August Heinrichsbauer

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August Heinrichsbauer (born June 15, 1890 in Bochum , † December 6, 1977 in Bonn ) was a German business journalist and lobbyist , he said he acted as a liaison for the Ruhr mining industry with Gregor Strasser .

Live and act

During his law and economics studies, which he broke off after 5 semesters , Heinrichsbauer became a member of the Frankonia fraternity in Bonn in 1909 .

From 1920 he was the editor of the Rheinisch-Westfälischen Wirtschaftsdienst , a publication that was read by many entrepreneurs. The economic service appeared daily in Dortmund in the form of an information article and dealt with specific Ruhr issues. The economic service was created on the decision of the leading men in the Ruhr industry, Albert Vögler , Friedrich Springorum , Ernst Brandi , Paul Reusch and Kleine, in order to “gain understanding for the area”.

In October 1927, in the "Deutsche Bergwerkzeitung", he called on the government to use the "economy as an instrument of foreign policy" even more in order to "include the eastern states (from the Baltic to the Black Sea) culturally and economically in the German sphere of influence". The historian Dirk Stegmann describes this as "economic imperialism", which he classifies as a preliminary stage to the military imperialism of the NSDAP .

In the established in October 1930 "Wirtschaftspropagandistischen department" of the Reich Association of German Industry Heinrich Bauer campaigned "for a corporative -faschistische order."

In 1930 and 1931 he financed study trips by Edgar Julius Jung and Hans Reupke to Italy with company funds . From 1931 he was a member of the Society for the Study of Fascism .

For for Fememord accused leader of the Black Reichswehr and later aide Gregor Strasser Paul Schultz he collected 40,000 Reichsmarks for his release and remained in contact with him. In 1931, Schultz brokered a conversation between Adolf Hitler and Heinrichsbauer. With Walther Funk he was on the same page.

In September 1932 he asked Otto Schmidt-Hanover "to create the mood that the National Socialists should be made another offer to join the Reich government!" According to his ideas, the NSDAP should receive the post of Reich Chancellor and two ministerial posts.

After the " Röhm Putsch " Heinrichsbauer was placed under Gestapo supervision. His close friend Walther Funk made him managing director of the Southeast Europe Society in 1940 . In 1943 he became the general manager of the Upper Silesian Miners and Huts Association.

Heinrichsbauer worked as a lobbyist in the post-war period.

Funded by heavy industry, his apologetic book Heavy Industry and Politics was published in 1948 in response to the convictions in the trials against Flick , IG-Farben and Krupp , in which he defended German industry against the accusation that it had helped the NSDAP to power. In it he sketched the image of the equally combative and naive entrepreneur who defied the forces of a dictatorial regime on his own.

Fonts

  • Works associations and the question of civil servants , 1918.
  • Politics. A guide through internal and external politics , 1919.
  • The revolution , 1919.
  • Socialism in the final battle for the commune. Further successes of the November elections? , 1929.
  • Out. Ruhr and Rhine , 1929.
  • Communism-Socialism Center , 1930.
  • Travel pictures from Roosevelt's America , 1935.
  • Harpener Bergbau-Aktien-Gesellschaft 1856–1936. Eighty years of Ruhr coal mining , Essen 1936.
  • Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of Raab Karcher , 1948.
  • Ruhr mining in the past, present and future , Essen 1948.
  • Heavy industry and politics , Essen 1948.
  • Water management in the Rhenish-Westphalian industrial area , Essen Glückauf-Verlag 1936.

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians, Part 7: Supplement A – K, Winter, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8253-6050-4 . Pp. 442-443.
  • Edmund Forschbach: Edgar J. Jung: a conservative revolutionary. June 30, 1934 . Neske, Pfullingen 1984, p. 49.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ August Heinrichsbauer: Heavy Industry and Politics . Essen 1948, p. 51.
  2. ^ Kurt Koszyk : Deutsche Presse 1914-1945. History of the German press. Part III . Berlin 1972, p. 176 f.
  3. ^ August Heinrichsbauer: Joint work between economic and foreign policy! . In: Deutsche Bergwerkzeitung from October 23, 1927. Quoted from Dirk Stegmann : “Central Europe” 1925-1934. On the problem of the continuity of German foreign trade policy from Stresemann to Hitler . In: Dirk Stegmann, Bernd-Jürgen Wendt , Peter-Christian Witt (eds.): Industrial society and political system . Bonn 1978, p. 213.
  4. ↑ Stegmann, pp. 213 and 221.
  5. ^ Reinhard Neebe: Großindustrie, Staat und NSDAP 1930-1933. Paul Silverberg and the Reichsverband der Deutschen Industrie in the crisis of the Weimar Republic . Göttingen 1981, p. 117. DNB 213227002 full text online
  6. ↑ Manfred Wichmann: The Society for the Study of Fascism in: Werner Röhr (Ed.): Bulletin for Fascism and World War Research 31/32, Berlin 2008, p. 93.
  7. ↑ Source for the paragraph: Koszyk, p. 177.
  8. ^ Otto Schmidt-Hannover record of September 5, 1932 in the Hugenberg estate. Quote n .: Klaus Wernecke, Peter Heller: The forgotten leader Alfred Hugenberg . Hamburg 1982, p. 185.
  9. ^ S. Jonathan Wiesen: The defense of the German economy: Nuremberg, the industrial office and the development of the new industrialist . In: NMT - The Nuremberg Military Tribunals between History, Justice and Righteousness . Ed .: Priemel and Stiller, Hamburger Edition 2013, ISBN 978-3-86854-577-7 , p. 639 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Heinrichsbauer, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German business journalist and lobbyist
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Bochum
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 1977
Place of death Bonn