Hans Louis Ferdinand von Löwenstein zu Löwenstein

Who was Hans Louis Ferdinand von Löwenstein zu Löwenstein?

Hans Louis Ferdinand von Löwenstein zu Löwenstein was a German mining official, politician and Reichstag delegate.

The son of an Officer, he attended schools in Gießen and Marburg before studying mining science at the University of Marburg and the Clausthal University of Technology. He went to work as a referendary in 1897 before becoming an assessor in 1901, eventually becoming an important figure in the running of mines around Dortmund and ultimately nationally.

In 1919 von Löwenstein zu Löwenstein joined the right-wing Wirtschaftsvereinigung zur Förderung der geistigen Wiederaufbaukräfte, a group that was absorbed into the DNVP. He also participated in the Harzburg Front in 1931. In 1931 he joined Gesellschaft zum Studium des Faschismus, a group that linked conservatism in Germany with the Nazi Party. He was also in attendance at the Secret Meeting of 20 February 1933 when up to 25 figures from industry met with Adolf Hitler to discuss financing the Nazis election campaign.

Eventually he left the DNVP to join the Nazi Party and was selected as one of its Reichstag candidates for the November 1933 election, remaining a member until the 1938 election when he retired.