Arthur Charles Hearn

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Sir Arthur Charles Hearn , also known as AC Hearn (March 16, 1877 - November 24, 1952 ) was a British manager.

Life and activity

From 1899 to 1919 Hearn was in the service of the British Admiralty. He then acted from 1919 to 1920 as head of the Anglo-French mission in Romania . In the first years after World War I , Hearn also served as an advisor to the Admiralty and the Petroleum Division of the Ministry of Fuel and Power. In 1920 Hearn joined the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC), where he held the post of director from 1927 to 1938. He was also a member of the executive committee of the British Oil Control Board.

Due to his leading position in British economic life, at the end of the 1930s, Hearn was targeted by the National Socialist police, who classified him as an important target: In the spring of 1940, the Reich Security Main Office in Berlin put him on the special wanted list GB , a directory of people belonging to the Nazi surveillance apparatus regarded as particularly dangerous or important, which is why they should be located and arrested by the occupying troops following special SS units with special priority in the event of a successful invasion and occupation of the British Isles by the Wehrmacht .

On July 10, 1945, he was beaten to Knight Bachelor .

literature

  • Ronald W. Ferrier, JH Bamberg: The History of the British Company , 1994, p. 601.
  • Marian Kent: Oil and Empire , p. 196 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry on Hearn on the special wanted list GB (reproduced on the website of the Imperial War Museum in London) .
  2. ↑ Knights and Dames at Leigh Rayment's Peerage
personal data
SURNAME Hearn, Arthur Charles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hearn, AC
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British manager
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1877
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 1952