Alfred Knoerzer

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Alfred Knoerzer (born April 20, 1892 in Stuttgart ; † February 19, 1978 there ) was a German officer and businessman . He was u. a. Chairman of the supervisory board and chairman of the executors' committee of Robert Bosch GmbH as well as president of the Stuttgart Chamber of Commerce and board member of the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry .

Life

Knoerzer came from an officer's family in Württemberg . He was born in 1892 as the son of a major general and first attended the humanistic Eberhard-Ludwigs-Gymnasium in Stuttgart . In 1904 he was a cadet in Karlsruhe and completed from 1908 to the High School in 1912, the Royal Prussian Hauptkadettenanstalt in Groß-Lichterfelde near Berlin. He then joined the Grenadier Regiment "Queen Olga" (1st Württembergisches) No. 119 of the Württemberg Army in Stuttgart as an ensign . He attended the war school in Hanover and was promoted to lieutenant in 1913 . During the First World War, he took part in the Battle of Ypres (1914) and the Central Powers' campaign in Serbia (1915). In 1916 he became adjutant of the Württemberg military representative, Friedrich von Graevenitz , at the main headquarters in Charleville-Mézìere. In 1918 he was transferred to Kassel and later to the Württemberg envoy in Prussia in Berlin. His last rank was a captain .

From 1919 he studied economics and business administration at the University of Frankfurt am Main (Diplom-Kaufmann). In 1921 he was promoted to Dr. rer. pole. (magna cum laude) doctorate. He then rose to become the managing director of a company in Ludwigsburg.

In 1924 he moved to Robert Bosch in Stuttgart. He became a hunting friend of Bosch and soon assumed a "special position" in the company. In 1928 he became the commercial assistant to the technical main manager Karl Martell Wild . In 1931 he was entrusted with managerial positions in the production consulting department. In 1933 he took over the commercial management of the subsidiary Ideal-Werke GmbH in Berlin-Hohenschönhausen. In 1937 he became Bosch Finance Director in Stuttgart. From 1942 he was also responsible in trust for the Bosch hunts near Pfronten in the Allgäu and near Münsingen on the Swabian Alb.

During the Second World War he became acquainted with the resistance fighter Carl Friedrich Goerdeler , who advised Bosch on financial matters. He accompanied him to exploratory talks with high-ranking politicians and officers in Berlin, shared his opposition to the Nazi regime and had been privy to actions of the resistance - political murder was out of the question for Knoerzer for reasons of conscience. After the unsuccessful assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 , he was arrested and interrogated by Friedrich Mußgay at the Gestapo , but released again because he could not be proven that he was aware of it.

After 1945 he was entrusted with the financial management at Bosch. In 1954 he became a member of the college of executors at Bosch (chairman). In 1959 he became a member of the supervisory board of Robert Bosch GmbH, and in 1964 he took over the chairmanship of the supervisory board. In 1967 he also withdrew from Robert Bosch Industrietreuhand KG, in which he was a partner.

In 1947 he also became a member of the advisory board of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IHK) in Stuttgart. He later became vice-president and head of the industry committee there. In 1955/56 he was chairman / president of the state association of Baden-Württemberg industry, the state association of the Federal Association of German Industry . From 1958 to 1962 he was President of the Stuttgart Chamber of Commerce and Industry, after which he became an honorary member of the Presidium. In 1958 he also became chairman of the working group of the chambers of industry and commerce in Baden-Württemberg and member of the board of the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Bonn. In 1960 he became a board member of the German-Swiss Chamber of Commerce .

In 1952 he became a member of the supervisory board of Rhein-Main-Bank AG and in 1953 a member of the board (from 1963 to 1966 chairman) of the Southwest German Canal Association for the Rhine, Danube and Neckar. In 1956 he became a member of the supervisory board (or, in 1960, chairman of the supervisory board) of Handels- und Gewerbebank Heilbronn AG . In 1958 he became a member of the supervisory board (or 1960 chairman) of the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt . From 1959 to 1968 he was a member of the supervisory board of the Stuttgarter Homöopathisches Krankenhaus GmbH (chairman from 1965 to 1968). He was also a member of the supervisory board of Flughafen Stuttgart GmbH .

In 1954 he was awarded the Great Federal Cross of Merit and in 1962 the star for the Great Federal Cross of Merit. He was also the holder of the Great Plaque of Honor from the Stuttgart Chamber of Commerce.

Fonts (selection)

  • The commercial order processing in the large-scale industry with special consideration of the small machine and apparatus construction (= business archive . H. 3). GA Gloeckner, Leipzig 1928.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Joachim Scholtyseck : Robert Bosch and the liberal resistance against Hitler 1933 to 1945 . Beck, Munich 1999, ISBN 978-3-406-45525-4 , p. 298.
  2. ↑ Joachim Scholtyseck : Robert Bosch and the liberal resistance against Hitler 1933 to 1945 . Beck, Munich 1999, ISBN 978-3-406-45525-4 , p. 487.
  3. ↑ Joachim Scholtyseck : Robert Bosch and the liberal resistance against Hitler 1933 to 1945 . Beck, Munich 1999, ISBN 978-3-406-45525-4 , p. 504.
  4. ↑ Chairpersons and Presidents , lvi-online.de, accessed on October 19, 2016.
  5. ↑ Thomas Faltin : Homeopathy in the Clinic. The history of homeopathy at the Robert Bosch hospital in Stuttgart from 1940–1973 (= sources and studies on the history of homeopathy . Vol. 7). Haug, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 978-3-8304-7153-0 , pp. 91, 359.
personal data
SURNAME Knoerzer, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer and merchant
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH 19th February 1978
Place of death Stuttgart