Eduard Scharrer

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Eduard August Scharrer (born April 25, 1880 in Stuttgart ; † September 20, 1932 ) was a German entrepreneur and supporter of the NSDAP .

Life

Scharrer was the great-grandson of the founder of the first German railway line, Johannes Scharrer . In 1906 he married Wilhelmina Busch, the thirteenth child of the Anheuser-Busch family . With his wife's money, he was able to climb into the highest financial circles in the Bavarian capital. The Busch-Scharrers enjoyed great social prestige. It had owned the Bernried estate on Lake Starnberg since 1914 .

Scharrer was a partner in the Eduard Scharrer & Co. hop retailer, a partner in Münchner Neue Nachrichten , owner of the newspaper “Das Bayerische Vaterland” and, between 1921 and 1929, on the Bavarian state committee of Deutsche Bank, as well as a member of the supervisory board of various breweries in southern Germany and a member of the supervisory board of the Huguenberg publishing house .

Scharrer financed the NSDAP. In a conversation with Hitler at the end of December 1922, Hitler told Scharrer that he wanted to conquer Russia as a settlement area. A recording of the conversation reads:

“It is to try to smash Russia with the help of England. Russia gives enough land for German settlers and a wide field of activity for German industry "

The managing director of Münchner Neues Nachrichten , Anton Betz , also characterized Scharrer as a supporter of Hitler.

Shortly after their silver wedding anniversary in 1931, the couple separated. His wife filed for divorce, but it was never enforced. Scharrer died on September 20, 1932 of cancer. His widow then married two more times, initially Dr. med. Carl Borchardt and finally the US Consul General Sam Woods. She died in 1952.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Höhenried, Castle and Clinic in Past and Present , Munich 2007, p. 17.
  2. ^ Kurt Gossweiler : Reichswehr, Capital and NSDAP 1919 - 1924 . Berlin 1982, p. 351.
  3. ^ Ian Kershaw : Hitler 1889-1936 . Stuttgart 1998, p. 323.
  4. ^ Anton Betz: The tragedy of the "Münchner Neuesten Nachrichten" 1932/33 . in: Emil Dovifat, Karl Bringmann (Ed.): Journalism . Düsseldorf 1961, Volume 2, p. 27.
  5. ↑ Höhenried, Castle and Clinic in Past and Present , Munich 2007, p. 21.
  6. ↑ http://www.bernrieder-park.de/8.html

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SURNAME Scharrer, Eduard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scharrer, Eduard August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH September 20, 1932