Hans - a quick resume
Another extract from Hans' email:
... I have been pestered several times by the Chamber of Commerce
to give them a resume of my life, "not only in the Chamber of Commerce".
So I have cobbled what follows, together. You may use it for the website, pending a narrative that is in the planning stage.
HANS MIDDELMANN - 1912 to 1998
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1912 Born in Berlin, Germany
1922 Moved to Leipzig, matric in 1931
1931 Work in London, occasional student at London
School of Economics
1932 to 1936 Merchant Bank traineeship in Leipzig. Travels
in Europe.
1933 Hitler gains power in Germany.
1937 Emigrate to Cape Town, South Africa. Start
work at Inter-Union Finance Ltd, later Inter-Union's
Secretary, Manager, Managing Director.
1939 to 1945, World War II
1941 Join Cape Town Junior Chamber of Commerce.
1946 Elected President Cape Town Junior Chamber of
Commerce
1947 Naturalised South African citizen. Marriage to
Jessie Jack
1948 Commercial Opinion" publishes my first public
writing. Since then many contributions to
various South African newspapers and magazines,
mainly on economic and political themes,
propagating the Open Society and Market
economics.
1948 to 1958 Our four children born
1955 Appointed statutory member Statistics Council
1956 First of many travels to Europe
1959 Elected President Cape Town Chamber of Commerce
1961 Elected President Association of Chambers of
Commerce of S A
1963 First of many travels to Australia and the East.
Board member Cape Board Standard Bank, Colonial
Mutual Life Assurance, Chairman from 1974 to
1984. Chairman City Club.
1965 Board member Garlicks (retire 1983). Trustee
Estate Bailey
1969 Board member Standard Bank Investment Corporation
(retire 1983), Standard Bank 1970, Standard
Merchant Bank 1972, (retire 1978).
1969 to 1980 All four children graduate UCT BSc, Mish also BA.
1970 First of many travels to USA
1972 After 35 years, retire from Inter-Union Finance
Ltd and its Board. Board member Tongaat (later
Tongaat-Hulett Group) (retire 1983)
1973 Elected member of Council of University of Cape
Town (UCT) (retire 1990)
1975 Member of Baxter Theatre Board, Chairman 1984 to
1990.
1976 Governor, Trustee UCT Foundation, Life Governor
since 1987.
1988 Awarded honorary degree of Doctor of Laws by UCT.
1993 Board member of Open Society Foundation of S A.
1998 Family:
Julia, Australian, in Ballina, NSW
Paul, South African, in Cape Town, married, 2
sons, 2 daughters.
Carl, USA citizen, in New York, married, 2 sons
Mish, South African, in Johannesburg, married, 2
sons.
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