Arthur Primrose Young

Arthur Primrose Young (born July 2, 1885 in Ayrshire , † February 1, 1977 in Leamington Spa , Warwickshire ) was a British industrial manager and electrical engineer . For his involvement in the development of the magneto in 1917 he was appointed officer of the OBE .

Young headed British Thomson-Houston from 1921 to 1928 , the European subsidiary of the American General Electric group in Coventry . In 1929 he moved to rugby (Warwickshire) (until 1945).

In addition to his work, he was active in the international political scene by handing the so-called "X-Documents" from Carl Goerdeler from the Third Reich to the British government in 1938. Through his friend Robert Bosch , who had been commissioned by Robert Vansittart, 1st Baron Vansittart , and through Reinhold Schairer , Goerdeler's confidante in London, he met him five times between August 1938 and March 1939 in conspiratorial terms, some of them lasting several days, in Rauschen-Düne , London and Zurich. The documents also reached US President Franklin D. Roosevelt through Schairer and Owen D. Young . According to D. Bavendamm, in 1938/39 they shaped the image of the British and American governments about Hitler .

Young was a co-founder of the British Works Management Association . He wrote numerous articles and gave speeches promoting the introduction of Christian principles into industry.

Works

• Across the years . Charles Knight. 1971
• The "X" documents . Edited by Sidney Aster. Piper. Munich 1989

literature

• Dirk Bavendamm : Roosevelt's Way to War . Bitter. Munich. 1983. p. 378 ff.