Edmund Stinnes

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Edmund Hugo Stinnes (born March 23, 1896 in Mülheim an der Ruhr ; † August 11, 1980 in Ascona ) was a German industrialist and the eldest son of Hugo Stinnes .

Life

Stinnes grew up in Mülheim an der Ruhr, passed the matriculation examination at the state high school in 1914 and then took up engineering studies at the Technical University in Berlin. There he received his doctorate in engineering in 1922 . Together with his brothers Hugo Hermann Stinnes and Otto Stinnes , he inherited Stinnes AG after the death of their father (1924) . He was chairman of the supervisory boards of various companies and a member of the honorary committee of the German gentlemen's club .

On June 19, 1931, Edmund Stinnes met through the mediation of Otto Wagener with Adolf Hitler , which he, as he faced Wagener commented, "impressed" was. Shortly afterwards, on July 9, 1931, Stinnes wrote in a letter to Hitler:

“As today's goal of German foreign policy, you demanded freedom and equality among the peoples of Europe as well as the expansion of German living space to the east and renounced the colonial and naval policy of imperial Germany as detrimental to this goal. As far as I am happy and convinced with you, but not if the goal is to be achieved through a war against Poland under today's constellation […] I still do not shy away from a war if there is no other way and if the constellation is one promises a high degree of success "

A few years later, however, Stinnes distanced himself from National Socialism and moved to Switzerland with his second wife Margiana von Schulze-Gaevernitz, daughter of the economist and politician Gerhart von Schulze-Gaevernitz . In the mid-1930s, he emigrated with his family to the United States , where he became a professor of economics at Haverford College near Philadelphia. He criticized National Socialism in numerous lectures and occasionally met with the former Chancellor Heinrich Brüning . With financial aid he made the immigration of Jewish emigrants possible and was in close contact with the refugee organizations.

When Allen Dulles from the Office of Strategic Services was conducting armistice negotiations with the German units stationed in Italy in early 1945 , Stinnes made his house on Lake Maggiore available for this purpose. The negotiations on site were conducted on the American side by Gero von Schulze-Gaevernitz , who was the right-hand man of the intelligence chief Allen Dulles and at the same time Edmund Stinnes' brother-in-law.

Fonts

  • A genius in chaotic times. Edmund H. Stinnes on his father Hugo Stinnes (1870–1924). Bern 1979.
  • From New York to Chicago. Berlin 1929.

literature

  • Bernhard-Michael Domberg and Klaus Rathje: The Stinnes - From the Rhine into the world. History of an entrepreneurial family . Signum Verlag, Vienna 2009.
  • Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung from August 26, 1980

Other sources

  • City archive Mülheim an der Ruhr, holdings 1550 (Mülheim personalities)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Henry Ashby Turner (ed.): Hitler up close, notes of a confidante 1929-1932 . Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Vienna 1978, p. 385.
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Schumann , Ludwig Nestler (Ed.): Weltherrschaft im Visier . Berlin 1975, p. 221.

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personal data
SURNAME Stinnes, Edmund
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stinnes, Edmund Hugo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer and industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Mülheim an der Ruhr
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 1980
Place of death Ascona