. Landesbank , Friedrich Dannhof (* 1862), was his brother, the director of the Homburger Kreissparkasse , Wilhelm Dannhof (1889–1964), was his nephew. At the beginning of the 20th century, his brothers Georg and Louis Dannhof owned highly frequented women's swimming pools on the Main in Frankfurt.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c German business leader, Georg Wenzel, 1929
  2. ↑ State Archive Saxony / Chemnitz - History of Commerzbank AG ( Memento from July 18, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  3. ↑ Commercial legal protection and copyright, Volume 62
  4. ↑ a b Astra Works - John E. Greve
  5. ^ The Flossenbürg concentration camp and its satellite camps
  6. ^ "Old Chemnitz - Astra Works
  7. ↑ Commercial legal protection and copyright, Volume 62
  8. ↑ a b Directory of Directors and Supervisory Boards, Volume 1
  9. ^ German business leader, Georg Wenzel, 1929 and Die Aktien-Gesellschaft von Chemnitz and the surrounding area. Edited and presented by Bayer & Heinze, Chemnitz. 1929. page 84.
  10. ^ The joint stock companies of Chemnitz and the surrounding area. Edited and presented by Bayer & Heinze, Chemnitz. 1920. page 42.
personal data
SURNAME Dannhof, Wilhelm Nicolaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bank director and industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Homburg vd Höhe
DATE OF DEATH 20th century