Heinrich von Buol

Family grave and memorial stone for Heinrich von Buol in the Bavendorf cemetery

Heinrich Emanuel von Buol (born February 9, 1880 in Vienna , † May 2, 1945 in Moscow ) was an Austrian manager. From 1932 to 1945 he was CEO of Siemens & Halske AG .

Von Buol, who was a Swiss citizen by descent, received Austrian citizenship in 1897. He studied mechanical engineering and electronics at the Vienna University of Technology and graduated in 1902 with a degree in engineering. In 1903 he started his apprenticeship as a trainee at Union-Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft in Vienna. In 1906 he began working for Siemens & Halske in the Siemensstadt plant (now in Berlin ) as a laboratory engineer. In 1915 he was promoted to head of the wireless telegraphy and measuring equipment department. Six years later, von Buol became director of the Wernerwerk for measuring instruments and a deputy member of the board. In 1927 he was appointed a full member of the Siemens Executive Board and became its chairman in 1932. In 1942 he became honorary senator of the Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen. When Berlin was occupied by the Red Army, von Buol was abducted as a major industrialist to the Soviet Union, where he committed suicide in a Moscow prison.

During the Nazi era, the Siemens group benefited from extensive armaments contracts and deployed numerous forced laborers . However, Georg Siemens also reports that von Buol personally campaigned that the Jewish wife of one of his closest employees was not evacuated.

In 1943 he became an honorary citizen of the Technical University of Munich .

Streets in several cities, such as Berlin, Erlangen and Vienna, are named after von Buol.

literature

Georg Siemens: Buol, Heinrich Emanuel von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 21 f. ( Digitized version ).
Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 1: A-K. German business publisher, Berlin 1930, DNB 453960286 .

Web links

Commons : Heinrich von Buol - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Heinrich von Buol in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

^ Wolfgang A. Herrmann (Ed.): Technical University of Munich. The history of a science company . Volume 2, Metropol, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-938690-34-5 , p. 989.

personal data
SURNAME	Buol, Heinrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Buol, Heinrich Emanuel von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian manager
DATE OF BIRTH	February 9, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna
DATE OF DEATH	May 2, 1945
Place of death	Moscow

[1] Wolfgang A. Herrmann (Ed.): Technical University of Munich. The history of a science company . Volume 2, Metropol, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-938690-34-5 , p. 989.