August Bode (industrialist)

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August Bode (born September 28, 1875 in Kassel ; † December 11, 1960 there ) was a German industrialist.

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In 1912 he and the businessman Conrad Köhler took over the Kasseler Waggonfabrik Wegmann & Co. founded in 1882 . Towards the end of the First World War, the company received the order to build the K-car . During the Weimar Republic, Wegmann developed under his leadership into a manufacturer of passenger coaches, and the city of Kassel describes him on its website as the “Nestor of wagon construction”. Panzerkampfwagen were assembled, then wagons and trams again . The company belonged to his family until it later merged into the arms company Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW). Bode is given a large share in the continued existence of the company and in building up the Wegmann industrial dynasty in Kassel. In 1960 he was made honorary citizenship of Kassel for his services in wagon construction and armaments production. Honorary citizenship was criticized at dOCUMENTA (13) in 2012. The street on which KMW's Kassel location is located bears his name. Wegmann's successors were his sons Fritz and Engelhard in 1960, and from 1979 the sons of Fritz, Wolfgang and Manfred Bode . During the Second World War he became a member of the NSDAP , a supporting member of the SS and a military economic leader .

Honors

Individual evidence

  1. ^ City of Kassel: Ingenious designer and ancestor of an industrial dynasty ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Die Linke : Application: Removal of August Bode's honorary citizenship
  3. ↑ August-Bode-Strasse at 51 ° 19 ′ 24.3 ″  N , 9 ° 29 ′ 17.8 ″  E
  4. ↑ Capital : Issue June 22, 2010: Secret owners: The Panzer Clan von Krauss-Maffei
personal data
SURNAME Bode, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 1960
Place of death kassel