Conrado José Kraémer

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Conrado José Kraémer (born November 2, 1902 in Beirut , Lebanon, † after 1965) alias Kurt Kraemer was General Manager of Hispano-Suiza Geneva .

biography

Kraémer's mother was a Sudeten German and his father a Spaniard who sold Bohemian glassware at the door. Kraémer lived in Bohemia from 1914 to 1945 under the name Kurt Kraemer . During the Second World War , Kraemer ran an armaments factory in Prague . In 1948 Conrado José Kraémer moved from Prague to Switzerland with a Spanish passport. In 1956 he received Austrian citizenship .

In November 1955, Hispano-Suiza Geneva had invited officials and officers from the Blank Office to Paris, a French flak tank was demonstrated. Major Joachim Oster had been commissioned to do business with Hispano-Suiza, Geneva, which was carried out by the head of the Chancellery, Dr. Otto Lenz had been arranged. In the summer of 1956, the Bonn Defense and Budget Committee had a template for the procurement of 10,000 infantry fighting vehicles of the type HS 30 to be presented with a contract value of 2.78 billion marks. The tanks should be ordered from Hispano-Suiza Geneva . A preliminary contract was signed on the basis of a cardboard model of the HS 30 and a deposit of 254 million marks was made immediately. This contract was negotiated by Lenz, Major General Joachim Oster, and Hispano-Suiza representative Conrado José Kraémer. Conrado José Kraémer worked for the Military Counter-Intelligence Service (MAD). Don Conrado José Kraémer was General Manager of Hispano Suiza Geneva from 1957 . From the end of the 1950s, Kraémer was banned from the Federal Ministry of Defense . In 1965 the Federal Republic of Germany paid several million German marks to Hispano-Suiza Geneva , meanwhile Hispano-Suiza Geneva was represented by Hans Wilhelmi .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernt Engelmann: Armored personnel carrier HS 30, Starfighter F-104G or How to destroy our state. Desch, 1967, p. 35 ( limited preview on Google books )
  2. ↑ The Unfinished . In: Der Spiegel . No. 47 , 1967 ( online ).
  3. ↑ HS 30 - OR HOW TO RUIN A STATE . In: Der Spiegel . No. 44 , 1966 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Kraémer, Conrado José
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kraemer, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish-Austrian general representative of Hispano Suiza Geneva
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Beirut , Lebanon
DATE OF DEATH after 1965