Dietrich Wilhelm von Menges

Dietrich Wilhelm von Menges (born October 26, 1909 at Gut Wangritten, Bartenstein district (East Pr.) ; † June 14, 1994 in Essen ) was a German industrial manager, most recently chairman of the Gutehoffnungshütte (GHH).

Life

The son of an East Prussian landowning family, after graduating from high school in Königsberg , studied law at the Georg-August University in Göttingen from 1928 and became active in the Corps Saxonia Göttingen . He later continued his studies in Berlin and Konigsberg on, taking after obtaining his doctorate to Dr. jur. a position as legal advisor at a Berlin credit bank. For a while, von Menges was a consultant in the Reich Ministry of Economics , before he switched to the Essen trading company Ferrostaal , a wholly owned subsidiary of GHH, in 1938 . He took part in the Second World War from 1939 to 1945, most recently as a captain and general staff officer.

Released from captivity, v. Menges resumed his work at Ferrostaal in 1945. He became a board member in 1947 and chairman of the board in 1949. From 1961 he was also a member of the board of the parent company and in 1966 he succeeded Hermann Reusch as CEO of Gutehoffnungshütte . Under his leadership, the traditional Oberhausen company developed into a global plant and mechanical engineering group. He was particularly successful in building trade relations with Eastern Europe and the Third World . In 1975 he retired. His successor at the GHH head was Manfred Lennings .

Menges was a member of numerous supervisory boards, president or honorary president of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Essen and consul of Peru .

His daughter Elisabeth married Peter Rohde .

Awards

1969: Large Federal Cross of Merit
1978: Large Federal Cross of Merit with a star
before 1980: Order of El Sol del Perú
before 1980: Commander's Cross 1st class of the Royal Swedish North Star Order

literature

Johannes Bähr, Ralf Banken, Thomas Flemming: The MAN. A German industrial history. Beck, Munich 2008 ISBN 978-3-406-57762-8 , Google preview .
International Biographical Archive 34/1994 from August 15, 1994
Wolfgang von der Groeben : Directory of the members of the Corps Saxonia zu Göttingen 1844 to 2006 , Düsseldorf 2006, p. 143.

Individual evidence

↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 142 , 801
↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 31, No. 45, March 6, 1979.
↑ ^a ^b Redaktionsbüro Harenberg: Knaurs Prominentenlexikon 1980. The personal data of celebrities from politics, economy, culture and society . With over 400 photos. Droemer Knaur, Munich / Zurich 1979, ISBN 3-426-07604-7 , Menges, von, Dietrich Wilhelm, p. 304 f .

personal data
SURNAME	Menges, Dietrich Wilhelm von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Menges, Dietrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German industrial manager, CEO of Gutehoffnungshütte
DATE OF BIRTH	October 26, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH	Gut Wangritten, Bartenstein district (East Pr.)
DATE OF DEATH	June 14, 1994
Place of death	eat

[1] Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 142 , 801

[2] Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 31, No. 45, March 6, 1979.

[PromiLex-3] Redaktionsbüro Harenberg: Knaurs Prominentenlexikon 1980. The personal data of celebrities from politics, economy, culture and society . With over 400 photos. Droemer Knaur, Munich / Zurich 1979, ISBN 3-426-07604-7 , Menges, von, Dietrich Wilhelm, p. 304 f .