Carl Wurster

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Carl Wurster (born December 2, 1900 in Stuttgart , † December 14, 1974 in Frankenthal (Palatinate) ) was a German chemist and military economic leader .

Life

Wurster, the son of a city police council, spent his school days in Stuttgart. After completing his chemistry studies and receiving his doctorate in 1923 , Wurster worked for BASF from 1924 and, after the company merger, for IG Farben in Ludwigshafen . In 1934 he became head of the inorganic department and two years later its deputy director. In 1937 Wurster joined the NSDAP . He was on the board of directors of the German Pest Control Society (Degesch), which was involved in the manufacture of Zyklon B as a patent holder . Wurster became a full member of the board of directors and also operations manager in Ludwigshafen at IG Farben in 1938. After the beginning of the Second World War , he became a "Wehrwirtschaftsführer" and was a member of the Defense Economic Council of the Reich Chamber of Commerce . From 1941 to 1945 he was President of the Chamber of Commerce of the Palatinate and the Gau Chamber of Commerce .

Wurster was married and the father of two daughters.

In the IG Farben trial , Wurster was acquitted on all counts on July 30, 1948; his defense counsel was the Social Democrat Friedrich Wilhelm Wagner .

After BASF AG was re-established on January 30, 1952, Wurster was appointed chairman of the company's board of directors. From 1951 he was initially a senator of the Max Planck Society . In 1958 he was promoted to the company's board of directors and was its vice-chairman from 1960 to 1972. In the Brown Book , with which the GDR propagandistically denounced "war and Nazi criminals" in the Federal Republic in 1965, Wurster is listed in other functions, including as a member of the supervisory board of Degussa , Deutsche Bank and Buna-Werken- Hüls, as well as a sponsor of the Great Federal Cross of Merit .

Honors

In 1955 Wurster was awarded the Great Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany. In 1965 he was awarded the Carl Duisberg plaque by the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker ( GDCh ) . In 1966 Wurster became an honorary member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences . In 1970 he received the Harnack Medal from the Max Planck Society. After leaving in 1972, Wurster was an honorary senator of the Max Planck Society until his death. He was also an honorary senator of the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz , the University of Karlsruhe and an honorary citizen of Ludwigshafen am Rhein .

literature

  • Ernst Klee : The Personal Lexicon on the Third Reich - Who Was What Before and After 1945 , Frankfurt am Main, 2nd edition: June 2007, p. 690.
  • Norbert Podewin (Ed.): "Brown Book". War and Nazi criminals in the Federal Republic and West Berlin. State, economy, administration, army, justice, science . Edition Ost, Berlin 2002. ISBN 3-360-01033-7 (reprint of the 3rd edition from 1968)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carl Wurster - Munzinger biography. Retrieved May 18, 2020 .


personal data
SURNAME Wurster, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and military leader
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 1974
Place of death Frankenthal