August Diehn

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August Diehn (born August 31, 1874 in Ribnitz ; † January 16, 1942 in Berlin ) was General Director of the German Potash Indicate and member of the board of Wintershall AG . During the Nazi era he was one of the military economic leaders .

Diehn and the NSDAP

Diehn belonged to a group of industrialists who, at a meeting with Adolf Hitler in the Hotel Kaiserhof in 1931, provided the NSDAP with 25 million Reichsmarks in the event of a left- wing coup. He took part in the secret meeting of industrialists with Hitler on February 20, 1933 , at which an election fund of 3 million Reichsmarks was decided for the NSDAP . Walther Funk testified in the Nuremberg trial against the main war criminals that the leading men in the German potash industry, Rosterg and Diehn, had a positive attitude towards the NSDAP.

After 1933 he became a member of the F-Circle and SS-Brigadführer . He was a member of the General Council of the Economy and held various supervisory board positions.

He was chairman of the small and large economic advisory councils of the Society for European Economic Planning and Large Area Economics . Joachim Radkau sees in this function the endeavor of the potash indicator to achieve a world monopoly, since the victory in the western campaign brought the potash mines of Alsace-Lorraine into German possession.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, p. 108.
  2. ↑ Henry Ashby Turner (ed.): Hitler up close, notes of a confidante 1929-1932 . Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Vienna 1978, p. 372 ff.
  3. ↑ Nuremberg Document EC-440, Statement Funk dated June 28, 1945. Quoted from: Office of the United States Chief of Counsel For Prosecution of Axis Criminality (Ed.): Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression . Supplement A, Washington 1946. online (PDF; 27.0 MB)
  4. ↑ George WF Hallgarten , Joachim Radkau : German industry and politics . Hamburg 1981, p. 401.
  5. ↑ Radkau, p. 408.

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personal data
SURNAME Diehn, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION General director of the German potash indicator
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Ribnitz
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 1942
Place of death Berlin