Anton Loibl GmbH
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| Anton Loibl GmbH | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | September 1936 |
| Seat | Berlin |
| management | Anton Loibl |
| Branch | Reflectors |
The Anton Loibl GmbH was a company of SS Holding German farms GmbH (DWB) . The Ahnenerbe research and the Lebensborn program were financed from the income of this company . The company was originally founded to market a bicycle reflector that was invented by Anton Loibl (a Hitler chauffeur).
Anton Loibl was a part-time inventor. During his time as a mechanic and driving instructor , he invented a reflector for bicycle pedals , which contained glass shavings as reflective elements. Heinrich Himmler , who was acquainted with Loibl, made sure that he received the patent preferentially over a previous applicant. The company was founded in Berlin in September 1936 . In his capacity as Reich Police President, Himmler had included a regulation in the traffic regulations on November 13, 1937, according to which all newly manufactured bicycles should have these reflectors installed. The bicycle manufacturers had to pay a license fee, which in 1939 amounted to 600,000 RM. Loibl was originally co-managing director and co-owner of the company and received 50% of the income, a total of around 500,000 RM. In late 1939 or early 1940 he was dismissed for incompetence. In addition, Himmler instructed the company to pay out considerable sums (290,000 RM per year) to the Ahnenerbe and the Lebensborn. Generating these payments became the main purpose of the company. The Ahnenerbe had chronic funding problems for a number of years, and in 1937 the Reichsnährstand cut its funds, and Himmler set up a foundation to transfer funds, also from Anton Loibl GmbH, to the Ahnenerbe. Ahnenerbes' share in the Loibl Fund in 1938 was 77,740 RM, and from 1939 the Lebensborn received between 100,000 and 150,000 per year. At the Nuremberg Trials , the Loibl company was described as "still having considerable funds for Ahnenerbe".
The company was founded to develop "technical articles of all kinds" (entry in the commercial register) and later diversified into other products such as the manufacture of a patented lamp.
From the late 1930s, the company used forced labor. In January 1938 Loibl took a visitor through a test laboratory for aircraft engines in Dachau that was operated by Loibel GmbH.
literature
- Enno Georg, The Economic Enterprises of the SS, Series of Quarterly Issues for Contemporary History 7, Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1963.
Individual evidence
- ↑ SS GROUP: Pepper from Dachau . In: Der Spiegel . No. 52 , 1963, pp. 30-32 ( Online - Dec. 25, 1963 ).
- ^ Trials of war criminals before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals under Control Council law no. 10, Nuremberg, October 1946 – April, 1949 Volume V Case 8: US v. Greifelt (cont.) Case 4: US v. Pohl (Pohl case), Washington, DC: USGPO, 1950,
- ↑ Michael Thad Allen, The Business Of Genocide: The SS, Slave Labor, And The Concentration Camps, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 2002,
- ^ Enno Georg, The economic enterprises of the SS, series of the quarterly books for contemporary history 7, Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1963.
- ↑ Franz Wegener, The Alchemist Franz Tausend: Alchemy and National Socialism, Political Religion of National Socialism 6, [Gladbeck]: KFVR, 2006,